MONTHLY REPORT. 
STATISTICAL DIVISION, 
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 
Washington, D. C., June 20, 1876. 
Sir: I respectfully report for publication a description of the exhibits 
made by the Department of Agriculture at the Centennial Exhibition ; 
a report of the condition of the crops in June, with estimates of areas 
planted; and sundry minor statistics. 
J. R. DODGE, 
Statistician. 
Hon. FREDERICK WATTS, 
Commissioner. 
CENTENNIAL EXHIBITS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF 
AGRICULTURE. 
The participation of the Government in the greatest exhibition of 
the age, and the prominence of an interest in which half the people of 
this nation are directly engaged, render necessary positive and efficient 
effort of the Department of Agriculture to illustrate national resources, 
production, and progress in rural arts. With a regard for economy 
more in accordance with the demand of the times than with the import- 
ance of the subject or occasion, the Department’s proportion of the first 
appropriation for the Government building and Department exhibits 
was but a tenth of all, and of the second, nothing. The allotment of 
space, 6,400 feet, 160 by 40, was ample for the limited means available 
for filling it, and it was duly divided into sections to afford opportunity 
to the several divisions of participating in the Exhibition. The result, 
as seen in the collection at Philadelphia, has secured a favorable pre- 
liminary verdict, both of press and people, and is acknowledged to be 
highly creditable to the Department and interesting and instructive to 
the visitors, native and foreign. 
As a current record of Department work, to utilize and perpetuate 
which the monthly report was established, a brief description of these 
exhibits is presented, which will also serve to direct the inquiries of the 
casual visitor to points of personal or general interest, and to systema- 
tize the laborsof the press reporter, to guide his pencil orrefresh his mem- 
ory, for the benefit of that great class of American farmers who cannot 
personally inspect the exhibits. 
The location of the Department in the Government building is in the 
