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Show FARMERS' SCHOOL JS CLOSED. A Very IostrucUve anil Untertaiuing x Week. Iron County Fanners nnd Slock Raisers Ought to Profit by " Such n Wee ". One moro Farmers' Institute conducted con-ducted by prnfcsrrn nf tho Agricultural Agricul-tural Collepo has arrno to a oloso this week. Altogether It bea lirod ono of tbe most inttruotlva nnd vnluuhlo weeks thnt Iron County farmois havo over ixporlonced. That widespread Interrst bns bein mnnlfestod throughout through-out the week 1b ovidencod from tho (not that COO ronplo havo attouded tbo publlo and prlvnto lectures nnd havo roue nwny with now and moro saientUlo Ideas to begiu work in tho future A sprats! fcutaro of this sohool in n.intrhtt from tho otbor institutes was tbo rovlow nud examination of tho horsep, dairy nows, and sheep of this section of country. Perhaps two hundred and fifty man resembled on tbo Normal campus Tuesday nftor-noon nftor-noon tp hear Prof, Oaino givo hl analysis an-alysis of the oharaoteriBtiop, good and bad, of tho onttlo and horses that hud been brought tocctbor for examination. exam-ination. In that analysis Prof. Cnlno showod himself to be nn export in bis lino of work, explaining dourly and readily tbo various merits and dnfeots of tbo various animals. Altogether Al-together tho result of Prof. Caino's examination showed that tbo stock rnleeTB of Iron Onnuty nro doing fairly fair-ly well In tbolr efforta to got n gocd laao cf bloh bred stock In ovcry lino of rnlmnl culturo. Oodnr urnnio to ba ficmeu iftyliriivaucu,oi-StCiootgy nnd Paroi nn In respect rf tho breeding breed-ing nf hoice; fcr Prof. Onluo waa not retlcuut In pionoiiuoing tho stnl-JiniiB stnl-JiniiB owned by Ccd r prnpln 119 lelug ot a bet'nr a'arcp Hibii tlicno from tbu iiolghbnrlrg toffiis. Tbo many ques-tloi'B ques-tloi'B neL'cd during this examination nnd tho genornl iutoroBt manifested allowed thnt I his oouuty bus mury men who huvo studied quite carefully many of tbo phtisco discussed by Prof. Oaino in bis talka nn stock nnd slock-raising slock-raising Monday mornlrg at 10:30 Prof. Merrill called tho lohool to order, ex-pressed ex-pressed his good will toward tbo poo-plo poo-plo of this section, nud outlinod tho plan of tbo oourso. laimedlatoly after af-ter tro pecplo Bepnrntad, tho mot) oo-oupying oo-oupying tho demonstration room iu tho soioonco building, tho ladles going go-ing down to tho domestic sclenco rooms Prof Calne's ill at looturo was rpon "Soundness nnd unsounducss In Horses" and ho dlctmssod tho subject in n masterly fashion. To add to tbe Interest, the Professor hud nlongwith him storeoptlcnn views illustrating by drawings every point that ho wished to bring out Many questions woro asked by various mon relative tn tho points under dieoiiBslon r.nd much interest was shown generally in learning learn-ing tho good und bad qualities uf tbo horso. In his looturo on tbo "draft boroo" Prof. Calno not only dlcauBsod tbo tnako up of n good hoavy borso but also wont Into n discussion of tbo several kinds of draft horses. He gavo quite a history of tho Olydo horse, spoko of tho oxtensivo uou of this breed in England and Scotland, nnd gavo it na hia opinion that this breed ranks pniong tho beEt for draft p: rpceea. Prof. Oolua'a locturo on "Sheep en the Frrin" was perhaps ns Interesting Inter-esting ii hntiito an bu delivered, be-OB'iaa be-OB'iaa I e thawed bow nmull fi-rtr.Kra omild take udvunloiro of tbolr npoor-tuiiities npoor-tuiiities to raleo small numbers of thorr.pgh-l redn for tbo market nnd tlina doublo tbolr ordinary returns with tbo little extra work. Uo gnvo n hlbtmy of tho theep InduEtry, paying pay-ing pp'ole I nttontlori tn Kb dtvelnn rount in ICut?lsud and Shetland Ho declared thnt Ujoh nnka In tbo lend iu tbo fbcHP industry, only cno or two Gtttoa oxcolllng her in tbo number num-ber uf sheep nwnod. He cold oa to tho grado of sheep Utah could lake fir it pbtco, as Mr. Hanson, of Wober Co. Utah, hud tho boet bunch of i sheep Iu tbo rntlro country. Ho compared com-pared Utah ehoep with thoso of Eur-opo Eur-opo nud Scotland end said that nt tbo otnto fair hold Iu Salt Lnko Olty, Utah sheep woro superior to tho thoroughbreds thor-oughbreds of Europe, Hud took tho prlzeo In every lita;i;uro. As to breeding, breed-ing, however, bo declnrod, na n tuln Utah i look ralsres woro oomowhnt behind. Ho advised sheep mon to leiice pastures aril turn their sheep I ocio net lie nil nn them and hludorlng ibolr fre tnoieuout. Hy gettlni ufcttl g fcrco i.ml f luring barb wito nn trp a splendid ffuco could bo scoured, sc-oured, ono thnt would coulluo the (beep nud at tho snmo timo koep out tbo aoyotos that proyed so disastrously disastrous-ly on Utah sheep. By' thua lenvlug tho sbeop to themsolves tho loes In lambing could bo greatly reduood. Prof. Oalno'a advico to till small farmers was to got n small bunoh of thoroughbreds nud bolp mon with tho boat kind of broodera and wool growers. grow-ers. JIo doalured that n great dial or money could bo mndo In that way. In speaking of beef oat tlo Pi of. Oaino went into a dlsousslon nf nearly till broods of cnttlo Iu order tn show the best quulltlea of oaoh for beef puposoa. Ho discussed tho Hore-fords, Hore-fords, Jcrsoys, Holtitoitf, Durhnuis. Polnngus nud many otbor kinds that lha correspondent could uttmo if ho wnnten to, cud showod Iu each caso tho relutivo morlts of tho dlfforont outs from oaoh. Ho Bpoko further on tho feeding of animals und tho soiling of them. Ho declared that tbo more quickly you etui get your cnlmnl into shapo for beef tbo moro profitable it Ib. It is moro prolltablo to Boll a yearling than to keep tbo snmo nnl-mal nnl-mal till ho Is two yvuro old nnd theu proparo him for market. For lack of tlmo and spneo wo nro onrcpollcd to omit report of rev-urul rev-urul interesting repsloi'i. |