The Monticellonian., 1918-09-27
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 Trumpets, drums rifles, swords, flags and pen napts are some of the other things shown But 1t is. expected that nowhere will the crowds be thicker than around the models of modern battle ships dreadnaughts, cruisers destroyers and other vessels that will be shown at all the fairs and ex positions.
 The scope of work of the department of agr culture is so wide and the quantity of its exhibit material is great that it's displays vary in differ ent sections of the country. but in every they have been selected to cinch why American agricultural production must be in creased, and again increased, and to show some of the numerous ways by which it be done. These exhibits are not for the farmer alone They for him first. but food production has become the business and concern of everybody in Amer ica, and nearly everybody has come to know it. More than that, the agricultural exhibits at tractive interesting and informing enough to hold the attention of even the novice who cannot tell Il solo from Il si1o.
 The weather bureau shows how it is able to fore east storms, frosts and floods to protect agrcul- ture, commerce and navigation, and displays it's daily weather map showing conditions in the im- mediate locality of the exhibition. The bureau of animal industry shows how to improve and in crease the countrys supplies of meat, milk and poultry, how it guards the health of the public and soldiers and sailors through it's meat in spection system, and how to drive out the de- structive animal diseases that annually take a toll of meat worth many millions of dollars That other great coordinated branch of the department of agriculture. the bureau of plant industry, treats it's field in the same manner, with special attention to methods of bettering and stimulating plant pro- duction and eradeating plant diseases.
 Broad features of forest service work pre- sented in popular and striking form. Models urge the burning of local fuel wood release coal for nit md md ralia ton, contrast proper methods of logging with the wasteful ways, and show the proper handling of tree wndbreaks for increasing crop and animal production. Other forest service displays show how forest fires prevented or discovered and fought how valuable timber can be saved for uses; and the need of retaining forests to retard soil erosion slopes.
 Distinctive exhibits of the bureau of chemistry illustrate the enforcement of the food and drugs act production and preservation of food products. of tanning materials production of coors and other chemical industries. Differences between true and imitation commercial articles are shown, and light is thrown on adulterated or msbranded medicinal preparations, including headache rem edes,' beauty" preparations asthma. consump- ton and other alleged cures
 Samples of tAe soils that occur in the United States including some local to the neghborhood of the particular exhibition. together with nfor- nation relating to their best use in farming among the bureau of soils displays. The states relations service shows it's work, in cooperation with the state agricultural colleges, in spreading farming information through coHnty agents, home demonstration agents and boys and girls clubs, and illustrates food conservation by canning and drying.
 The bureau of entomologys exhibits of de structive insects and ways of combating them are particularly interesting at this time of need for more food production and conservation. Like wise the bureau of biological surveys displays of stuffed animals and birds, representing the trol or destruction of the predatory species and the conservation of the desirable kinds take added significance. Demands on the railways, with growing use of motor routes, stress the importance of the good-roads construction and maintenance hibits of the office of public roads and rural engi aeering and war conditions also lend interest to the bureau of markets display of safe methods of shipping grain distribution of farm produces, glnin standards and cotton Standards and various types of shipping containers.
 industry in the world, but it is believed that the departments displays will remove any question as to efficient farming being absolutely essential in effective machine
 But America must not feed itself alone It must sustain millions of the citizens and fighting men of our valiant allies. The food administration, in it's exhibits, drives that fact deep. Feature dis