New Orleans daily crescent., 1866-10-31

Dir. Derby the American agent for the Paris Elk.
position of 1867
UNITED STATES AGENCY FOR TIE PARIS
UNIVERSAL EPOswGON OF 1867
No. Az Parkman Row, New York
To applicants for to Exhibit Agricultural MACHINERY:
Circular: From information Just received from
our commissioner at Paris, regret to inform vou
that the space we had expected to occnnv win
agricultural implements is so much abridged that
we shall be Obliged to revise our allotments and
make material reductions in the number or articles
10 be sent. This will be done under the direction
OF committee of gentlemen no one of whom ia
an exhibitor, whose sole aim will be to select he
very best article of its kind which is offered
General Agent for the United tates.
T. S.-The following extracts from Commits
sioner Beckwith's recent dispatches on this sub
Ject, Will more fully explain the position
III eaGh nation were TO send forward the irreg-
ular mass OF its products as they might be offered
the accumulation would exceed all limits of ROOM
and be such as to render comparison impractic
able and results fruitless.
The right idea Of an international exhibition is
this: II you form national exhibition and take
from 1t the premium products in every depart
ment, these will be your proper representatives
and your proper contributions to an international
one. All the rest is surplus as regards the inter
national object, and mere misappliCation of
public money to send them forward The prem.
mary work and selecting which this requires is
precisely The work of committees and sub-com-
mittees, and those of England, France, Belgium
and other countries are diligently occupied with
this. They will only bring forward their best
and, indeed, nothing is more obvious than that ali
duplicates of things equal and that all products
OF secondary quality or merit, in their Kind will
be useless incumbrance.
q" observe among the applications large mum.
Der OF plOws, moving machines and reaping ma
chimes. They cannot all be the best even Of their
kind, nor Wohd 1t be profitable to submit them all
to competition trials. Neither Il il likely that the
owners Of all are prepared to incur the expenses
OF such trials. II you select from them such as
have been tried ana are known 10 be synnrjor and
of which the owners are prepared and viii engage
to do the ncedfll I'll putting Them thronph the new
trials here of what use can it be to send the others
q 1t IL true Of many inventions Of which the
merit. cannot be seen by looking at them that if
no preparation has been made To display them, Il
is worse than useless to send them There are
many such il all countries which will not be sent
because no exhibitor can supply the means of
taking them all. But even if this were not SO. it
Still remains that we have no place for them and
cannot exhibit them.o
The following is the report Of the imperial com
mission in refefencc to tie arrangesnts made for
the exhibition Of agricultural implements ETC.:
The universal exposition Of 1867 has been Or
ganizcd with the view Of showing at the same time
10 the public the products of labor and the meth
DDS Of producing il Fu operation ana in con
dtiors as near as possible to the realitv The
work Of the agriCutturi5ts could not find a suita.
BILE place. neither in the palace nor in the park of
the Camp de Mars; therefore, to meet the neces.
sary reHUirements the imperial commission has
included in its general plan the establishment OF
an experimental ground to show the apparatus in
motion, as they are ordinarily used in tile fields
thus inrulcating il the public mind useful notions
concerning the practical labUrs of the husband
man. Among the sizes that were suggested near
Paris, the commission has selected the isle of Bill
lancOurt, not far from the Champ de Mars,t which
presents, upon an extent OF q hactares, (mOre
than fOrty-lou acrGs) a soil of medium consis-
tency, nrOpgr for various agricultural experiments
In order 10 install on this field an exhibition of
implements and processes of cultivation in q
r, fl.
been divided into several parts each part cor
responding to the great subdivisions of rural
labor. The first division will be appropriated to
the work done on the farm by machinery. Under
special sheds the thrasbers, straw cutters stump.
diggers, sifters, etc. will be in operation. To
these specimens of farm work the exhibition of
certain industries relating to it will also be added.
Such, for instance as the raising and fattening of
poultry, the manufacture Of feGula, sugar, alco-
hal, butter, cheese. wine, oil, and the educa-
ton Of bees and the preparation of wax and
honey. .=.a
There, in presence Of the public, forging, horse
shoeing wood-turning ETC., will be done, also
charcoal in course of PREPARATION pipes for
drainage, and different kinds of rustic earthen-
ware. Finally, in the space reserved for farm
work, the preparation of fertilizers, the powder
ing crushing Of coproiilhes ~, the fabrication
OF superphosphates, the disintectng of animal
matters used as cOrrectives or manures, will be
shown to agrculturists, who are particularly inte-
rested III these experiments.
The second division will be devoted to imple-
ments for plowing, cutivatng and harvesting,
worked by steam or horse power. Numerous
4 competitive trials will be made with plows and
haryesters. Periodical sowing will be done, thus
1 affording opportunity for the regular operation
of sewers and harr0ws. Every measure will be
taken to represent the appropriate work in the
field peculiar to each month and according to the
weather and season of the year. In the third
division, specimens of natural well as artificial
prairies will be found also works of drainage,
superficial and subterranean irrigation, with either
liquid manure weak solution Of vinegar or fresh
water. The comparative use of elevators, dams
and other means devised for the distribution of
water Tor agricultural purposes will form the sub
ject of interesting experiments. In this section Of
the experimental ground reapers, threshers
Eakes, etc, viii be in operation
The fourth division is appropriated to the cult
Vation of beets, potatoes and Of other plants re-
quired to be weeded, according to the newest
methods and with improved implements.
The fifth division is set aside for the specimens
Of particular cultivation, as kitchen vegetables,
mushrooms water crosses, beds of roses, currants
sTawberries, and other fruit or flower bearing
plants, the cultivation of which is an important
item in the vicinity Of large cities. This division
of the experimental ground has been adopted in
view of the organization of the two series of agri
cultural trials, destined to the general instruction
ofthe public, and specially for the benefit Of cul