Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 141, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1903 — CHICAGO’S BIG STOCK SHOW. [ARTICLE]

CHICAGO’S BIG STOCK SHOW.

Fourth Annual Display of the International Exposition. With an attendance that surpassed that of any previous first day, Chicago’s fourth annual International Live Stock Exposition was formally opened to the public. Never before have so many breeders seut the best products of their stock farms to compete for the valuable prizes offered by the International Live Stock Association. Seventy-five thousand dollars was to be distributed in prizes before the show closed, nnd when Dexter Park amphitheater was opened to the public 12,500 of the world’s finest live stock specimens were In stalls to Cl inspected n)fid judged. An unusual interest has been shown in the exposition this year by the stock breeders of Canada. Many of the most interesting nnd largest exhibits were from the Dominion.

France and Belgium, England and Wales were also well represented in the exhibition, nnd while in the last three years the big annual show of live stock was termed international, this is the first year that the association Isas come very near realizing its nmbition to make the Chicago exposition of •'World-wide interest. Before the next exposition the new coliseum will he completed nt a cost cd $115,000. It will adjoin Dexter Fnrk pavilion on the south, nnd will have a seating capacity of 15.000. The agricultural-college students in the judging contest were: Kansas Agricultural College—R. M. Dorman, E. C. Gardner, It. F. Wilson, C. G. Elllng, N. Smltz. R>wa Agricultural College—N. n. Ellenberger, W. A. Toner, C. E. Howard, F. M. Hausen, F, A. Stout. Minnesota Agricultural College John Ross, Thomas l’aterson, W. 11. Tombare, F. E. Tyson, C. D. Stewart. Ohio Agricultural College—W. 11. Palmer, Walter T. Florence, Dwight W. Welst, J. C. White, A. S. Neale. • South Dnkota Agricultural College—Frank L. Kennnrd, Oliver Grace. Farmers’ Sons —U. E, Osborn, Owaneco, Ill.; F. M. Johnson, Flushing, Ohio: It. V. Halsey, Oakland. DJ.; Jas. Gfllls, Rio, 111.; James H. McKatg, Troy, Ohio; John Miller, Balsam, Ont. Harvey IV., an 8-yenr-old Hereford bull, weighing 2,865 pounds, entered by Peter Mouw of Orange City, lowa, attracted much attention. Harvey IV. was the heaviest bull on-exUjbition. Interest in the shorthorn stock in the cattle exhibit was centered around the pen occupied by Floriaa Victor, a 6-year-old bullock entered by tho Jnnna stock farm of Charleston, Ind. The bullock it a little over fifteen hands high and weighs 2,600 pounds. The Independent Window Glass Company, one of the three leading glass manufacturers’ association*, has been dissolved- The glass in stock 1b being returned to the members who formerly owned it and most of them are preparing to enter a new combination. The excess of births over deaths In Ireland for the year 1902 was 24,187, and the loss by emigration 40,190. This shows a decrease In the population during the year of 16,006, less whatever Immigration there was of which no record is kept