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breeders say that he was the greatest breeder of fine wool sheep of his 

 day. 



Mr. Wallace Estill, of Estill, Mo., was equally as successful at the 

 same show with his exhibit of Aberdeen Angus cattle and I could name 

 other Missouri exhibitors of live stock who were equally as successful 

 with other kinds of live stock. 



In the late national shows of Shorthorn and Hereford cattle I have 

 frequently seen Missouri come out of the hottest kind of competition 

 with the first three, four or maybe first five ribbons and on one occasion 

 I call to mind a case where Mjissoitri lexihibitors won the first seven 

 prizes of the eight given in a class of very strong competition represent- 

 ing several states in which were left more than double that number of 

 animals that did not gain a position. 



In St. Louis in 1904, will no doubt be gathered together the greatest 

 live stock show by far that the World has ever held. I have heard this 

 prophecy many times from the lips of well posted stock breeders within 

 the last eighteen months while I have not heard a single one dispute the 

 correctness of the prediction. 



Some ten years ago I read in a leading English live stock journal a 

 re-printed speech of the great Gladstone, delivered, it was said, thirty 

 years previous to that time, before The Royal Agriculture Society of 

 Great Britain in which he said that farming in connection with live stock 

 breeding afforded the largest field for the development of the human 

 mind of any profession known to man. The breeding and developmg 

 of the best specimens of our improved live stock has ever been regarded 

 by the intelligent student as a science of the highest order. As in any 

 other avocation of life many who attempt to master its mysteries fail 

 where one succeeds. I am not given to boasting but I have faith in the 

 skill, energy and pluck of our Missouri breeders as compared with the 

 like qualities of those from other states or countries and I am here to say 

 that when the history of the live stock show of the Louisiana Purchase 

 Exposition shall have been written I am sure the names of Missouri 

 breeders will be found well to the front. 



THE IMPORTANCE OF SHOWING AS WELL AS BEING 



SHOWN. 



(By Hon. J. O. Allison, New London, Mo.) 



We are about to commemorate a great event. 



We are a celebrating people. We celebrate our birthdays, our wed- 

 ding days, the lives of our great heroes, and statesmen, and the great 

 historic events of our nation. We love to gather at the old homestead, 



