The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-06-30

and the machinery started for the
first time. This building was I'M
rooted in a violent storm, last
spring, and hence everything in it
lie unusually late. This building is
in tbs extreme end of the grounds,
and it may be owing ID its distance
away that so few visit it, but it is
really surprising how small the
number of its visitors are, compar-
ed to the other buildings. To ag-
riculturists, / should think that
this building would be a sort of
pocket edition of Heaven. Every
thing that Is produced or used on a
farm is here found in almost every
conceivable form, together with
many agricultural products and i'm
plements of Foreign Countries.
Extending across the north end
of the building is long series of
tanks of different sizes, in which
are kept fish, turtles, and horse
shoe crabs. Just across the aisle
from the tanks, are thirty-six great
glass tubes in which are samples of
earth from as many different coun-
ties in Minnesota. The tubes are
filed to about the height of five
feet with the earth just as 1t is
fonnd in that particular locality,
and in nearly every instance, it is
ofa blackness that have never be-
fore seen. In the northeast corner
of the building is q collection of
samples of crude rubber from every
part of the world in which rubber
is produced, and each sample is in
the rough form in which it is sent
to the market. All of it, on its out
side, is of q dirty, repulslve black
color, but some of it, when cut
open, has reddish, bloody tinge,
while other samples look SO much
like wood that nothing but touch
will convince you that it is really
rubber, and not deception of some
kind. The sample from each coun-
try comes in a different form, som e
being in little balls, others long
trips, others in cakes about the size
of your head. In the center of the
enclosure are g number of flower
pots, in which different varieties OF
the rubber plant is growing, none
of which are over five or six feet
high, while in their native woods
they grow from one hundred to one
hundred and fifty feet high.
One of the most interesting ex.
hibits in this hall to me, is ma
chine for making fences out of al
kinds of lumber. There is a saw
for cutting the material to the prop
er lengths, a gang of augers for
boring the holes in the posts, a cut.
ter for reducing the ends of the
panels to q proper size, and ten
oning device to shape the ends so a
to exactly fit the holes in the posts
These devices are all combined in
such simple, peri ect manner, a
to be really a wonder. The post
are all sawed off square on theiI
lower ends so that they will set VI
on the ground and thus no holeI
need be dug for them.
Moving machines, plows. cultiva
tors, seed drills, and all agriculture
implements of the most improved
pattern and design are to be found
in this building, together witt
groceries, tobacco, cotton and almos
every product of the soil. Anon
the plows are two from South Bend
Ind. which are finished off with
gold plate and mountings, and arr
worth one thousand dollars each.
The Judge of the agriculture
machinery have determined to d
away with the old system of trial
in the field, and will form the
: judgments of the merits of the ms
l chimes Just as they stand in TIT
building.
The amount of wine exhibited
n really surprising, and is nearly al
, native, having been manufacture
in California, New York, New Jel
sey, Ohio, and one or two oth'
States. The display of wool
i quite good, some of the exhibitor
having sent not only the wool aft
d it has been cleaned and carded, bl
full sized stuff sheep, on whi'
there is luxuriant growth of woo
: The display of cotton is not near
= good as it might be. 1t is the intel
= ton to have 3 full display of cattl
p on the grounds before the exhib
e ton is closed.
!, In the Main building the mani
: facturers of burning fluids hay
2 made q very fine display. Oh
e company has in full working orde
n q miniature oil we'll. The engir
b is run by electricity +; the lower ell
,r of the pump is inserted in an {
n barrel that is concealed un Ter tt
,s table, and the oil, as fast as it
% raised, runs into small tanks. Son
Is of the samples of oil are much mo-
f. clear than the purest water. I n
= ticed two kegs, having glass head
n in which were placed statuette
=, Both of them are filed with oil
D. pure that it requires q second i
al spection to convince you that t
Of statuettes are not placed inside
in empty kegs.
y The old bother of having to g
ne 3 fifty cent note, or silver b
ct dollar, before you can get adm
or lance, still continues in force at t
he gates. Why anything so annoyil
Of and foolish should kept up, bottle
o. the understanding. Two perso
in cannot get admittance on a dol
be bill, but must get it changed, al
20 then each one pay separately, n
ut can q person having two quartz