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the Agricultural Building and in the Florida and Colorado sec- 

 tions of the Horticultural Building. In the latter building also 

 is a large and varied assortment of apple jellies, each kind bear- 

 ing the name of the variety of apple from which it was made, 

 exhibited by a Maine woman. Across the avenue, outside the 

 fair grounds, is the interesting exhibit of Manitoba. Here may 

 be seen a large collection of preserved fruits and preserved and 

 pickled vegetables, all put up by women in their homes. 



The food stuffs, and especially the partly prepared foods ex- 

 hibited by manufacturers, are numerous and varied. Most of 

 these are placed in the gallery of the Agricultural Building, but 

 there are a few important exceptions. Butter and cheese are to 

 be found in the Dairy Building, coffee and tea in the foreign 

 buildings or foreign sections of the large buildings. A great part 

 of the exhibit in the Brazil Building consists of coffee, and this 

 product is shown also by other countries of South and Central 

 America and the West Indies. In some of the buildings a cup of 

 the beverage may be had. Ceylon tea is served by Cingalese at- 

 tendants in the Ceylon Court and in three or four of the general 

 buildings. Four of the prominent chocolate manufacturers have 

 separate small buildings in various parts of the grounds, and an- 

 other has an attractive exhibit in the Agricultural Building. At 

 all of these chocolate and cocoa are served. In the main food 

 display the great packing houses exhibit canned, smoked, dried, 

 and salt meats, canned fish and shell fish, mince-meat, lard, extract 

 of beef, and canned soups. An English firm has gone one step 

 beyond the canned soups and sends desiccated soups. Butterine 

 or oleomargarine is shown by several manufacturers, and accom- 

 panied by clear and frank statements of how it is made and what 

 it may be used for. Mixtures of beef suet and cotton-seed oil, 

 under the names of vegetole, cotosuet, and cottolene, are offered 

 to take the place of lard. The value of rice and rice flour as food 

 is well shown in the Louisiana section of the Agricultural Build- 

 ing. Brands of salt which are declared to withstand the attacks 

 of " General Humidity " are exhibited in this building and in the 

 Mining Building. In the inventions room of the Woman's Build- 

 ing are evaporated vegetables and sweet-potato flour prepared by 

 a process which was invented by a St. Louis woman. Condensed 

 milk and evaporated cream, baking powders, gelatin, fruit but- 

 ters, pickles, and catsups are among the many other foods shown 

 by enterprising manufacturers. At many of the food booths 

 visitors are invited to taste the foods, and are requested to regis- 

 ter their own names or those of their grocers. 



There is no lack of appliances and utensils for cooking. The 

 ranges are too numerous to mention, but a few unusual features 

 may be noticed. One make has a round iron plate on the floor of 



