The World's Columbian exposition, Chicago, 1893 (1893) (14776943551)

The Four Seasons, Philip Martiny

Identifier: worldscolumbiane02whit (find matches)

Title: The World's Columbian exposition, Chicago, 1893

Year: 1893 (1890s)

Authors: White, Trumbull, 1868-1941 Igleheart, William, (from old catalog) joint author

Subjects: World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)

Publisher: Philadelphia and St. Louis, P.W. Ziegler & co

Contributing Library: The Library of Congress

Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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THE FOUR RACES, AGRICUI^TURAI, BUII^DING. (Marttny.) sist in a practical way the farmers of the country. The subject ofirrigation and its possibilities has been given its worthiest consid-eration during the same period. These suggestions indicate to acertain extent what a field there is for exhibits in certain new direc-tions, all of which are carefully demonstrated. The Expositionpresents the subject of irrigation with a care whose educational in-fluence is not apt to be overestimated, and the result should be thereclaiming of vast areas in the West supposed heretofore to have i68 AGRICULTURE. no value for agricultural purposes. Another notable exhibit isthat in connection with the production of sugar from sorghum andthe sugar beet. The South destroys the previous supposition thatIts crops were narrowed to rice, cotton and sugar by displaying agreat variety of products from all portions of that section of ourcountry. Another of the most notable features is an experiment

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*!^mm ifotm seasons, AGRICTTLTURAI, BTJII^DING. (Martwy,) Station in operation. This, with its office, laboratories, etc., illus.trates how the in-door work of a station Is actually carried on. Inanother portion of the exhibit each station presents, by means ofmaps, diagrams, pictures, sets of publications, etc., a full statementof its lines of work, following out in detail the history of itscareer; but the Important portion is not this Individual showing,but a unified exhibit showinor the kind of work done by the sta- AGRICULTURE. 169 tlons, the way in which they do it, and some of the more importantresults which they have reached. This exhibit was prepared by a

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