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Show B.fi.C.toHo!dLivestockFieldDay To Show Farm Experiment Results The Fourth annual Livestock Field Day of the Branch Agricultural Agricul-tural college will be held Friday afternoon, October 28, at the BAC valley farm, according to Dr. T. Donald Bell, chairman division of agriculture. I Results of all tests made by the experimental station of the i college will be presented at 1:30 p. m. by the personnel in charge. Breeding and management groups will be separated for the display. Breeding groups include Targhees, Columbias and Ram-bouillets. Ram-bouillets. Management display will show the results of winter Jeeding of ewe lambs. There will also be a display showing the results of docking and castration. This includes various methods such as elastration, usual method meth-od and "All in one". One of the activities of the BAC sheep experiment program has been the improvement of range sheep and sheep management manage-ment practices on southern Utah ranges. The results of these ex-pertinents ex-pertinents will be on display during the Field Day at the college col-lege valley farm. In Its experiment program, the college has 900 range sheep, mature, and 300 yearlings. It also al-so has purebred stock, including includ-ing CO head of Rambouillets, 35 head of Hampshires and between 40 and 50 head of cattle. Since 1944, when 900 yearling ewes predominently of Ramboull-let Ramboull-let breeding, were purchased by the college, they have been separated sep-arated and bred systematically to Rambouillet, Columbia and Targhee rams, with the results being checked closely. Careful records of production and performance per-formance are kept so that it may be possible to determine which type or breed of sheep Is most 'useful for southern Utah conditions. condi-tions. Results of this year's experiments experi-ments will be on display at the farm, and statistics will be given for the various breeds. The experimental farm program pro-gram at the BAC is the largest such experiment in the country. The college has 1,000 acres of farm land, 3,000 acres of summer sum-mer range and has 20 sections of winter range which it uses through the cooperation of the Bureau of Land Management, Division of Grazing. Personnel connected with the project include Dr. Bell, Max Robinson, range management, BAC; Louis L. Madsen, head of department of animal husbandry, husband-ry, USAC; Milton R. Madsen and James Bennett, assistant professors profes-sors of animal husbandry, USAC; D. Clarence Schmutz, agricultural agricultur-al economics, BAC; Glen Wahl-quist, Wahl-quist, agronomy, BAC; V. R. Magleby, dairy and animal husbandry, hus-bandry, BAC; Ted Nelson, valley farm manager, BAC; Eldro Rig-by, Rig-by, campus farm manager, BAC and Twenty Orton and Stanley Parry, ranch assistants. Harry Lunt, Cedar City, kneeling to the left, and Dr. T. Donald Bell of the Branch Agricultural college, look over a prize Rambouillet ram which Lunt purchased at a recent re-cent livestock show. This ram, a product of the BAC experiment ex-periment program, is typical of the types which will be seen during the Field Day. |