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The Agricultural Building was less solidly 

 built of wood and glass, containing a nave and 

 thr.-i- tnuiM-pts, roofed with Gothic arches, the 

 nave being 820 feet long and 75 feet high, and 

 the side-transepts 70 feet high, while the central 

 ono had the same height as the nave. The 

 ground t-ovi-ivd was rectangular in form, 10 

 acres in area, having a breadth of 540 and a 

 li-nirth of 820 feet. The display of agricult- 

 ural implements and products was the largest 

 ever made, and it was specially by this depart- 

 ment that the Exhibition was distinguished 

 from the other World's Fairs. The Americans, 

 standing far in advance of all the rest of the 

 world in tlie application of mechanics to agri- 

 culture, exhibited proudly the finest products 

 of their skill. Ploughs of the latest approved 

 patterns, drills, seed-planters, horse-rakes, hay 

 loading and baling machines, mowers and bar- 



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vesters of a hundred styles, thrashing machin- 

 ery for horse and steam power, winnowing and 

 wheat-cleaning machinery, portable steam-en- 

 gines, corn-shellers, various devices for bind- 

 ing sheaves, lawn-clippers, steam road-rollers, 

 mechanical churns:, cider-mills, iron-work for 

 farms and stables, a machine for making horse- 

 shoes, a self-loading excavator, windmills, and 

 machinery for butchers and meat-packers, were 

 prominent among the multiform contrivances 

 which the immense discrepancy between the 

 extent of tillable ground and the available la- 

 bor in this country has prompted the quick 

 brains of our ingenious men to invent. The 

 display of the land-products and food-manu- 

 factures of the United States was very large, 

 and, to most people, exceedingly interesting. 

 Several of the States made collective exhib- 

 its. Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and Wiscon- 

 sin, exhibited splendid specimens of grain ; 

 Oregon exhibited grain, commercial woods, 

 and dried fruits, among them the curious 

 dried cider and solidified apple-sauce ; New 

 Hampshire sent fine samples of wool, and 

 specimens of her native woods ; Massachu- 

 setts exhibited the products of her fisheries, 

 and the methods of capture and packing ; Cali- 

 fornia exhibited her woods, birds, and agri- 

 cultural products, and a case of live silk- 

 worms; the Cotton Exchange of New Or- 

 leans exhibited bales and samples of cotton ; 

 New Jersey and Delaware, Ohio, Nebraska, 

 and Washington Territory, made collective ex- 

 hibits of agricultural products ; Connecticut 

 and Massachusetts made like displays, the lat- 



ter State exhibiting, also, a collection of bene- 

 ficial birds; Iowa had a large display of farm- 

 productions, together with a collet-ton of 

 fruits, and specimens of her soils; Nevada ex- 

 hibited her minerals. The wine-growers of 

 California, Ohio, Missouri, and New York, 

 made a promising show of native wines. The 

 starch, flour, spice, gelatine, baking-powder, 

 mustard, chocolate, macaroni, and farina 

 manufacturers had competitive exhibits of 

 their productions. An exhibit of Southern 

 moss, for upholstering purposes, came from 

 New Orleans. An apparatus for hatching 

 chickens attracted attention. Distillers and 

 perfumers, hop-growers and maltsters, manu- 

 facturers of condensed milk and meat extracts, 

 and canners of fruits, fish, meats, fowls, soups, 

 shell-fish, vegetables, etc., were represented by 

 varied displays. The exhibit of tobaccos, in 

 the leaf and manufactured, was very large, all 

 the principal manufacturers taking part. 



The British exhibit in Agricultural Hall 

 was imperfect, though containing some in- 

 teresting classes, eminently the pickles, pre- 

 serves, sauces, and extracts, including caffeine 

 and theine ; apiary furniture, a comprehensive 

 exhibit of wools from all countries, ales, Irish 

 whiskey and oatmeal, patent condensed tea and 

 coffee, with milk ; and, among the implements, 

 portable engines and road locomotives, and a 

 curious apparatus for suckling calves, lambs, 

 and pigs. 



Canada made an extensive display of agri- 

 cultural products, her grains, roots, beans, peas, 

 flour, and an exhibit of wool of remarkable 

 length and fineness. There were also consid- 

 erable displays of prepared foods, stuffed ani- 

 mals, and ingenious agricultural machinery, in- 

 cluding a turnip-drill, snow-ploughs, and other 

 novelties. 



The most prominent and interesting group 

 in the French section was that of the wines. 

 Other attractive displays were the seeds and 

 photographed flowers and vegetables, Strasburg 

 pies, and other fine preparations ol'fcod, choco- 

 late, cheese, etc., tanned leather, silk-cocoons, 

 artificial manures, cements, hydraulic lime, and 

 artificial stone. 



The Germans exhibited their wines and 

 liquors, essences and extracts, beers, tobacco, 

 and some fine wool from Silesia. The general 

 agricultural productions of the country were 

 not exhibited in any way. 



The Austro - Hungarian display included 

 raisins and dried fruits, beer, and mustards, 

 from Bohemia ; excellent wine, wool, flax, and 

 hemp, from Hungary ; with fruits, nuts, and 

 grains, from different parts of the empire ; can- 

 died fruits put up in Vienna, leather from 

 Austria and Bohemia, etc. 



Italy exhibited hemp, leather, Piedmontese 

 rice, oil, wine, sardines, fine soap, honey, grains, 

 beans, nuts, and cordials ; sausages and cured 

 meats from Bologna, Parmesan and Gorgon- 

 zola cheese from Milan, macaroni and dried 

 fruits from Naples and Sicily, and oranges, 



