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Summing  up  the  products  exhibited  in  this  building  we  mention 
that  tobacco  in  all  its  forms  was  displayed  with  machines  and  appli- 
ances for  curing  it  and  manufacturing  cigars,  cigarettes  and  snuff,  as 
well  as  insecticides  and  methods  with  appliances  used  to  endeavor 
to  stay  the  ravages  of  the  tobacco  worm  and  other  parasites.  Cotton 
on  the  stalk  was  shown  in  all  its  varieties;  with  methods  of  plant- 
ing and  cultivating  as  well  as  the  methods  and  machines  used  in 
picking,  ginning  and  baling  it.  Likewise  hemp,  flax,  jute,  ramie  and 
other  vegetable  fibres  were  displayed  in  their  primitive  forms  and  in 
all  stages  of  spinning.  Malt  liquors  with  machinery  and  processes 
employed  in  fermenting,  distilling,  bottling  and  storing  these  bever- 
ages. Models  of  breweries  in  operation.  Among  vegetable  oils 
were  cotton-seed,  olive,  rape-seed,  linseed,  palm,  etc.,  with  the  seeds 
and  seed  cakes  as  residues.  Starches  were  exhibited  with  processes 
of  manufacture  from  all  sources,  from  cereals,  tubers,  arrow-root, 
plantain,  cassava,  zamia,  manioca,  tapioca,  sago,  pearl,  flour,  etc. 
Sugar-cane,  beet-root  and  sorghum  were  exhibited  in  the  raw  and 
natural  condition  with  the  processes  which  finally  yielded  the  com- 
mercial syrups  and  sugars.  Sugars  from  palms,  maple  and  milk 
were  exhibited.  To  the  agriculturist  the  different  State  exhibits 
were  of  interest,  as  the  hives  with  the  many  varieties  of  Apis  melli- 
fica  were  displayed  with  all  the  modern  appliances  in  the  production 
of  honey  and  wax.  Some  of  the  fertilizers  of  fossil  and  animal 
origin  were  of  some  degree  of  interest  and  of  great  importance. 
The  exhibits  of  food  stuffs  were  displayed  in  many  instances  in  a 
striking  manner. 
The  seed  displays  were  divided  between  the  horticultural  and 
agricultural  buildings.  In  the  latter  the  field  seeds  were  supposed 
to  be  shown  to  the  greater  or  less  exclusion  of  the  garden  seeds. 
The  display  of  a  firm  of  Paris  (Vilmorin-Andrieux  et  Cie),  in  the 
French  Section,  was  in  the  nature  of  a  well-ordered  botanical 
museum.  On  the  walls  were  hung  panels  of  wheat,  specimen  charts 
showing  the  sugar  yield  of  beets  and  the  starch  yield  of  potatoes^ 
and  illustrations  of  their  farms.  They  had  14  glass  cases  with 
models  or  casts  of  representative  types  of  vegetables  and  straw- 
berries. With  the  exception  of  a  small  collection  of  photographs  in 
the  alcoves  of  the  Experimental  Stations  Exhibit,  here  seemed  to 
be  the  only  attempt  to  show  anything  of  the  results  of  hybridiza- 
tion.   The  name  of  Vilmorin  has  long  been  connected  with  experi 
