The evening times., 1899-11-29

The department in Washington in charge
| OF the agricultural exhibits at the Paris
Exposition, under Commissioner General
Peck. is working with its utmost despatch.
and will have prepared, in the course Of
the time yet remaining before January 1
the finest agricultural exhibit ever made
by the United States Government either
at home or abroad. To reporter for The
Times Charles Richard Dodge, Director Of
Agriculture for the Commissioner General
of the United States to the Paris Exposi-
tion of 1900, and a representative of the
Secretary of Agriculture, concerning the
exhibits to be made, said:
I'VE are Just sending to Baltimore,
where We have warehouse at Locust
Point, several carloads of materials which
represent our first shipment. There are
probably four or five carloads already
there belonging to this department, and
before the end OF the week We hope to
have as many more in the warehouse there.
THE United States transport Prairie has
been selected to convey the exhibits, and
will dock at Baltimore early next week.
The transport is now at New York, where
she is being loaded with large quantity
of material belonging to other depart
ments. including structural iron for build
ings 10 be put up by the commission at
Pare Vincennes. The Prairie will stop at
Norfolk before making Baltimore, where
mass of material will also be taken aboard,
including logs furnished by the Southern
Railway Company for the forestry building
in Paris.
The material being assembled in Wash
ington for the Department OF Agriculture,
and food products" said Mr.. Dodge, "em-
braces the widest range of objects in these
two groups. In the first place, nearly five
tons Of grain have been received within
the past three months, and these are now
being selected and prepared for exhibition
An entire floor in our preparation house
is devoted to this work. This house is To-
Gated on Thirteenth Street, near the de-
partment grounds.
Manner of Packing the Exhibits.
THE specimens, after rigid selection"
said Mr.. Dodge, will be put up in four
ways, namely, in flint glass jars about one
foot high, in wooden boxes with glass
fronts, in fine duck linen bags, which will
have the mouth rolled down to show the
grain, and in shallow glass receptacles, in
which the grain can be heaped up. A large
quantity of grain will also be shipped in
bushel bags, which will be used as distri-
button samples to foreign millers and farm
ers who may desire to plant our wheats
and other cereals. supply will be on
hand to renew the bags as they become
emptied.
THE United States Department of Agri-
culture will also send" continued Mr.
Dodge, two or three exhibits of scientific
interest. contributed by the division of
physiology and pathology, by which divi-
sion the grain collections are being made.
This work is in the hands of Prof Gallo
way, who is assisted by q corps of experts
in the DIVISION
The cotton collection will comprise be-
tween six and seven hundred specimens of
choice lint cotton, furnished by the grow
ers. and most carefully selected. This
work is in the hands of Mr.. John Hyde
statistician in the Department of Agricul-
ture. An interesting feature of the exhibit
will be a case filled with samples of Sea
Island cotton contributed by one of the
largest factories in the South. The South
ern Railway Company will make hand
some exhibit in connection with the cot
ton exhibit. which consists OF model |
showing the old time cotton compress, and |
one showing the modern compress. A |
model of the Southern wagon used for |
cotton will also be shown. |
and there will be model of a box car !
loaded with miniature bales. full-sized |
cotton plant covered with bolls Will be a |
novelty TO foreigners.
The wool collection has been made by |
the Hon. j. r. Dodge. former statistician |
in the Department of Agriculture, and. a |
prominent authority on sheep husbandry. |
Nearly three hundred fleeces have been !
contributed by farmers and prominent
wool commission houses. The samples Sc
ected show the very best that the country |
,an produce.
THE tobacco exhibit is being prepared |
oy Prof. Milton Whitney, division of soils, |
Department of Agriculture, assisted by /
Mr.. NJ. L. Floyd, a Florida tobacco ex-
pert. This will be one OF the finest ex-
nibitions of tobacco ever made. The Sec
'etary of Agriculture has recently viewed |
his collection, and is enthusiastic regard
ng it.
The Secretary OF Agriculture, who is
,harged by law to prepare the agricultural |
collections which will be exhibited under
he direction of Commissioner General |
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