The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-21
Mr.. COBURN'S RULES.
Announces Regulations Govern
ing Worlds Fair Livestock.

The more important rules which will
govern the exhibit of live stock at st:
Louis in 1904. as formulated by CHER
F. d. Coburn and confirmed by the
managers and board of directors. READ
as follows:
All prizes in the department of live
stock of the Louisiana Purchase expo
sitiOn will be awarded by individual
judges, or the 'one judge system, and
/ by comparison. These judges will be
chosen for their especial qualifications
and their intimate knowledge of the
characteristics and qualities that make
valuable the breeds upon which they
will give judgment, and their awards
will be final
Judges are instructed to award in
each instance only prizes of such grade
as the merits of the individual animals
fully justify. Absence of competition
will not be accepted in any instance as
prizes to animals of medium or inferior
quality
Only such animals as have been
| awarded first prizes in their respective
classes will be eligible to championship
awards, and the championships viii in
each instance be awarded by the judge
who awarded the breeds class prizes. 4
No animal deemed unworthy shall be
awarded a prize, nor shall prize be
withheld merely because of lack of
competition; but where there are fewer
entries in section than prizes offered
the Judge shall in his discretion award
merit of the animals may warrant.
Entries on prescribed forms for the
several divisions must be filed with the
chief of the department OF live stock
as follows: Horses, asses and mules,
by July 16 1904. cattle, July 90; sheep,
August 20; SWINE August 20; poultry,
pigeons, pet stock and dogs, September
10. In divisions for horses, cattle. sheep
and swine, exhibitors Will be restricted
to the entry of not more than two ami
mails in each section or ring
The dates for exhibition of live stock
! in the several divisions will be as fol-
lows: Horses asses and mules, Mon
day, August %, to Saturday, September
3, 1904, inclusive Cattle, Monday, Sep
TENDER II, to Saturday, September "a,
| inclusive. Sheep and swine, Monday,
! October 8, to Saturday, October Is, in
elusive. Poultry and dogs, Monday,
October "a, to Saturday, November ., in
elusive.
The ages of cattle. sheep and hogs
will be reckoned from date OF birth to
the first day of September, 1904. The
ages of horses and foals, except draft
| breeds, will be reckoned from January
l, and in case of draft breeds the ages
shall be determined from date of birth.
All foals except in draft breeds will be
considered as one year old on the first
of January succeeding birth.
Ample facilities will be provided for
| the distribution of feed and water
throughout the grounds. Forage, grain
and bedding of good quality will be
prices at warehouses conveniently To-
Gated within the grounds. Exhibitors,
if they desire, may bring to the Expo
sition with their stock a supply of for
age and grain.
There will be a grand parade of
| horses and cattle through the EXPOSE
/ ton grounds as follows: Horses, Tues
/ day, August %, and Thursday, Septem-
Der 1, 1904. Cattle, Tuesday Seotem-
Der Is, and Thursday, September %.
1904
On the day following the close of the
awards to each breed or class of horses
and cattle all the prize winners in the
respective classes will be paraded to-
| gether in the pavilion and through the
streets of the Quarters occupied by the
department of live stock
Provision will be made for the accom-
mediation of the various national live
stock breeders associations desiring to
sell at auction animals of the breed the
respective associations represent, no
sale to exceed in number one hundred
animals of any one breed, such animals
to be selected by their breed associa-
tions from those entered for prizes The
auction sales of animals of any given
breed will be made within the period in
which such breed is on exhibition, in
suitable building adjoining the live
stock amphitheater. conveniently ar
ranged for the purpose. and viii be un-
der the auspices of the breed associa-
ton who will alone be responsible for
all matters in connection herewith
The special prizes to be offered by as
sociations. state commissions. or indi-
viduals for live stock will so far as
known be announced in a second or
final edition of the prize list
| The necessity for uniform and I'm
questioned awards will fOrcibly suggest
the advantage of having conditions gov
erning the award of special prizes con-
form to the exposition classification.
Such prizes will then. much to the adj
vantage of all. follow the regular
awards made by the official judges The
donors of special prizes are for the rea-
sons mentioned requested to make their
offerings correspond as nearly as posi-
BILE to the official classification. whether