_United States_.--Thomas Allen, E. A. Batchelder, S. S. Beman, Hugh H. Breckenridge, Richard E. Brooks, Carlton T. Chapman (New York), William M. Chase (New York), Ralph Clarkson, Walter Cook (New York), Conlin Campbell Cooper (New York), Charles Percy Davis, Frank Miles Day, Lockwood de Forest (New York), Frederick Dielman (New York), Frank Duveneck, Daniel Chester French (New York), Mrs. Eugene Field, R. Swain Gifford (New York), Charles Grafly, Will H. Low (New York), Hermon A.

MacNeil (New York), Elizabeth St. John Mathews, J. L. Mauran, C. F. W.

Mielatz (New York), James Craig Nicoll (New York), Joseph Pennell, Mary Solari, Theodore C. Steele, Alice Barber Stevens, Edmund C. Tarbell, S.

Seymour Thomas, Alexander T. Van Laer (New York), Bessie Potter Vonnoh (New York), Robert W. Vonnoh (New York), C. Howard Walker, H. Langford Warren, Rose Weld, Frederic Allen Whiting, Carleton Wiggins (New York), Henry Wolf (New York), Edmund H. Wuerpel

_Argentia_.--Eduardo Schiaffino, George Julian Zolnay (New York)

_Austria_.--Dr. Paul Cohn, Adolph Kraus, Gustav Niederlein, Nicolaus Staits, William J. King

_Belgium_.--Guillaume de Groot, Ernest Verlant

_Brazil_.---J. Americo dos Santos

_Bulgaria_.--Charles M. Kurtz (New York)

_Canada_.--Paul Harney

_Cuba_.--Gonzalo de Quesada

_Germany_.--William J. Baer (New York), Erich Hoesel, Richard Muller, Hans von Petersen, Max Schlichting, Fr. von Thiersch

_Holland_.--William H. Howe (New York), w.i.l.l.y Martens, John C.

Schuller, Herbert Vos

_Hungary_.--Bertelon Karlovsky, George Julian Zolnay (New York)

_Italy_.--Professor Pepoti Cantalamessa, Il Marchese Majnoni d'Itagnano, Ugo Ojetti

_j.a.pan_.--Tooru Iwamura, Heromich Shugio

_Mexico_.--Isidoro Aldasoro

_Portugal_.--Marcel Horteloup

_Russia_.--William H. Fox, J. M. G.o.dberg, Emil Vautier

_Sweden_.--Anshelm Schultzberg, Dr. Eugene Wagner

From the above jurors the juries for the several groups of the cla.s.sification were made up--each group jury being international in character.

LOAN COLLECTION OF PAINTINGS

A prominent feature of the United States section of the Department of Art was a loan collection composed of especially noteworthy paintings from some of the most noted private collections of the United States.

This collection was organized by Mr. Will H. Low, of New York. It contained 122 paintings representing many schools and periods. Of these works forty-three were lent by New York owners, as follows:

_George J. Gould_.--Domenico Ghirlandajo, Rembrandt van Ryn ("The Standard Bearer"), Frans Hals, Aert van der Neer, Gerard Don, Jean Marc Nattier, Sir Joshua Reynolds ("The d.u.c.h.ess of Marlborough"), Thomas Gainsborough; John Constable, J. M. W. Turner, Eugene Fromentin, Constant Troyon, Theodore Rosseau ("The Charcoal Burners' Hut" and "Le Cure, Evening"), J.B.C. Corot ("Le Dance des Amours"), N.V. Diaz, Mariano Fortuny and J.L. Gerome

_Helen Miller Gould_.--Jean Francois Millet ("Washerwomen"), J. L.

E. Meissonier ("The Smoker"), Rosa Bonheur, Alfred Stevens and Ludwig Knaus ("The Children's Party")

_Estate of Jay Gould_.--J.B.C. Corot ("Antique Dance") and Emile van Marcke

_Duraud-Ruel_.--Alexandre Gabriel Decamps, Eugene Delacroix, Gustave Courbet, Eugene Fromentin, Francois Bonvin (two examples), J.B.C. Corot, and Jules Dupre

_Charles Fairchild_.--William Morris Hunt and Elihu Vedder

_Lockwood de Forest_.--Frederick E. Church

_National Academy of Design_.--Octave Ta.s.saert and R. Caton Woodville

_Cottier & Co_.--Sir John Everett Millais

_Charles M. Kurtz_.--Anton Mauve ("Sheep on the Dunes")

_Julia Wilder Kurtz_.--Thomas Couture

CHAPTER XI

Agriculture and Live Stock Exhibit and Schedule of Awards

AGRICULTURE AND LIVE STOCK EXHIBIT

By J. H. DURKEE

Superintendent

[Ill.u.s.tration]

The New York State Commission, in July, 1903, appointed J. H. Durkee, of Sandy Hill, N. Y., superintendent of agriculture, live stock and dairy products, with John McCann, of Elmira, Howard Moon, of Cobleskill, Theodore Horton, of Elmira, and W. A. Smith as a.s.sistants in the department of agriculture, W. W. Smallwood, of Warsaw, and W. A.

McCoduck, of Sandy Hill, having direct supervision of live stock and dairy products respectively. George A. Smith, of Geneva, was superintendent for collecting dairy products. These gentlemen did the work a.s.signed them faithfully and well, which is fully attested by the number of grand prizes and medals won in these departments.

SCOPE OF EXHIBIT

New York State has no distinctive agricultural product as has many of the other, especially some of the western, States but grows nearly everything in larger or smaller quant.i.ties that is grown in the north temperate zone.

In collecting and installing this exhibit, the aim was to gather these varied products and arrange them so as to show the real grain or vegetable to the best advantage rather than to show a fancifully arranged display of such products as would be of little or no value to those interested in practical agriculture. With this end in view, each section of the State was drawn upon for the best samples of the staple crops of that section. These samples were carefully inspected by competent judges, and only those of real merit were placed in the collection for exhibit. So thoroughly was this work of selection done that a large proportion of the samples received an award.

LABELING EACH SPECIMEN

That the exhibit might be of the greatest value to those most interested in agricultural pursuits, on each sample was placed a card giving the name and variety of the sample, also the name and post office address of the grower. Every day men could be seen with pencil and paper in hand taking names and addresses for future correspondence.