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Samantha at the St. Louis Exposition

CHAPTER VIII
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But they wuz so took up with the show they dallied, and so retribution and a indignant pardner overtook 'em.

Well, we took the Intremoral railway and went back to finish Agricultural Hall, for that bein' writ on my pad I wanted to complete it so fur as we could, of course it would took months to do justice to it.
We got there in a few minutes, and Josiah, as might be expected, wanted to see the food exhibits, so we went where there wuz all kinds of food made of vegetable products, all kind of grain, flour mills where you could see wheat go in one end and bread come out the other, bakeries, kitchens, tea and coffee pavilions and every sort of animal food products, milk and cream in every form, fresh and preserved cheese and butter dairies, all sorts of dairy tools, churns, separators, cheese presses and vats, everything connected with makin' butter and cheese, transporting and distributing.

Starch factories, broom factories, market gardening in all branches.
Grasses, all sorts of fodder for cattle, raised in every country of the world, and the best methods of raising.

Everything relating to poultry, artificial hatching and raising.

Every kind of crop raised in every country of the world and the best methods of raising and handling them.
As in cotton, you can see it from the tiny seed clear to the cotton mill, so in corn, you see everything that is manufactured from it and how it is done--meal, breakfast foods, starch, bread, pastry, baking powders, yeast, from a kernel of corn up to mills and manufactories.


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