The Maryland agricultural exhibit occupied a space 90 by 20 feet.  A feature intended to illustrate the varied conditions, crops, and methods found in the northern and southern sections of the State, quite foreign to each other, were the two barn scenes, located at each end and on the wall side of the block.  The corn exhibit, consisting of samples of ten ears each, was displayed in a handsome case 4 by 12 feet, protected by plate glass.  Each sample was tied with orange and black ribbon, with the names and addresses of the growers attached.  A second corn exhibit was made in a special exhibit in the, middle aisle of this mammoth building.  Here were displayed the four staples—­tobacco, sugar, cotton, and corn.

The tobacco exhibit was displayed in a case of like construction and proportions to that occupied by the corn, and located at the opposite end and in front of the “Southern Maryland Barn.”  It made an attractive showing of the planters’ tobacco from both southern Maryland and Frederick County.  A special tobacco exhibit was also made in the middle aisle on a space 20 feet square.  In the center stood a giant Indian on a pedestal over 7 feet high, with a long-stemmed pipe in his mouth and a horn of plenty on his left arm, from which the manufactured products of the weed fell to the ground.  The whole was apparently built of tobacco.

The canned-goods industry was in evidence in this section to the right and left of the “Springhouse.”  Placed against the wall, which was covered with black cloth, were three pyramids of cans of peas, corn, and tomatoes.

MASSACHUSETTS.

That Massachusetts might be creditably represented at the St. Louis Exposition the Commonwealth appropriated $100,000.

Governor Bates appointed as the board of managers having the appropriation in charge Dr. George Harris, of Amherst; Mrs. Sears and Mrs. May Alden Ward, of Boston; Thomas B. Fitzpatrick, of Brookline, and Hon. Wilson W. Fairbank, of Warren.  Doctor Harris was elected president of the board; Mrs. Sears, vice-president, and Mrs. Ward, recording secretary.  To Mr. Harris was assigned the department of education; to Mrs. Sears, art; to Mrs. Ward, history, and to Messrs. Fitzpatrick and Fairbank, finance.  Mrs. Sears, Mrs. Ward, and Mr. Fairbank were chosen to serve as the building committee.  The board appointed James M. Perkins, of Boston, secretary and George E. Gay, of Malden, educational director.

The State Building at St. Louis was designed by C. Howard Wattset., of Boston, and the cost, including the furnishings and the grading of the grounds, was about $32,000.  The building was of colonial style, embodying as many features as possible of the Bulfinch front of the Massachusetts statehouse.  The reception hall on the first floor resembled in part the old senate chamber in the statehouse, and the room above, the historical hall, was like the present senate chamber.  Most of the furniture in the building was secured from the statehouse by Senator Fairbank, to whom a large part of Massachusetts’s success at the fair was due.