Under the group heading “Preserved meat, fish, vegetables, and fruit,” the eight classes into which it was divided represented:  Meat preserved by any process.  Salted meats, canned meats.  Meat and soup tablets.  Meat extracts.  Various pork products.  Fish preserved by any process.  Salt fish, fish in barrels, cod, herring, etc.  Fish preserved in oil—­tuny, sardines, anchovies.  Canned lobsters, canned oysters, canned shrimps.  Vegetables preserved by various processes.  Fruits dried or prepared, prunes, figs, raisins, dates.  Fruits preserved without sugar.  Fruits, canned, in tins or in glass.  Army and Navy commissary stores and equipment.

No report.

Group 88, Mrs. F.H.  Pugh, Bellevue, Nebr., Juror.

Under the group heading “Bread and pastry,” the two classes into which it was divided represented:  Breads with or without yeast, fancy breads, and breads in molds, compressed breads for travelers, military campaigns, etc.  Ship biscuits.  Yeasts.  Baking powders.  Pastry of various kinds peculiar to each country.  Ginger bread and dry cakes for keeping.

Mrs. Pugh reports substantially as follows: 

The nature of the exhibits in group 88 were angel food cake, pickles, bread, fruit cake, Purina Mills exhibit, the most striking exhibit being a California fruit cake, made by Mrs. Rose E. Bailey, which weighed 81 pounds.  The exhibits showed advancement in the science of good cooking, all the exhibits being installed by American women, no foreign women that I can recall participating, and the display was more creditable than at the Chicago Exposition, in that the exhibitors showed more confidence in themselves and their work, more attention being given also to the purity and healthfulness of their food exhibits.  Their work, as shown at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, would most certainly prove helpful or suggestive to those interested in the advancement and success of women’s work by their exhibition of success already achieved, and the work of women, it is believed, was as well appreciated when placed by the side of that of men, and the results would not have been better had their work been separately exhibited.  No manufacturers that I knew of, excepting the Purina Mills (Ralston) exhibition, were asked to state the percentage of woman’s work that entered into the manufacture of their special exhibits, and only by one or two exhibits was it in a measure indicated in any way which part had been performed by woman, which by men; but, in my opinion, probably about one-tenth of the work was performed by women in this group.  There were eight women exhibitors out of a total of sixty-three applications.

In the exhibits in this department daintier manipulation and more regard for purity of foods was shown than in the past, and in the construction of individual booths Mrs. Buchanan’s pickles, Mrs. Gautz (Northwestern Yeast Company), and Mrs.