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The Carnation Stock Farm barns, where- 

 in the cattle are kept, is equipped with 

 the most modern apparatus for the care 

 of the live stock and from a sanitary 

 viewpoint is well nigh perfect. The men 

 in charge are dressed in white, the cows 

 are milked by vacuum machine and the 

 milk is not exposed to the air until it 

 reaches the dairy. Posted conspicuously 

 is a notice, which reads, "No swearing 

 allowed in Carnation Dairy Barns. 

 These contented cows are not accus- 

 tomed to profane language." 



The Japanese long-tailed roosters are 

 the most popular birds in the poultry 

 exhibit. Akazasa, Haku and Shirafuji 

 are their names, and they are proud pos- 

 sessors of tail 

 feathers from eight 

 to twelve feet in 

 length. These dig- 

 nified birds are 

 taken out to exer- 

 cise once a day and 

 their tails are care- 

 fully enclosed in 

 paper bags to keep 

 them out of the 

 dirt. Each rooster 

 has a specially con- 

 structed home of 

 his own. It can 

 best be likened to 

 the tall case of a 

 hall clock with a 

 small compartment 

 fitted to its side at 



the upper end. The proprietor roosts 

 in this compartment and lets his tail 

 hang down in the space which would 

 be occupied by the pendulum of the 

 clock. 



The dog fancier will be attracted to 

 the remarkable collections of canines to 

 be seen at the "Dogs of All Nations" 

 concession. There are big dogs, little 

 dogs, long dogs, short dogs; in fact, 

 every type of a canine from a Japanese 

 spaniel or a Mexican hairless to a Great 

 Dane or an African bloodhound. Of 

 unusual interest are two of the most 

 distinguished dogs in the world, namely, 

 the two surviving Esquimau dogs of the 

 pack which accompanied Captain Peary 

 to the North Pole. Ipsu, their leader, 

 is now fifteen years of age. 



vj| A visit to the leading ex~ 

 hibits at the Panama- Pacific 

 Exposition is afforded to the 

 reader who follows this series. 

 True, the visit is but a literal 

 one, yet nevertheless a goodly 

 portion of the vast fund of knowl~ 

 edge available to those visiting 

 the Exposition Grounds is offered 

 in these pages each month. 



Probably the most complete assort- 

 ment of vehicles ever seen assembled 

 under one roof is to be found in the 

 Palace of Transportation. Here the 

 visitor may view practically every type 

 of conveyance used upon the land and 

 water and in the air. The greatest space 

 is devoted to the rolling stock used by 

 the many railroad and railway com- 

 panies of this country. The display in- 

 cludes various types of steam and elec- 

 tric equipment for both suburban and 

 interstate service. 



The paramount feature of this in- 

 structive exhibit is one of the oil-burn- 

 ing Mallet articulated compound loco- 

 motives. This engine is equipped with 

 the Southern Pa- 

 cific standard in- 

 candescent h e a d- 

 light. The source 

 of light is from one 

 of the latest types 

 of nitrogen electric 

 lamps of 140 c.p. 

 and the beam pro- 

 jected is of suffi- 

 cient intensity to 

 enable the engineer 

 to observe a man 

 on the track at a 

 distance of a quar- 

 ter of a mile; or 

 twice the distance 

 required to stop a 

 train running at a 

 rate of forty miles 

 per hour, by the emergency air brakes. 

 The official classification of the rolling 

 stock employs letters and figures to in- 

 dicate principal dimensions and is of in- 

 terest by reason of its being printed 

 upon some conspicuous portion of the 

 vehicle. Thus, upon the cab of the Mal- 

 let locomotive appears the classification 



26-40 



MC-57 401-8, 



30 



in which "MC" denotes that the locomo- 

 tive is of the Mallet Consolidation type; 

 "57," the diameter of the driving wheels 

 in inches ; "26-40," diameter of high and 

 low-pressure cylinders in inches; "30," 

 stroke of piston in inches; "401," weight 

 in pounds on driving wheels in nearest 



