Grading up Beef Cattle at Sni-a-Bar Farms 5 
Foreign agricultural officials, officers of farm organizations, county 
extension agents, and representatives of the meat-packing industry 
likewise have seen, in the public exhibitions, the marked improve- 
ment of cattle through purebred sires. 
For convenient examination by visitors on demonstration days the 
foundation stock and subsequent crosses have been placed in a series 
of pens, plainly marked and placarded with a description of the ani- 
mals. When the total number of cattle in a class is too great to show 
conveniently, average specimens are selected. Animals for exhibi- 
tion are taken directly from pasture or feed lot, just as the animals 
of any stock breeder would be shown to visitors. In keeping with 
the educational purpose of Sni-a-Bar Farms demonstrations, the 
management has furnished in recent years programs containing 
Fie. 4.—Shorthorn bull Prentice 1005345, with calves which he sired. These calves, 
like others raised at Sni-a-Bar Farms, were early maturing and of good beef type 
descriptions of the various groups of stock, with appropriate 
comments. 
The program for demonstration days commonly includes short 
addresses, luncheon, and inspection of the demonstration cattle. 
Schools in the locality dismiss their agricultural classes to permit 
students to attend the event. The accompanying illustrations show 
typical scenes of the annual demonstrations, held usually about the 
middle of October, to which the public is invited. 
COMPLETE BREEDING RECORDS KEPT 
As before stated, additional cows are purchased from time to 
time as foundation stock to take the place of those culled out or dis- 
carded because of advancing age, thus permitting continued demon- 
strations of a complete series of crosses. By the fall of 1922 the 
breeding stock at Sni-a-Bar Farms had increased to more than 1,000 
