Owing to the plan of installation adopted by the exposition authorities, the State exhibit in the Department of Social Economy was found in several different places.  The State commission in lunacy made an interesting exhibit of the ancient and modern methods of caring for insane patients.  There was also a model showing the tent system for treatment of tuberculosis.  The State board of charities made a very complete exhibit of the several State institutions under its jurisdiction, first, by means of photography of exteriors and interiors, and, second, by specimens of work carried on in the industrial departments of the various institutions.  They also made an elaborate photographic exhibit of the almshouses in the State and of the penitentiaries.  The State labor bureau sent a series of 28 graphic charts bearing on labor conditions in the State and comparisons between New York and other States and countries.  This was supplemented by a series of the reports of the bureau.  The State department of health furnished an exhibit of the blanks generally used in the administration of the department of health and graphically showed the work under its jurisdiction.  The State excise department furnished a series of graphic charts upon the receipt and disbursement of the excise moneys of the State.

The New York agricultural exhibit differed from the other exhibits in the Agricultural Building in that the object sought was educational rather than spectacular.  In wheat there were over 500 varieties and about 1,000 samples; in corn, about 100 varieties and 300 samples; beans, 75 varieties; peas, 50 varieties; oats, 20 varieties; barley, 8 varieties; buckwheat, 50 samples, and other grains in proportion.  There were also exhibits of tobacco, salt, canned fruits of every variety, canned meats and fish, hops, flour, maple sirup and sugar, including varieties of potatoes.

In the Cheese Department New York had over half of the exhibit.  In the Butter Department a facsimile of the Liberty Bell in butter, exact size, with all the inscriptions.

New York had the largest exhibit in the Horticultural Palace and also had more than twice the number of varieties of any other State.  New York was the only State showing pears and grapes.

In exhibiting the timber indigenous to the State in the Forestry, Fish, and Game Building, two specimens of each species were shown in paneled framework, showing both sides of the specimen.

In connection with the specimens of timber were exhibited a series of photographs of trees of New York, eight in number.  Each tree was shown in leaf and also as it appears in winter.  A life-size photograph of the bark of each tree was shown, and in most instances specimens of the leaves, flowers, and fruit.  In this connection there were in small glass jars seeds of all the important forest trees of New York, also by-products of the forest, such as nuts, sugar, pulp, wood alcohol, and many other commodities.