EXHIBITION AT HAMBURG. 25 . 



TLe principal "breeds of the continent have been bred from Great Britain 

 and Ireland. The premiums ranged from twenty to fifty thalers, and out of 

 thirty-five premiums awarded, strange as it may seem, twenty-eight were taken 

 by Great Britain. 



At the right hand of the banquet hall, extending from the enclosure on the 

 front almost to the rear of the ground, Avere twenty-four long, double-roofed 

 sheds, appropriated to the exhibition of agricultural implements and light 

 machinery. Over each shed hung a sign, upon which could be read the name 

 of the nation whose products of skill were therein exhibited. Midway of the 

 first row was the American shed, in which most of the American contributions 

 were arranged : com brooms, dusters, and brushes ; pots and cans of preserved 

 American fruits ; McCormick's reaper, the same which took the gold medal at 

 the World's Fair in London ; harrows, seed sowers, root cutters ; hay and 

 manure forks ; hoes, ploughs, cultivators, horse hoes, horse rakes, and other 

 implements of agriculture, were hung up and set about in such a manner as to 

 well fill the entire shed. New York contributed a large proportion of this col- 

 lection, but Pennsylvania, Illinois, Rhode Island, Indiana, Massachusetts, 

 Michigan, Ohio, and Vermont, were all represented. Great Britain filled three 

 long buildings with her light machinery and implements of husbandry, cutlery, 

 ploughs, harrows, horse hoes, and potato diggers in great quantities ; many 

 curious and elegantly made implements for amateur farmers — costly and of 

 little practical value. 



Sweden, Denmark, Prussia, Austria, Hanover, Hamburg, Canada, Belgium, 

 Holland, Uruguay, and Venezuela, were all here, occupying space in the great 

 rooms, and they looked larger and more important than they ever looked be- 

 fore. A little German State impressed us with a new and enhirged idea of its 

 importance as we looked upon a great building filled with the works of the 

 mechanical skill and industry of its people ; and having passed around and 

 examined carefully the specimens of its handiwork, we felt increased respect 

 for the little realm, the name of which we leai'ned at school in our boyhood, 

 but with which we had seldom met since. 



As we noticed from day to day the great crowd gathered around the Amer- 

 ican shed, and observed with pride that the contents attracted more general 

 interest than those of any other building on the ground, we could not but feel 

 a regret that America was not there in her full strength to impress, as she 

 should and could have done, all Europe, with the magnitude of her genius. 

 America may well learn a lesson of Great Britain in this particular. She 

 comprehends the value of such opportunities, and is not backward in improving 

 them. Twelve vessels loaded with live stock and machinery ploughed the 

 German ocean and the waters of the Elbe that England might be properly 

 represented at the international exhibition. England covered a fourth of the 

 space on the exhibition grounds. Was it machinery, lifting great volumes of 

 water ; massive engines, moving about the ground like huge elephants, or sta- 

 tionary engines driving the wheels to threshing and winnowing mills or moving 

 ploughs through the dry, hard, clay soil — they were from England and of 

 English manufacture to a very large extent. Twelve or fourteen acres were 

 covered by heavy machinery, and a large proportion of it English. That a 

 nation making such a demonstration should wield an influence of fearful mag- 

 nitude over the governments of the Avorld is a matter of little surprise. That 

 America could have made a demonstration of equal magnitude and merit, no 

 person conversant with its resources and the skill and energy of its people can 

 entertain a doubt. 



On the 12th day of July, 1863, a magnificent breakfast was given to the 

 prize judges who had been appointed by the executive committee. It was 

 served at twelve o'clock noon, in the banquet hall on the ground. The judges 

 were welcomed by one of the vice presidents of the executive committee, and 



