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This corporation has a million dollars invested ; its object is to prepare 
for the farmers’ use native and imported guano, phosphatic minerals, 
fish-manure, and other organic matter, &c. England shows some milling- 
apparatus, grain-weighers, street-sweepers, bee-hives, disinfecting-fluid, 
baking-powder, &c. Canada has model gates, fencing, harrows, fertil- 
izers, and a bee-hive model. France has some fertilizers and models of 
agricultural sheds. Germany has plans for gardens and models of 
works of drainage and irrigation. Sweden has some fertilizers and 
farm-drawings ; Norway some fertilizers. Italy shows a plan of Gen- 
eral Garibaldi’s system of irrigation in the valley of the Tiber, and a 
model bee-hive. Brazil has some specimens of guano. The Argentine 
Republic has artificial manures and a model of a pump. The official 
catalogue shows no competition in this class from any other nation. 
Tillage and general management.— Under this head the United States 
exhibits artificial food for live stock and cage-birds, devices for training 
horses, shearing-machines, horseshoes and horseshoe-nails, potato-bee- 
tle destroyers, &c. The official catalogue shows no entries from foreign 
nations. 
Itshould here be observed that the agricultural exhibits of Russia, Spain, 
and Portugal were not open for inspection at the time the preliminary 
observations of this report were made, and hence no reference has been 
made to those countries. A few small exhibits of agricultural matter 
are located in the main building as parts of small collective exhibits by 
nations whose industry is but partially exhibited. Oriental nations are 
conspicuous by their absence in this branch of the Exposition. The 
wares of China and Japan are almost exclusively in the category of art 
and manufacture. Turkey, Tunis, and Morocco fuddle American brains 
by the hookah, or challenge competition in the preparation of coffee. 
The agricultural part of the Exposition, as a whole, is a grand and im- 
posing one, but when we come to specialties we find in it very promi- 
nent and glaring deficiencies, even in branches of American production. 
This, however, was just what might have been expected, and was doubt- 
less true of all the international expositions that have preceded it. The 
financial stringency prevailing for the last few years has decreased the 
number of exhibitors, and has doubtless prevented that full and com- 
plete representation in all branches of agricultural industry, especially 
of American production, which a greater experience and a more system- 
atic effort would have secured. From the impulse given to industrial 
art by this great manifestation we may expect, on future occasions of 
this character, a more thorough and systematic presentation of the actual 
facts of agricultural as well as other departments of production. These 
deficiencies may, at least in part, be supplied by the official exhibit of 
this Department in the Government building, in which all the leading 
facts of American agriculture are graphically presented.—E. C. M. 
PLANTING OF FOREST-TREES IN SPAIN, AND DE- 
STRUCTION OF LOCUSTS. 
The return of peace in Spain is signalized by the active enlistment of 
the government in measures which materially affect the agricultural 
interests of the country, and the development of resources so long pros- 
trated by devastating war. The ravages of locusts, hardly less than 
the desolations of civil war, have brought ruin upon several of the cen- 
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