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hibitor showed models of the old cracked Independence bell, ot eagles, 
hogs, &c., made of lard, hardened to resist heat and whitened to the 
beauty of the purest Parian marble. This head also includes an 
immense variety of vegetable preparations, of dried and canned fruit, 
farina, flour, meal, canned vegetables, pickles, relishes, sauces, sirups, 
starch, maple sugar and molasses, beet-sugar vinegar, wines, spirituous 
and malt liquors, confectionery, bread, cakes, yeast, vegetable oils, &e. 
The exhibition of English goods under this head is as varied, if not as 
extensive, as that of the United States. One English exhibitor has on 
exhibition a preparation of starch with which he proposes to render 
fabrics and timber uninflammable. He distributes condensed tea.and 
coffee, flavored with milk and sugar, in capsules, one of which will 
transform a cup of warm water into a cup of either beverage. He has 
other equally wonderful combinations, for which space is wanting in 
this report. Canada, among animal products, exhibits skins, leather, 
preserved meats, &c. Of vegetable products she shows a great variety 
of flour, meal, starch, vermicelli, preserved fruits and vegetables, 
wines, spirituous and malt liquors, &c. France presents cheese, leather, 
(of which a large special exhibit comes from Saint Saems, Seine-Infé- 
rieure,) preserved meats; of vegetables her collection includes pre- 
served fruits, confectionery, wines, liquors, vegetable oils, &e. Germany 
confines her exhibit of animal products mostly to leather; of vegetable 
products she reports some preparations of cereals, grape-sugar, choco- 
late, &c., but her great specialties are wine and beer. Austria shows 
hops, seeds, and cereals; Switzerland, leather, honey, wax, preparations 
of coffee, chocolate, sauces, absinthe, and other liquors; Belgium, oils, 
leather, beet-sugar and its preparations, vinegar, wine, cordials, bread, 
&c.; Netherlands, cheese, horn, glue, medicinal animal oils, feathers, 
canned fruits and vegetables, flour, bread, chocolate, sugar from grapes, 
potato-meal, wines, liquors, beer, vegetable oils, &c.; Sweden, dairy 
products, glue, leather, flour, starch, bread, sugar, confectionery, liquors, 
(especially whisky from reindeer moss,) vinegar, punch, &c.; Norway, 
condensed milk, crackers of fish-meal, preserved old cheese, leather, 
preserved meat, preserved vegetables, spirituous and malt liquors, &c.; 
Italy, cheese, sausage, albumen, hides, leather, honey of orange-flowers, 
preserved meats, fruits, dried, candied, and inalcohol; vegetables, sauces, 
relishes, seeds, bread, flour, pickles, vinegar, wines, liquors, sugar, con- 
fectionery, &c; Brazil, hides, horns, furs, leather, giue, oil, tallow, medi- 
cinal plants and roots, coloring-matter, manioc-flour, fruits, vegetable 
oils, sugar, confectionery, cocoa-oil, vinegar, wine, aguardiente, coftee- 
liquors, peach-liquor, chocolate, &c.; Argentine Republic, sponges, 
leather, ostrich eggs and feathers, honey, cheese, butter, hides, furs, 
animal charcoal, milk extract, dried fruits and nuts, flour, starch, 
manioc-flour, wines, liquors, vinegar, sugar, confectionery, &c. 
Wines and liquors.—The extent of the wine and liquor exhibit invites 
a more extended notice. The number of American exhibitors is large 
and representative of a vast capital invested. Several large wine 
establishments located in the Eastern and Central States make an im- 
posing display of their products. It is noticeable that the wine-making 
industry tends to crystallize around certain prominent points, but the 
greatest development of this industry is in California. Here are the 
most extensive grape culture and wine manufacture. One company in 
this State has 6,000 acres of land planted mostly in grapes, though as 
yet but 450 acres are in bearing. This company, in order to secure a 
perfectly homogeneousa nd even character for their wines, do not pur- 
chase grapes of other producers, but confine themselves to their own 
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