The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1892-10-13

THE GOVERNMENT EXHIBIT.
Worlds Fair to be Honored Above
Any Previous Show.
Preparations are actively in progress
in all of the executive departments fol
the Government exhibit at the Worlds
Columbian Exposition in Chicago, and
the several branches of. the whole exhib-
it are beginning to assume definite
shape. In each department and in most
of the departmental bureaus men with
special qualifications are at work gath
ering and collating material, and it is
now evident that this exhibit will be
finer and better, fuller, and more scien-
tifically arranged than any one ever
heretofore made.
For the Government exhibit Congress
has already appropriated $79S,250, and
it is expected that at the next session
the amount will be increased to round
million of dollars, or a quarter of mil
lion more than was appropriated for
the exhibit at the centennial exposition.
The Government building at Chicago
will also be much finer than the Phila-
delphia building, 100000 having been
specially appropriated for it, whereas
the centennial Government building
cost only $4,000.
Of the million dollars exclusive of
$500, for the building) appropriated
or to be appropriated the Agricultural
Department and t he Smithsonian Insti-
sutton get the largest share with $780,
600 each, the Fish Commission $4,000,
and the War and Navy Departments
each $4,000. The first three named
will furnish the s'show" features of the
exhibit, and doubtless the most inter>
esting as well as practically useful.
though the exhibits of the, departments
of destruction will not by any means be
lacking in interest and attractions.
The Agricultural Department has the
preparation of its exhibit fairly well un-
der way, and a large wooden building
in one corner Of the reservation, near
the brownstone structure in which Sec
rotary Rusk presides, is nearly filed
with articles designed for Chicago.
Under the supervision of Secretary
Rusk and assistant Secretary Willets,
Mr. Philip Walker and Mr.. Hubbard
with experts in separate branches, are
preparing an hibit which, it is believed,
will result in an improvement Of farm
ing methods, and thereby make the
Exposition of material benefit to farmers
and others. It will also be an attractive
exhibit, pleasant 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 con-
Stunning public will have an opportunity
to see not only all varieties or products
hnt also the insects, the germs, and 9th
er wonders of microscopical research
which make the COW unhealthy, disease
the meat of the hog, rob the cornfeld OF
it's harvest, the cotton plant of its
bloom, and the potato plant OF its tu-
tubers.
Each case of exhibits will be a history
in special line to each farmer. Seien>
tific arrangement and accuracy will be
observed in these reproductions, for
Secretary Rusk and his assistants know
the subjects they treat. will be too falnil-
lar to many visitors to permit OF any
lapse. It is not intended that any
granger, fresh from bending over bug
ridden potato plants, shall have an OPP
portunity to criticise the working ap-
pearance of the wax bug in action, or
that some Southern planter shall point
out scornfully at the representation of
the cotton worm.
The bureau of animal industry will
show by models made from life the ap-
pearance of animals diseased. On a
huge globe there will be map of the
course of pieuro>pneumonia, showing
whence it 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. Along
side of this map will be shown faithful
ly colored reproductions, giving an ocu-
lar demonstration of the appearance OF
the lungs and flesh of the animal in
health and in sickness.
Yhe system of meat inspection will be
shown for the benefit Of foreigners who
have recently opened their ports to
American meats. Hog cholera will be
shown. A rabbit afflicted with the dis>
ease will form part of the exhibit. It
was inoculated with the germ, examined,
and wax model made showing the in
terror 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. Steamship and railway models
will illustrate the advances made in the
care of live stock in transit. This bu>
reau will have Laboratory at work, and
the man who reads about the new fan
gled germ theory in the papers will see
the germs in glass cases, in milk, IN
meats, &C., will learn something OF the
way in which the scientists cultivate
them, and will, by means Of fine piece
of work, see how they are transplanted
when the disease export OF the bureau
wants to examine them.
Horseshoes enough have been COLLECTS
ed to throw good luck over the shoulder
of each of Chicago's sub divisions These
will show the improvements made in
the blacksmith's art, and the farmers
boy who is seeking to find two-lninute
trotter and a gold mine at the same
time will have an opportunity to zee
how Nancy Hanks, Sunol, and Maud >.
were shod when they broke the records
The chronological division will exhibit
the little insects which cause SO much
destruction, and the city man who reads