Friday, February 27, 2009

Palace Of Agriculture

http://exhibits.slpl.lib.mo.us/lpe/data/LPE240023482.asp?thread=240029819

-exhibits in Palace of Agriculture designed to show the world that agriculture was an experiencing an era of scientific advancement
-center aisle of building contained displays of cotton, corn, tobacco, sugar-beets, sugar-cane, and rice
-displays from foreign countries, food demonstrations, and arrangements of agricultural machinery took up more than 9 miles of booths
-outside of Palace were Livestock Barns - included model dairy and showplace for farm winning animals
-large displays of food product were organizers attempt to demonstrate different processes used by the product&different methods of grading for various markets they were sent to
-State Exhibits: Missouri's Corn Palace, North Dakota's replica of cabin were Theodore Roosevelt lived in 1883-1886, California's wine exhibit, Mississipi's Cotton King.
-displayed farm machinery
-ehxibit included models of steam plows, gas-engines, and other farm machinery

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