Opposite the Nebraska Pavilion the State made its main corn display.  Nebraska had a larger exhibit of corn than any State making an exhibition of cereals.  There were more than 57 varieties, running from the little “Tom Thumb” ears of popcorn to mammoth ears of field corn.  One species of corn which attracted particular attention was the result of grafting experiments, whereby several varieties of corn of various colors and shades were made to grow on one cob.  This variety was known as the “Evolution Species.”

During the exposition live-stock shows the Nebraska commission transported free from Nebraska to St. Louis the prize-winning stock and poultry of the State fair at a cost of several thousand dollars.  The choice and exhibition of this kind of stock and poultry were in charge of the Nebraska live-stock and poultry associations.

NEW HAMPSHIRE.

The New Hampshire Building was a reproduction of the birthplace of Daniel Webster.  The building was quaint and striking in appearance, with high-pitched roof and an absence of eaves, small-paned, old-fashioned windows, and weatherboarded sides, and an enormous chimney rising from the center of the roof, exactly like the original at Franklin, N.H.  In every room was a wealth of old-fashioned furniture from New Hampshire homes, much of it a hundred years old or more, as well as Webster relics, davenports, massive polished-top mahogany tables and sideboards, warming pans, antique sideboards, china closets, straight-backed armchairs, grandfather clocks, china and pewter ware.  The greater part of the antique furnishings were from the very valuable collection of Gen. William E. Spalding, of Nashua.  The State Building was provided with a lecture hall for stereopticon lectures, having a screen 16 feet square.

The State commission was composed of Gen. Charles S. Collins, president; Arthur C. Jackson, vice-president and executive commissioner; Omar A. Towne, secretary; Augustine R. Ayers, treasurer; J. Adam Graf; Orton B. Brown; Mrs. Arthur C. Jackson, hostess.  Mr. Brown contributed a carload of lumber, and General Collins and Mr. Jackson individually bore all the expense of construction and maintenance.

The most elaborate of New Hampshire’s exhibits was that of the largest cotton mills in the world, in the Manufactures Building, although the State was represented by individual exhibitors in the various exhibition palaces.

NEW JERSEY.

Members of New Jersey commission.—­Foster M. Vorhees, chief commissioner; Elbert Rappleye, Edgar B. Ward, C.E.  Breckenridge, Edward R. Weiss, J.T.  MacMurray, Ira W. Wood, W.H.  Wiley, Johnston Cornish, Harry Humphreys, R.W.  Herbert; Lewis T. Bryant, secretary.