Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-02-21
SHOW OF LIVE STOCK.
BIG EXHIBIT FOR THE PAN-AmERIcAN
AT BUFFALO.

MO0el Oalry BulIdlnge on the
Grounds-Accomm odations For To-
600 AnimaIs-Great Display of As-
rIcuIturaI Products.
The exhibit of live stock at the Pan
American Exposition at Buffalo the
coming summer will include all varie-
ties and breeds of domestic animals.
Arrangements have been made to ac-
commodate $4,000 animals on the
grounds. Liberal prizes in all classes
will be offered.
A fashionable horse show will be a
prominent feature of the display and
will include harness horses, saddlers,
Jumpers, etc. This exhibition will be
fashioned on the lines of the Madison
Square Garden show and will be held
at the Stadium.
A model exhibition dairy, composed
of all breeds of milk cows, will be in
operation during the six months of the
Exposition.
A great display of the varied agri-
cultural products from the various
states, provinces and countries of the
Western Hemisphere will be made in
the Agricultural building, covering two
acres.
Awards for all meritorious exhibits
will he made direct to individual ex-
hibitors.
The closing of the Nineteenth centu-
~ has witnessed marvellous strides in
the Improvement of methods in the dali
ry world. Formerly the whole business
was conducted largely by rule of
thumb" Instead OF a vocation requir-
ing certain apprenticeship it is fast
becoming an exact science, in which
chemistry and bacteriology play no in
significant part. The increasing inter
est and attendance at the various dairy
schools throughout the United States
and Canada. the existence of great CO.
operative and commercial organiza-
tons for the manufacture and sale of
dairy products, is an undisputable tes-
timony to the achievements of modern
science. In this great industry the
government has appropriated vast
sums of money to help the dairyman in
his work. and this is indicative of its
Importance as a factor of the great
food problem of the world.
The territorial lines of the dairy belt
have long since been annihilated. A
few states and provinces in the east no
longer enjoy the exclusive distinction
of being in the dairy sections. In the
Dairy building at the Exposition space
has already been asked for by Maine
and California. Manitoba and Texas.
The supposed Disadvantages of SOIL wa
ter, climate and food in portions of
North America have largely been elm
mated by the skillful dairyman, and to-
day splendid representatives of dairy
animals are found wherever the whole
someness and nutritive value of milk
products are known.
Few people have any adequate con-
ception of the present magnitude of the
dairy industry. In the United States
and Canada there is one dairy cow to
every four persons, or 20.O00,000 cows.
The annual milk production is esti-
mated at $550,0O0,0O0. Add to this the
value of dairy cows, S650,000, 900, and
we have $1,000, 100000. Tc this add
the investments in dairy appliances.
and we reach grand total of $1,000
100000 invested in this great industry
in the United States and Canada. The
great countries to the south of us, Gen.
trail and South America. are eager for
American dairy products. and with
more people from these countries visit
ing the Exposition in 1901 than have
visited the United States and Canada
in the past half century the great COM
mercial opportunity TO exhibitors of
Dairy Products and Supplies needs no
further comment.
A large, beautiful building located
near the Agricultural building win be
devoted exclusively to Dairy Products
and Dairy Apparatus.
All the milk products will be exhibit
ed in glass cases properly refrigerated
for the purpose of maintaining as far
as possible the texture and quality OF
the products on exhibition. Exhibitors
whose products form a portion Of their
state or provincial displays will not be
charged for exhibit space, but indi-
vidual exhibitors will be charged $1.50
per square foot for space occupied
The exhibit of Dairy Appliances will
embody all the recent inventions and
improvements made in this industry,
including sterilizers, pasteurizers, -sepa-
rators, coolers, churns, etc.
Electric power will be furnished in
the building should exhibitors desire to
demonstrate the work of their ma
chimes for the benefit of the visitors.
The exhibit in the Dairy division will
be selective one and in point of at
Effectiveness. interest and utility will
surpass anything ever before attempt
ed.
A Model Dairy. composed of repre-
sentatives of all the breeds, will be in
operation during the entire Exposition
for the purpose of determining as far
as possible the cost of production and
the adaptability of certain breeds to
special lines of dairy work. These sew
eral divisions are in charge Of Mr.. E. A.
Converse.