The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-09-11
The Worlds Fair.

following letter which will be of inter-
est to all the farmers of Minnesota.
CHICAGO, August II, 1891.
Hon. IGNATIUs DoNNELLY,
Hastings, Mimi.
DEAR SIR:-In view of the interest
taken by you and your organization
in all that tends to promote, and adj
vance the interests of agriculture, /
beg to submit the following informa-
ton in reference to the work OF the
Departments of Agriculture, Live
Stock and Forestry, Worlds Column
bian Exposition.
l am glad to state that ample &C.
commOdations will be made in the
way of buildings, in which to care for
the important interest covered by
these Departments.
Careful attention has been given to
all the details of organization, to the
preparation OF the plans for the nee
essary buildings, and to the work OF
enlisting the cooperation and assis-
tance of the various State Boards of
Agriculture, and Agricultural and
Live Stock Organizations and Socie-
ties throughout the world land to
the securing of exhibits in the var
ious groups covered by the above De-
partments.
A large correspondence has been
conducted, and the work at this date
is sufficiently advanced to warrant
the statement that the displays in
these Departments will be among the
most interesting and complete ever
shown at any Exposition.
THE AGRICULTURAL BUILDING.
The plans for this building were
prepared by Messrs. McKim, Meade
& White, leading architects of New
York City, and with the exception of
the Administration Building it will
be the most magnificent structure
on the Exposition grounds. 1t will
be 800 by 500 feet, severely classic in
style, and will be almost surrounded
by lagoons, fringed with beautiful
growing plants and flowers. The
building will have five pavilions, one
at each corner and one in the center,
the corner pavilions will be 81 feet
square, and the grand entrance, 25
feet wide, leading into a spacious YES
tibule, will face the north. At the
main entrance will be Corinthian col
umns, five feet in diameter and forty
feet high, while beyond the massive
columns will be the rotunda, one
hundred feet in diameter, and sur
rounded by a glass dome one hun
dred and thirty feet. There will be
eight minor entrances, each twenty
feet wide, and the building will be APP
propriately ornamented with figures
and relief work, designed by celebrat-
ed sculptors.
THE CLASSIFICATION.
The Classification for the Agricul-
tural Department embraces s1S
Groups. divided into SO Classes, COW
ering all the cereals, grasses, forage
plants, pastes, breads, sugars. starch,
tea, coffee, syrups, chocolate, confec
tionery, potatoes and other root
crops, preserved meats and food pre-
parations, fertilizers, dairy and dairy
products, cotton, wool, silk and 9th
er fibres, mineral waters, tobacco, ci-
gars, cigarettes and snuff, liqueurs,
malt liquors, appliances for distilling
and fermenting, methods of irriga-
ton, drainage and general farm
management, literature and stats:
tics, and all kinds of farm implements
and tools.
THE DAIRY SCHOOL.
One of the most interesting and
novel features of this Department
will be the proposed Dairy School,
which will be in operation in a build
ing specially designed for the pur-
pose. The School will be conducted
in the nature of a contest in milk-giv-
ing and butter-making, and some
three hundred COWS of the best dairy
breeds in the world will supply the
milk. The cows will be fed, MIXED,
and the butter manufactured and
sold on the grounds.
The tests will be made publicly,
and visitors interested will have an
opportunity of seeing the entire pro-
cess of butter-making by the most
approved methods. All the food
furnished the different breeds of cat
tie will be weighed and charged
against the herd daily, and each
herd will be credited with it's daily
product OF milk, butter and cheese,
Manufacturers of dairy appliances
will probably furnish the necessary
machinery and fixtures. The dairy
building, which will not only accom-
modate this School, but also furnish
space for exhibits of butter and
cheese from all parts of the world,
will be modest structure of good
design, fronting on Lake Michigan,
and will occupy an area of IS feet by
2OO feet,-two stories in height, with
q pleasant balcony overlooking the
Lake. which will be used for a cafe or
restaurant. Already two or three of
the leading cattle associations of the
United States have appropriated
$4,000 each, to pay part of the ex-
penses OF maintaining on fairgrounds
the best specimens of their respective
breeds.
Among other features, it may be
mentioned that the exhibit of animal