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FRANKFORT,
Ky. — The Kentucky Department of Agriculture will honor
100 years of family farming at the Kentucky State Fair
with special exhibits, including horse-drawn implements
and an old-fashioned country store complete with a checkerboard
atop the pickle barrel.
In
addition to a corn patch and wheat field, a tobacco
patch will be planted in the South Wing in conditions
that any hard-working tobacco farmer would have loved
– under roof and fully air-conditioned.
The
Kentucky History Center loaned several special exhibits
to the Department for the anniversary tribute to 100
years of the Kentucky State Fair. KDA employees, at
their own expense, also purchased antiques to spruce
up the store and displays.
Commissioner
Richie Farmer said Eunice Schlappi coordinated the Department's
exhibit and based most of the ideas on her own family's
memories and experiences growing up on Kentucky farms.
The
displays in the South Wing include a shed with tobacco
drying, an old drag tobacco setter and press, a horse-drawn
disc, a corn planter, a cultivator, a corn cutter and
more.
In
a mix of old and new, a one-room schoolhouse includes
a “smart board” with interactive screens for information
about agriculture in each county and an entertaining
and educational software presentation developed by KDA
employee Warren Beeler.
The
popular chick hatcheries will be on display again this
year in the South Wing and the West Hall.
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Note
to Editors: KDA employees currently are setting
up the exhibits in the South Wing.
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