|
| CANADA IN THE AGRICULTURAL - This enclosure,
which bore at its corner portals the names of Canadian provinces, but
partly represents the large display made by our Northern neighbors in
the building. The engraving here presented offers a study of the
details of the facade, and it may be seen that no similar effects
outside of the Iowa Building were superior
in Beauty. The massing of grasses and grains on the columns, on the
pavilion itself, and on the frieze, with the grain-cornice and
festoons, made a picture that delighted every farmer. The arrangement
of grasses and grain-jars at the exteriors and the pyramids within may
be noted before the eye reaches the black velvet sanctum on which
stood, in golden relief, the decorations so easily seen. This inner
house was erected by the Agricultural College of Ontario, and beside
its ornate legend, its roof was covered with exhibits, and an artistic
grouping of sickle, rake and fork completed a good picture. The area
covered by the exhibits of Canada at this point was seven thousand
seven hundred and sixty square feet, and beside a remarkable
agricultural display there were samples of Canadian whisky and beer.
The "lion" of Canada, however, and perhaps of the Agricultural Building, was a cheese made in
Lanark County, weighing twenty-two thousand pounds, the Colossus of
all curdles, a monster in whose heart an elephant might play mouse,
and a marvel to be smelled the length of the building - from Pekin to
Peru. |
