Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 280, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1913 — CATTLE FEEDERS MET AT PURDUE [ARTICLE]

CATTLE FEEDERS MET AT PURDUE

Semi-Annual Meeting of State Association Attended by Over Four Hundred Members. . - Lafayette Journal. The semi-annual meeting of the Indiana Association of Cattle Feeders was held at Purdue Friday. There were over four hundred members of the association in attendance. The principal object of the gathering was to inspect the seventy head of cattle which are to be used in the annual feeding experiments at the Purdue farm. The new barn built for this purpose came in for inspection and pleased the visitors. The cattle have been divided into lots of ten each and each lot will be fed on a different kind of feed. This will continue for 150 days and at the end of that period another meeting of the association wijl be hel dat Purdue in order that the members may ascertain the results of the experiments.. This will determine what ration is best for beef cattle. At the morning session Friday Maurice Douglass, pf Flat Rock, president of the association, presided and J. E 7 Poole, assistant editor of the Breeders’ Gazette, spoke. J. T. Alexander, of Chicago, also spoke. At noon luncheon was served in the live stock judging pavilion. At the afternoon se&sion J. D. Moore, of the Chicago Live Stock exchange, was the speaker, his subject being “The Cattle Business.”