Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-10-29

which the worlds stockmen are in
vited to compete.
This vast sum makes possible a
classification much in advance of any
heretofore attempted, with prizes on
q scale of generosity before unknown
in the history of expositions. The
largest sum previously offered by a
like enterprise was s142, 500 at the
Columbian in Chicago in 1893.
In the classification every branch OF
improved animal industry is to have
its proportionate recognition, whether
it be the percherons, shorthorns.
pigeons, or pointers; whether the
meek-eyed cows from the Channel
islands or descendants of the Amer
lean bison that once made popuious
the plains beyond the Missouri;
whether the petite ponies from the
Shetland isles or the robust mule
that has in recent years so rapidly
advanced in public esteem by his
proven usefulness in war no less than
in the prosaic paths of peace.
For the accommodation of the ar
ray of exhibits which will compete for
the prizes offered, the management
have allotted thirty acres of the most
desirable ground in all the exposition
tract of over 1900 acres, most of
which it overlooks, and upon this hill
will erect the requisite buildings. com
bining the desired modern features of
utility and adoption with harmonious
and pleasing architectural effect. The
building scheme will comprehend pc
tween fOrty-ive and fifty structures.
including thirty-three barns to accom-
modate eighty or ninety horses and
cattle each. several others with slight
ly less capacity, four octagonal barns.
lO0x100 feet, to accommodate cows to
be used in a dairy demonstration, with
silos and feed barns, a grand amphi-
theater and arena, 250x450 feet, for an
exhibit ring, and a building for public
sales of live stock and for stockmen-s
conventions, in which will also be-
made the exhibits and demonstrations
with relation to live stock under the
auspices of the Association of Amer
lean Agricultural Colleges and Expert
ment Stations.
Aside from those usually shown
various classes of horses not previous
ly taken up at expositions, such as
those for artillery, cavalry, and ambu-
lance use in the military service, fire
department, express and ambulance
horses for city purposes, will be given
the consideration their Importance
justifies.
Cattle, sheep, and swine, as with
horses, will be given such a wide
range of prizes as to reward gener-
ously, Independent of the specials
given by states and breeders organi-
cations. the exhibitor, the breeder
and the feeder aggregating offerings
so inviting that they must attract the
choicest products that pasture and
feed lot supplemented by human
skill, have yet evolved
One of the most interesting and in
structive features planned for the ex-
position will be a comparative test of
breeds of cows with reference espe-
cially to their dairy qualities III both
butter and cheese production, and in
cidentally their gains in flesh.
Poultry, pet stock. dogs, and the
minor animals and fowls are to be
recognized more fully than has ever
before been done, an! every energy
will be bent to have at st. Louis in
1904, along with the other magnificent
arrays of the worlds most interesting
and best, the most extensive and in
structive presentation of animal ex-
hibits ever assembled.