Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-05-02
AGRICULTURE.
Products si The Sell Frsa Essy laAd-Aa
Embarrassed d Riches.

| CHieAeo. NAV l.--Earmers with tangled
whiskers and with callosities on their hands
produced by long contact with plow handles
and hoes, fingered long and lovingly in thu
big Agricultural building today, They saw
on every side of them golden grain from q
million tillages decking the walls. Wheat
that has undulsted in the sweep Of the
prairie breeze has been contorted into frcs-
Goes. Artists have spent months in devils
| ing zigxsg friezcs. traced out in cunningly
devised patterns of red, yellow and black
seeds. and the result is combination of art
and agricultural products that fairly be,
| wildered the dwellers in the rural districts
when they entered the temple of Ceres to-
day.
Great in its scope is the agricultural ex-
hibii. No field of invention has be. n
more productive during the last fifty years
than that relating to the cultivation Of the
soil. But it is not farmers alone who are
in,e ested in tracing the evolution of the
sclf-binder from the hand sickle, or the
development Of twelve-gang plow from
forked stick. Everyone who views the
exhibit is struck with its vastness, and its
value as An educational factor in the de-
velopment of the great tract of country
still unbroken on the Western prairies,
The exhibit, too. has the merit of being
practically complete. Russia. the wheat
field of Europe, has the largest space, her
exhibit occupying nearly 10000 feet, most
of which is devoted TO wheat. Two British
dependencies, Australia and Canada, are
next in size, their respective exhibits taking
up nearly 1000 feet each. Germany, too. is
well represented and Brazil has transferred
her entire national exhibit from last years
exposition at Rio de Janeiro to the floor of
Agricultural Hall. Coffee is the staple of
the Brazilian show, and it is in evidence
from the bud stage until it reaches the
breakfast table. France displays model
farm on small scale; Japan's speciality is
tea; China, too, shows tea with a large dis
play of rice. and all the nations of the earth
unite in displaying the choicest products Of
the soil in the most attractive manner.
The south half of the main floor has
been devoted to the United States. Corn
is king in the Iowa section; Wisconsin's
booth is covered with gla%s-covered panels
of seeds and grains arranged in colored
layers; North Dakota makes conspicuous
showing of her wheat; Louisiana displays
her cotton, and Kentucky outstrips the
world with her exhibit of tobacco. All of
the states and territories on the main floor
have devoted their energies to making n
typical crop exhibit. They confne them
selves to showing the raw product.
The galleries, however, have been set
apart for American exhibitions of food
products in their manufactured form. The
northeast corner displays cereals, starches,
canned goods, phosphates, etc. The south
west section is given up to tobaccos, min
eral waters and liquors. In the northwest
section are biscuits, sugars and confections,
and in the southwest corner Uncle Sam has
established a model agricultural experiment
station. The brewers have monopolized
the entire west gallery. while agricultural
implements and machinery in bewidering
variety are found in the annex.