“ Concerning the fair, the annual report said: “The result was all that could be desired as an exhibition. The products of the soil were never so well represented, either as to breadth of country or quality of product. ”

“ The board also began in this year the collection and arrangement of specimens of coal, building stone, fossils, gypsum, timber, etc., and made preparations for securing a collection of Kansas birds, noxious insects, and anything else that would be of interest to the agricultural industry in the state. ”

“ By the same act the Academy of Science was made a coördinate department of the State Board of Agriculture, and assessors were directed to collect samples of agricultural and other products and turn the same over to the county clerk, who would forward them to the agricultural rooms in the capitol at Topeka. ”