The evening times., 1900-03-01
AN EXPOSITION FEATURE
Products of Experiment Stations to
BE Shown at Paris.
Every Section of the United States
to Be Represented in the Exhibits.
The Efforts of the Department of
Agriculture to Make n Display THAT
VIII Command General Attention.

The Department of Agriculture will
have an Experiment Station Exhibit at
the Paris Exposition. This exhibit is now
complete and on its way to the French
Capital. The materials, models, charts,
and original pieces of apparatus were con-
tributed TO the exhibit by various
branches of the Association of American
Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Sta
tions. The enterprise was the result of a
resolution passed by the above named or
ganization at meeting held at Minneapo-
lis in 1887.
Dr. True. Director of the Office OF Ex-
pertinent Stations. had charge of the COL
lection of photographs and publications of
the stations and the temporary installa-
tion of the exhibit in this city and its final
shipment to Paris.
The Photographic exhibit includes about
$50 selected pictures of station buildings,
grounds, laboratories, apparatus, expert
mental plats, herds, and other features, in
addition to collection of photographs Of
the station directors and staff members.
The pictures are mounted in groups on
and will be displayed in portfolios of twen-
ty-four each.
series of root cages, furnished by the
North Dakota station, shows the forma-
tion OF the roots of maize, wheat fax, and
bronze grass; models of sweet potatoes,
peppers, apples, and plums exhibited by the
Iowa and Minnesota stations illustrate va
rietal differences, and an exhibit of salt
bush from the California station shows
species Of Atriplex which have proved of
value on strong alkaline soils. Electrical
devices for determining the salt content,
temperature, and moisture content and
series of samples illustrating the typical
agricultural soils of the United States rep
resent the soil work of the Division of
Soils of the United States Department of
Agriculture. The California station sent
six typical soils of that State, and spcci-
mems showing the results of mechanical
analyses of each type of SOIL and Hilgard's
soil elutriator for mechanical analysis.
The California station furnished an OIL
i've exhibit, consisting of fifty samples of
olive oils and more than two hundred
samples Of olive pits used in the classifica-
tion of varieties of olives, and the Ala
bama station a collection OF mounted
specimens of cotton, showing seventy-two
selected and crossbred varieties.
Several pieces OF original apparatus for
investigation in vegetable physiology are
shown, including an auXanometer for ex-
perimental work on the rate of plant
growth; an apparatus for determining the
rate of Transportation of plants from the
West Virginia Station; and a centrifuge,
used to study the effect of gravity and
centrifugal force upon terminating seeds,
from the Indiana Station.
Samples of animal and vegetable fats,
a collection of chemically pure proteids
separated from the seeds of various plants
a collection of 100 weed seeds. an insect
cabinet. a gas desiccator for drying hydro
gen gas used in moisture determination,
models of round and staye silos. an appa-
ratus for the rapid cooling of wines.
pressure apparatus for experiments with
solution under very high pressure, a mod
el of the Atwater- Rosa respiration calori-
meter and a full-sized bomb calorimeter
are included in the exhibit.
The dairy exhibit is larger than that in
any other line. 1t includes a series OF
cheese models from the New York State
Station. showing the effect of the fat con-
tent of the milk on the size of cheese pro-
duced; a collection of forty eight cultures
Of dairy bacteria, from the Connecticut
Storrs Station: the original Babcock milk
tester two more modern forms of the ap-
paratus for hand and power operation to-
gether with a complete collection OF the
various forms of apparatus used in the
Babcock test. The Scovell milk sampling
tube. Wisconsin curd test. Marshall rem
net test, acid bottles and other minor
apparatus are also included.
The irrigation exhibit of apparatus and
models contains hydrophore to determine
the amount of silt carried by water. a nj
lometre used to measure the amount of
water passing through streams. fumes. and
bitches; a current metre water register
etc.
small exhibit from the Hawaiian Ex-
pertinent Station consists of samples Of
rocks, lavas, lava products soils, varieties
of sugar cane, and samples of agricultural
products such as coffee rice and sugar |
There is a large number of charts and
pictures showing the results of
experiment station work on a wide range OF
subjects. a complete set of bound bulletins |
and reports numbering several hundred |
volumes, and many miscellaneous publica- |
tions of the stations together with over |
one hundred books on agricultural subjects |
written by station officers
The arrangement and shipment of the eX- |
hibit was in charge of Dr. w. II. Evans of |
the Office of Experiment Stations, who also |
supervised the preparation of the charts |
and photographs exhibit, and will go to |
Paris to install the exhibit.
The department officials are very much |
pleased with the exhibit and say that it |
will be one of the best at the Exposition