The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-11-29
Will Be Held in Chicago Dec.
| to 8. OF Great Benefit
to StOCkmen
INTERNATIONAL IN
MORE THAN WORDS
Special Excursion Rates on all
the Railroads

Andrew Nj. Soule, dean and director
of the Virginia Experiment Station, is
doing yoeman service in agriculture
and live stock In the old dominion,
and is fast friend and believer in the
teachings of the international. Here
is what he has to say OF that grand
exposition:
1.-The time for the holding of the
International Live Stock Exposition
of 1906 is rapidly approaching, and as
the old axiom puts it TO be fore
warned is to be fOre-armed' and so an
event OF such vital interest to the live
| stock-men of the country should be
carefully kept in view, and every far
mer interested in the production of live
stock should maks it a point to visit
this great school Of instruction. The
reasons for this arc not hard to deter
mine. First, all realize the difficulty
of producing beef economically under
present conditions. This makes it
clear that only the most progressive
men can hope to succeed, and there is
no place in the world where one can
have a better opportunity to get in
touch with the latest and best methods
of feeding, handling and managing
live stock than at the International
Live Stock Exposition. The time is
passed when mediocre cattle can be fed
protitably and yet there are thousands
of such animals being put in the feed
lots every year. If there is one i'm
portant lesson that has been impressed
by the International it is the folly of
this practice.
"To the live stock feeder, therefore,
visit to an institution where he can
form proper ideals and learn the
standards demanded by the live stock
markets of the world is we'll worth
sacrificing much which seems OF
present concern for the future advan-
tage which such information will give
him. The old cry that one can not
afford to post himself regarding his
business is mythe fit only for the
dark ages. In the living present the
man who succeeds IS the one who is
thoroughly up-to-date.
'To thousands OF stockmen a visit
to the international will teach them
that many OF the fine pictures they
have seen in print and which they
have been pleased to feel were the
conception OF the artists mind are in
reality, but feeble reproductions of the
perfection exhibited by many of the
animals shown at this great fair.
Why not take advantage OF an oppor-
tunity, therefore, to see more splendid
specimens OF live stock brought to-
gether in one arena than can be viewed
elsewhere in the world for so small a
cost? Magnificent buildings have
been provided by the Exposition
company and all the animals can be
seen under cover. One will haye
plenty OF opportunity to examine them
at leisure, talk with the men who have
bred and fed them, and come in con-
tact with thousand inspiring influen-
ces which have previously been stran-
gers to the heart OF the stockman.
Rubbing up against ones fellows,
learning of their difficulties, and how
they have overcome them is an inval-
liable experience. The very bigness
Of the Exposition, the variety and ex-
cellence OF the, exhibits, and the
wonderful fund of information to be
obtained by a few days spent there
will well repay any stockman for the
trip. The writer speaks from exper-
ience and has yet to learn of the man
who has visited the intentional and
returned feeling that he was not ben
Gifted immensely.