26 



The number of persons nppointed to positions of one liind or another in con- 

 nection witli tlie exliil)it as a wlioJe and paid from tlie appropriation, eitlier for 

 services or traveling expenses, has been 230, divided as follows : 



Members of the committee 9 



Experts in charge of sections 24 



Expert demonstrators, inside exhibit 26 



Experts connected with outside exhibit 17 



Lecturers connected with outside exhibit 31 



Students used in outside exhibit demonstration 50 



Officers of administration, clerks, stenogi-aphers. janitors, guards, etc 73 



• Total 230 



This seems to be a large force, but is really the smallest number with which it 

 has been feasible to install and maintain the exhibit as a real and live demon- 

 stration of our work. Your committee has used every reasonable effort to hold 

 the expenses for such services to the lowest possible practicable point. It should 

 be noted that when any expenditure was involved, no matter how brief the serv- 

 ice, even if but for a day, an apixiintment by the Government board has been 

 necessary, so that the number of appointments is more formidable than the 

 actual expense connected therewith. 



EXPENDITURES. 



The financial situation is gratifying. Up to October 24 the expenditures were 

 approximately the following: 



Preparation and collection of exhibit $19,527.48 



Installation 27,439.05 



Maintenance 8, 050. 75 



Administration 15, 388. 01 



Total 71, 005. 29 



It is clear that the expenditures for the exhibit will come well within the" 

 ap]H-opriation. In fact, it now^ seems likely that there will be an unexi)ended 

 balance, a result neither anticipated nor desired by your committee. This is to 

 some extent due to the fact that the expenditiu'es for the outside exhibit in 

 plant breeding and animal husbandry were less than was plaimed. Difficulties 

 which need not be mentioned in this connection, and for which your committee 

 does not hold itself resi)onslble, were encountered in arranging for the outside 

 exhibit, and it was only by the most strenuous efforts that this portion of our 

 display was finally accompiished. and as a general result the demonstration work 

 of this division was necessarily abridged, the first period of two weeks, or one- 

 third the whole time planned, being necessarily omitted entirely. 



THE OUTSIDE EXHIBIT. 



The outside exhibit, as stated, was accomplished only after overcoming serious 

 difliculties ; nevertheless it should be regarded as a useful and impoi'tant feature. 

 It covered demonstration work in plant breeding, corn .iudging. stock judging, 

 and slaughter tests disjjlaying the results of experiments in the feeding of ani- 

 mals. These demonstrations occupied two periods, the first extending from 

 September 11 to September 24, inclusive, and the second from October 3 to 

 October 16. inclusive. Apjiroximately 50 lectures were given during these 

 periods by specialists on topics directly related to tlie subjects above mentioned, 

 and in displaying methods of instruction 50 students collected from various 

 institutions were in attenilance on the exhibit from time to time. 



BECOGNITION OF EXHIBIT. 



It is not too much to claim that this exhibit in all its divisions has been fairly 

 successful. This is evident Itoth from the remarks which have been made con- 

 cerning it by competent judges as well as from the awards granted by the sev- 



