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Show 'ROUNDUP AT' THE LOGAN COLLEGE Assistant District Forester Homer E. Fonn has gone io Logan to deliver a lecturo to tho forestry class of that Institution and, also, to moot with stockmen who will spend three days In tho college learning something of anlmnl husbandry. Mr. Fonn will lecture on grazing, ho bolng at the head of tho grazing: department de-partment of the forestry servico in the Ogdon district. Tho lecturo has been made a special spec-ial feature In tho agricultural courses of the school, llAi Intention being to havo lectures from men of the forest service on the vnrious subjects involved in-volved in tho forest work. What Is known as "tho roundup" In tho collego Is an interesting brnnch of tho collogo work. It continues for a period of three days, beginning today to-day and ejctt?ndlng to Saturday cevon-Ing. cevon-Ing. Tho "roundup" means the gathering gath-ering together of stockmen from different dif-ferent sections of the country for the purpose of discussing vnrious phases of animal, husbandry in which tho stockmen nro versed, tho practical side of stock raising being emphasized. empha-sized. In this, the students' minds nro dlvorted from the strictly theoretical theoreti-cal side of the studv on nnimal husbandry hus-bandry and some of the practical common-sense ideas are advanced. It Is said that tho "roundup" at tho collego Is bocomlng n popular meet ing, it already having reached a point where it is distinguished as a convention" con-vention" whero stockmen aro privileged privi-leged to educato the agricultural boys In somo of tho genuine farm and ranch problems. Mr. Fenn will remain re-main during tho cntlro tlmo of the "roundup." no . |