Agriculture:  In this department our space in Agriculture Hall and the lower floor of our State building was crowded with an exhibit of all cereals in straw and seed, forage grasses, vegetables, hops, wool, dairy products, etc.

Awarded grand prize on “collection of cereals, forage grasses, and miscellaneous vegetables;” grand prize on “best one-farm exhibit;” gold medals on various county exhibits, seven in number; gold medals on various mill products, five in number; gold medal on dairy exhibit, by Hazelwood Company; gold medal on hops, wool, and flax; gold medal on beet sugar.

Fisheries:  Washington’s exhibit in this department included every native leading variety of food fish and game fish, exceeding in numbers and quantity the showing of any other State.  The installation was also the most practical undertaken here, considering the water and temperature, as all live exhibits were failures, and the collective exhibit was awarded first prize.

Game:  In this department was shown a comprehensive specimen collection, in whole mounts, of the fur-bearing animals, animals of prey, game animals, and game birds indigenous to the section; one carload.  Awarded silver medal.

Mines:  In this department was shown the most complete collection of the State’s minerals that has ever been made.  Entered as “a collection of ores, gold, silver, copper; minerals, fossil collection, coal and coke; building materials, iron, lead, antimony arsenic; roadmaking and cement materials, clay and clay products, limestone and lime, soils, mineral waters, illustrations.”  Awarded gold medal on “collective exhibit of ores and minerals;” silver medals to various counties and individual exhibits.

    Climate and scenery:  Over 400 paintings and photographs were
    shown in the State building.  Not in competitive exhibit.

    Education:  Photographic enlargements of all the State’s normal
    schools colleges, and city school buildings; also shown in the
    State building.

Literature:  The “State Book” issued by the commission has been distributed at the rate of 500 per day throughout the period; in addition to which individual literature has been furnished by Seattle, Spokane, Yakima, Everett, Walla Walla, Oregon Railway and Navigation Company, Clarkston, Waitsburg, Tacoma, Bellingham, Wenatchee, Olympia, Great Northern Railway, Northern Pacific Railway Company, Chelan, Pullman, to the total number of 800,000 pieces.

The total expenses on account of participation in the Exposition were $69,135.47, leaving a balance unexpended of $8,245.

WISCONSIN.

The board of managers for the State of Wisconsin was appointed under an act of the State legislature, and an appropriation of $104,000 was also made for exploiting the State’s resources, its educational advantages, and for providing a State building.  Of this amount $100,000 was for general exploitation and the State building, and the $4,000 was for use exclusively in showing the work of the State University, which ranks among the leading educational institutions of the United States.