hief Taylor that your trust and confidence had not been
misplaced in assigning me to jury duty in so important a place.
Group 84, under the group heading "Vegetable food
products--Agricultural seeds," was divided into eight classes,
which represented: Cereals--wheat, rye, barley, maize, millet,
and other cereals in sheaves or in grain. Legumes and their
seeds--beans, peas, lentils, etc. Tuber and roots and their
seeds--potatoes, beets, carrots, turnips, radishes, etc.
Miscellaneous vegetables and their seeds--cabbages, peppers,
artichokes, mushrooms, cresses, etc. Sugar-producing
plants--beets, cane, sorghum, etc. Miscellaneous plants and
their products--coffee, tea, cocoa, etc. Oil-producing plants
and their products. Forage, growing, green, cured, or in silos;
fodder for cattle; forage, grass, and field seeds.
Neither the principal nor alternate in this group were able to serve.
Group 89, Mrs. E.L. Lamb, Jackson, Miss., Juror.
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
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