The Progress., 1893-07-29

EEFEGEEATuE CAR
sides and ends are Of the best plate gl" -
of double walls. within are shown ia,
carca,-cs of bcIves, dressed for market; "i
sheen. hovs, lambs, calves, and all the
products of these animals. The variety ol
these products is simply amazing. This
frci,,ht car, some forty feet lonr, Is filled
from one end TO the other with them, aud
there ere fcR dup.icationS. Very tempt
iup some Of them are too, to the hungry
visitor who has wandered about all DAY
looking at the wonders of the far.
Tie car is constantly iced and II big thcr
momctgr haa-ing within the plate gl"se
tells You ( GJ the Temperature thfr" Is =,
dccrccs Fahrenheit. Several thousand
cars of tIlis description are running con
stantly from the pa,king houses of the
west TO New York. Ihcy make up many
trains dav, express freight trains which
90 THROUGH 10 the scabvacd with but one
icing en- route. At New York their con
tents are L. ken aboard refrigerator vessels
and sent on to Europe aud other countries.
single finn engaged in this trade
killed last year nearly / 100000 cattle, more
than 1.1O0COO hogs, more than l,00O,OO3
sheen. It's plant in Chicago alone covers
20 acrcs of roofs. It's total sales last year
were 500. .OO0.OGO. This Is but one of many
similar firms doing business on n similar
scale in tlis world-fecding west of ours.
An interesting display here il the great
Canada cheese, said to he the largest
cheese ever made 1t scents an acre or
more of the Agriculture building. To see
the top of this monster cheese you have to
l.. nd scent
almost strong enough to be fatal. The eN-
hibitor ingeniously puts over his cheese
placard hich reads:
"This Cheese Weighs $1,000 Obs. not
Tons"
At first glance one reads it tons and fails
TO notice the ''lbs. not" after the figures.
Hence many visitors go home declaring to
their friends there that at the Worlds
/ fair they saw a cheese which weighed %,
/ 900 tons. Further information given by the
| exhibitor about Ids cheese is that the mass
required the milk of 1l,0O0 cows which
were milked by 1866 pretty dairy maids,
/ though he neClects to say how many days
the 1900 cows and 1,GG6 pretty dairy
maids were thus employed. In the alb
sence of more precise information on this
point the visitor will do well to assume
that the "A 600 cows were MIXED once, ol
1.OJ0cows fourteen times, or 200 cows sew
enty times, by correspondingly smaller
number of pretty dairy maids.
Some of the advertising methods EN-
ployed here make very interesting exhibits
of Themselves. One firm builds model
of the great Touring mills in Minneapolis
Another erccts with sacks of flour q
medieval castle. A third shows us that
I 4. s,,N ina
from the cocoon to the finished bandker
chief which may be bought on the spot
with your name embroidered in the cor
ner. An old-fashioned log house, with it'
well sweep, its oaken bucket, its spring
and spring house for the milk, attracts
much attention. French-made Englisl
plum pudding is shown in a huge pyrami'
of which the top cone weighs four and
half pounds and the bottom one IS
pounds, the weight of the whole pudding
being upward of u thousand pounds.
1t is in agricultural machinery tha
America completely outstrips the remain
der of the world, and in this section some o
the most enterprising and skillful of sd
vertiscrs have been at work. Their amaz
ing displays of machines and implement
are in motion. They have costly pavilion
over them, luxurious rugs on the floor
. electric lights in profusion, statues an.
figures, expensive printing matter whicl
is gobbled up by the ton. Nothing coul'
be more effective than the advertising dc
vice of a reaper and mower manufacturer
He has employed artists and model maker
, to paint and set up perfect model OF hi
. immense factory, with the surroundin
i scenery. Where railways run along o
. two sides of the works there are miniatur
railroads with trains of passenger an
freight cars constantly passing to and fr'
, On the other side, where the river Is, ther
tug-boats, steamers, sailing vessels NOV
: ND and down. The whole is cleverly d'
signed and executed and attracts muc
attention.
|, The only things in the machinery exhlb
which struck me as being positively ne
were a corn-planter which uses wire rope
!. stretched from one side Of the field to III
other to enable the driver to mark straigf
: lines, and projections on the wires aut'
! matically to drop the corn in hills of abs
lutte uniformity; and a potato harvestln
(; machine which it is claimed will dig I'll
potatoes without cutting them, put the
!. in sacks, and plow the land ready for an
: crop which it may be desired to follow,
: by going once over the ground.
4 ROBERT GRAvEa