ws:

The secretary of public instruction and the general superintendent of
education, on the exhibit as a whole; the Philippine Model School;
Laguna High School; Liceo de Manila Secondary School; the Philippine
Nautical School; the Philippine Normal School, and the University of
Santo Tomas.

Thirty gold medals, 71 silver medals, 110 bronze medals, and 323
honorable mentions were also awarded.

The Model School was in a typical nipa and bamboo schoolhouse especially
arranged for exhibition purposes. It was in charge of Miss Pilar Zamora,
a Tagalog, who is a teacher, in the Philippine Normal School. Two
sessions were held daily, to which visitors were admitted.

The exhibits in the agricultural building represented agriculture,
horticulture, and land transportation. The material on exhibition
consisted of all raw and manufactured products of the soil, together
with crude native instruments and implements employed in the cultivation
of the land, as well as native machinery for the preparation of such
products for the market, illustrating in as complete a manner as
possible the old process of raising the various crops of the island.

Among the cereals were large and interesting collections of rice, both
hulled and in the hull, representing hundreds of varieties and
subvarieties grown in the different islands of the archipelago. These
varieties were divided into two groups, namely, "palay de secano" or
mountain rice, which is cultivated without irrigation, and "palay de
regadio" or valley rice, which is cultivated in rice paddies and by
irrigation. There were also samples of wheat grown at some of the
experimental stations established by the insular bureau of agriculture.
Samples of corn or maize, millet, sorghum, pease, beans, and lentils
were also exhibited.

There was also a large collection of tropical and European vegetable
seeds, together with seeds of various kinds of pumpkins, squash,
calabash, and cucumbers grown in the islands. The collection of oil and
oil-producing seeds consisted of samples of sesame, peanut, castor,
pili, palo, maria, tangan-tangan, tuba-tuba, copra, or dried cocoanut,
etc.

The collection of wild and cultivated fruits, vegetables, and tubers
preserved in formaldehyde was a very interesting one, and undoubtedly
the first collection of its kind seen in America. Samples of unrefined
sugar of different grades, together with the preserved cane, were also
displayed, with the crude native m