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Show Smith Issues Advice To Junior Exhibitors On Finishing Animals With the Intermountain Junior Fat Stock show only a few days away, junior exhibitors who have their animals in show flesh should pay particular attention to giving a lew finishing touches to .heir animals before they enter the ring. Harry 11. Smith, Extension Exten-sion animal husbandman, advises. Calves should be broken to lead well and tauyht to stand correctly. correct-ly. By pressing a calf above ti hoof with a stick, he can be made :o move his foot until he is stand-.r.g stand-.r.g squarely on the ground, in the proper position for showing. It the animal is weak in the back he can be made to raise his Lack by scratching him on the under ,side with a sharp nail driven driv-en through the end tf a stick, Professor Smith states. Before coming to the show it is advisable to wash the calf two or three times with tar soap, which makes a good shampoo. If the an-mal an-mal is longhaired, a little time should be spent in dampening and curling the hair followed by an application of a small amount of olive oil mixed with an equal art of denatured alcohol. A hog may be improved by clipping the hairs from the inside and outside of its ears and the top of the tail, leaving a good switch. All hogs should be thoroughly washed and if they are infested with lice or have a mangy scaly skin they should be treated with crank case oil. If the pigs' toes are long they should be trimmed. Driving and handling the pig each day will make it easier to handle at the show and an animal which behaves well always attracts at-tracts the judge's attention. |