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Agriculture at International Exposition
Panama Pacific Exposition Will Be University of Education far the Farmer.
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AGRICULTURISTS and livestock
breeders each year find a more
1 , responsive world. The Interest
Hat humanity always has had in theso
lasses, so necessary to man'B exist
ence, in recent years has been turned
to strong assistance. Colleges and uni
versities have been giving entire de
partments to their Interests and many
schools are devoted to agrieultnre, ex
cluding all other branches of study.
Special courses, demonstration trains
nd active campaigns under the lender
hip of scientists are becoming common
nd are giving their studied efforts tq
make advance in bringing animal and
vegetable to the ideal.
The Panama-Pacific International Ex
position will be a university at which
every phase of these industries will
be treated with the care and skill of
the laboratory. It will not be primary
education; it will not be higher educa
tion; it will not be education by pro
ducts. It will be education that in
cludes all of these, and the visitor may
choose the branch that he feels in need
of most.
But the biggest appeal of this educa
tion will be the method of its presenta
tion. It Will be a plum of marvelous
flavor placed in the center of the
richest offering ever set before the
world.
Three Departments.
Three departments will present the
strongest special features for the agri
culturist and the stock breeder.
The State exhibit promises to be
laboratories where the best products
are shown by the men who produced
them. The national pavilions will be
another source to demonstrate the suc
cess of foreign scientists and workers.
Now York, among other things, may
show her supremacy in the production
of hay, Iowa and Illinois may present
interesting .exhibits of corn, and down
tho line of states and territories and
among tho nations special excellenco
will be given a proper display.
View herds, composed of animals
and exhibits of poultry, which have
been selected by competent authority
as being typical of their several breeds
will be maintained by the various
breed record and poultry associations
and by states and countries on tho
grounds between February 20 and Sep
tember 20, 1915.
$227,000 for Livestock.
In the past expositions livestock has
been exhibited only a fow days, late
in tho season. This arrangement has
deprived tho great majority of visi
tors of an inspection and study of the
various breeds and types of domestic
animals. Competitions in the depart
ment of livestock will take place in
October and November of 1W15. In
addition to tho $175,000 which has
boon set asido as cash premiums, other
sums have been appropriated by asso
ciations interested, which hrings tho
amount to $227,000. I
Milk, tho one universal food, will j
be tho object of great attention in the I
livestock exhibits. Its sanitary pro-.
duction and care is an enormous prob
lem and the solution will be aided by
the exposition displays which will
show creamery appliances in opera
tion. Dairy demonstration will be an im
portant event in the exhibits of live
stock. Sanitary handling of milk and
its products, the proper feeding of
cows, production of certified milk, the
reduction of bacterial count and the
daily recording of eaeh cow in a spe
cially selected herd of grade animals
chosen for tho demonstrating of type
value will be in charge of recognized
authorities.
With the increase of the "high cost
of living," attention has been centered
in the meat-producing animals and de
mands of various kinds in many coun
tries are being made to Increase the
number of meat producing animals.
The sheep has come in for large con
sideration and in addition to the view
herds of sheep, which will be main
tained on the ground, there will be the
cheep competitions which will bring
out the greatest number of high-class
cheep ever assembled in America.
Large premiums have also been of-'
fared in tho sheep shearing contest
where men and women experts of the
world will present n object lesson to
those interested in the production of
wool. Bheep dog trials will also be
held in conjunction with the shearing
contests, -
Poultry Exhibit.
The poultry show of the Panama
Pacific International Exposition will
include more breeds and types than
any other show. The world-wide in
terest in this department has caused
the exposition to provide accommoda
tions for more than 12,500 birds in ad
dition to turkeys, ducks, geese,
pigeons and other fowls. Specialty
clubs of the world have offered money
awardB, trophies, leg bands and special
ribbons in addition to the cash prizes
offered by the exposition.
Plans are now being worked out
whereby an international egg laying
contest will be conducted on the
grounds. The suggestion came, from
Australia and the contest will last 12
months.
A special Hall of Congresses is be
ing erected on the livestock area of
65 acres. This building will accommo
date livestock, poultry and other organ
izations that will hold their meeting
in San Francisco in 1915. This hall
will be equipped with moving pic
tures and magic lantern slides and
every other facility for giving lectures
and demonstrations.
In the Palaee of Agriculture theTe
will be models of farm buildings show
ing to the general arrangement of
stables, sheep folds, barns, pig sties,
poultry houses, breeding grounds and
special arrangements for breeding and
fattening cattlo.
Displays will also be made of ma
terial and appliances used in tho agri
cultural engineering, reclaiming of
marshes; drainage and irrigation. Every
detail of farming implement will have
demonstrations as will the subject of
fertilizers.
Types of agricultural factories con
nected with farming, oil mills, grain
elevators and appliances, equipment for
the breeding of birds and all phases
of market gardening will be shown.
The theory of agriculture with
studies relating to soil and water from
an agricultural point of view, charts
and history of agriculture will be other
parts of the display.
Useful insects and their products,
injurious insects and plant diseases
will be demonstrated by comprehensive
collections of animal life. Forestry and
forest products will be another com
plete department of unusual interest.
These are a few of the special
things that will interest the agricul
turist and the stock raiser at live
Panama-Pacific International Exposi
tion. However great the interest may
be in these things they can arouse
only a small part of the interest that
will be commanded by the other as
pects of this $50,000,000 wonderland.
Eight of the great exhibit palaces
are now practically completed and
their domes are brilliant with oriental
colors. Sculpture is taking its place in
the seheme of things and the Tower
of Jewels which is to rise 435 feet i
now rising on its steel foundation.
State pavilions are being erected, na
tional buildings are under way, the
mile raeo track is being graded, the
concessions area which is to cover 65.
acres and cost more than $10,000,000,
now is dotted with odd structures that
are being added to each day.
The railroads have given a rate of
one fare for the round trip, the San
Francisco hotels have agree1, to leave
their rates as they now exist at least
enough have done so to insure 90,000
rooms and the wonders that will be
offered by the exposition during the
warm months from February 20 to De
cember 4, 1915.
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