The total cost of the booth was about $1,230, and of the furnishings about $600.  The transportation of the educational exhibits cost approximately $100.  The total cost of the educational exhibit in the Kansas booth was about $6,000.

In the Kansas school exhibits the work of the common schools was made conspicuous.  There were on the tables in the booths between three and four hundred bound volumes of written work, comprising spelling, writing, composition, arithmetic, geography, grammar, United States history, map drawing, kindergarten.  But while the work of the elementary schools was given the most important place in the Kansas exhibit, higher education was kept well in the foreground.  The University of Kansas effectively showed its work through 50 large framed photographs in which all the buildings and many of the class rooms made the work of the institution visible to all.

There was work of some kind from 104 cities and about 400 country districts.  The exhibits from many of the smaller cities did not appear separately on the catalogues, because they were included in county displays.

The Kansas Pavilion in the Agricultural Palace occupied a space 92 by 62 feet on the main aisle, near the center of the building.  On each side were pillars 16 feet high decorated with ears of corn and corn husks.  Upon each of these rested a Grecian vase made of corn husks and festooned with rosettes and garlands of corn husks, the whole being very attractive.

Standing at the main entrance, between the two high corn columns, were two eagles with wings spread for flight—­one made of corn husks and kernels of corn, the other made of wheat straw and kernels of corn.  They were the work of an artist.

One of the most striking features was the large center pyramid, surmounted by a monster steer of the Hereford type, 7 feet in height, fashioned of red and white shelled corn.  At the top of this pyramid the word “Kansas” was worked in corn.

At the north entrance stood a pyramid of native grasses, upon which was a vase made of oat heads, 7 feet high.  Directly opposite stood a pyramid of tame grasses, upon which rested a vase made of the heads of grains and grasses, 7 feet high.

The Kansas State Agricultural College, at Manhattan, exhibited alfalfa, corn, cane, Kaffir corn, oats, buffalo grass, and big blue-stemmed grass, showing the plant and root growth.  Besides these there were 25 varieties of wheat sheaves, 10 varieties of cane 14 feet in length, 4 varieties of Kaffir corn, 3 of broom corn 15 feet, stalks of corn 16 feet, and millet 6 feet high.

The State Agricultural College Experiment Station, Hays, Kans., had a collection of wheat, rye, barley, speltz, oats, and flax.

The total cost of the various installations of the agricultural exhibits of Kansas was $17,750.

The Kansas exhibit in the Horticultural Department fully and completely represented that branch of industry in the State and was highly commented upon by the people generally from all sections of the country.  Kansas was given space covering 2,000 square feet.  The commission appropriated $9,000 for this exhibit, which covered all expenses.