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Show T& JjvestockJ .dSituaxionJ From whence do our live stock producers come ? This is the question that is of general interest to the producer pro-ducer and consumer especially in these days when the youngsters are taking such an active part in better live stock production; for instance, the fifteen year old Iowa boy who had the grand champion steer at the Chicago International Live Stock Exposition. Ex-position. This young man is the son of a cattle feeder and personally selected sel-ected a calf out of his father's herd, fed and fit him to win the highest honor obtainable; receiving $9,000.00 in cash for his effort which is a world record price, It is also worthy of mention men-tion that a school mate of this boy had the grand champion steer carcass car-cass at the International which sold at a record price. This story is all the more remarkable when we realize that these youngsters were in competition com-petition with veteran cattle feeders and several State Universities. It will be interesting to watch the career of these boys. At the recent Los Angeles Live Stock Show, a matronly woman residing, resid-ing, iri the own of Maywood who happened to see a new born calf in one of the feed yards with its mother, enroute to a packing plant, took the calf home and fed it corn meal mush and condensed milk. As it grew she used cottonseed meal, barley and alfalfa al-falfa to bring it up to beef maturity a that at the age of less than twelve months this calf in a class of eight won third place and was a splendic example of feeding and fitting performed per-formed by a woman who had had nc live stock experience but who, as i result of this effort, is now enrollec as a regular producer. A large number of high schoo boys and girls throughout the westen states are feeding live stock as a par of their school work and are taugh ta select the kind of animals tha will develop into choice beef, porl and mutton. ' It is through such work that : greater interest in better live stocl production is aroused. It augurs wel for the future of the live stock busi ness when wo see such an Inferos jljryW ia haprwvTCg ti qualitj of our meat food supply by these youngsters. Through the development of live stock shows throughout the West, the quality of our live stock is rapidly improving and the youngsters young-sters are leading; the way. It is interesting to note that in one large union high school in a rural district, an agricultural club made up of boy and girl students has become be-come the largest breeder of a certain type of hogs in the entire state. When we remember that California alone is sending about $50,000,000 annually largely to Eastern states for her pork supply, the value of interesting in-teresting these young folks of the West and Southwest in hog production produc-tion may be realized. Another in- stance might be cited showing the in terest of the young p?op!e in better live stock. The bright.-! boys an;' girls from 42 hitch schools fror.i &V. parts of California engaged in a live ; stock judging contest in the recent ; Los Angeles Live Stock show. This : was the largest contest c.t its kin-: ever held in the state and is anothe: indication of increasing interest in improving our meat food supply. The first appearance of a woman's: judging team was at the Los Ar.geles Show this year- Our junior colleges are also taking part in this work and five teams from such organizations participated in the judging at the Los Angeles show. There is still room for the boys and girls as one of the most important things lies in the identification of cuts from meat food animals. It is noticeable that at the International :jthe girls beat the boys. The public generally knows very little lit-tle about the food value of meat cuts and apparently we have an opportunity opportuni-ty to so educate the rising generation as to overcome this deficiency, important im-portant to every household. : o |