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Show I Field Day Reports Breeding, Forage Studies Farmers and livestock men from all parts of souCorn Utah gathered at the College of Southern South-ern Utah Valley Farm for the annual field day at the college held Wednesday, Nov. 9, and were given results of sheep (breeding and forage production experiments conducted at the college in the past few years. In charge of the field day activities ac-tivities was Darrell Matthews, associate professor of animal husbandry at CSU. He was assisted as-sisted by Phil Ogden, associate professor of range management at CSU, and Wallace Sjoblom, Iron County atricuKural ajent :0'iclal.s from the c.vper.nunt station attending the field day were Dr. James A. Bennet, chairman, chair-man, animal husbandry department, depart-ment, USU; David A. Burgoyne, assistant to the experiment station sta-tion director and Dr. Warren ;Foote, USU, assistant pofessor of animal husbandry. I Selection of ewes for breeding breed-ing purposes was discussed by j Prof. Matthews, and results of the experimental use of ewes in flushing pastures, a stucij now in its third year, was explained by Prof. Matthews. The study, which involved the use of alfalfa and wheat grass pastures, produced pro-duced 25-30 per cent more lambs. Prof. Matthews said. Prof. Ogden explained plot studies stu-dies of intermediate wheat grasses, gras-ses, pointing cvt that species of this grass are desirable because good production can be realized with one or two variations. A fencing project to keep rabbits out of new stands of wheat grass wps also demonstrated by Prof. Ogden. Mr. Sjoblom showed forage variety plots in which 72 different differ-ent species of grasses have been planted. Comparisons of the different dif-ferent grasses and their reaction to irrigation practices were explained. ex-plained. The experiment programs are conducted at College of South-'ern South-'ern Utah la cooperation with the Utah State University Experiment Experi-ment Station. |