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Special Report of Committee on Show Yard Practices

Abstract

In the opinion of this committee, the tendency on the part of the colleges of agriculture to professionalize the exhibition of livestock by the purchase of prospective show animals, oftentimes in wholesale lots, should be curtailed.

It does not seem fair to the taxpayers of the state to use public funds with which to purchase animals to compete with animals owned by private individuals. Neither does it seem fair to the agricultural colleges, whose available resources for the purchase of show stock are small.

The results of the showring should be considered as a measure of ability to breed, feed and fit animals of desirable type. The showing of an animal which was bred or fitted by another is no measure of the ability of the showman as a breeder or feeder.

Furthermore, it appears to your committee that a limitation of show stock to animals bred and fitted at the colleges will stimulate the development of purebred herds and flocks at the colleges as nothing else would.