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it will remain for some future meeting to decide how 

 that money shall be apportioned, or whether there 

 shall be any set apart for the Dairy Show. I think 

 the people of the northern part of the State would 

 much prefer to have that money paid out to the cattle 

 entered in the Columbian Dairy Exhibit than to the 

 cattle exhibited in the National Show. I don't think 

 the beef industry is very strong in the northern part of 

 the State, while the dairy industry is very strong ; but 

 there are people in other parts of the State who think 

 that it ought to be apportioned and paid out to the 

 representatives of all the different breeds rather than to 

 go to the dairy cattle. I think perhaps a large major- 

 ity of the people would be in favor of having it go to 

 the dairy interest. 



Me. Boyd : Isn't it a fact, Mr. Wyman, that the 

 World's Columbian Exposition will not submit to your 

 making a dairy display in the Illinois State Building? 



Mr. Wym^n : We have asked them that question, 

 but the}^ haven't refused yet. 



Mr. Boyd : They have refused to my knowledge to 

 other States. Now, in case they do insist upon this 

 refusal, then, as I understand it, we are out in the cold, 

 for you can not make, according to your own state- 

 ment, an exhibit anywhere else, and can not assist us 

 in making an exhibit. That seems to me to be a very 

 curious construction of this law, and eminently unfair. 

 It is very plain to us that if we are going to get any- 

 thing out of this at all, we have got to go for it now, 

 before it is too late. Even if you were allowed to 

 make an exhibit in the State Building, how are you 

 going to get that exhibit? You say you can pay no 

 premiums to competitive exhibits. 



Mr. Wyman : It will be a very easy matter, because; 



