Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1878-01-31
Commissioner.

w ASH1NGTON, D.C., January i, 1913.
In pursuance of the authority vested in
him by act Of congress, approved December
Is, 1877, the commissioner Of agriculture has
undertaken "to collect and prepare, as far as
practicable, and with as little delay as posi-
bic, suitable specimens Of the agricultural
productions of the several states and terri-
tories of the union for exhibition at the
Paris exposition"
He therefore proposes to accept from any
source. specimens Of native fertilizing ma
~terials. Of vegetable products of every de-
scription, capable of ready preservation and
exhibition, and of materials manufactured
from such products. This will include in
termediate products of the methods ofmanu-
~facture, which may be arranged to show. as
far as is possible by means of them, the
processes involved. The classification of
material adopted by the department is as
follows:
FIRST. Native fertilizing materials.
A. Mneral-South Carolina phosphates.
raw and groun y gypsum, green SAND, mari,
salt, ashes, lime.
B. Tgetable-Sea weeds, peat or muck.
c. Animal-Bat guanos, bones, refuse
from sugar refneries (bone-black, scum, re.
fuse from abbatoirs, (dried blood), and from
oil works (seed cake, pork and beef crack
lin, fish, g%uano).
SECOND. Raw products of the states and
territories, to be arranged with especial re-
ference to the locality Of growth or produc-
| ton.
Cereals. Wheat, rye, maize, buckwheat,
oats, barely, rice.
Flores. Animal and vegetable: wool,
silk, cotton, hemp; fax, jute, ramie, pal
metto, straws, marsh grasses, pita, eilas,
yucca.
Tobacco and hops.
Seeds. A. Cultivated for fodder; clover,
timothy, bluegrass. B. Cultivated for oil !;
cotton seed, fax seed, castor beans, ground
nuts. c. Cultivated for vegetables used tor
food, and for other purposes; beans, peas,
cabbage, tomatoes, etc.
Fodder. Preserved for feeding cattle.
Broom corn and other products grown for
manufacture of brushes.
Fruits and Vegetables, capable of preserva-
ton, or models Of them in wax or plaster of
Paris, colored in oil.
Woods of forest trees.
THIRD. Materials, raw and manufactur-
ed to be especially arranged to illustrate the
methods of utilization and manufacture of
agricultural products. 1t will embrace the
following:
Vegetable materials manufactured for food
for human consumption.
Cereal products; -four, meal ,%!farina, hominy,
grits.
Saccharine products; cane-sugar, beet-root
sugar, sorghum sugar, maple sugar, and
sugar from sweet corn.
Products Of fermentation Of vegetable ma
t%erials.
Vegetable materials not used for foods.
but utilized in the arts.
Fibrous materials utilized by spinning and
weaving. Wool and its products, silk and
its products; cotton, hemp, fax, jute, ramie.
Tobacco; chewing, smoking, snuff, cigars
Hops.
Tanning materials. Banks; raw, rossed
and ground; oak, hemlock willow, pine, yell
low birch, LARGE, sweet gum. Extracts of
barks: Leaves and plants, sumac, polygonum
amphibium, ephedra antisyphiuaica, sweet
fern. Woods; mesquite and Usage orange.
FOURTH. Plans of methods of farming
irrigation, fruit culture, etc.
FIFTH. Working models of machinery
and apparatus employed in the utilization
Of agricultural products.
The condition under which specimens for
this collection will be received, are as fol-
lows:
All specimens must be the best of their
kind. They must be carefully labeled and
securely packed, and must be accompanied
with a clear and concise statement Of their
origin. mode Of production, and method Of
preparation.
The quantity of each specimen must be
sufficient to clearly show the quality and
physical properties of the product, and,
with the exception Of very closely mater
ials, must be sufficient to fill a vessel of one
gallon capacity, and need not exceed that
amount unless otherwise particularly specif.
ed. When intended. for competition the
quantitybo each specimen of cereals and
other6eld seeds must not be less than
half abushel
Contributors to the collections of this de.
partment will receive due credit on the Ia
Of the specimens when exhibited, and
in reports made by this department. They
may, if they so desire, enter their c ,ntribu.
for competition and prize. For this
purpose they must comply with the follow
ing instructions:
"Under the French regulation, and those
which the commissioner general has issued
in conformity with them, it is necessary
that all exhibits for competition be entered
in the names of the exhibitors. Each of
the latter must sign an application (blank
herewith enclosed) as their names will
be carried through the books and 20 to the
Al the close of the exposition the con.