I was selected as a juror for Group Jury No. 78, and entered
    upon the duties assigned me on September 1, 1904.

Group Jury No. 78 organized, and after the chairman and vice-chairman were selected I was made secretary, which position I held until the minutes and report were handed in to the office of Hon. Fred. W. Taylor, chief of Department of Agriculture, on September 19.

As secretary, the work of the Group Jury No. 78 came immediately under my supervision, and I found the work exceedingly pleasant, and my colleagues (all the members were gentlemen except myself) were most agreeable, and we concluded our work without the least friction or antagonism to the close.

    Group No. 78 was the first on the list in the general Department
    of Agriculture.  It covered exhibits on main lines, other groups
    taking what I might term subdivisions.

    We examined farm improvement as related to inventions and
    devices which were intended as fixtures to farm buildings.  Group
    No. 79 was devoted to such exhibits as were movable.

To illustrate:  No. 78 collected data and awarded prizes on barn gates, doors, hay carriers, silos, windmills, pumps, etc., while No. 79 was concerned with thrashers, plows, and the various implements which are not sold with farm buildings as necessary fixtures.

    Having lived an active life on a Georgia plantation for fifty
    years, all these matters were of exceeding interest to the
    secretary, although a woman.

Our jury made an exhaustive examination of the exhibits of irrigation models, with various reports and statistics, that were carried to St. Louis.  Germany made the finest exhibit as to number and completeness, and I feel sure there never has been such a far-reaching display of irrigation methods in the United States before.  I was intimately connected with the Columbian Exposition, as a lady manager from Georgia and chairman of the woman’s executive committee in the Cotton States and International Exposition, and I feel I speak advisedly when I tell you that nothing I have ever seen compares with the agricultural exhibits of the St. Louis Exposition, as uncovered to my view in performing the duties of a juror, especially in regard to the greatest problem of the twentieth century, namely, in regard to irrigation and its future possibilities for our various States and Territories.  You will understand, of course, women had no part in the various governmental works where land has been reclaimed and converted into the finest farming lands known to this era, but in the results which followed such reclamation the farmer’s wife and daughter has been seen and felt everywhere, although no percentage of women’s work was noted in the exhibits examined by Group Jury No. 78.

Germany, Italy, Belgium, and France were prominent, and the States of Utah, Montana,