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steer, selected by Professor C. F. Curtiss about a year previously 

 from a truck load at the stockyards, and fed at the College. 

 The reserve champion was also from this College. This is the 

 fourth year that the grand championship has fallen to a College 

 or Station animal. The champion steer among the Shorthorns 

 was from Purdue University, and Ohio State University took a 

 large number of prizes for swine, including the championship in 

 several classes. 



The success which has attended the exhibition of stock by 

 these Institutions has given rise to some complaint as to the 

 competition of bodies supported or assisted by public funds 

 with private exhibitors. This objection, however, does not seem 

 to have met with much support, and in discussing the question 

 the Experiment Station Record points out that, as a matter of fact, 

 the champions for the past four years have been purchased in the 

 open market at market prices, or by auction, and any advantage 

 which the Colleges may have had has been in the direction of 

 ability and not of funds. In feeding the animals no secrecy is 

 observed. The conditions are a matter of careful record, and 

 the results are, therefore, a contribution to the practice of 

 feeding. 



Their success in open competition with the best breeders has 

 had a great influence in popularizing agricultural education, and 

 has produced a striking change in the attitude of the American 

 farmer towards these institutions. Of the list of judges at the 

 Show, nine were men connected with the Colleges, and they 

 judged in nearly 150 classes. Their work was repeatedly 

 commended for the soundness of judgment displayed, and it 

 was evident that they and the College instructors and authorities 

 generally had secured the farmers' respect and confidence. 



Anthrax is a contagious disease caused by a microbe, 

 Bacillus antJiracis. Human beings and all animals are liable to 

 become infected. The disease, which shows 

 Anthrax. .^^^^^ suddenly, occurs chiefly in cattle, 

 pigs, and sheep, but is not uncommon in horses. It is very 

 quickly fatal, usually within forty-eight hours, but in the United 

 Kingdom it does not often spread with rapidity to animal after 



