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   As we pass from low to higher stages of civilization the conditions, as regards museum installation, gradually change.  [[strikethrough]] As Agr [[/strikethrough]] Rude methods of agriculture lead to the improvement of the natural productions and perhaps to the introduction of new products.  Artificial conditions result, and according to the industry and the ingenuity of the people, they have better food & better means of preparing it.  At a certain point the food products become of greater interest as manufactured articles, and find their proper place in the department of Arts & Industries.  Where the separation from the ethnological series should be made, becomes a matter of individual judgement.  The question thus raised is met with constantly in connection with other specimens.  Machinery for grinding meal or flour affords a good