1038 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



The location decided upon is in the Palace of Education, where a 

 very desirable space, comprising about 11,500 square feet, has been 

 assigned to the committee by the exposition authorities. This space 

 occupies a conspicuous position in the building, is well lighted, and is 

 adjacent to the educational exhibits of several foreign countries. The 

 division of sj)ace as agreed upon gives about 4,000 square feet to 

 mechanic arts, 6,000 square feet to agriculture, and 450 square feet 

 each to the Bureau of Education and the Office of Experiment Stations. 



The plans for mechanic arts have not j^et been worked out in detail 

 by the subcommittees in charge. In general, the main divisions of this 

 portion will be civil, .mechanical, electrical, mining and chemical 

 engineering; architecture, drawing and shop practice; and industrial 

 and domestic arts, the latter to include domestic science. A canvass 

 has been made of the colleges, which has indicated a large amount of 

 material to be available in most of these line's. 



The general divisions of the agricultural portion of the exhibit will 

 be plant production, including horticulture and forestry; zootechny, 

 including animal husbandry and veterinary science; agrotechny, includ- 

 ing dairying and other lines of agricultural maiuifactures, such as 

 sugar making, wine making, canning, meat products, tobacco, etc.; 

 rural engineering; and rural economics. There will be no separation 

 of the instruction work from the experiment station work, as was 

 done at Chicago, ])ut the different lines will be united so as to show 

 their interrelations, and this will frequently avoid duplication. In 

 plant production, for instance, the exhibit will show the materials used 

 for instruction as well as the methods and results of investigation, 

 including' the study of plant diseases and injurious insects, the inspec- 

 tion work, the results of plant breeding, etc. There will be a working- 

 laboratory for soil physics, showing equipment for both instruction 

 and investigation, with exhibitions of typical soils, standard fertilizing 

 materials, methods of stud3"ing the fertilizer needs of soils and plants 

 by means of pot culture, etc. 



As illustrating the means of instruction in animal husbandry it is 

 proposed to show a model class room, equipped with the special pro- 

 visions in the way of models, charts, illustrative material, etc., which 

 experience has suggested as advantageous to this line of instruction. 

 This, it is thought, can be made a novel and attractive feature, and 

 serve to show the progress which has been made in adapting and pro- 

 viding facilities for class-room work. Another section of this exhibit 

 will show the investigation work in the breeding, feeding, and man- 

 agement of animals. This is expected to include a model of the 

 Armsby respiration calorimeter, equipment for digestion work, exam- 

 ples of important lines of feeding work with various kinds of live stock, 

 and methods of breeding, together with some of the results, notably with 



