Text Appearing Before Image: CERES GROUP, AGRICUI.TURAI, Buii<DiNG. (Martiny.) pie, and it has been productive of most beneficial results to thecommerce of the country and to every one engaged in farm work.The experiment stations which are connected with the agriculturalcolleges of the country, and are supported by the government,mark another advance in the last seventeen years. Their workreaches out into all the fields of scientific research, seekinor to as- iGRlCULTUKE. 167 Text Appearing After Image: 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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