From the above jurors the juries for the several groups of the classification 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 Duchess 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 Tassaert 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 [Illustration] 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 assistants 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 assigned 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 quantities that is grown in the north temperate zone.