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Show VALUABLE EXPERIENCE. It wounl be well If the students In unlmal Industr) at tho Agricultural College of Utah eould enjoy the splendid splen-did advantage that was given to tho tlass from the Ohio College of Agriculture Agri-culture nt the International Livestock show In Chicago last month There should be an npproprlntloit by the legislature for defraying the expensts of the Utah iluss to the show next )cai. If such appropriation cannot bo had, then a half dozen of Utah's wealth) stockmen might contrlbnte money enough to give tho boys the trip This Is the vn) one of thc Ohio students stu-dents tells of the visit A pirt) of twent)-llve of tho students stu-dents ln niilmil husbnndry ot the Ohio State unlveislty spent a very profitable profit-able week at Chicago dutlng the recent fat stock exhibition. The put) went In charge ot Prof. C. H Plumb, of the chair of unlmal husbandry at tho university. uni-versity. The real profit of the trip begun be-gun to be rcnllzed Monday, December 1st. when the party rcathtel thc Union stock yards. Under Prof. Plumbs ell-lection ell-lection tho visit was n sjstcniutlc study from start to finish. In the class mom nl the university, most of thc great animals nnd breeds ot anlm its had been studied nnd dls-tussed dls-tussed Now was u time when thu ho)a tould see and handle some of these, perhaps thc greitest t)pes ot live stock known It was u time when )oung Judges could sec thc real art ot 'Judging Hundreds of the greatest breeders of many Stnles or the Union nnd ot fie Dominion of Canada wero here contesting for international honors hon-ors The buildings wero hinging full of ribbons, lepresentlng prl7es that these breeders had won nt fairs, nnd previous shouu Prof. Plumb ls well acquainted with most of the breeders that were at tho exposition nnd this gave the bojs another an-other advantage, besides meeting tho different men It was their privilege to closely look over Dpes of animals. This vina a special ndvantage, us animals ani-mals In the show ilng uro always tou far away from tho people to permit ft careful examination rrom all points of view. It Is snfa to fay that In this way more than in any other was knowledgo cilned ns regards breeds of live stock It appeared that Ohlu was up with tho average In the live stotk Industry. This department at the Stato university Is going tn bo greatly strengthened by the purchases made at the exposition. In the llvo stock Judging room at the university It Is necessary to see und handle pure types. Tersomo exttnt this will be fulfilled when the types of sheep purehused nt the exiiosltlou ur-rive ur-rive at the university. Homo of tho animals purchased vtira on the pie-mlum pie-mlum list, so It Is possible for Ohlu to show Individuals of tho highest nv rlt. Tho students hopo to bcp tho live stock ot the Ohio Stato tinlveralty well Illustrated Illus-trated with flno specimens of tho bieeds, and trust that th ntw elcvelop-ment elcvelop-ment will iccelvo support from bleed-era bleed-era all over Ohio HtudintH who lomo to tho Ohio State university und take a course In this p irtltulur Hue of study should tlnd animals of thu best type that can be had lhe Union stock yards, w hie H nlono attract nun) ) topto to Chicago, wero also visited by tho bojs dining their short stay In the clt). Thla wan n granl opportunity to ate tha end of nil tho labor stent along iidviinred methods meth-ods of feeding Tho stotk jaiihj might be lulled tho tenter ot animal Industry of tho Inml, nml this ftatuin of the visit was n great one, Tho packing houses woro also nt gieat Interest In-terest to lhe Ohio delegation. |