Farmer's magazine (January-December 1920) . ds. Fortheyre a 1 1there — heavyhorses, lighthorses, ponies,dairy cattle,beef cattle,long-w 0 0 1 e dsheep, fathogs, baconhogs, ducks,turkeys, chick-ens and dogs not to mention cats,pigeons, rabbits andother pet stock. And therepresentatives of eachbreed are of no mediocrequality. They are thevery best in the land—adapted by nature andfitted by man to occupythe most exalted positionin their various worlds. To discuss in detail thelivestock features which one may see at the largerexhibitions would lequire a volume; but perhaps afew new ideas may be gl
Farmer's magazine (January-December 1920) . ds. Fortheyre a 1 1there — heavyhorses, lighthorses, ponies,dairy cattle,beef cattle,long-w 0 0 1 e dsheep, fathogs, baconhogs, ducks,turkeys, chick-ens and dogs not to mention cats,pigeons, rabbits andother pet stock. And therepresentatives of eachbreed are of no mediocrequality. They are thevery best in the land—adapted by nature andfitted by man to occupythe most exalted positionin their various worlds. To discuss in detail thelivestock features which one may see at the largerexhibitions would lequire a volume; but perhaps afew new ideas may be gleaned from an imaginarytrip through the stock department of the CanadianNational at Toronto. At the eastern end of the grandstand, just be-yond that long line of canvas, from the midst ofwhich the hot-dog purveyors proclaim to the per-spiring populace, the utter absurdity of the balancedration or sustenance other than the nefarious weiner,stands an imposing structure of red brick and lime-stone. That this could be the temporary home of. Theres a wealth of interest in tractore. Can you tell the meritsof each make? even aristocrats of the barnyard and the lyrewould be difficult to believe except for the wordsLive Stock boldly emblazoned above the doors. Butsuch it is in all reality; that is, it is the first of aseries of buildings which house the hundreds of headof stock, assembled to do battle for national other buildings are less pretentious—but like thearistocrats of the human ri:}ce, our four-footedfriends insist on a bold front at least, to signify theirsuperiority to the common herd. Within these first walls are the horses. Although,perhaps, no one in this day and generation is such a
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