TWENTY-FIRST ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART III 163 



stock to the public He knows that his blue ribbon animal gives him the 

 advantage of placing his own price and on his own terms. 



The day of other agricultural products is just coming into its own. 

 Last month at Council Bluffs, Iowa, was held the Mid-West Horticultural 

 Exposition, where nearly an acre of exhibits was displayed, coming from 

 seventeen middle-western states, and representing the choice products 

 from hundreds of orchards and truck farms. 



The International Hay and Grain Exhibit at the stockyards last week, 

 with $10,000 given in prize money, was only inaugurated last year, and 

 the wide extent of the products from hundreds of exhibitors gives evi- 

 dence of the commercial advantage of agricultural exhibitions. 



Definite results in the planning of fair grounds can only be accom- 

 plished when there is a full and thorough cooperation of the three pro- 

 fessions, engineering, landscape architecture, and architecture. The en- 

 gineer to survey the grounds, and after the plan is made to stake out the 

 buildings and work out the problems of grading, drainage, sewers, water 

 and lighting; the landscape architect to plan the grounds from the en- 

 gineer's survey, to locate the entrances, exits, buildings, roads, drives, 

 race track, exhibit and judging areas, and also plan the planting; the 

 architect must work with the closest cooperation of the engineer and the 

 landscape architect to design adequate buildings in size and shape to 

 hold the present and future exhibits. It is also very necessary in this 

 cooperation to design buildings which will be harmonious with the entire 

 scheme of the landscape plan, to fit the location chosen for them, to have 

 a general type of architecture adopted and a similar type of material. 

 There is nothing more out-of-place than to have one building of brick, 

 another stucco, another hollow tile, and the rest of frame construction. 

 It is best, for example, to use all frame construction with one building of 

 permanent construction looking forward to the time when all the build- 

 ings will be fireproof and indestructible as soon as the funds will permit. 



I should like to call your attention, right at this time, to a type of con- 

 struction which you men all probably have heard of, and I venture the 

 assertion that it is the large type of construction of the future, and that 

 is the reinforced concrete building, without forms. It is a patented proc- 

 ess which is patented by a man in Philadelphia, and many of his type of 

 buildings are being constructed at the present time in the middle west. 

 He promises for those who place these reinforced concrete buildings, 

 which are fire-proof and indestructible, a structure comparable in cost to 

 frame construction, and at least 25 per cent cheaper in cost than the rein- 

 forced concrete building made with forms. 



Therefore, the value of a thorough cooperation of the three professions 

 is easily shown, as any professional jealousy on the part of any one of 

 them, in order to satisfy a certain professional whim, may cause the fair 

 board to needlessly spend large sums of money. 



Results and only results characterize a successful fair. The best and 

 most successful fairs in the United States and Canada today, whether 

 they are large or small, are those which are being worked out on the 

 basis of a definite plan, — a program of development which is being fol- 

 lowed each year when new buildings are being added or changes made. 



