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of eoiniiuinication, offer facilities, that, considei-in<j: the vastness 

 and richness of the country through which they run, can be 

 found nowhere else on the face of the earth. 



The owners of these great railroads are keenly interested 

 in the breeding industry of the nation, and it is only natural, 

 therefore, that they should wish to see breeding and farming 

 operations extend and multiply. The faster the growth of the 

 breeding industry, the greater will railroad facilities become, 

 and cheaper the rates of transport. This means that the 

 breeders and farmers of the future will have an easier and 

 cheaper road to traverse than did their fathers, and as the 

 capability and capacity for stock raising become more ap- 

 parent, the more readily Avill the markets of the world be open 

 to them. 



Since the initial exhibition of 1900, and the lesson it taught 

 ten years ago, the amount of good the International Live Stock 

 Exposition has done to breeders is tremendous, its results were 

 apparent in 1904, and since then the breeding of live stock has 

 reached a pinnacle of excellence to which it never before at- 

 tained, and it is only beginning. 



The quality of cattle, sheep and swine produced in the 

 West is excellent, and the heavy draught horse breeder has 

 seen such an improvement in his stock and such an increase 

 in price as has never before been known. The wonderful six- 

 horse teams now so popular, and into the ranks of which every 

 breeder is striving to jdace his stock, were born of this Inter- 

 national, for before the last named date, the winning pairs, 

 fours and sixes, came from Canada and Scotland. Today the 

 West is working and showing these great horses, and more 

 than that, exporting a few, and this feature of the breeding 

 industry is absolutely in its babyhood. Every breeder of heavy 

 draught horses in the Central West is now ambitious to pro- 

 duce geldings, not only good enough to go in these great six- 

 horse teams, but to be individual and outstanding winners at 

 the International. The scrub stallion is doomed, for the 

 breeder now wants the very best that money can produce, be 



