Show special livestock day held at branch college the importance to the livestock industry of utah of experiments carried on at the B A C at cedar city was emphasized wednesday when more than grew growers and aducat educators from all parts or of the state gathered there for the special livestock day program the meet meetings tage were sponsored jointly by the utah state agricultural experiment station and the B A C and m marked ked the completion of a comprehensive two ye year r beet beef cattle feeding experiment at that school I 1 the assembled livestock leaders heard plans also for a greatly expanded range management and range li livestock st it program to tie be launched immediately at the B A C in cooperation with the college at logan and the experiment station dr R H walker head of the school h 01 of agriculture pre presided sidd at W wednesdays e d ay sessions which began at 10 a m with th an informal meeting and inspection of fattened beef which have been fed in four lots of 10 head each under different rations of alfalfa chopped barley corn core silage beet molasses and cotton seed coke cake dr I 1 F edwardo edwardi head of the animal husbandry a bandry department departie dePart me vit at the US A C who conducted the experiment told of his findings finding and a summarized by urging that generally feeders in utah woula do better to feed yearlings yearnings year lings rather than calves as was done in the experiment here the calves were supplied by sate safe way stores and feeding was wait conducted to determine the advia bil ity of increased feeding in an this area dr edwards said the experiment showed that feeding ot of all surplus feeds produced was profitable but questioned the advisability of importing feed for large scale feeding programs at an afternoon i it meeting in the college oil e auditorium adt the livestock I 1 leaders adera heard bieard v mariom to us ph phases of the fattening program in utah discussed discusser both by growers and lead leaders er on agricultural promotion throughout the state C G adney of corrine president of the board of trustees express i ed faith in the ultimate superiority superior AY of utah livestock through these a experimental perne peri mental and extension programs eways interest in the beef cattle catlie industry was wait explained by glen whitlock of salt lake city and L E aults iL llison of layton led a discussion of the beef production problem in utah stating that the future of utah agriculture gri culture rests re s is with livestock E Z J fjeldsted Fjell Fiell sted sled of ogden manager ot id the ogden livestock show how said such efforts as the B A C experiment stimulated thinking on livestock td improvement 1 pro most meat vital nee need other speakers at the afternoon aftem anion session were vernal bergeson of the t e state agricultural commission state representative E H gardner of st george georg prominent washington co cattleman L E iron in county agricultural agent F frank S shelley ley executive secretary of the state at farm fam bureau federation and W W owens of logan air etcor ol of the utah agricultural college extension division immediately after th the college meeting the visitors left lef t tor or the mountain ranch ot f the bra branch h college for an inspection inspection I 1 of I 1 the newly acquired 2000 acre aa a range rang area another meeting at the as tice house in cedar canyon was igind conducted by dr walker with mayor H H lunt lort welcoming in the visitors i talks on range livestock P problems were given by joseph IM muir G garfield I 1 eld county c ty agent nd n dr I 1 fred me kensie of the utah state stat college e experiment peri ment station tati im A barbecue prepared by members of the southern utah livestock liv k association see bation and various cedar C city t y civic ic groups coups was served following the evening meeting at the ranch ra itch house home iron county record |