g group in the Department
of Agriculture. There were no exhibits by women, because we
passed upon matters so immense that it was the work of States
and foreign governments, rather than of individuals, that was
noted.

Mrs. Felton's report is as follows:

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 wi