. Purdue debris. ofthe school year with eighteen candidates. From this number eightwere selected about the middle of October to make up the evening was spent in the judging of stock on the Purdue farm andpractice in giving reasons. On week-end trips, Shorthorn cattle andShropshire sheep were judged at the x-Xndrew farm, West Point; Short-horns at the Rose and Silverthorn farms, Rossville; Hereford cattle atthe McCray farm, Kentland; Belgian horses at the Stamp farm, Roach-dale, Snider farm. New Paris, and Smith farm, Boswell; several breedsof hogs at farms of noted breeders of Thor
. Purdue debris. ofthe school year with eighteen candidates. From this number eightwere selected about the middle of October to make up the evening was spent in the judging of stock on the Purdue farm andpractice in giving reasons. On week-end trips, Shorthorn cattle andShropshire sheep were judged at the x-Xndrew farm, West Point; Short-horns at the Rose and Silverthorn farms, Rossville; Hereford cattle atthe McCray farm, Kentland; Belgian horses at the Stamp farm, Roach-dale, Snider farm. New Paris, and Smith farm, Boswell; several breedsof hogs at farms of noted breeders of Thorntown and Rockfield; and inaddition, two-day trips were made to Ohio State University and the Uni-versity of Illinois. It was only by much work and the able coaching of Prof. W. , with the assistance of the members of the Animal HusbandryStaff, that the men gained the knowledge of live stock judging which putthem at the top of twenty-one agricultural colleges c()m{)eling at theInternational. •i-f 1 1 I A. Purdue at the International y^ THE Purdue Stock Judging Team won the Judging Contest of the1920 International Live Stock Exposition by a large margin withtwenty-one teams representing the leading agricultural colleges ofthe United States and Canada in competition. In the individual rating,with five men in each team, the members of the Purdue team were con-sistent and three of them placed in the ten high. The International is held in Chicago each year for one week, fromthe last Saturday in November until the first in December. The first dayof the International was entirely taken up with the Inter-Collegiate LiveStock Judging Contest. Twelve rings were judged by each rings represented the four main classes of live stock with threerings of different breeds in each of the lour divisions. Following thejudging, reasons were given on eight of the rings placed during the placings and reasons of each individual were graded by juries ofjudges and the to
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