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scrubs. The new methods here applicable would be to furnish pure bred 

 care and environment to pure bred stock — then the moral force of the 

 combination would most certainly impress their great superiority over 

 scrubs. 



INFLUENCE OF THE SHOW RING. 



Public sales of pure bred stock have become a popular means of 

 selling the surplus and could be made to exercise a highly beneficent in- 

 fluence. Unfortunately, however, they are often detrimental to the 

 pure bred cause — again too many Tumbledowns. Scalawag and tail- 

 ender stock, fop-heavy with pedigree but devoid of even ordinary in- 

 dividual merit, that should have gone to the feed lot is presented as breed- 

 ing stock. Here again the votary of scrubs who has come as a spectator 

 draws invidious comparisons and gives audible utterances to his thoughts : 

 "Them peddygreed critters ain't a bit better than my scrubs." The new 

 method would be to not only rigidly exclude from the public sale ring 

 all but really meritorious stock but to deny it registration as well. The 

 record association should exercise a more rigid censorship over the 

 quality of breeding stock for which they assume to stand sponsor. 



My subject leads on and on, but this paper is already too long. Let 

 us reform our plan of campaign, retrace our steps and start again by 

 regenerating the scrub breeders — the men who assume to breed pure 

 bred stock, while practicing scrub methods, then scrub live stock will 

 lessen rapidly. 



WHAT HAS THE WORLD'S FAIR ACCOMPLISHED FOR 



MISSOURI? 



(lion. Mat. W. Hall. Marshall.) 



Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen : 



I believe the subject assigned to me is "What has the World's Fair 

 Accomplished for Missouri?" I want to say that I am glad to be in 

 Columbia tonight and I am glad to undertake to make some sort of ad- 

 dress in the University of the State of Missouri on this particular sub- 

 ject. I am glad for the reasons that two of your citizens were very 

 prominently connected with the World's Fair. 



As to what this World's Fair has accomplished for Missouri, no 

 man at this time is able to know. Since I have been assigned this ques- 

 tion, I have asked a great many people "What particular thing, above 

 all others, in your judgment, has the World's Fair done for Missouri?" 



