County.  There were 138 samples of iron ore shown as a collective State exhibit, and in addition to this there was ore from Edmonson County, ore from Nelson County, ore from Allen County, ore from Carter County, and ore from Hart County.  One of the unique displays was a sample bottle of oil from the old American oil well in Cumberland County.  This well, begun September 10, 1827, was the first oil well in America.  Collective State exhibits of oynx marble, paint earths, polished earths, sands, silicious earths, road materials, fluorspars, barite calcite, cement materials, salt, lithograph stone, lime, potash, marl, asphalt rock, etc., were also to be found in Kentucky’s general mineral exhibit.

The State made a fine display in forestry, fish, and game.  The collection embraced displays from all parts of Kentucky.  The forestry exhibit not only showed Kentucky’s timbers in the rough and polished state, but hundreds of samples of the manufactured products.  One of the exhibits was a full-sized log wagon, carrying three large logs 10 feet long, one each of oak, poplar, and hickory.  The idea of showing the timber from which the product was made was carried out as far as possible throughout the exhibit.

Kentucky’s educational exhibit occupied 1,100 square feet, every foot of which was utilized to advantage.  The public schools, Catholic institutions, commercial branches, and colleges were given due prominence, while special attention was given to mountain school labors.  One part was devoted to public schools and another to Catholic institutions.  The school work of the totally blind pupils occupied six display cabinets.  These cases showed the entire course, from 8 years to 18.  The display from the Kentucky School for the Deaf at Danville, illustrating the work done in its manual-training department, was shown also.  This school was the pioneer in the manual-training movement in Kentucky, and for over half a century every graduate has left its halls equipped with a knowledge of some useful handicraft.  More than a year was consumed in the collection of Kentucky’s educational exhibit.

Kentucky made a good showing agriculturally, and had a creditable and attractive representation in the Palace of Agriculture.  Raising more than 90 per cent of the hemp of the United States, Kentucky made one of the really distinctive exhibits of the Agricultural Building at the exposition.  The exhibit occupied more than 2,000 square feet.  An experiment station showed 50 varieties of grasses and 15 varieties of wheat, both in the seed and in the sheaf Another interesting feature was an entire case of insects injurious to fruit trees and staple products.  An interesting feature was an obelisk, 12 feet high, made of blue grass from the experiment station The apex was of ripened blue grass; the shades leading up to it, formed the base, beginning with the grass in its green state.  The bluish tint that gives the grass its name could be seen.  Various stages of hemp culture and harvest were shown also.  These include the seed, the stalk intact, broken and dressed hemp.  Practically 100 different places were represented in this Kentucky exhibit.  There were in all 242 exhibitors.  Fifty-two of these showed tobacco, 108 corn, 18 wheat, 6 oats, 8 seeds, 5 hemp, and the others miscellaneous.