B\a.joring in Poultry aril •icing ” r ell. He took an average o * 9t or 
tetter in ail hi* 3 * *rrlc for the last ten';, fhe next is a dairyman 
aiii he too is a good student. A Junior and not eligil le to the 
tear., he -ap invited to accompany the stock-iudgiug team to the 
Chicago Pair last fall, but did not feel he could affc rd the expense. 
Later he did i .aye the Junior tea; in the seme line for the Port¬ 
land international and came home "ith a i. •ich coveted cup 1 c i the 
tear of which he was a member and a gold and a silver medal for his 
individual • w ork* rp he one given by the Nat. Holstein Ere«de»s' Assoc¬ 
iation and the other hy the nollge. '’’he third •oy is still too 
young to le settled, but his leanings are tr science and mechanics. 
I : av have told you that some years ago -*e h-d three botanists from 
the u. of Mich. here, '’’hey were sent to me by the u. of ’’ash. ^nd 
as Phil " r as out of schce 1 that fall "e turned tiiem over tr hii... ne 
-as then 11 and he gave nearly his rhole time to them for nearly 
f ,r o months. ■’’’hey •"'ere : aking a study of the f ungi ant Pail tr>c>< 
the; through the woods for miles around. When they -ent home they 
l entioned hi? to the curator of the V . Museum , hr. buthven, "no oy 
the ray is nor on his ray to the A, ason rith an expedition for 
the American Museum, and w rrk •*&* given him col le-ting material 
for the Museui , mostly reptiles, etc. he promptly discovered a 
ue -.r salamander and rediscovered n small frog < ;f •' r ncn tnere xere 
only one or t'* T o specimens in existence, "’hen last sum; .er ^e nad 
Ur. and Mrs. Qaige of the '•achig-n Museum here for the summer -*ith 
us and Phil assisted the; in their work* Ma?s. c. is a nation-.l au¬ 
thority on amphibians- In addition to him ~r rk f r them he has 
3one quite a little for the Amendcn Museum m Ne~ htk. I think 
likely he nil follow this kind of ni, though h« us still too 
young to be certain about his future and his habits are still very 
unformed, re are very proud of our leys, ’’’hey have grown up on 
the frontier. can you realise that west of us it is ne-,ilv . 9 miles 
