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popular and expensive national pastime, and the lines 

 were able at that date to extend a cut rate for the 

 handling of these missionary bulls. Before the plan 

 was matured, however, its sponsor became convinced 

 that while his remedy for the deplorable condition 

 existing the scarcity of good cattle was the only 

 one, he was in error as to who should apply it. It 

 did not take long to convert him to the proposition 

 that the breeders of the country were ready, willing, 

 anxious and able to furnish these bulls direct to all 

 customers at living prices; that anything like a broad 

 distribution at the expense largely of the Union 

 Stock Yard Company, and the transportation lines, 

 would really be cutting the ground out from under 

 the feet of the very persons who most of all needed 

 the strong arm of a powerful ally in the fight they 

 were making for more and better cattle on the farms. 

 And so the bull business was forthwith abandoned 

 for reasons which in this case appeared to be wholly 

 sound. 



"Where there is a will there is a way." The dis- 

 position to do something was present all right. It 

 was merely a question of the form the energy would 

 assume, and the country had not long to wait. 

 "The show's the thing." That was the answer. And 

 lo! the International Live Stock Exposition! 



