Show NEED OF THE international everybody and everybody s live stock should be at the great show every stockman needs the internal dional nobody succeeds much in working alone he ile may grow intense lut but he cannot grow broad he may become a specialist but he will be narrow marrow he ile may succeed in a way tut but he will never fit his success into the general needs until he runs up against other men and their opinions le will never realize his own mistakes until he meets other genius and its achievements on equal ground so it Is that a gathering of the clans and all their cattle is good for the live stock business and tor for all the bals who follow it 6 antey 1 the great live stock clearing house where tollies follies are wiped off the slate af at least once a year and before they have done much mis chief where the slightest success that is new is at once made known to all it Is a gathering of such immense magnitude as to bring together not only seller and buaer bu er but also breeder and butcher producer and consumer in such a gathering of representative men standards are fixed rapidly and firmly and more progress is made than would be possible by the slow process of ordinary evolution in ten times the same length of time every body lody and everybody s cattle should be the at the international those who have the best animals should bring them to serve as patterns and standards those whose animals are not so good should bring them for their own benefit in order to be con vinced of their inferiority and the need of improvement most men cannot carry a true picture in the mind s eye clear enough to make just compari sons between the home stock and its betters at the ring it is only when brought side by side that real differ ances are convincing especially to the owner of the inferior individuals the gap between our stuff and the best Is generally wider than we suppose we need to get together to narrow this gap with a rule and tape line then 11 go igo home and kill a bull the international is the great edu cator A there is nothing like it on this side the water and there cannot be outside of chicago for this great city Is by natural conditions the greatest live stock center in the world begun as a labor of love it has become the greatest agent that ever existed in america tor for stimulating better breeding the stimulus la Is not that of artificial prices in the sales ring but that of competition in the show ring and on the block let every american Arne rican stockman support the inter mat national ional with his presence his ani ant mals and his influence let the press report it and let the general public turn out to behold what Is happening in agriculture in these latter days E davenport dean and director 1111 mols college of agriculture |