Tombstone epitaph., 1893-01-01
The Agricultural Display at the
 Chicago Worlds Fair.
A Practical Demonstration ef the Prog ress of Farming In America as Compared with That oF
 Other Countries.

In order that creuitdDle eAnlDitfOH may be insured. the worlds far 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 pcrfecting 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 American 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 of the finest animals of the respective breeds in the world will be shown. while associations of breeders of all kinds of stock will show herds and ilocks which will represent the best types, and which will afford an un- equaled opportunity for studying the comparative merits of breeds.
 4 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 prepara- tion of the various grains fer food, and the curing. drying and preserving in diff ferent ways of our fruits and vegetables open wide field for development of our farm economy. and one in which we are comparatively unlearned. Our fruit-growing states have already se cured and planted model fruit gardens in such a 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- limita ble resources of our own country. The majority of us have had the oppor- tunity of studying personally but very small portion of our great terri tory. Here it vsll be (. itomized in such a way that we may take it up state by state, and in fey. days have a 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 their manufactures and productions, but have also erected buildings which are typical examples of their architecture, and will have in attendance their own people, dressed in native costume. The Centennial exposition brought home forcibly to us the fact that in some things America was raw and crude, as compared with the finished civilization of Europe. There was an immediate development in all lines of decorative art, and some stimulus was given to our general trade and indus tries.
 Strikingly as the Centennial illus trated the great progress of the nation during the first one hundred years of it's existence, a comparison between that 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 later years than in the whole century that went before.
 Many of us who live quiet and retired lives are not fully awake to this as- l founding fact. To such the fair will l open a new world, and we hope that all 6 visit it, because every man is able to live with better profit to himself and others if he keeps abreast of the times. The workingmen of Europe recognize this fact. and many industrial associa- | tions and trades unions have completed arrangements for sending out bodies of men to study carefully the trades and industries in which they are especially | interested. If these men think it to | their interest to spend the time and money to come across the sea, not as a matter of recreation, but for the defi-
 nitc purpose of increasing their linowl- edge, we, who are close at hand, cer- tainly should not neglect the oppor-
 tunity of seeing the best that the world does.
 WOMAN'S WAY.