Iron County Record | 1957-01-10 | Page 9 | Extension Service, College Plan Wool School

Extension Service, College Plan Wool School A wool school, to present wool selection and grading and selec-i tion of sheep classes for wool production, has been scheduled, at College of Southern Utah. The Utah State Extension Ser-vice Ser-vice and the college have been included to help provide information infor-mation requested from representatives repre-sentatives of the Cedar Livestock Association as well as from individuals. in-dividuals. The association is cooperating co-operating In setting up the program pro-gram with Eddie Larsen, president presi-dent The school, which Is to be a 1 part of the CSU night education program, will be held each Tuesday Tues-day 1n the Agricultural Science Building at 7:30 p.m. according to Wallace Sjolom, county agricultural agri-cultural agent. A minimum fee is to be charged and credit will be allowed if registrants want It. Those who attend will work with wool samples to determine grades and various qualities. Later, study will be conducted with the sheep maintained by the college and Experiment Station Sta-tion to determine methods of production for greater yield of wool. A follow-through is planned plan-ned to lead the study through shearing of the sheep so that final evaluations of the fleece can be sought. This will be an eight-week course under the guidance of Prof. Darrell Matthews, assistant professor of animal husbandry, who is working on the experimental experi-mental sheep project, and Russell Rus-sell Keetch, sheep and wool specialist spec-ialist of the Utah State Extension Exten-sion Service. Class will be held for about two hours each week.