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Show BEEF BREEDING SCHOOL SET FEBRUARY 2ND Dr. Robert deBaca, world 1 famous animal scientist, from Iowa will conduct i school on beef breeding at the Cedar City Public Li-brary Li-brary on Thursday, Feb. 2, at 1:00 p.m. according to Grant Esplin, Extension Am" Livestock Specialist. Dr. deBaca will discuss the following fol-lowing subjects: 1. An outline pattern of straight breeding, cross breeding and terminal breeding. breed-ing. 2. Fertility within breeds and its effects on cross breeding as well as terminal termin-al crosses. 3. The effect of genetics on meat quality. 4. Heritability. Robert deBaca was born and raised in New Mexico on , a New Mexico ranch. Did his under -graduate work at 1 New Mexico State at Las Cruces. Obtained his Masters Mas-ters and Doctorate degrees from Oregon State University Univer-sity in Genetics. Spent 14 years at Iowa State Uni- : versity where he was re- i sponsible for the development of the Iowa Beef Improve- ' ment Association. In Ms 1 1 4 years he ran one -third of a million cattle records In performance testing. |