36 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



LIVE STOCK AT THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE EXPOSITION, ST. 



LOUIS, 1904. 



F. D. Goburn, Chief of Department of Live Stock. Louisiana Purchase 



Exposition. 



The Department of Live Stock of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition 

 is just now beginning the tenth month since active work was commenced 

 upon its official classification. Inasmuch as the live stock show will 

 not last throughout the exposition period, but will open on August 22d 

 land close November 5th, the Department was not organized until som'3 

 time after the work of the other exhibits had been well under way. 

 Tjhis does not imply that the management had not given full considera- 

 tion to the importance of the live stock industry, for quite the contrary 

 is the fact. 



It is; not only that St. Louis is practically the geographical center of 

 the great live stock producing area of the globe, or that in connection 

 with the celebration of the acquiring of the Louisiana Purchase terri- 

 tory especial importance must be attached to the development of the live 

 stock industry in the United States, although these in themselves are 

 excellent reasons for giving more than secondary recognition to animal 

 husbandry; but outside of special claims the importance and magnitude 

 of the industry in this and other countries make it just that live stock 

 farming should receive consideration at the hands of the Universal 

 Exposition of 1904 on a larger and in some respects newer basis than that 

 accorded at any former international exposition. 



No stockman has reason to be disappointed with the action of ihe 

 exposition authorities, for the allotments made for live stock are in 

 many ways on a scale unknovvm at previous world's fairs. An independ- 

 ent department has been created and more than a quarter of a million 

 dollars set aside for cash prizes. With this substructure to build upon 

 it can not be said that the World's Fair directorate have not offered 

 opportunity to set new marks and new standards in the history of stock 

 displays. 



It should be borne in mind that an exposition of universal character 

 is the display in miniature of the useful activities of civilization. Na- 

 tions from the four quarters of the earth are already preparing their 

 headquarters on the World's Fair grounds. The Chinese buildings are 

 distinctively Chinese, not American; Brazil's lofty structure was de- 

 signed by a Brazilian architect; the landscape effects around the build- 

 ings of Great Britain, France and Sweden are peculiarly the work of 

 gardeners from those countries. The World's Fair is a cyclopedia at 

 first hand, wherever possible. As nearly as may be the progress of the 

 world and the manner in which progress is being made will be actually 

 shown. The Fair of 1904 is to be a workshop rather than a library. 



This means, of course, that a great many varied interests must re- 

 ceive attention. Two square miles afford large grounds and five million 

 square feet of fioor space would lead one to believe that all who come 

 will be cared for. Yet the problem resolved itself some time ago into 



