Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-10-31
FARM EXHIBITS.
The Agricultural Display at the
Chicago Worlds Fair.
Practical Demonstration of tho Proe
of Farming In America as
Compared with That of
Other Countries.

may be insured, the worlds fair proper
will not open until next May. The ex-
hibits which will mark the progress
| made by America during four centuries
will be arranged during the coming
winter. Next summer every art and
industry of all the world will meet In
friendly rivalry. Beside the achieve
ments of America will be shown the
| ripe products that the old world has
been perfecting for thousands of years.
| Agriculture will occupy space
and hold the attention upon scale
never before attempted. In no branch
of practical industry, says the America n
Agriculturist, has the world been NOV
ing faster, of late years, than in agri-
culture. But the movement has not
been evenly distributed because the
farmers are a vast people, extending
over a wide area, and many of them dis
tant from centers of information.
| Here will be grouped every product
of agriculture. The best of everything,
and the method of producing the best,
will be illustrated by object lessons,
when that is practicable-and when not,
by such means as the ingenuity of spe-
cialists in every branch can devise.
The farmer will be enabled to see what
has been accomplished by the farmers
of other lands, or of other sections OF
his own land, and, if their progress has
been greater than his own, he may dis
cover in what line and by what means
| progress was made.
The live stock exhibit will be of spe-
cial excellence and value. The premi-
ums offered by the fair, and by societies
and individuals, make sure that many
| IL II
breeds in the world will be shown,
while associations of breeders of all
kinds of stock will show herds and
flocl1s which will represent the best
| types, and which will afford an I'M
equaled opportunity for studying the
| comparative merits of breeds.
A practical dairy and dairy school
will be in operation to fully illustrate
the most recent progress in dairy
science. The fair will teach us much
about the manufacturer of many other
agricultural products. The prepare.
ton of the various grains for food, and
the curing, drying and preserving in diff
| ferent ways of our fruits and vegetables
open a wide field for development of
our farm economy, and one in which
we are comparatively unlearned. Our
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cured and planted model fruit gardens
in such manner as to illustrate their
best horticultural productions and the
method of planting and cultivating.
In each state exhibit will be shown
by the best illustrative methods, the
area and production of the principal
crops.
The worlds fair will help us to real.
ize more fully the extent, the
grandeur, and the almost IL
Irritable resources of our own country.
The majority of us have had the oppor.
tunity of studying personally but a
very small portion Of our great terri
tory. Here it will be epitomized in
such a way that we may take it uI
state by state, and in a few days have 6
more correct understanding than by any
other possible means at our command
In the same way it will help to educate
us regarding other countries. Many
foreign governments have not only
sent very complete exhibits of theil
manufactures and productions, but
have also erected buildings which are
typical examples of their architecture
and will have in attendance their OWL
people, dressed in native costume.
The Centennial exposition brought
home forcibly to us the fact that il
some things America was raw ant
crude, as compared with the finished
civilization of Europe. There was al
immediate development in all lines O.
decorative art, and some stimulus wa!
given to our general trade and indus
| tries.
Strikingly as the Centennial illus
| frat tod of a
/ during the first one hundred years O.
its existence, a comparison between tina
and the present exhibition will afford
still more marvellous lesson. In many
things we have made greater progress
during the less than a score of latel
years than in the whole century tina
went before.
Many of US who live quiet and retired
lives are not fully awake to this as
founding fact. To such the fair will
open a new world, and we hope that al
e our readers will have an opportunity tx
visit it, because every man is able t,
live with better profit to himself ant
others if he keeps abreast of the times
The workingmen of Europe recogniz
r this fact, and many industrial associa
r tons and trades unions have completed
arrangements for sending out bodies o
men to study carefully the trades an
industries in which they are especiall
interested. If these men think it t
their interest to spend the time an
money to come across the sea, not as
matter of recreation, but for the def
mite purpose of increasing their know
n edge, we, who are close at hand, Gel
tainly should not neglect the oppo1
tunity of seeing the best that the worl
does.
The fair will result in quickening GU
= national life in every artery of trad
and industry. Representatives of ever
y foreign government will be sent herr
i, and each will find some matter {
a especial interest to report upon, whic
t: will result in an added demand for on
IS products and manufactures. To NEE
-, these demands the capacity of our mil
es and factories will be increased, MOI
2, laborers will be employed, more ra