The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1913-04-25
DISPLAY Of FARMING INTERESTS
Greatest Display in History at San
Francisco.

The largest and most cOmprehen-
sive display of agricultural and horti-
cultural interests that the world has
ever known will be one of the chief
features of the Panama-Pacific Inter-
national exposition, which will open
at San Francisco on Saturday, Febru-
airy 20, 1915, to commemorate the
achievement of the Panama-Canal.
Under the classification Of exhibits
which has just been completed, the
department of agriculture has been
given ample space for a recordbreak-
ing display and the horticulture de-
partment with building of its own,
will be added to and enhanced by the
general effect of the exposition which,
when completed, will present the APP
pearance of vast garden.
The allied departments of agricul-
ture and horticulture at the Panama
Pacific exposition will excel in their
comprehensiveness anything that has
ever been attempted at previous ex-
positions. The displays and exhibits,
covering an area of more than thirty
acres, will include every possible
phase Of the agricultural and horti-
cultural industry and will serve as a
gigantic school to farmers, land own
ers, gardeners and mechanics as well
as even to the layman whose sole OBJ
ject in visiting the exposition is one
of purely human interest.
More than forty acres of land on the
exposition site will be occupied by
agricultural, horticultural and live
stock interests.
In addition to the multifarious at
fractions to the agriculturalist from
all parts of the world, special feat
ure of the exposition which will be of
immense educational value to the
farmer and land economist, will be
the congresses and conventions which
are being arranged for the discussion
of agricultural and land problems
An international congress on agri-
cultural education has been suggested
and will probably be followed by con-
ventions on the preservation of human
life and country life conference
which have already been assured from
the department of agriculture at
Washington.
Ten acres will be occupied by the
palace of agriculture, the exhibits
ranging over every possible depart
ment of the agricultural industry. One
of the most important of the many
groups in the general agricultural
classification, is that devoted to agri-
cultural implements and farm machin-
cry. No less than seven distinct
classes will be required, for the eX-
hibits relative to this subject will be
displayed in the agricultural building
instead Of in a separate building as in
previous expositions.
Food products, being placed natur-
ally under the head of agriculture,
will however have a separate exhibit
on a splendid scale and in the group
of animal food products, the dairy eXS
hibits will play an important part.
There will be separate classes OF
milk and cream, fresh or condensed;
sterilized milk, butter and cheese in
all forms, eggs, albuminoid food and
preparations, dairy fittings and appli-
ances for the preparation, transporta-
ton, preservation and distribution and
delivery of milk for the supply OF
cities and towns
Thirteen other groups, subdivided
into many classes, complete the food
products exhibit.
Twenty-one acres of the exposition
site will be devoted to the live stock
exhibit which will be conducted on a
scale never before attempted in ex-
positions. This section will have a
peculiar interest to dairymen from all
bver the world, not only because of
the international exhibits of thorough
bred cattle which are now being ar
ranged for, but on account of the spe-
dial features in breed milking contests
rhe agricultural department of the
|Panama-Pa exposition has appro-
priated $175,000 for special trophies
The competitions will be open to the
world and only the best from all coun
tries will take part in the rivalry for
honors. Additional prizes are offered
by the various breeders associations.
The horticulture exhibit will stand
in the Panama-Pacific exposition as
something different from the place it
has had in previous expositions be-
cause of the advantages offered by the
wonderful climate of California which
permits of perennial foliage and
bloom.
The palace of horticulture, which
1 will be surmounted by a glass dome,