The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-05-02
AGRICULTURE.

Products Of the Soil From Every
Landau Embarrassment of Riches.
Fhmers with tangled whiskers and
with callosities on their hands, produced
by long contact with plow handles and
hoes, fingered long and lovingly in the
big Agricultural building to-day They
saw on every side Of them golden grain
from a million tillages decking the walls.
Wheat that has undulated in the sweep
of the prairie breeze has been contortcd
into frescoes. Artists have spent months
in devising zigzag friezes, traced out in
cunningly devised patterns of red, yellow
and black seeds, and the result is COM
bnation of art and agricultural products
that fairly bewildered the dwellers in the
rural districts when they entered the
temple of Ceres to-day.
Great in its scope is the agricultural ex-
hibit. No field of invention has been
more productive during the last fifty
years than that relating to the cultiva-
tion Of the soil. But it is not farmers
alone who are interested in tracing the
evolution of the sclf-binder from the hand
sickle. or the development of q twelve
gang plow from a forlIed stick Everyone
who views tho exhibit is struck with it's
vastncss and its value as an educational
factor IN the development Of the great
tract of country still unbroken on the
western prairiCs. 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 de-
voted to wheat. The British de-
tendencies, Australia and Canada,
are next in size, their respective exhibit
taking up nearly Z ,000fee 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 il is in evidence from the bud stage
until ID reaches the breakfast table.
France displays q model farm on a small
scale; Japan's speciality is tea; China,
too, shows tea with a large display 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 Ohio section Wisconsin's
booth is covered with glass-covered panels
OF seeds and grains arranged in colored
layers: North Dakota makes a conspicu-
Gus show OF her wheat; Louisiana dis
plays her cotton, and Kentucky outstrips
the world with her exhibit of tobacco.
All of tho states and territories on the
main floor have devoted their energies to
making u typical crop exhibit. Theycon-
fine themselves to showing the raw pro-
duct.
The galleries, however have been set
apart for American exhibitions of food
products In theirmanufactured form. The
northeast corner displays cereals,
starches, canned goods, phosphates, etc
The southwest section is given up to
tobaccos. mineral 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 I'm bewildering variety are
found IN the annex.