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State in the Union were given prominent places. The special corn 

 exhibit not only included the best specimens from every state, but 

 demonstrated the manufacture of corn into all of its products and by- 

 products. If this exhibit had showed only what could be made from 

 corn, it would have been worth months of study. The products and 

 by-products of corn form a varied group consisting of starch, glucose, 

 gum, dextrine, anhydrous and grape sugar, syrup, corn oil, corn rub- 

 ber, corn oil cake, corn oil meal, gluten meal, canned corn, grits, 

 samp, hominy, malt, whiskey, beer, dry wines of high alcoholic 

 strength, alcohol, fusel oil, stover, ensilage, shucks, fodder and cobs. 

 The same method of exhibit and treatment was given the canes, the 

 beets and the sorghums. The best processes for dairying and cheese 

 making were exemplified in a model dairy. Sections were also de- 

 voted to meats, fishes and vegetables — in fact to every known thing 

 to eat or drink. And a section not of the least interest to the farmer, 

 showed every insect with an essay upon its habits, and a herbarium 

 of the diseases most common to plant life in America. 



The E.vliibits and Exhibitors. — The Agricultural building contained 

 12,056 exhibits of all sorts. These exhibits, private and otherwise, 

 came from every country in the world, and exploited completely the 

 products of each country and the industries which depended upon 

 those products. The following countries had spaces : Argentine, 

 Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Ceylon, China, Costa 

 Rica, Cuba, Denmark, Egypt, France, the French colonies, Germany, 

 German East Africa, Great Britain, Greece, Gautemala. Hayti, Hon- 

 duras, Ihmgary, Italy. Jamaica (unofficial), Japan, Tlu- Netherlands, 

 New South Wales, New Zealand. Nicaragua, Peru, Porto Rico, Portu- 

 gal. Roumania, San Salvador, Siam, South Africa, Spain. Sweden, 

 Switzerland, Turkey (unofficial), Uruguay and Venezuela. 



Russia's exhibit was in the Varied Industries building, and the 

 East In<li;i exhibit, consisting mainly of teas, was in the East India 

 building. The participation of those countries contributed largely to 

 the beauty of the building. Among the foreign exhibits from the 

 western world, there were worthy of special praise, the Argentine 

 Republic, which, for corn, wheat and cattle, is destined in the future 

 to be our chief competitor; Mexico with her gorgeous display of 

 corn, coffee, rubber and semi-tropical products, and Canada, with a 

 most perfect exploitation of her wonderland ; the great Northwest with 

 its wheat, grasses and cattle. 



