Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-10-11
Agricultural Exhibits at the Worlds Fair.

Preparations are actively in progress in
all Of the "yrcutiye departments for the
government exhibit at the Worlds Column
bian Exposition in Chicago and it is now
evi lent that this exhibit will be finer and
better, fuller and more scientifically ar
ranged than any one ever heretofore made
OF the 81 900 900 Exclusive of 500, 900
for the building appropriated or to be APP
propriated, the agricultural department and
the Smithsonian Institution get the largest
share, VITA $50 900 each the fish commits
sion, Sl00 900, and the war and navy de
partments. each sli0.uGo The first three
named will furnish the show" features o;
the exhibit.
The Agricultural Department has the
preparation of its exhibit fairly well under
way. Ii will be AN attractive exhibit. The
whole Of the United States and its products
will be spread out in miniature before the
visitor, and he will have an opportunity to
see not only all varieties of products, but
also the insects and the germs which rob
the farmer of the fruits of his toll. The
Bureau of Animal Industry will show b,
models made from life, the appearance of
animals diseased. On a huge globe there
will be n map of the course of pleuro-
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. The system of meat
inspection will be shown for the benefit OF
foreigners who have recently opened their
ports to American meats. Steamship 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 germ
theory will see how the germs are cultivated
The chronological division will exhibit the
little insects which cause so much destruc-
ton. In one glass case will be q potato
vine, with the bugs on it at work. r here
will be a cotton plant with its white boil
opened and shedding j., against u fresh green
cornstaik on which an insect is at work. II
has been discovered that the same insect
pays attention to the cotton plant and the
cornstalk, AMI as it prefers corn fodder tt
| cotton. that fact is illustrated in order that
farmers may, if they choose offer up a corr
sacrifice in their fields on the alter of Il safe
cotton crop. Dne of the best and fines,
figures yet announced shows clover field
with red blossoms on which the clover II,
has begun work. The appearance and eff
feet of other insects are faithfully shown
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make fine display, so arranged as to Civ.
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