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American Agriculturist, September 1,1923 
Where the Dairy Cow Will Hold Forth 
A. A. Radio Talk Broadcast From WEAF on August 29 at 6.50 Standard Time 
AN Exposition of two-fold value to the 
/% people of America—the National 
Dairy Exposition—is to be held on 
-A- -JmL the New York State Fair Grounds 
at Syracuse, October 5 to 13 next. This Ex¬ 
position has to do with the progress of Amer¬ 
ica’s agriculture, and the health and welfare 
of the people, combining as it does a nine 
days’ practical course in agricultural im¬ 
provement, relating farm operations into 
terms of business through the medium of the 
dairy cow, and presenting the use of her 
products in their relation to child life and 
the building of a strong vigorous people 
through proper diet. 
The Exposition visualizes America’s dairy 
industry in an intensely interesting form. 
The vast buildings on the State Fair Grounds 
will all be filled with ex¬ 
hibits of all that goes to 
make up this leading agri¬ 
cultural production, so 
classified and arranged as 
to convey every detail of 
information upon what 
happens to milk from cow 
to ultimate consumer. 
Whether in the form of 
liquid, condensed or 
powdered milk, butter, 
cheese, or ice cream, or 
made into buttons, billiard 
balls or cloth filler, every 
detail of manufacture, 
marketing and distribu- „ 
tion will be shown. 
The first two days of the 
show, will be given over to 
Calf Club work. Boys and 
girls from 20 States will 
show their cattle. It will 
be an exhibit of years of 
work to get the children of 
the farm interested in the 
development of better 
livestock. 
This department of the 
Exposition will be more 
elaborate than anything 
ever before undertaken, 
and covers an expenditure of about $6,000 
for expenses and prize money. There are al¬ 
ready fifteen States that have entered their 
teams, and thirty or more teams will par¬ 
ticipate. Also, on these two days the stu¬ 
dents from twenty or more agricultural col¬ 
leges will have their judging contests, and, 
all together, these will be two of the most 
interesting days for the coming generations 
that it will be possible to provide. 
The profitable and unprofitable cow, feed¬ 
ing rations for best results, the research and 
investigational work that the United States 
Government experts have been conducting 
for years on the health and feeding of dairy 
cattle, and the sanitary care and treatment 
of the product and the marketing of it will 
be graphically pictured. Fifteen hundred 
head of the best pure-bred dairy cattle in 
the world, and grade cattle demonstrating 
the value of cow testing to determine profit 
or loss in production, will be on display. 
The five leading breeds of dairy cattle, con¬ 
sisting of the Holstein, Jersey, Guernsey, 
Ayrshire and Brown Swiss, will be repre¬ 
sented by the world’s best productions of 
these breeds, and the Cow Test Associations 
of America will send their highest produc¬ 
ing grade cattle to the show in competition. 
With these grade cattle, comes the history of 
their breeding, showing the possibilities- of 
the average farmer obtaining profitable 
producing animals regardless of how modest 
his pocketbook may be. 
There will be cattle from Canada, and 
there will be an exhibit of cattle brought 
By W. E. SKINNER 
General Manager of the National Dairy Shoiv 
from each quarter of the United States for 
the purpose of demonstrating effect of cli¬ 
matic conditions on the growth of cattle and 
their general health, and to results from dif¬ 
ferent kinds of feed produced in each section. 
This is a feature of the show that no dairy¬ 
man can afford to* miss. The different cat¬ 
tle associations will carry in exhibit form, 
herds of their cattle, showing the improve¬ 
ment in each generation in conformation and 
production, and will present the case of the 
dairy cow in her relation to the agricultural 
progress of America. 
The cattle judging rings of the National 
Dairy Show attract the world’s attention for 
the reason that a ribbon won at the World’s 
Dairy Exposition means that the winning 
cattle are the best that have been presented 
for competitive showyard honors of the 
year and that the owner of the animal had 
the.courage to present his cattle for judg¬ 
ment of other men, and his winnings add an 
extensive appreciation to the value of his 
cattle. 
The exhibit of machinery utilized in the 
dairy factories is one of the most magnificent 
industrial exhibits of any show given in the 
world. The average man in the dairy in¬ 
dustry does not know just what an amount 
of machinery is required to operate the aver¬ 
age factory, milk plant or creamery, or con¬ 
densed milk plant, or ice cream factory, and 
this show carries the last word in machinery 
with the idea of presenting each year what 
the genius of man has perfected for the re¬ 
duction of labor and increasing output of 
products in a safe and sanitary manner. 
The States that are recognized dairy 
States in America and the Province of 
Canada, and this year some of the foreign 
countries across the sea will not only have 
some of their machines used in their dairy 
industry, but their products on exhibition 
in open competition with ours. This will be 
one of the most intensely interesting depart¬ 
ments of exhibits in the show for the aver¬ 
age dairyman. 
The Congress of the United States ap¬ 
propriated $25,000 for the purpose of enab¬ 
ling the United States Department of Agri¬ 
culture to show in this Exposition all that 
the Government has developed of value to 
the dairy industry, and to the progress of 
America’s agriculture. The machinery dis¬ 
play embraces every device that man has 
perfected to take care of the increasing pro¬ 
duction from 25,000,000 cows to provide for 
the increasing consumption of 110,000,000 
human souls in our country who have to be 
fed intelligently. The tremendous growth 
of the population in our cities with the con¬ 
sequent increase of disease possibilities from 
city gases and dirt, has necessitated the ex¬ 
ercise of the greatest inventive genius of 
man to protect the vital food supplied by the 
cow so that it be delivered in clean, whole¬ 
some, sanitary manner to the consumer, and 
that the products of milk be manufactured 
on a scale to keep up with the enormous de¬ 
mand of the people. All 
of this machinery will be 
shown in operation and 
all of the methods em¬ 
ployed in connection with 
milk and its products will 
be shown, explained and 
exemplified. 
The leading men and 
women who have devoted 
their lives to the scientific 
study of human nutrition 
will present in exhibit all 
that has so far been de¬ 
veloped by science and 
discovery of proper foods 
for the building of chil¬ 
dren through diet into 
healthy men and women. 
The last decade has more 
largely brought science to 
the service of the child 
and the mother than any 
other period in history. 
The knowledge obtained 
of certain necessary prop¬ 
erties in foods for the 
proper development and 
maintenance of human 
life under present day en¬ 
vironment have been 
startling and tremen¬ 
dously important. This branch of this great 
Exposition will be in charge of a committee 
of women who are leaders in national nutri¬ 
tion, health and welfare work, and identified 
with all that is being done for child life. 
The National Dairy Council will make a 
very comprehensive display of all that the 
dairy industry is doing for the growing child 
through its guidance, and will also visualize 
the workings of a city campaign with the 
schools and public and private agencies cov¬ 
ering human welfare through diet. 
This Exposition will bring to New York 
State the world’s scientific leaders in health 
and nutrition, who will be among the dele¬ 
gates sent here officially by the governments 
of thirty-six foreign countries. The national 
and international character of the Exposi¬ 
tion puts it in the class of the world’s great¬ 
est expositions that have been assembled in 
this and foreign countries for purposes of 
comparison, and to measure progress in hu¬ 
man affairs. The holding of the World’s 
Dairy Congress in conjunction with the Ex¬ 
position provides an unusual opportunity for 
the leaders of dairying of the world to pre¬ 
sent to the lay visitors all that man and sci¬ 
ence have so far developed for betterment 
of the industry from breeding and feeding 
of the cattle to the final disposition of their 
products as human food, or for use in the 
arts and sciences. So this Exposition is 
equally as instructive and interesting to the 
man or woman of the city who is interested 
in human progress, as it is to the men and 
woman of the industry. 
This is how the Coliseum on the New York State Fair grounds looks at present. Construc¬ 
tion work is being rushed in order that it will be ready for the National Dairy Show. This 
building will be the central point of the great Exposition. In it will be judged the world’s 
finest’ cattle 
