The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1877-12-26
AMRRICA's EXHIBIT AT PARIS.


The Washington correspondent of the
New York Tribune says: General LIE
Due, of the agricultural department, has
already had several interviews with
Commissioned General Mccormick in
regard to the extent and character of the
exhibit to be made by the agricultural
department at the Paris Exposition.
The most important point to be decided
at once is what portion of the appropria-
ton of $3.50, 900 can be devoted to this
special branch of the American contri-
button.
Only the general plan upon which it
is hoped the agricultural exhibit may be
arranged has as yet been considered.
The details will be modified or ex-
tended as circumstances may admit.
Some idea of what this plan is may be
gathered from the following lii for
estry, cuttings of every useful variety of
timber which grows in this country will
be prepared and each cutting will show
as far as is practicable a section of the
wood with the bark and grain, and the
finish which it is capable of receiving.
The fruits and seeds will also be exhib-
tied. Special products of the forest
will be shown, and among them the
Southern moss, which is used in uphol-
stery The palmetto and other woods,
the fibres of which enter into the manu-
facture of paper. In continuation of the
list of exhibits may be shown the dairy
products of the North with q model of a
New-England dairy honey illus rating
the improved methods of bee culture I;
tobacco in all its varieties, with illustra-
tions Of its culture, curing and methods
of preparation for use maple sugar,
with the sap and the syrup; samples of
all the varieties of essential oil manufac-
tured in America ; fruits, not only the
commoner kinds which are raised in
abundance, but also figs, oranges, cit
rons, rNisins and persimmons, with the
most improved methods of drying, pre-
serving and canning fruits and vegeta-
bles; nuts of every kind, indigenous as
well as those which, having been brought
from abroad, have been found to thrive
in our soil dye stuffs sumac, oak bark
and all other tanning agents, the tanning
properties to be shown by samples of the
product in connection with the exhibit
ton of the plants themselves; roots of
the saponaceous plants OF which America
has a variety, among them valuable
plant little known growing wild in
Texas, and which, in the opinion of the
commissioner of agriculture, deserves a
place among the staples of commerce
broom corn, with illustrations of it's cul-
ture and manufacture; cranberries, with
samples of every variety of vine and
berry; rice in its different stages oil
growth and preparation +; corn in all its
features, from the variety of the West
and South; with stalks ten or twelve feet
high, to the Northern species, which at,
tains height of only three Or four feet,
with samples of all corn products, from
a dodger to whiskey punch.
In connection with the wheat exhibit
the commissioner wishes to send q
model Touring mill, in which the patent
Touring process may be exhibited, the
product of which can be disposed of as
sample of what Americans can do in
this important branch of industry. Got.
ton being our largest article of export
our exhibition Of it will naturally be one
of the most extensive sent from the agri.
cultural department. 1t is hoped fully
to illustrate everything of interest il
connection with its growth, gathering
and preparation. The commissioner in
tends to exhibit model cotton-gin, tc
be run at certain hours of the day, ant
to send with it quantity of seed cottor
to be ginned, pressed and baled.
Two sailing ships and steamer viii
be ready to sail in February and Marcel
under the direction of the secretary O
the navy with goods for the French
exposition. Commander VIM. A. Kirk
land has been designated to command
the Supply, the first to be loaded. TIL,
Supply is in New York, and will sal
from that port. The Constitution, it i
thought, will be the next vessel to b
designated, and she will be loaded a
Philadelphia. Commander Kirklan,
commanded the Supply during tn
Vienna exposition, and on his return T.
the United States wrote complet
report of the exposition.
A letter has been received from Fred
erick Fralick, of Philadelphia, urgin
the creation of a woman's department q
the exposition. The proposition is re
ceived with favor, and lady assistan
commissioner will probably be desig
mated.
The secretary of the National Woo
Growers Association has called upo
the commissioners of agriculture, t
consult in regard to the best plan for
wool exhibit, especially of three varie
ties Of American merino wool.
TIE commissioner-general has decide
that in addition to the offices here an
in New York, he will open branc
office at Philadelphia.
The prisoners in the GAINESVILLE wis.