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Show Omaha Sheep Show. Sheep of every kind and description des-cription will bo on exhibition at the mammoth sheep show, which will bo held in connection with tho annual convention of the Natonial Wool Growers in Omaha in December. The dates of tho convention are December 14 to 16, while the sheep show will open a day earlier. Merinos of every sort, Shorp-shires, Shorp-shires, Ramboullots, Cotswells, South Downs, Hampshires, Oxfords, Ox-fords, Lincolns, and Angora Goats will be exhibited, while sheep dogs will come in for a large share of attention. Many interesting exhibits will find a place in the colossal Auditorium, Audi-torium, which will be used for both sheep show and the meeting place of tho convention. Chief among theso will be exhibit of a pen of ewes from the United States Experimenting Farm at Laramie, Wyo. Wyoming State University will send down an exhibit, while many large Eastern East-ern manufacturing concerns will have interesting exhibits, which will .afypvY- allv phases vof cloth 'waHutMwra Irom ,th time the llpMto UnreerlJttTb til it is turned into clothing. Entries are being received from every sheep section in the United States. Tho managing committee, of which E. Buckingham, Bucking-ham, Superintendent of the National Stock Yards of Omaha, j is chairman, is swamped with applications for s vice. One of tho most interesting) programs is being prepared for i the Wool Growers' meeting. Schedule "K" will corno in for a lengthy discussion. Among the men who have been invited and have accepted invitations to address ad-dress tho Convention aro: W. M. Hayes, Assistant Secretary of tho Department of Agriculture; Dr. W. 0. Stillman, President of tho American Humane Association; As-sociation; F. R. Gooding, of Gooding, Ida. ; A. J. Knollin, of Chicago, Ills., Eastern Vice President Pre-sident of tho Association; Hon. C. II. Aldrich, Governor of Nebraska; Ne-braska; Dr. A. D. Molvin, Chief of tho United States Bureau of Animal Industry, and Hon. F. C. Graves, Chief of the Forester Department of Agriculture. Hon. F. D. Hagonbarth will discuss Schedule "K" and its relation re-lation to the wool growers. The speakor, who hails from Spencer, Ida., is vitally interested in the ! subject and will tell how tho ! schedule effects the wool irmwn. Judge S. II. Cowen of Ft. Worth, Tex., will speak on Free Meat and its Dangers. ! Besides the program and the sheep show, tho visitors to the j convention will .have to assimi- late a lot of entertainment, for Omaha and South Omaha aro planning to entertain the dis- ! tinguished visitors as only No- ! braskans know how. Invitations are extended to ovory man, be s he flock-man or not, who is in- s terested in sheqp, to attend .the i convention! More than 2,000 ! visitors ariexpectcd. |
