Evening star., 1899-11-29
INDUSTRIES ILLUSTRATED
The Photographic Exhibit Of the Agricul-
tural Department
Series of Pictures Representing
Phases of Agriculture, Horticulture
and Manufactures.

Among the interesting Photographic eX-
hibits that will be shown at the Paris ex-
position is large series of pictures Illus
trating phases of American agriculture,
horticulture and the manufacturing indus
tries connected with them. Charles Rich
ards Dodge, representative of the Secre-
tary of Agriculture and director of agri-
culture for the commissioner general, who
has planned the details of this exhibit
says:
At past expositions the illustrative photo
graphic material has always been trouble
some quantity in the general exhibit
scheme. for the reason that the pictures
submitted are of all shapes and sizes. and
mounted on cardboard of every color and
description. To arrange such an tncongru-
GUS collection so that the public can readlly
view IL has been next to impossible wan
space is always valuable, and. besides, lot
of small pictures tackled upon the walls OF
a room make a pretty thin exhibit.
A Regulation Size.
In the present exhibit a regulation size OF
cardboard must be used to insure accept
ance of the pictures. This size Is 22x2s
inches, which Is a standard size OF photo
board. One picture. for example, bromide
enlargement, may be mounted on Z2x2o
board or half dozen smaller pictures may
be mounted together. The hundreds or pic
are all mounted on one size OF board ana IL
has been planned to exhibit them IN port
folios. each holding twenty-four cards Inc
exposition case contract calls FOR a numper
of table cases, with shallow exhibit space
at the top, the bases being arranged with
series of racks, each rack to hold one port
folio lying fiat. These are gilded on the
backs, showing the nature of the special
Photographic exhibit. and as the portfolios
are in plain sight, they can be taken OUT
by the public, laid upon the tops Of the
cases and examined at leisure
Director Dodge, who personally planned
these photo exhibit table cases, states tnat
by this method of exhibiting pictures 1t IS
possible to show on the base OF table case,
measuring feet by feet and 3 rect
high. SO cards. measuring 22x2S lncnes
each card containing from two to six pic
lures of the smaller standard negative sizes,
or say 1000 pictures. AS there are many
of these table cases space is proVlded lor
unlimited series of illustrative photo ma
terial.
The material so far contributed covers
illustrations of farm operations, methods
and equipment. farm buildings, the cuitl-
waiting, harvesting and marketing OF neiu
and garden crops, stock raising, etc. In
the horticultural series the cultivation, har-
vesting and marketing of traits, norlcui-
ture landscape gardening, views OF pupiic
parks private grounds and villas, green
houses and nurseries, town Improvement
enterprise views of cemeteries, etc, are IN
cluded In the Illustrations of manufactur-
ing industries the scope is 50 broad that II
takes in everything relating to manufac-
ture such as mill interiors, showing ma
chinery processes and methods, equipment
and personnel
Industries Illustrated.
Among the special commercial industries
that will be illustrated by this series OF
pictures may be enumerated: The catching
and preparing of fish for food, including
the packing for market, with illustrations
of the shell fish industries the meat-pack-
ing industries. one series Of which Will
show every process from the receipt of
the animals at the stock yards to the ship
ping out of a loaded refrigerator car; dairy
ing and the manufacture of dairy ap-
pliances. with pictures of noted breeds or
dairy stock: Bookkeeping and the manufac-
ture of bee-keepers' supplies; cereal pro-
duction and the harvesting and marketing
of our immense grain crops with elevator
methods. etc. including a large series of
superb photographs contributed by the
manufacturers of agricultural implements.
Another series Illustrates the fruit and
vegetable canning and drying Industries
viticulture and wine making, beer brewing
and diStilling, and the mineral water in
dustry form another series, tobacco Cultf-
walton. curing and marketing; cotton pro-
duction, sheep husbandry and fiber culture
and manufacture; preparation of vegetable
products for food for animals: the fer
tilizer industries and series illustrating
scores of other Industries. such as cotton
seed oil manufacture and refining; the
pickle industry. from the farm to the gro
Gerry store: the manufacture of chocolate,
the preparation of breakfast foods, -four
milling operations, starch factories, etc
The Experiment Stations.
The ffty-fOur agricultural experiment
stations of the United States will contrib
ute hundreds of pictures illustrating the
science and practice of American agricul-
ture and every phase of experiment sta
ton effort: views of buildings, class rooms
and laboratories. with apparatus, besides
groups of instructors and students.
This immense exhibit is being brought
together under Director Dodge's immediate te
supervision the majority of the negatives
for enlargement passing through his hands
though scores of people in Washington and
elsewhere are assisting in the work of col
lection, while many Of our largest manu-
tacturers are sending to the Washington
headquarters beautiful series often pre-
pared at great expense, to illustrate the
particular commercial enterprises in which
they may be interested. 1t is stated tha t
not a few contributions have been rejected
because the pictures We're not mounted on
the regulation size Of cards, or, In one in
stance. because covered with unsightly and
Objectionable advertising matter The Sc
rleS as a whole, however, shows careful
preparation, good taste and decided artistic
merit, which may be taken as a matter of
course, when photography as an art now