Information for Exhibitors
A brief Description of the Exposition, Extracts of important Rules and Regulations, and an Analysis of the Plan and Scope of the Exhibit Departments

IT IS natural that the agriculturists should worthily signalize their interest in this great Exposition and send the offerings of their skill to celebrate the chief National Industry; while other nations, even those in which other crafts have gained, ascendancy, will present in its best light this most honorable branch of labor. Satisfactory exhibits of farm products will be collected, not only from the United States, but from remote cor- ners of the earth; and. their exhibition will justify the prominence conceded, to this dominant factor in the wealth of the world. Many countries in their desire to attract settlers to their lands will have a strong incen- tive to make splendid exhibits. It is certain, therefore, that the exhibits in the Palace of Agriculture will be of an extent and character never before seen. The gigantic strides made in the science of agricul- ture and its useful application throughout the world give the Exposition a wealth of material from which, to choose. At least one-fourth of the area of this large Palace will be devoted to the exhibit of farm and agri- cultural implements and farm machinery, which, will include appliances for irrigation and draining land. The improved methods in agriculture will be carefully il- lustrated. The tobacco exhibit will show the methods of growing, the manufactured product, and the charac- teristics of the leaf raised in the different parts of the world. A complete synopsis of the production of cotton from the seed to its delivery at the mill door will be featured. Vegetable and animal food products, methods