The fruits, especially apples, placed Kansas high in rank as one of the leading apple-growing States of the Union.  Kansas also ranked close along with the leading States in peaches, plums, grapes, and small fruits and was the banner State in the production of cherries.

The Kansas commission secured an 8-foot square space in the butter pavilion, Palace of Agriculture, at a cost of $500 for the season.  The cost of placing and maintenance was $2,500.

Kansas did very well in her live-stock exhibit, for which an appropriation of $10,000 was used.  More than two hundred entries won prizes, aggregating $313,800.

In the art exhibit, in the Kansas Building, the total number of articles entered and shown was 537.  The total value of the same was $20,247, classified as follows:  Sculpture, paintings in oil, paintings in water colors, pastels and other drawings, miniatures, etchings, etc., paintings on china, art needlework, embroideries, etc., tapestries, etc.

KENTUCKY.

The legislature of 1902 refused to make an appropriation for a State exhibit.  The organization of the Kentucky Exhibit Association to raise a fund by private subscription followed.  For fourteen months an active canvass was conducted, resulting in $30,000 and a sentiment so unanimous for the State’s representation at the fair that in January, 1904, the general assembly supplemented this amount with $75,000.  The Kentucky Exhibit Association had several hundred members, with a board of 15 directors.  Upon the passage of the appropriation act, Governor J.C.  Beckham, who signed the measure, appointed the following commissioners, all to serve without compensation: 

A.Y.  Ford, president; Charles C. Spalding, vice-president; R.E.  Hughes, secretary; W.H.  Cox, W.T.  Ellis, Clarence Dallam, W.H.  Newman, Sam P. Jones, Samuel Grabfelder, M.H.  Crump, J.B.  Bowles, Charles E. Hoge, A.G.  Caruth, B.L.D.  Guffy, Garrett S. Wall, Frank M. Fisher, Mrs. Bertha Miller Smith, hostess.

Mr. Hughes, as secretary, was in charge of the building, and as director of exhibits maintained supervision over Kentucky’s entire representation in the exhibit palaces.  He was Kentucky’s member of the Executive Commissioners’ Association of the fair.  Mr. Hughes had a most capable secretary in Mr. Frank Dunn, who was connected with the work from the organization of the old Kentucky Exhibit Association.  Mrs. Bertha Miller Smith, of Richmond, Ky., held the position of hostess of the building.