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The Dumber of persons appointed to positions of one kind or another in con- 
nection with the exhibit as a whole and paid from the appropriation, either tor 
services or traveling expenses, has been 290, divided as follows: 
Members of the committee 9 
Experts in charge of sections 24 
Expert demonstrators, inside exhibit 2»; 
Experts connected with outside exhibit 17 
Lecturers connected with outside exhibit 31 
students used in outside exhibit demonstration 50 
Officers of administration, clerks, stenographers, Janitors, guards, etc 73 
Total 230 
This seems to be a large force, but is really the smallest number with which it 
has been feasible to install and maintain the exhibit as a real and live demon- 
stration of our work. Your committee has used every reasonable effort to hold 
the expenses for such services to the lowest possible practicable point. It should 
be noted that when any expenditure was involved, no matter how brief the serv- 
ice, even if but for a day. an appointment by the Government board has been 
3sary, so that the number of appointments is more formidable than the 
actual expense connected therewith. 
EXPENDITURES. 
The financial situation is gratifying. Dp to October 24 the expenditures were 
approximately the following: 
Preparation and collection of exhibit $19,527.48 
Installation 27. 4:;i». 06 
Maintenance 8, 650. 75 
Administration 15,388.01 
Total 71,005. 29 
It is clear that the expenditures for the exhibit will come well within the 
appropriation. In fact, it now seems likely that there will be an unexpended 
balance, a result neither anticipated nor desired by your committee. This is to 
some extent due to the fact that the expenditures for the outside exhibit in 
plant breeding and animal husbandry were less than was planned. Difficulties 
which need not be mentioned in this connection, ami for which your committee 
does not hold itself responsible, were encountered in arranging for the outside 
exhibit, and it was only by the most strenuous efforts that this portion of our 
display was finally accomplished, and as a general result the demonstration work 
of this division was necessarily abridged, the first period of two weeks, or one- 
third the whole time planned, being necessarily omitted entirely. 
THE OUTSIDE EXHIBIT. 
The outside exhibit, as stated, was accomplished only after overcoming serious 
ditiiculties : nevertheless it should be regarded as a useful and important feature. 
It covered demonstration work in plant breeding, corn judging, stock judging, 
and slaughter tests displaying the results of experiments in the feeding of ani- 
mals. These demonstrations occupied two periods, the first extending from 
September 11 to September 24. inclusive, and the second from October 3 to 
October 16, inclusive. Approximately 50 lectures were given during these 
periods by specialists on topics directly related to the subjects above mentioned, 
and in displaying methods of instruction 50 students collected from various 
institutions were in attendance on the exhibit from time to time. 
RECOGNITION OF EXHIBIT. 
It is not too much to claim that this exhibit in all its divisions has been fairly 
■ssfol. This is evident both from the remarks which have been made con- 
cerning: it by competent judges as well as from the awards granted by th< 
