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Show Ml. Pleasant Youth Wins Trip To Chicago Stock Show Donald Drage, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Drage. Mt. Pleasant, senior student at Utah State Agriculture Agri-culture college, has been named .tah winner of the annual Swift college essay contest for 1944 and will attend the Chicago Fat Stock show and carlot competition, and participate in a market study program Dec. 10 to 13 in Chicago, 111., according to word received Wednesday by Dr. R. H. Walker, dean of the U S A C school of agriculture. The winning essay, "livestock "live-stock Marketing Losses," discus: dis-cus: ed faulty handling of liva-slock liva-slock and the loss of millions of dollars that result from these practices. Pointing out tnat precautions must begin with the livestock producer, the writer suggests that when the facts concerning livestock marketing losses are fully appreciated, the next step is for each memDer of the livestock live-stock and meat industry to establish es-tablish and follow some reasonable reason-able set of rules for preventing sucn losses. "Careless, indifferent and wilfully wil-fully poor handling of market-bound market-bound livestock by growers, carriers, car-riers, yard employees, commission commis-sion form and packer employees is, in reality, an act of sabotage against the livestock industry and against the entire national food supply," he wrote. The contest, open to all students stu-dents enrolled m the school of agriculture, is sponsored by Swift & Co. The winner is a-warded a-warded an opportunity to participate par-ticipate in a market study of livestock and meats. Essay subjects sub-jects must be on some phase of methods employed by the meat packing business In marketing meats, poultry, eggs, butter and cheese. |