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Exhibits at Chicago International LiveStock Exposition Win $835Prize Money.Madison, Wis., Dec. 15th.—Prizes aggregating $835 have just been awarded to the college of agriculture of the University of Wisconsin for its exhibit at the International Live Stock Exposition at Chicago. Thirty-seven prizes amounting to $610 were awarded to the forly-three head of sheep entered by the department of animal husbandry. The swine department, in charge of Messrs. J. G. Fuller and Accola, won separately premiums amounting to $75 for nine fat hogs exhibited. The sheep and hogs combined took the first prize of $75 for the most instructive carcass or block demonstration of the principlesof breeding and feeding.GRAND CHAMPION PRIZE.A Southdown lamb owned and exhibited by the university won the grand champion prize in the carcass contest, and was sold at twenty-five cents per pound. Twenty-five of the sheep exhibited were brought back to the university and will be used for class room demonstration during the short course and the farmers’ course. Other animals were disposed of in Chicago at the highest market prices.FIRST PRIZE FOR FEEDS.In addition to $760 won by the stock exhibited by the university, the department of agronomy in charge of Professor R. A. Moore had a large booth with an exhibit of feeds and forage products, which was awarded first prize of $75. Some 120 Wisconsin long and short course agricultural students attended the exposition, accompanied by many membersjof the faculty, including Dean W. A. Henry; ProfessorE. H. Farrington of the department of dairy husbandry, Professor F. W. Woll of the agricultural chemistry department; Professor G. C. Hui./^rey of the department of animal husbandry, who acted as judge of the Clydesdale horses exhibited; R. A. Moore, professor of agronomy; and A. L. Stone, instructor in the same department; Mr. J. G. Fuller, instructor in the animalhusbandry department, who, with Professor Humphrey, was in charge of the live stock exhibited by the university.BUTTER AND CHEESE AWARDS.The eighth monthly butter and cheese scoring contest held under the auspices of the dairy school of the University of Wisconsin was marked by unusually high scores. In the cheese contest O.F. Greunke, Clintonville, Wis., took first place with 99 points for American cheese; Gottfried Vogel, Mt. Horeb, Wis., first for brick cheese, 97.83, and also first place for Swiss cheese, 95; Fred Blaser, Hollandale, Wis., first prize for limburger, 98. The average score for the total number of cheese entries was 96.98 points. ?First place in the butter scoring contest was given F. M. Werner, Waterloo, Wis., with a score of 97 points. Thomas Netland, Deerfield, Wis., was second with 96.5 and C. L. Passamore, Iola, Wis., and A. McLane, Whitewater, Wis., tied for third with 96 points. The average score for the butter contest was 92.69 points.
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Ladysmith, Wisconsin, US
Sat, Dec 29, 1906
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