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Nl lng held In Omaha, waa ever seen by the
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lar shows at Chicago or elsewhere very
recently, but these agree that, while the
Omaha show is not as extensive as tome
others, It is much mora satisfactory.
This can readily be believed, because the Omaha
show is not only compact, but it is comprehensive in a
high degree. Assembled from a very wide and rich
territory, the exhibits have been handled and placed
in auch a way that the result Is most satisfying from
an artistic standpoint. Educationally, the value of
thw various displays would be bard to calculate. This
is certain: That the person who views and studies
the exhibits with an open eye and a mind given to
arguing from cause to effect cannot fail to gain dis
tinct benefit. Questions will bring forth a varleJy of
Information that could be gained from no other source
and in no other way aside from actual experience.
The individuals and the corporations thst have
placed exhibits in the Omaha Land Show have come
here with a very definite purpose in view. With them
tt Is no dress purade affair, although they appreciate
to the full the value of pleasing arrangement of crop
specimen. In every booth will be found men and
women who are familiar with every peculiarity of soil,
climate, product, price of land, opportunity for rich
and poor, Investor and settler. The men who directed
the work of gathering and forwarding the component
parts of the various displays took particular pains to
send with them the people who can and will answer
every question specifically and In enlightening man
ner. Thus, If a visitor wants to know the last detail of
matters suggested to his mind by the displays of the
Union Taclflc, Great Northern, Northwestern and
Northern ruclflc railroad, or by the exhibits of the
various states and sei'tlons, men are at hand to answer
and explain until the questioner can have no doubt.
Inquiry is invited everywhere and information is as
free as it is complete.
i:ffettlve llct ure of Western Work.
This show Is a concrete picture of the west
actual results of good farming put into a packed com
pass pleasing to view and convincing as no literature
possibly could be. Soil, topography, methods and the
rich fruit thereof are here presented In the most prac
tical form that experts tsu devise. Not only are fresh
products shown iu abundance, but many exhibits of
grain, fruit and root crops that have gone the rounds
of other exhibitions, thus giving opportunity to con
sider shrinkage, best methods of haudllng and keeping
qualities. Solidity of accomplishment is to b viewed
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in the kernel, while the beautiful perspective can be
shaded as the investigator wills.
Not only is the picture complete and inviting as
to the "general lay of the land," but it Is very definite
as to the varying sections and differing conditions and
products. Here can be seen the plans and results of
irrigation, likewise of dry farming, side by side with
the productions of the farms where old-fashioned
agriculture still holds Its steady, safe way. One very
significant thing to be noticed is that men of actual
experience, from every corner of the prolific west, are
handy to the Inquirer. They do not guess. They talk
on sure ground and delight to enter into details. The
prospective buyer or settler, with any particular up
land or valley of the whole wcBt in mind, can get Just
what he wants to know about It at first hand.
The visitor can go from the esthetic beauty of the
Burbank exhibit a liberal education concerning
fruits and flowers and their possibilities to the pic
torial presentment of alfalfa in the Northwestern rail
road booth and find a contrast of display, but an es
sential similarity of achievement. Kach Is com
pletely typical In its line, and earn carries lessons
that will profit in practical fashion those Inclined to
learn and put knowledge to practical use.
Interest Id Show is Wldchpreml.
That the Land Show now open iu Omaha lias
created much more than a local or state-wide interest
is a sure thing. L. Petry of Buffalo, N. Y., was at the
show Wednesday afternoon and said he had come to
Nebraska as a result of seeing a copy of The Bee in
Buffalo.
"I had a desire to learn something of the west,"
said Mr. retry, "and when I saw an article telling
about the proposed Land Show 1 made up my mind
to come and see what it looked like. Having a rather
hazy idea before I saw it, let me say that it is a reve
lation. I have traveled only to Omaha, but right here
In the Auditorium we tan travel all over the west.
Maybe you don't catch my idea, it is this: Instead
of takiug a train to this distant point or that, at a bi
outlay of money, I can spend a few days carefully
KoUing over these various exhibits, studying their
significance. Here 1 find actual presentments of the
things being grown and pictures of the promise of
different areas of the we6t that 1 want to know some
thing about. Here are men who can answer all my
questions, and If I think of some new point over ni(?ht.
why, I come in the morning and find out about it.
Don't ycu see, while this Isn't a traveling show, it will
save myself and others a lot of travel and that by it
we can learn and plan? I want some land In the
west, like many another msn iu the east, and when I
have finished my studies of this exposition of what
western lands are capable of I will be ready to decide
where I want to go."
Thomas Do Witt of Evansville, Wis, was another
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visitor who had his own idea about the value of the
show. "Alfalfa Interests me," he suid, "because in
Buffalo county, in this state, I have a relative who has
been drilling alfalfa talk Into me by letter until noth
ing would do me but to see for myself. That alfalfa
farm exhibit is worth all the traveling I have done,
just to see It and study at first hand the possibilities
of the plant. After talking with Mr. Brown and
others I am willing to believe all I have ever heard
of the rlcness and profit of alfalfa, and it looks mighty
good to me, so good, in fact, that an alfalfa farm is
taking form in my mind, with myself as proprietor."
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Bui hank Kxhlbit i lireat.
The Burbank exhibit a record display, by the
way, outside of the fruit wizard's own state is a
continual center of attraction. At the Chicago Land
Show the work of Mr. Burbank was represented by
sixty Jars of specimens. In the display at the Audi
torium are 100 jars, and each merits study. In the
wide world there Is nothing to compare with these
evidences cif the remarkable skill of the great Cali
fornia experimenter. So faultless is the treatment
that every beholder Is convinced he sees the thing as
it actually is taken from the ground, the vine or the
tree at Mr. Burbank's place. These are not merely
picturesque preserved specimens of odd things, but
very real types of the valuable productions that are to
benefit fruit growers and farmers all over the world.
It is a most inviting layout and draws favorable com
ment from all who see it. In itself it would be a
winning feature for any show.
Enterprising men and progressive communltes,
a-thrlll with the new and better gospel of agriculture,
have for months centered their thought on Omaha.
They were determined to mako displays here that
would show their boasts of superiority in this thing
or that were not idle or vainglorious. Hundreds, per
haps thousands, of clever people have been engaged
for a long time in gathering and preparing these ex
hibits. Great capitalists, renowned educators, wise
promoters, experienced farmers, have been giving
their very best thought to getting something solid In
the way of returns from the Omaha Land Show. They
have viewed the significance of the thing in Its large
sense of the west, for the west that all who care
may learn of its beneficent promise and see Its tre
mendous productivity.
Henellt Will Flow to All tlio We.
Governor Aldrich. in his address at the opening
Wednesday evening, took a pardonable pride In ex
tolling the virtues of Nebraska as an agricultural
state Rd dwelt on the benefit that must accure to his
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A new touch in auto-suggestion treatment is told
of by Margaret Briscoe in Good Housekeeping. Not
long since a young man of great wealth went to the
office of a prominent physician and laid his case be
fore him. He was ill; he had no wish to live, not if
he mutt suffer as rie was ttieu buffering, from what
he knew not.
is there nothing you can't die and leave?." be
was asked.
"Nothing."
"What interests you?"
"Nothing my little old pipe, perhaps."
The puzzled physician looked his patient over
again. Physically he was perfect, the mind clear,
even clever.
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own state, as well as to Omaha. In doing this he but
voiced the views and the hopes of every person in
terested from far and near. They expect a benefit
from the show, directly or indirectly; but at the same
time they know the visitors who pass through will be
benefited as much, or more; they know that every
section of the west will make its appeal to the land
seeker more strongly and that the result must be good
all around.'
Another thought and it is the keynote of the
whole movement for which the Land Show stands
was expressed by C. C. Rosewater, when he said that
the show Is meant to be more than a great object
lesson In the best methods of agriculture. Mr. Rose
water spoke with authority when he said the manage
ment did not start It for the purpose of getting into
the show business, or merely to attract people to
Omaha. "The object of this exposition is to meet a
vital problem, to stem the tide of emigration to the
north and to the south and to direct It to the west
ward." Like the men whose energy and deep interest Mr.
Rosewater and his staff have enlisted, and who are
now on the ground either personally or by earnest
representatives, the moving spirit of the project that
has so grandly materialized sees the necessity for con
certed effort and a wide publicity. Knowing the
capabilities of the west and keenly sensing Its value
to the landless and the ambitious farmers who want
to be in the forefront, where the very best is being
accomplished, he has thrown himself into the work
with the idea of helping practically to work out a big
idea.
In this connection the California State Develop
ment association may be instanced as one very im
portant wheel in the machinery that is eventually to
remake the west as the home of millions of producers
who will send forth what the world demands in
greater measure every year high-class product, in
increasing ratio per acre. The power is here, as all
men recognize. It simply needs wide and wise de
velopment. KxpoMtlon of Advanced Agriculture.
Not only in the way of literature, but in the better
way of physical exhibit is the spirit of advanced agri
culture brought to the knowledge of the visitor. Here
can be seen the ear of corn that captured the $1,000
Had a "Hunch"
scribe," said the physician. "Will you promise to do
a little thing for me? I want you to begin to collect
pipes, not one to cost more than 10 cents. Tell me
this day week bow many you get."
The patient laughed in the doctor's face, but
promised. ,
That day week he burst Into the office, his color
good, eye bright, manner buoyant. "I have 100
pipes! Got four the first day. Didn't know where
to look. Yesterday, got thirty! Had to have my
den rearranged to hold them cases I'm going to "
"Hold on there," said the physician. "How are
you?"
"Never was better There was nothing the mat
ter with me."
"You had something you could have died of."
warned the physician. "We call it apprehension, and
it's the result of a diseased morale."
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prize, and the others ears of the same grain not in
ferior to any grown in the world. Here are sheaves
of wheat, of oats and kindred grains that speak of
high-power productivity; and here, too, are examples
of crops grown under all conditions the farmer has to
contend with. Irrigation and dry farming methods
are to be learned to the very bottom, for, as Prof.
Buffum of Wyoming pointed out so effectively, "the
golden west has trained men to overcome new condi
tions. Here is the cradle of modern Irrigation farm
ing, of scientific farming, of dry farming, of con
servatlon, variation and adaptation. The west takes
pride in its progress and In its products. Its soil, Its
air, its sunshine. Its length and breadth, its unde
veloped resources invite the investor and the home
seeker." Surely, say the men who organized the Omaha
Land Show, here Is food for reflection, as well as mat
ter for pride. And to prove their faith and their
works they have presented in the Omaha Auditorium,
individually and in ensemble, the basic material things
for which the west is claiming world-wide attention
and commanding approval. But it is not from the
west alone that the viewers come; rather from every
corner of the country. r"or in these days it has be
come known everywhere that the metropolis of Ne
braska, a leader of the states great in agricultural
power, is a worthy center of the potentiality of that
power. Prof. Buffum modestly bespoke the spirit of
the west when he said: "There is hope for the west.
It is rapidly increasing In population, and those who
are here will stay, and those who come will not go
away."
Recognizing that other matters than crops are
concerned Intimately with the progress and prosperity
that is to make the west meet its destiny in a broad
spirit, the management of the Omaha show has pro
vided a good roads exhibit, the like of which is rarely
seen, it has been constructed in the south balcony
of the building with painstaking care and on a most
elaborate scale by John H. Mullen, assistant state
engineer of Minnesota. Beginning with a primitive
Indian trail, this practical roadmaklng lesson extends
through every grade and kind of road that the condi
tions of the western country are likely to call for.
Mr. Mullen gives a continuous lecture on the vital
points of his exhibit, from foundation to top coat.
Sand and clay, gumbo, rock, gravel every approved
available material and old and new methods of using
are demonstrated In this most interesting object
lesson. To put it before the visitors in its completed
form was a matter involving much labor and no small
cont. It can be examined with profit by any man,
whether he is directly Interested or not, and as a
demonstration of modern, scientific, practical road
building, with whatever material may be handy, It
wouiuV bo difficult to conceive a better piece of en
gineering work in this line.
Illustrated lectures on every phase of western pro
duction and development have been arranged, and
well posted men are busy with this educational
feature of the show at intervals all day and evening.
These lectures are given In the big room under the
stage and duo announcement Is made of each one.
Thus, the person desiring to hear the lecture and view
the pictures dealing with any particular subject need
not waste any time, but can make the hours of bis
visit to the show profitable In the greatest degree.
The pictures are of actual scenes in the field, the or
chard, the warehouse, the factory, and follow the log
ical lines of each subject from its genesis to the com
pleted thing. The lectures are well worth hearing
and the men giving them are all open to question on
any point the audience may desire elaborated.
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