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In connection with these charts are type specimens (in lithograph, black and tint) of breeds of farm animals most popular and generally distributed. These are

a. Shorthorn bull (Bates), Duke of Airdrie (12,730).

b. Shorthorn cow (Bates), Dutchess of Geneva.

c. Shorthorn bull (Booth), Breastplate (11,431).

d. Shorthorn grade steer.

e. Devon bull, Huron.

f. Jersey bull, King of Prairie.

g. Dutch cow, Infrau.

h. Ayrshire grade, "Old Creamer."

The second is the famous cow that brought, at auction, $40,600; the last, the cow that gave 100 pounds of milk daily for thirty days.

Another series of charts illustrates the statistics of agricultural edu cation, accompanied by the following illustrations (wood engraving upon lithographic tint) of college buildings, as follows:

a. College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts at Hanover, N. H. b. Institute of Technology at Boston, Mass.

c. Agricultural College at Amherst, Mass.

d. College of Agriculture (Cornell University), Ithaca, N. Y.
e. Agricultural and Mechanical College, Columbus, Ohio.
f. Industrial University at Urbana, Ill.

States.

g. "Ashland," homestead of Henry Clay, regents' residence, Kentucky University, Lexington, Ky.

h. College of Agriculture at Berkeley, Cal.

i. Female College, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wis.

k. College of Agriculture, Lincoln, Nebr.

1. Industrial University, Fayetteville, Ark.

A portion of these statistics of our industrial system are given in the following tables:

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From the above statement it appears that 84 per cent. of the donated lands have been sold; and the following shows the property already invested in industrial education aggregates seventeen and a half millions:

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To conclude the series of exhibits, the smaller diagrams, the charts in the show-frame illustrating the above-named branches of statistical exposition, together with further letter-press illustration of the real extent of our agricultural resources and present production, are gathered together in the form of a statistical album, for preservation of the substance of the exhibits, and as a fragmentary record of a century's progress and memorial of the great centennial anniversary.

J. R. DODGE,

Statistician.

CHEMICAL DIVISION.

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