In the Palace of Horticulture the space allotted to Missouri was 6,600 square feet—­larger than that awarded to any other State, and filled with Missouri fruits.  More than 430 varieties of fruits grown in the State were shown from 84 counties.

In the Palace of Agriculture Missouri agricultural resources occupied prominent position at the main entrance of the building and on the main aisle.  In the artistic facade, made, as all the decorative features of the display, entirely of grain and grasses, was shown a series of thirty pictures illustrating the marked contrast between the old and new methods in agriculture.  Corn was exhibited in many forms.  A corn temple, constructed of the great cereal, was in the main aisle, Missouri being chosen by the exposition to represent the great corn States.

In the Palace of Mines and Metallurgy a display was made of the mining resources of the State.  Missouri’s space was at the main entrance.  The exhibit consisted of typical products of Missouri mines and quarries—­coal, lead, zinc, iron, copper, tripoli, building and ornamental stone, clay, sands—­and mineral waters, crystals of all types, mining machinery at work, laboratory specimens and equipment from the School of Mines, and photographs of 1,200 mining views in a brief comprehensive showing of all the mineral wealth of the State.  Every district was represented by adequate specimens.  An outside mining exhibit was made by Missouri in the Mining Gulch, where mining machinery was shown at work and a Missouri mine.  Special features were a zinc and lead concentrating plant, model of shot tower, illustration of process of making Babbitt metal and solder.  A Scotch hearth furnace for smelting lead ore was also in operation.

Missouri was represented in several places in the Palace of Education and Social Economy.  Here was made the general exhibit of Missouri schools.  The main school exhibit consisted of showings of grades of the work done in the twelve regular grades of the public schools and in the kindergarten, of the work of the colleges and normal schools, of the schools for negroes, and of special schools.  Aside from the high school and grade exhibit, private institutions had separate displays.  The public school exhibit was intended to show the work of the entire system of the State public schools, each grade being represented by photographs of typical children and school scenes by representative work of the pupils.  Over 300 photographs were shown.  Mutoscopes presented in moving pictures scenes upon the school grounds.  By means of cabinets, tables, and winged frames the exhibits were presented in compact form.  Every kind of school—­city, town, village, and rural—­was represented in the exhibit, and the work of more than 200,000 children was on exhibition.

The State University exhibit showed what that institution had been and what it is doing.  Bird’s-eye views of the university at different periods of its existence and a fine model of its present buildings and grounds were shown.  The various departments made exhibits of their work.