220 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



There is scarcely a single department of this great World's 

 Fair that would not require many pages, if I should attempt to 

 convey any adequate idea of it to the mind of a reader who had 

 never seen it. I might speak at some length of the Kohinoor 

 diamond, the crown jewels and royal jems displayed ; of the 

 endless display of elegant and costly laces and furs, silks and 

 satins ; works of art, both of painting and statuary, filling long 

 and lofty galleries, but I should despair of giving any complete 

 idea of the whole. I shall therefore confine myself mainly to 

 the Department allotted to the United States. 



It will be remembered, that in the Exhibition of 1851, the 

 United States made so meagre a show that the English journals 

 at first affected to despise tlie American court, and made it the 

 object of many a sneer, but that before its close, when tlie great 

 practical value of the articles and implements presented became 

 better known and tested, the tone was changed to one of a})pre- 

 ciatioii at least, if not of admiration at the grand success of 

 that department. No doubt that display was of great advan- 

 tage to the American mechanic, and it was desirable to maintain 

 the prestige of success in 1862. 



The affairs of the country, well known all the world over, 

 offered a sufficient and satisfactory reason for the refusal of the 

 government to appropriate money for the transportation of the 

 products of American industry to London. The show on the 

 part of the United States was therefore much more limited 

 than it otherwise would have been. The space allotted to this 

 country was in one corner of the building, about a hundred 

 feet long by sixty wide, but more than a quarter of a mile from 

 the annex which contained the machinery in motion, which was 

 in another corner. This was the only space the Commissioners 

 had to give us, though it was far from being adequate to the 

 display of all the objects forwarded, and a large number of 

 articles had to remain in their original packages unopened, for 

 want of room to be placed, while a good many machines of 

 value were wholly excluded on account of a want of compliance 

 with the regulations on the part of those who wished to exhibit 

 them. 



Of agricultural imjilemcnts the number was few, to be sure, 

 but they were generally admitted to be of a highly creditable 

 character. Five patterns of reapers and mowers, included 



