Cow Palace Page 2 and incentive for the personal care, the appreciable expense, and the many hours of time that they have spent in grooming their livestock for entry in this annual event. We in the Chamber feel that this show is important in strengthening our relationships with our rural neighbors, in pointing up the vital role of the livestock industry to our City's economy, and in providing an educational and character-building program that helps to mold the future leaders of our City. I am confident that these factors are responsible too for your being heretoday, and they will be responsible for the generosity of your bidding at the Fat Cattle Auction that will immediately follow this luncheon. I feel confident that you will give the young exhibitors in our Junior Show the kind of encouragement they will need to assure the future growth of this important event and to strengthen the close ties between San Francisco and the agricultural regions of California so that over the years today's young people will look upon San Francisco as California's most friendly metropolitan city.