| Show SUCCESS CROWNS LAMB FEEDERS DAY AT MONROE talk of lamb and experiment station for monroe in spite of the fact that the fourth annual lamb feeders day at monroe friday saw the first day of winter after 40 days of sunshine monroen monroes Mon Alon roes streets were gaily decorated and the energetic lamb feeders carried out the day days s events on schedule and rejoiced because of the fact that the snowfall on the desert would mean much to range sheep and in the fact that the market was strength ed by a half cent a pound during the last week the weather however had bad its effect on attendance the crowd which made the tour of the feed yards was not so large a as s it was last year and only people attended the meeting in the afternoon the crowd partaking of the roast lamb luncheon at noon was swelled by the attendance of all the students from the grade and high school school who joined the grownups grown ups in in declaring the roast to be the best they had ever tasted the hot roat roast lamb sandwiches were generously distributed at 1030 a m the experiment station on the farm of alma magleby Alag leby conducted by the utah experiment station in cooperation with the lamb feeders was visited lamont lament experimental feeder explained the ratio of feeds bein being 9 used for lambs in the 12 pens later the feed yards bards at the farms owned by aa A W magleby cleve cieve winget john magleby nephi nielson and binning goold were visited A W Alag magleby leby chairman of the committee on oil arrangements conducted the meeting which wa was s held in the north ward chapel immediately following the luncheon mayor lucian winget welcomed the visitors the speakers were hugh harvey president of the utah state Wool growers association J al mcfarlane president of the utah cattle association david smith manager of the utah fruit and vegetable association IC C ikeler manager of the ogden union stockyards stock yards H roland cashier of the monroe state bank james C sharp of the deseret national bank of salt lake who spoke on the banks helping through I 1 the monroe state bank to finance the lamb feeders charles redd of monticello who is feeding lambs on a commercial basis this year for the first time and who attended for the purpose of getting ideas on the best feeds and ways of feeding and S R boswell county agent who read a number of letters from prominent men expressing their regrets at not being able to attend among the letters one from governor george H dern mr harvey spoke of what his association is doing for the she sheep ep business in the line of cooperative marketing and the promotion promote on of greater consumption of lamb mr mcfarlane spoke of similar activities on the part of the cattle c at growers association and of its efforts to interest the western cattle marketing association to include utah in their group mr ikeler highly commended the monroe lamb feeders for the fine cooperation they have given those in charge of the lamb feeding experiment station during the pas past three years mr reviewed the growth of lamb feeding in monroe mr stated that lamb feeding was started in monroe about 25 years ag ago the first weathers were fed by alma magleby the first lambs lambb pastured and sold in the pasture by J E Alag magleby leby and later on a large scale by austin probably 1500 lambs were all that were fed at monroe in early carly years the industry nas now developed on such a 1 birc irge scale isle that lambs are being fed at monroe this year the feeders have profited by their experiences perien ces they have learned to cut earlier and cure better their alfalfa hay for feeding purposes that they can raise barley which is is practically as good as corn com for feeding they have found by experiments that it pay to grind grain because the lamb continued on page 4 success crowns lamb feeders day at monroe friday c continued on page 10 can grind it cheaper that it has not been profitable to grind hay with it nor buy syrup to mix the experiment ent feed beet pulp pull station that has been maintained three years year s b has as substantiated the past the findings of thi the feeders that alfalfa hay and barley make mak e the best co combination for lamb feeding mr air also r reported that considerable work has been done toward getting federal aid for an e experiment station for both lambs and cattle to b be e erected at mon blon roe with a view to experiment not only with feeds hut but with di dis eases common to cattle and sheep Alu musical numbers for the meeting in consi consisted sted of a selection bythe high s school chool trio under direction of eldon tuft a violin duet by max alax larsen and barbara selections by the high school band a selection by a quartet e t compo composed ged of mrs airs vera sm smith th mrs airs gen e vieve eldon tuft and arthur baker ani and a vocal solo by eldon tuft accompanied compa nied by joan swain the lay day ended with a big dance at night in the stake pavilion |
