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consists of native grasses, roots, millets, 

 different kinds of peas, beans and other 

 plants of a similar nature. Some of the 

 details of this work will be given in my 

 communications later. 



In addition to other features of the 

 stock exhibit, visitors to the Exposition 

 will have an opportunity to see th.e filling 

 process of a modern silo. A large silo is 

 now being erected on the grounds and 

 suitable machinery is being installed to 

 cut the green feed and carry it to the silo 

 in the most approved manner. The latest 

 and best machinery for this purpose is 

 being used which no doubt will be of great 

 advantage to many farmers who are con- 

 templating work of this nature. 



A series of international live stock 

 meetings will be held in the New York 

 State marble building on the grounds. At 

 these meetings the best talent in the 

 United States, Canada and the Latin 

 Americas will be present and deliver ad- 

 dresses on subjects pertinent to the occa- 

 sion. Amongst these is the International 

 Association of Farmers' Institute Work- 

 ers, which will bring together the differ- 

 ent lecturers throughout the United States 

 and Canada. It has come to be recog- 

 nized that no more potent factor in the 

 interest of farmers and dairymen exists 

 than these fanners' . institute meetings 

 when properly conducted. Men of wide 

 experience will be present on this occa- 

 sion, and the meetings cannot fail to be of 

 great interest and benefit. 



Many details in connection with the 

 Business, that 'are calculated to save labor 

 or as being beneficial in some other way, 

 still will be on exhibition during the two 

 weeks that are especially devoted to the 

 -cattle interest. Among these may be 

 mentioned various kinds of cattle ties, 

 watering devices, milking conveniences, 

 feeding attachments, and a great many 

 other similar exhibits. 



MODERN STABLE CONSTRUCTION. 



The proper housing of domestic ani- 

 mals, is receiving careful systematic con- 

 sideration as never before. Investiga- 

 tions are being conducted by means of 

 careful, practical experiments by men who 

 are thoroughly conversant with the sub 

 ject from a practical as well as scientific 

 stand-point. . 



Mr. F. A. Converse, who has charge of 

 the live stock and dairy departments at 

 the Pan-American Exposition is a pioneer 

 in this important field. He is demonstrat- 

 ing to the multitude at the Exposition by 

 actual working models, how it is possible 

 to build a really good stable for a very 

 reasonable amount of money. 



In our northern climate, warmer stables 

 have for years occupied the attention of 

 our best farmers and stock-men and bank 

 barns have been the outgrowth of the 

 desire to provide comfortable stables 

 that were both warmer and better. The 

 convenience of having all stock under one 

 roof tucked carefully away from the cold 

 with plenty of feed over head, ready at all 

 times to find its way to mangers and food 

 racks by gravity, proved very alluring to 

 ambitious farmers all over the country. 

 Animals housed in these expensive dun- 

 geons were not happy and showed their 

 discomfiture in watery eyes, lusterless 

 hair, hot noses and hot feverish breath 

 with fretful quarrelsome actions together 

 with their inability to grow or fatten. 

 Too frequently cattle thus housed were 

 attacked by bovine disease germs which 

 were materially assisted in their work of 

 destruction by conditions so expensively 

 though unintentionally provided. Stock- 

 men thought the trouble was caused by 

 too great a change in tempersture by al- 

 lowing the cattle to go out for an airing or 

 for water each day; to remedy this, water 

 buckets were added to the stable outfit 

 and the stock confined in an abominable 

 atmosphere for weeks at a time. 



Atmospheric conditions affect animals 



