FOURTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK — PART I. 39 



wheresoever located, through whose efforts the best animals in any- 

 breeding class may be shown, will secure acknowledp;f^nient of this from 

 the Exposition. Thus, in case the largest aggregate amount in the 

 Percheron awards should go to animals bred by a Frenchman owning 

 none of the horses on exhibition and perhaps not even in attendance 

 at the World's Fair, he will receive an award in the form of the premier 

 championship as a breeder of Percherons, proclaiming the recipient to 

 be the winner of an honor above all others in his class. This is outside 

 of all awards to exhibitors, for whom the premier championship as an 

 exhibitor has also been provided. 



Particular care is being taken to provide for ihe selection of judges 

 concerning the integrity and the justness of whose awards there may 

 be no question or suspicion. All prizes in the Department of Live Stock 

 will be awarded by individual judges or the "one-judge system," and the 

 judge making the class awards will confer the championships for the 

 same breed. All judging will be by comparison, and the awards made 

 will stand. Selection of judges will in all instances be governed by 

 their special qualifications and their intimate knowledge of the character- 

 istics and qualities that make valuable the breed upon which they will 

 give judgment. They will have definite instructions to bestow prizes only 

 of such grade as merit fully justifies. Absence of competition will cause 

 no exceptions to this. 



A feature that is novel at a World's Fair, although popular and well- 

 established at the State fairs, will be the public sales to be held in con- 

 nection with the Exposition live stock show. These will be conducted 

 by the association representing the breed under sale, and during the 

 period in which that breed is on exhibition. An encouraging number 

 of applications for the holding of these sales has already been received. 



I have touched upon only a few of the features of interest about 

 live stock at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, but if you are inter- 

 ested in the details and have not received the preliminary prize list 

 giving the classification and rules and regulations of the World's Fair 

 live stock show, I shall be glad to send it to you if you will drop a line 

 to me at St. Louis. Our friends, the farm press, have been kind enough 

 to give considerable space to the plans for the show, and undoubtedly 

 you have already learned from them much that I have suggested here. 



I have not said much about the World's Fair in a general way or 

 of the innumerable exhibits in preparation for your delight and instruc- 

 tion, because I notice that you are to have the pleasure of hearing Mr. 

 Conaway at the Capitol tomorrow, and as he is one of your home folks 

 I feel that this should be left for him. For fear that his modesty may 

 cause him to overlook an important matter, perhaps I ought to say that 

 it is generally agreed at the World's Fair grounds that Iowa has, as 

 she deserves, a magnificent site and a building among the best of the 

 many clustered on the Plateau of States. 



I do not need to say that the men by whose enterprise, patriotism 

 and money the greatest of all Exix)sitions has been made possible, as 

 does our nation at large, expect much of its best that is attractive and 

 compelling- to come from imperial Iowa, and that her sons will achieve 



