The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1905-01-20
STOCK PAVILION
!. is TURNED OVER
New Building at School of Agrl-
culture Formally Dedicated
to Institution

The new $4,000 live stock pavilion
at the Minnesota College of Agriculture
was formally dedicated last evening.
The building has been much desired at
the college and it is thought that twill
be in almost constant USE 1t is ITO
feet long and 80 feet wide and contains
tanbark exhibition ring SO feet long
and 40 feet wide. For purposes of cat
tie exhibition the pavilion will seat
1000 people, but with. flooring laid~over
the tanbark between 1.500 and 1,700
persons can be accommodated.
The dedication exercises were opened
by A. r.. McGill. who presented the
building on behalf of the board of re-
gents to Dean Liggett, of the college Of
agriculture: Dean Liggett ineturn pre-
scented 1t to Prof. Boss, the head of the
live stock department. This was fol-
lowed by an exhibition of the fine cat
tie owned by the college and those in
the Dunwoody collection.
Costing Tells of Cattle
John Costing, of Chicago, an expert
cattle and sheep judge and demonstra-
tor of carcasses, gave brief talk on
the cattle industry in general with its
history and severely arraigned the COM
mission men, most of whom, he said,
were men who had made a failure of
farming and knew little or nothing of
the cattle on the hoof, slaughtered or
dressed. He said that men of this
class were soon to be replaced by grad
yates of such colleges as the one at ST.
Anthony Park, who had a practical and
theoretical knowledge of the ,.subject
with which they dealt and would pay
more attention to keeping pace with
the progress of their subject than to
picking out the weak spots in human
nature. He also spoke of the necessity
of improving the breed of the cattle
taken to market.
Mclaughlin Bros. then showed a few
Of their prize winning coach horses and
percherons, with some from j. j. Hills
North Oaks farm
Predicts Great Future
Prof. Shaw made brief address,
speaking OF Minnesota's success along
all branches of animal industry, and
especially of the fine animals bred at
the experiment stations, and concluded
by predicting that in a short time the
live stock industry of Minnesota will
prove more valuable than all the prod
ucts of mining, agriculture and manu-
faeture of the state combined. He
said That 1t might be thought ne had
live stock on the brain, but he repeated
his prediction. He said that the in
stitution was greatly in need of a
larger collection of exhibition stock, as
he had found that student formed
his opinion of the standard of any one
breed by the first representative OF that
breed that he saw, and said it was alb
solutely necessary that that first one
should be the best obtainable.
The dedication ceremonies were at
| tended by between 700 and 500 people
Mr.. Costing, assisted by his expert
cutter from Chicago, will demonstrate
the proper methods of cutting ear
cass SO that the minimum of waste will
take place, using as the subjects for his
demonstration the carcasses of one
| Shorthorn, one Angus, one Hereford
and a scrub. The cattle were slaugh-
tered Wednesday by students at the
farm school. The demonstration will
take place this afternoon.