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Show PREFER SCRUBS To breed to; says Prof, R. W, Clark. Farmers should take course at A. C, If theie Is a more enthusiastic Professor Pro-fessor lnhe A. C. of U. than K. W. Clai k. head of the department of animal ani-mal Industry, we would like to see him Hotted out. 1'iof. Engle can neai ly talk your aim oU about socio-log), socio-log), Hexell Isn't so slow about that ically magnltlceiit commeiclal department, depart-ment, and Coach Campbell can get woiked up dining a football scrimmage, scrim-mage, but Claik can talk cow, hoise, sheep, ilg, pulp, beets and molasses thirty-two hours a day fourteen dajs a week, and tho featuic of It all is that he Impiessesjoii that he knows what he Is talking about. Pi of. Clark sajs "we aim to do things up here. We give a twenti weeks course In my department and of this, eight weeks aie devoted to book work and lectures and the lemalniiig twehe weeks to practical woik. Tho boys aie taught to judge animals by their appearance, they arc taught the good and ba.l points, and their great woik at the last State fair testifies to the fact that the) ically learn something. some-thing. "We teach the student how to diagnose diag-nose diseases of hoises and cattle and how to treat them. All klnd or diseased dis-eased animals aie brought to us and we have practical demonstrations. Our students aic frequently sent out to ticat animals and have been generally gener-ally successful. In speaking of glaudeis, I'rof. Clark said that he had diagnosed three cases during the past few weeks. He is of the opinion that there should be a vctcrinailan to iook after matters Of this kind. Piof. Clarksajs that It is practically Impossible to always identify ident-ify glanders as it is possible for a horse to be diseased and a source of Infection without thcownei knowing It. A test must be made. At the present time experiments aie being made as to the value of the sugar beet.beet molasses and beet pulp as a food for cattle, sheep, and swine. It Is stated that the best results arc being obtained from the pulp and molasses. The farmers can better alloid to sell their beets and buy the pulp for feed. Tills beet molasses is a complete waste at the factory, but led to hogs is woith from $l.r0 to 2.r0 a ton. With cows the beet pulp is worth about ii'.OO per ton. Prof. Clark says his findings are so excellent that he doubts their accuracy almost, and is now duplicating the work as a test. The line animals at the experiment station came up for consideration, and it was stated that there arc now thiee bleeds of sheep, .three of hogs, four of cattle, a total of 10 cattle and 00 sheep, all thoroughbreds. One mag-nlllccnt mag-nlllccnt gentleman cow of the Here-foul Here-foul variety weighs ,'i00. Clark warms up when sneaking of the indifference of the farmeis to blooded stock. Only 1.00 is charged for the bull's service, 25 cents for the boar and a like amount for the ram, yet the average person prefers to breed his animals to scrubs. Prof. Clark says tho cow, properly taken care of will produce better results, re-sults, make more money for tho farmer farm-er than any other and Is of the opinion opin-ion that the leason many dairymen of this country fall to get ttic best ie-suits ie-suits out of their cows and are discouraged dis-couraged Is because they pay no attention at-tention to breed, and don't know how-to how-to Judge an animal, many times milking cows lit only for beef. He says the college couise In stock Judging alono Is worth gold dollars to anj fanner or piospcctlvo farmer. That piggery oer which Prof. Clark-presides Clark-presides is also quite an institution, kept cleaner.than the alleys of Logan and some splendid specimens of swine aic to be found there. A visit to the creamery disclosed everything in perfect order and a system sys-tem so thorough that a few weeks Instruction theie must result hi tho gieatest advantage. The student Is taught everything necessary to make hhn a tlist-class daio man, learning not merely the theory but puts his theory Into practice, .lust now experiments ex-periments are being mado In can-ning can-ning cheese in tin. Tho scheme seems to bo working nicely and 'tis said has great advantages. I The student with any liking fori farm work who couldn't heartily en-' Joy and prollt gicatly by a couiso In these departments wouldn't bo ablo to i appreciate- the dllfercnco between beans cooked with am) without bacon and ought to be relegated to a far di-tant clime. |