Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-01-06
Exhibit of American Products at
Paris Exposition.
TIE DISPLAY ESPECIALLY ATTRACTIVE
Illustrative Of the Resources of the
United States.
METHODS OF CULTIVATION

leading exports of the country, will receive
share Of attention compassionate with
their Importance in the exhibit of the
United States at the Paris exposition of the
present year. The materials to make up
these exhibits have been collected through
different bureaus of the Department of Ag-
riculture under the general supervision of
Mr.. Charles Richards Dodge, director Of
agriculture Of the United States commits
sion and representative of the Secretary Of
Agriculture on that board The samples of
tobacco and grain were all brought to this
city and have been already shipped to the
French capital. All were carefully exam
ined, and it is believed the exhibits will
comprise the very best products grown.
The leaf tobacco exhibit will be without
doubt the finest collection ever displayed by
the United States. 1t includes the vari-
etleS. grades, types and qualities of to-
baccos from all the principal tobacco-grow-
ing sections of the country The display
will comprise only the raw material, sup
plemented by a large collection of photo
graphs, and, in a few instances samples
illustrating the different stages of the to-
bacCo in the process of manufacturing. The
exhibit is under the immediate direction of
Prof. Milton Whitney, chief of the division
of soils of the Department of Agriculture
and honorary tobacco expert Of the Paris
exposition commission, assisted by Mr..
Marcus l.. Floyd. tobacco expert of the
soils division. All the important tobacco
growing districts were visited by Mr.. Floyd
during July and August last. when the ma
ter1al for the exhibit was secured
Attractively Arranged
The tobacco exhibit is to be attractively
arranged. The variety of shading. from the
bright yellow and white Burley to the dark
wrappers and African black will immedi-
ately draw attention. The uniformity the
arrangement of the samples the difference
in texture of the thin and heavy leaves
the various qua tiles and the large number
OF grades are features CT the display. The
lover. of the plug" the cigarette the pipe
ara the expensive Havana will find his es-
peclal weed in the raw material. The sto-
giles, snuffs and pipe-smoking tobaccos are
also represented in the collection.
The difference in the forign types will
prove interesting. These are not foreign in
the sense that they are grown in other
lands. but in the sense that they are cured
ard manipu ated according to the demands
OF the foreign trade. To the general public
such differences are often hardly percepti-
Die. but IN the trade the slightest shade
or color or thickness or body of the leaf
and OFTEN the length, is taken into account
England takes all kinds of tobaccos, while
Austria prefers the medium colors with
a long. broad. silky leaf with small fibers
me dark brown types find the highest IA
, v1r among the Italians, and the French
like still darker leaf, long and smooth
about the same in quality as the Italian
but made darker by stemming and hard
pressure Spain prefers fine leaf, such
as Is shown in Kentucky and Tennessee
while Portugal requires medium-sized red
ieaf Belgium, Denmark and Norway use
II grades of the bright tobaccos and Hol-
ianu and Sweden prefer the dark, heavy
types The low grades find favor among
the Germans. Japanese and Chinese while
the African demands black. oily type.
The collection will include about one
thousand samples and will represent the
various tObaccOS of the cd
er than the display of any particular firm
with few exceptions the samples are in
duplicate There Will be number of pho
tographs illustrating the tobacco industry
from seed bed to finish. Literature relating
to tobacco in all its branches will be in
Guided in the collection.
The Cereals.
The cereal exhibit which this country is
to make at Paris this year was collected
through the division of vegetable physioi-
ogy and pathology of the Department of
Agriculture. The exhibit is to represent all
cereal crops used for food and some mis-
cellaneous related crops used for the same
purpose Within this group are wheat
corn. oats. barley, rice some Of the millets
ouckwheat. kaffir corn. Jerusalem corn
rice corn and milo maize.
The general plan of the exhibit is to illus
trate fully and graphically the possibilities
Of the United States in the production Of
cereals, not only as relates to ordinary
.oou III ouuclS, put special toOdS as we'll Ii
Is also proposed to illustrate our vast re-
sources in the matter of varieties of the
several crops, and to this end 1t is planned
to show geographic. distribution of the va
rleties-for instance, that of hard wheats
Semi-hard wheatS, white wheats etc The
varieties will be exhibited In large quanti-
ties, the display being arranged as attrac-
lively possible
A special effort will also be made 70
bring out graphically the possibilities in
the production of special varieties that NAV
be useful for manufacture of macaroni
cracker making and other industries of
this nature. 1t is planned to so install
the exhibit as to show In what regions
the special varieties produced the total
yields of such varieties or forms, and the
amount of territory devoted to the cult
walton of the crops. 1t Is also planned to
show. by means of photographs models.
maps. etc, some of the important methods
connected with the handling of grain in
this Countrywide manner Of harvesting
threshing. milling, the methods used by
elevator companies, plans adopted in pre-
pairing the grain for shipment, the export
packages. etc. AS already stated, however
the primary object of the entire exhibit is
to show the vast resources of the United
States in the production of the crops
named. especially grains for export.
The greater part of the work connected
with the preparation of this exhibit has
been done by Mr.. Mark A. Carleton, I'M
der the direction of Mr.. B. T. Galloway,
chief Of the division of vegetable physioI-
ogy and pathology. Mr.. A. F. Woods, as
Dorset have materially assisted Mr.. Garlic
ton in the final preparation of the work.
Packing Goods for China.
John Goodnow. consul general at Shang-
hal China writes IN the State