Show l Livestock Show Shaw Committee ommittee to Be I Friday Feeding and Growing Crowing Better Stock toy Urged Plans for S Spring rip ng Livestock Show Livestock I Show at Vernal to be Com Com- Completed Completed at Special Meeting Friday at Court House At a ft meeting to be held at the th county court house home Friday evenIng evening even- even evenIng Ing a at 7 30 pm p m plans will be t completed for a Livestock Show tobo tobe to bo be held at Vernal early next spring at which fat f t livestock will bo be exI exhibited ex- ex I 1 At the meeting no a perman perman- permanent permanent ent committee will be selected to I have direct charge charm of the entire show With the completion of ot a n paved highway from Vernal Venial to Salt Suit Lake I Denver an n attractive will wUl be bo crea created ted almost overnight for all the fat t t livestock this ste- ste st s tion can produce i iThe The cost of ot shipping farm commodities corn corn- modules to the market Is t almost t tout out of ot the question unless they are converted Into livestock By Ey feed feed- feeding feed feeding ing our surplus crops and shipping fat stock to the market we will realize a double profit from our A new Industry wUll will wUl l ibe be bet bev v t created and nd farm Carm J will wUl be III lifted ted It 1 is estimated that 46 48 per cent of the Income of or Uintah county ts is d derived from livestock of which she sheep shepp p are 39 per cent In the past practically all of our sheep shep have been put on tile the market as feed feed- feeders feeders feed feeders ers Before these sheep could be b marketed It has been n necessary essary to tat put them on feed teed for several weeks wew This particular part of the Indus Indus- Industry industry try try y has h s yielded as large returns 8 as the raising of ot the sheep by the the- th producers The annual Livestock Show wilt wUl stimulate an Interest In better types of livestock Ih estock and reBul results ts of varioUS types of feed will be actually t dem dem- demonstrated demonstrated demonstrated when the animals are ex- ex exhIbited ex exhibited at the show The Vernal Lions club under und r tile the chairmanship of lames james M Orr Jr Is sponsoring the show and will see that It gets pets off oft to a good start The experiment at the Branch Agricultural college farm at Cedar City last winter Inter of comparing the the- th growth rates and wool production or of ewe lambs Iambs fed on farms with sImilar lambs run on the ran range during the winter months is be- be beIng being be being ing repeated again this winter ac- ac according according ac according cording to Sumner Hatch In ip I charge of livestock experiments at the B BA A C Last year 75 head of ewe lambs from a no grade herd were divided Into three pens pem or of 25 head each and fed rations consisting consisting con- con ot of alfalfa hay barley at- at falfa talta hay alone and alfalfa hay hayand hayand and corn com silage All three pens in th tho experiment had acc access to salt saltwater cater v a ter and bone meal at all times Fifty head hend of similar ewe lambs were run with a herd on the win win- winter winter win winter ter range In Northern Arizona ant and tv Nevada The range let lct made mada an average gain tain of or ten pounds pound body weight per head In the th per per- per period periled iod between Oct 1 1936 1939 and April 1 1937 1 37 The fed lots lot gained from 12 pounds to 30 pounds per had h-adon h on the average The larger gains sere ere made mad by the th animals ball fed barley and alfalfa hay hav ha and the smallest gains being mad mad- a oy those fed on hay hy and corn silage The average fleece from the fed lambs was sac 14 per cent heavier than the average fleece of the th range lambs The shrinkage of the cool v from the fed lambs Iambs was around 68 56 per cent cent while that of ot the lambs averaged around 66 60 per cent I It Is planned to secure body weight weighton weighton on all of or these animals fall falland talland and and again this spring together wit witti fJ fleece cu weights samples of wo wool 01 l for foi fo examination and am a lamb crop percentage from the t groups A second lot of ot lambs was marl marl marl- marland Pd and branded tor for a no similar com com- comparison com comparison parison beginning be about Oct and they likely will bP b b followed through the first winter for con In gain In body weight quantity and quality of or wool pro pro- pro produced and then afterwards being run on the range curing the sec seQ- second sec second ond and winter of their lives where they I wIll be compared for W wool tion Lion production and lamb production I Last year years s lot and those being I used tired this year were both secured from the same herd which Is run In the summer time on the North NorthS I Fork NorthFork S Dixie of zions Creek Creek which rt Is s the viI Tl National Forest In the vi- vi vi I Continued on page four LIVESTOCK TOBE TO TOBE Ii BE SELECTED ON FRIDAY Y Continued Continued from paRe pane one inU of r Navajo Lake They range e efrom from this area through Clear Crt Creek ek Canyon Canon to the Arizona Strip and end up the winter In ln the vicinity of NevI Nev I I |