The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-10-14
THE GOVERNMENTS EXHIBIT.
WHAT UNCLE SAM WILL SHOW TO THE
PEOPLE IN CHICAGO.

gress in all of the executive depart
ments for the Government exhibit at
the Worlds Columbian exposition in
Chicago, and the several branches of
the whole exhibit are beginning to as
sumo definite shape.
In each department, and in most Of
the departmental bureaus, men with
special qualifications are at work
gathering and colating material, and
1t is now evident that this exhibit will
be finer and better, fuller and more
scientifically arranged, than any one
ever heretofore made. For the
Government exhibit Congress has al
ready appropriated $79S,sso. and it
is expected that the next session the
amount will be increased to a round
million of dollars, or quarter of a
million more than was appropriated
for the exhibit at the Centennial
Exposition.
The Government building at
Chicago will also be much finer than
the Philadelphia building, 100000
having been specially appropriated for
it, whereas the Centennial Govern
mcnt building cost only $50,
Of the I,ooo,ooo exclusive of 4oo,-
900 for the building) appropriated or
10 be appropriated, the Agricultural
Department and the Smithsonian
Institution get the largest share, with
$4,000 each: the Fish Commission
500, 900, and the War and Navy
Department each $4,000.
The Agricultural Department has
the preparation of its exhibit fairly
well under way. Mr. Philip Walker
and Mr.. Hubbard, with experts in
separate branches, are preparing an
exhibit which, it is believed, will result
in an improvement of farming
methods and thereby make the ex-
position of material beneht to farmers
and others. 1t will also be an at
tractive exhibit, pleasing to the eye.
The whole Of the United States and
its products will be spread out in
miniature before the rural visitor and
he and the consuming public will have
an opportunity to see not only all
varieties of products, but also the in
sects, the germs and other wonders of
microscopical researches which make
the COWS unhealthy, disease the meat
of the hog, rob the corn field of its
harvest, the cotton plant ofits bloom,
and the potato plant Of its tubers.
AMONG THE ANIMALS.
The bureau of Animal Industry
will show by models made from life
the appearance Of animals diseased.
On huge globe there will be map
of the course of pleuro-pneumonia
showing whence started, where it
spread, where it is in existence, and
the manner in which it was finally
cornered and stamped out in this
country. Methods of treatment will
also be shown. Alongside this map
will be shown faithfully color product
ions, giving an ocular demonstration
of the appearance Of the lungs and
flesh of the animal in health and in
sickness.
The system of the meat inspection
will be shown Ior the benefit of
foreigners who have recently opened
their ports to American meats. Hog
cholera will be shown. A rabbit
afflicted with the disease will form
part of the exhibit. 1t was inoculated
with the germs, examined, and a wax
model made showing the interior of
the animal exactly as it was found to
be when cut open. The work of this
nature will be large and we'll done.
Steamships and railway models will
illustrate the advance made in the
care of live stock in transit.
This bureau will have a laboratory
at work and the man who reads about
the 'new tangled germ theory in the
papers will see the germ in glass
cases, in milk, in meat, and will learn
the way in which the scientists
cultivate them and will by means Of a
fine piece of work see how they are
transplanted when the disease expert
of the bureau wants to examine them.
The chronological division will ex-
hibit the little insects which cause so
much destruction and the city man
who reads of wheat smut, peach yellow,
pear blight; etc will have their effects
put before his eyes. This work has
been done very neatly. In one glass
case is potato vine with the bugs on
it at work so naturally as to tempt a
farmer boy to resume his occupation
of picking them off. The bug is
shown at work on vine and then
there is another representation show
ing the vine minus great part of its
leaves
Near it is cotton plant with its
white boil opened and shedding.
against fresh green corn stalk on
which an insect is at work. 1t has
been discovered that the same insec,