Ob BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



contracting for Indiana stone for the building of a new State House at Atlanta. 

 By exhibiting this stone at New Orleans it is bringing it into prominence, and will 

 give employment to a large number of men in getting it out. 



In the headquarters tent I have furniture of various kinds, all of which are 

 from Indiana wood, with the exception of some camp chairs. The excellence of 

 the various woods also shows what we are doing in fine household articles. The 

 Indiana Encaustic Tile Company is represented, and makes a fine display, which 

 attracts a great deal of attention. We have opposite this samples from the Terra 

 Cotta Works, located here at Indianapolis We have also crockery and drain tile 

 on exhibition, a matter that is to give us prominence in this direction. I have 

 also collected models of parents that have been issued to Indiana men, and are be- 

 ing manufactured in this State. I have 1,000 square feet of grains and grasses of 

 the State. On one wing I have nothing but bearded wheat, on another smooth 

 wheat, another oats, another corn. We have another wing entirely for grass, put 

 up in handsome shape, which is attracting a great deal of attention ; and another, 

 known by the ladies as " Crazy Quilt," and if there is any kind of grass that grows 

 in this State not on that wing, I don't know where to find it. The edges of each 

 wing are trimmed from leaves of tobacco, and surmounting the entire wing are 

 bundles of wheat and oats, bound together as tightly as pbssible. 1 have in one 

 case 4x5 feet of plate-glass, containing seed-corn furnished by a seed company at 

 Thorntown ; their exhibit is eight varieties of corn. 



We have now for Indiana what is conceded to be the finest display of wheat on 

 exhibition, (not the largest, but finest). A California man, with their long 

 bunches of wheat, came over and wanted to examine our s])ecimens. He said they 

 had more straw, but we had the best wheat. I have cotton and woolen goods man- 

 ufactured at Evausville, and graded wheat furnished by the Indianapolis Board of 

 Trade. In the center of this display I have a market bulletin board, on Avhich I 

 give daily reports from the Indianapolis market, the only bulletin board in the en- 

 tire display. I have also specimens of worked wood and woven wire, made by the 

 Sedgwick Brothers, of Richmond. The only woven wire in the world made by ma- 

 chinery is in Indiana, and is owned by Indiana brothers, farmer boys. Since they 

 have put up this wire there, they have been receiving orders almost every day, and 

 woven wire is said to be stronger than hand-made wire. Gentlemen, this is what is 

 being done at New Orleans. Your manufacturing and agricultural interests, stock 

 and general industries of the State are represented. I have done the best I could 

 under the circumstances, and I think some of these gentlemen who have visited 

 New Orleans will bear me out in the statement. Pennsylvania, an older State and 

 greater in wealth than ours, and placed on the same footing as ours so far as legis- 

 lative appropriation is concerned, does not come up to Indiana by far; and as to 

 our own State, we are adding to it day by day. We have not got all of our exhibit 

 in place because we could not get them from the railroad. When I left, ihey had 

 4,000 cars on the track which could not get in to be unloaded. I have just received 

 a letter from my assistant, that our cars are just beginning to come in. I want you 

 gentlemen, wllen you return home, to send to me, here at Indianapolis, samples of 

 your premium wheat exhibited at your agricultural meeting last fall, also oats and 

 rye, and don't be afraid of sending too much. I am exhibiting these in glass globes 



