Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-12-22

cfaI Settlement Photograph.
Amorg the many interesting things
being prepared by the United States
commission for the Paris exposition in
1900 is az exhibit of agricultural pho
togra phs and charts. now being collect
ed and arranged for mounting in port
folios by Professor W. II. Raglan. chair
man and secretary OF the American
Pathological society "a the division of
pemoIogy OF the department OF agri-
culture.
There are already several hundred of
these sheets on hand. The pictures IL
lustrate rural economy and show farm
buildings and operations. American
appliances of both agriculture and hor-
Iiculture. for cultivat!ng. harvesting
and marketing crops. factories and mill
interiors, drying houses and packing
sheds. These photographs are mount
ed on cards of heavy white paper or
cardboard. % by % inches.
The exhibit also includes an array of
horticultural material that is very in
teresting and can but give our friends
of foreign birth pleasing pictures of
what America can produce in the way
of variety, beauty and culture of ar
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Post. These views include public
parks, cemeteries, private grounds and
home places. Florists and seedsmen's
establishments, views of buildings,
nurseries, propagating houses, speci-
men plots, rare trees, plants. flowers
and vegetables are also shown.
The photographs are to be placed in
cases similar to other exhibits of the
rff OF Gn do, in,
such n way as to be readily accessible
to visitors. The portfolios are now be-
ing prepared, and each photograph will
be clearly labeled so as to indicate all
the material facts about it. Thomas
T. Newly of Knightstown. Ind. fur
nishes 20 views of his fruit farm, in
Guiding fields. orchards. cattle and
stock. such as blooded horses and sheep.
and in one picture is to be seen a bar
rel of picked apples drawn by a team
into cold storage for the fair of 1900.
There are many Interesting views of
the tropical scenery about ST. Angus
tine. Fla. that combine beauty with
instruction. The many buttressed roots
of the rubber tree must prove espe-
cially interesting TO those who have
never seen the strange vagaries OF
ical suns. Live oaks. draped with
moss. are decorative enough TO make
n picture without other setting than
such as naturally surrounds them
pineapples. bananas and palms rearing
their tall stalks and fiuttering a tuft
of feathery foliage aloft In striking
contrast 10 this tropical scenery is an
Idaho nursery. extending over two
this field stands u royal apple tree,
the first planted in the state. which
has attained the goodly age of so
years and still Is bearing choice fruit.
There are views illustrating land
scape gardening taken In several OF
the celebrated cemeteries of the coun-
try, notably Bellfontaine, in st. Louis,
and Spring Grove, Cincinnati. The
latter are especially attractive, includ-
ing lakes. gentle slopes, strawberries
and trees set TO show off their native
graces to advantage, with the usual
accessories of burial place-tomb-
stones-left out by the person taking
the focus" for these charming bits OF
artificial scenery.
One of the most practical of all the
exhibits is that of what is known as
is not n park in the usual accepta-
ton of the term, but kind of expert
mental social settlement and has a
population OF some 10000 souls. all
employees of the manufacturing estab-
lishments run by the owners. But
these are apparently happy people.
each family having a little cottage
home. designed TO be not only a home.
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Each lot is 40 feet wide and 40 feet
deep. so that each house stands little
apart from the others. and the sun and
air have a chance at il on al! sides.
Each has its porch. bay window or
balcony. all vine wreathed or set in a
mass of beauty and bloom vel! rooted
in the soil. This place is one OF the
beauty spots on Ohio's noble front.
and the children are offered prizes for
cultivating beauty spots in their door
or back yards. The views illustrating
the Boys Patches" are among the
very best in the collection.
Professor w. II. Ragan is an expert
in horticulture and pomology. He is
not on the regular clerical force of the
department. but is working as chair
man OF the committee of the Ameri-
can Pathological society, of which he
is secretary. Since Mr.. Ragan came
to Washington on invitation of Pro-
fessor G. b. Bracket. pomologist, he
has prepared the revised catalogue rec
commended for circulation in the Unit
ed States and the British provinces.
authorized by the American Pomolog-
ical society. This is a most practical
and useful work. enabling any one con- |
templating a change OF residence from |
one part OF the country to the other to |
know just what fruits to cultivate with |
hope of a goodly return for labor ex- |
pended.
1t has been found, by data and COM
parison, that regions of the country |