In the Belgian exhibit we were shown the beautiful and remarkable flax grown in the irrigated districts, the material from which the finest lace, known as the Brussels product, is constructed.  If the investigation had been pursued to the limit, every benefit, or profit, or financial opportunity resulting from the improvement of farms, abroad or at home, touches somewhere the lives of our farm women in comfort and happiness.

    Our jury passed upon the magnificent exhibit made by the State
    of Missouri in the Agricultural Palace—­the finest State exhibit
    known to this continent—­up to date in agriculture.

The construction of an elegant lay figure, made entirely of corn shucks and corn silks, representing a lady of style and fashion, was the handiwork of a woman and richly deserved the prize that was awarded.

Group No. 78 being confined to general lines, and covering the idea of farm improvement on an extended scale, grasping, as it were, the great and fundamental principles of modern agriculture, the work of the sexes was not indicated by the exhibitors.  The percentage of each was not required by instructions given to Group Jury No. 78.

It gives me great pleasure to thank you and the board of lady managers for kind attentions, and the opportunity for pleasure and instruction in this group jury work, and to assure you that it was my constant aim and purpose to prove to my colleagues and to Chief Taylor that your trust and confidence had not been misplaced in assigning me to jury duty in so important a place.

Group 84, under the group heading “Vegetable food products—­Agricultural seeds,” was divided into eight classes, which represented:  Cereals—­wheat, rye, barley, maize, millet, and other cereals in sheaves or in grain.  Legumes and their seeds—­beans, peas, lentils, etc.  Tuber and roots and their seeds—­potatoes, beets, carrots, turnips, radishes, etc.  Miscellaneous vegetables and their seeds—­cabbages, peppers, artichokes, mushrooms, cresses, etc.  Sugar-producing plants—­beets, cane, sorghum, etc.  Miscellaneous plants and their products—­coffee, tea, cocoa, etc.  Oil-producing plants and their products.  Forage, growing, green, cured, or in silos; fodder for cattle; forage, grass, and field seeds.

Neither the principal nor alternate in this group were able to serve.

Group 89, Mrs. E.L.  Lamb, Jackson, Miss., Juror.