The Daily Star Mirror

MAKES GOOD SHOW RECORD

Idaho Stock and Judging Teams Lead Western Colleges at Livestock Expositions

In a current issue of a western agricultural paper, E. J. Iddings, dean of the agricultural department of the University of Idaho, writes at some length of the records made by student judging teams and stock shown by the college. He says in part:

In the past five years there have been 16 different inter-collegiate stock-judging contests in the territory west of the Rockies. The University of Idaho, through its department of animal husbandry has been a participant in all but one, a dairy judging contest held at Portland in 1913. In the 15 inter-collegiate contests where she has had teams or individual students entered, the university has won nine first out of a possible 15. In most of the contests from three to five teams were competing.

The Idaho team this year has won the western stock-judging championship, having won two out of the three contests held in the western Pacific states, at North Yakima, Washington, Lewiston, Idaho, and Portland, Oregon. The competing teams were the agricultural teams of Washington and Oregon, and Idaho.

In the showing, the university record has been even more conclusive. Of the eight grand champion steers that were awarded at Lewiston and Portland, open to agricultural college competition, Idaho has won seven against all college and other competitors. Of the five grand champion steer awards made at Portland, Idaho has won five in succession. Of the eight grand champion wether awards made at Lewiston and Portland open to college competition, Idaho has won six and has never fallen below reserve to grand champion.

At the Pacific International Livestock Exposition at Portland this year Idaho won the purple award of grand champion steer with a two-year-old pure bred Hereford, Bonnie Lad. Bonnie Lad was of the university's own breeding and sold at 45c per pound of $747. The Idaho grand champion steer of last year, the pure bred Short Horn, Benefactor, won at Portland with the strong herd of the University of California as the chief contender.

One of the steers that had to take less than the highest honors at that time was California Jock, recently reserve champion at Chicago. Benefactor this year as a two-year-old was good enough to win championship honors at the Iowa state fair at Des Moines.