The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1916-10-26
CATTLE GIVEN
TO UNIVERSITY
Lincoln Memorial Receives
Nice Present from Friends
in the North

An important shipment of dairy
cattle has been received at Lincoln
Memorial university. This shipment
is the donation of friends of the
school in Ohio, and consists of Hol-
stein Jersey and Aberdeen-Angus
stock. In all twenty calves were
given.
The university is rapidly building
up a valuable dairy industry on its
CTS acre farm, and this industry
serves both as a means of educating
the students along agricultural lines,
and as the means by which a number
of students earn their way through
school. To encourage this work, and
to enable the university to carry out
it's mission in developing the region in
which it is situated a number of Ohio
men have contributed these twenty
excellent calves. A number of the
finest herds in Ohio are represented.
DR.. Hartman, proprietor of the
Hartman dairy farm at Columbus,
who has three hundred cows and one
of the best equipped diaries in the
United States, gave two good Hol-
stems. Mr.. E. S. Kelly, proprietor
of the famous and up-to-date White
Hall stock farm, near Springfield,
gave two fine Holsteins. Mr.. j. E.
White, of Greenfield, who has one of
the best Jersey herds to be found,
put in a fine young Jersey. Mr.. P.
H. Flynn of Xenia who has herd Of
excellent stock at Trebeins, gave a
good Holstein. Mr.. H. M. Allen,
owner of the Sweet Springs dairy
farm of Troy, put in two good
heifers. Mr.. H. W. King, who is
running a model farm equipped with
high grade stock at Mentor on Lake
Erie, put in a good young Holstein.
Mr.. W. F. Foos, proprietor of the
Twin Oaks dairy farm of South
Charleston, who keeps high grade
cattle, put in good Holstein. A
number of generous friends contri-
buted to a fund, and purchased six
good Holstein heifers. These came
from the excellent herds of Newcomb
Bros, at Burton, and Albert Shank,
at Alpha.
In order to start the herd of Aber-
deen-Angus cattle on the farm of the
school, good calves were contributed
as follows: Mr. Frank L. Parrett,
proprietor of the famous Beaumont
stock farm of Aberdeen-Angus stock
at Washington Court House, gave
fine bull. Mr.. Roy Hagler, Wash
ington Court House, owner of fine
herd of Acknowledgements, gave one
good heifer. Mr. Mart Mccoy, of
Washington Court House, whose Abb
erdeen-Angus steers took the worlds
two years price at the International
stock show at Chicago, gave one fine
heifer. Then one good heifer came
from the herd of Mr.. B. F. Turnbull,
of the Cedardell Stock
Farm at Cedarville.
All of the Aberdeen-Angus stock,
and most of the others are registered
or are eligible for registration. This
shipment represents many of the best
and finest herds in Ohio, and some
holding worlds records. They will
be a great asset to the school.
With the shipment of cattle was
included a fine Duroc-Jersey boar, |
the gift of Mr.. H. P, Clevenger,
Cuba, Ohio. This boar is a descend
ant of the great Defender" one of
The very best of Duroc-Jerseys.
The University farm has just fin !
shed filling it's 215 ton silo with
corn. The corn is very good, and the
will have fine lot of en-
;ilage for the winter. Another
smaller silo is still to be filled.