Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-12-22
)WOOL GROWERS
IN CONVENTION
MEN WHO RAISE SHEEP FOR LIv.
n ING MEETING At COMMERCIAL
D. CLUB ROOMS.
GOOD TALKS AFEATURE
preventative Workers In the Pro
ductlon Of Fleece Address Their
Fellows on How to Best Con-
serve Their Products.

The Iowa Sheep Breeders and Wool
Growers association is today holding
y forth in the Commercial association
rooms in the annual convention OF the
h organization, which dates back twenty
eight wears. With the exception OF
few years, convention has been held
each year since its organization IN
1882. Ottumwa has been host to the
! association for several years and TO-
day entertains a larger gathering or
~ the sheep men than at any OF the pre-
81 yious conventions. Speeches by prac-
#tical men whose association with the
III business of breeding sheep and selling
wool gives them the right to think IN
teiligently on the subject are being
made. The meeting opened at IL
o'clock with an address of welcome by
Norris Williams, of the horse market,
and this was followed by the address
81 the president, G. w. Moore OF.
! Cedar, The minutes Of the previous
| meeting and the reading OF the reports
Nfeatured the morning session and left.
as much time as possible for the
practical talks on sheep and wool that.
chara cterizes the afternoon and even:
Ing sessions.
The program of speakers includes.
some well known sheep men and
among them are men who are identi-
fed with agricultural colleges of Iowa
\ and Nebraska, as we'll as with agri-
Aultural papers. Growers of practical.
Experience and the representative OF
3he packing industry are also on the
program.
The afternoon program opened with
talk on Experiments on Feeds for
Sheep by Prof. w. ]. Kennedy, vice
director of the experiment station OF
Ames. The Importance Of this talk
was readily appreciated by the sheep
men present and keen attention re-
warded the efforts of the speaker
! while he detailed to his hearers the
results Of experiments that have been
made with sheep to find the best feeds
for the woolly focks. The talk, which
teemed with useful information for
the man who raises sheep, covered
the feeding for the sheep in its vari-
Gus stages of life and conditions under
which it is raised. The breeding as
well the feeding of the flock was
touched on and the flushing Of ewes
received the attention Of the speaker.
The type of food to produce the best
success with the sheep and the man
ner Of its application was gone into
as well as the rations fed; the care
3of the lambs and the varying types of
foods fed with their results. In fact
the address was full Of the findings in
countless experiments covering q long
period made by the state experiment
station in which the speaker has
personal participation and to which
he had access owing to his afhliation
with the state service.
T. D. Foster, director OF John Nor
rell & company packing firm, made
an address on the sheep industry from
the standpoint of the packer, and his
observations dealt with the COM
mercial side of the sheep and lamb
as the butcher sees it.
"The needs of our association" is
the theme of an address to be de-
livered by A. j. Blakely this afternoon,
after, which booster talks and a vote
on the resolution which is to be drafted
and sent to the legislature for more
stringent laws, dealing with the
menace dogs are to sheep raising, will
take up the time. The election of
officers will close the afternoon pro-
gram
The evening session will contain
talks on Dogs vs.. Sheep by w. S.
Merritt of Seymour, and why Breed