FOURTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK — PART I. 3 I 



the placing of only the best and most representative of its class rather 

 than of getting the exhibit space filled. No one at this time can grasp 

 the immensity of the undertaking at St. Louis; even those who are 

 daily engaged in its building will hardly realize its magnitud-e until 

 after the first months of the Exposition. The preparation period has 

 advanced far enough to permit it to be said, without boasting, that in 

 achievement as well as in size the Louisiana Purchase Exposition will 

 far excel its greatest predecessor, the Ck)lumbian at Chicago. Not only 

 in its size and in the expected results but as much in that which is not 

 looked for, will the Universal Exposition of 1904 be notable and sur- 

 passing. 



I have wandered off the ranch in this fashion because it is important 

 to emphasize that the World's Fair makes a special call upon the friends 

 of animal husbandry to show to the world what there is of good and of 

 Improvement in that industry. By practically doubling the largest cash 

 amount ever before offered for live stock prizes and in other ways mak- 

 ing its recognition of live stock wholly unprecedented, the exposition 

 management has set a responsibility upon us from which we may pro- 

 duce results to be proclaimed to all the world. An opportunity so great 

 and so far-reaching has not previously been presented to the stock 

 breeders of any country. 



It is safe to say that not many who will see the World's Fair live 

 stock show in 1904 will live to know its records as relegated or its 

 standards replaced. "At St. Louis in 1904" is a phrase more epoch- 

 marking than either you or I can at this time comprehend. The live 

 stock show at the Philadelphia Centennial had the same ground area 

 that is planned for the show at St Lotiis. thirty-five acres. Live stock 

 figures that are now daily commonplaces were then scarcely dreamed 

 of. yet we have lately had about us the first stirrings of a movement 

 in the agricultural world more revolutionary, with more of permanent 

 change, and more beneficial to the whole earth than any one has con- 

 ceived of. You know there are what are sometimes termed phychologi- 

 cal moments, which are not stipposed to occur with the monotony that 

 characterizes one's household expenses. If it be proper to predict the 

 striking of a psychological moment I may be permitted to record my 

 belief that the live stock show of the Universal Exposition of 1904 

 comes at an opportune time. When the events conspire and the pro- 

 gram of ample scope is made ready for them it must take some mishap 

 to prevent an exhibition long to be remembered. 



The provision made by the management has permitted the offering 

 of live stock awards aggregating, in the preliminary prize list alone, 

 more than fifteen thousand in number. These are divided among six 

 divisions, which will be shown at succeeding intervals, beginning with 

 horses and closing with the poultry and pet stock. Each will be a great 

 live stock exposition in itself. We are planning space for at least 

 three thousand horses, and for the same number each of cattle, sheep 

 .^oats, and swine, and for about ten thousand fowls and smaller animals, 

 animals. 



