A livestock school will be held at Amelia Courthouse. Thursday. Feb 19. It will be one of a series of 32 such events, which were ■ heduled during January and February for livestock growers of Virginia. Purposes of such sell >ols are to create interest in good live tock and to present useful infor mation on breeding, feeding on 1 i management which will help ••rowers in their operations Sneakers mi the program will be ~>em!-er^ of the extension staff of Mi" Animal Husbandry Depart ment of VPI The fir"t speaker on the pro ■’rarn. which will begin at in a. m.. ■ !1 be George C. Herrin ■ .-■■vine ■pcnalist, who will first discuss Mie livestock situation and the uitlook for meat animals in 1953 He will then give a talk, illustrat ed with slides, on practices and methods in successful ho; produc 1 ion. "Reap With Sheen" is the title of an illustrated talk which will be given by George A. Allen, sheep specialist, at 11 a m. Mr. Allen ' ill discuss the place of sheen on '’irciniu farms and how thev fit, in with the growing of other live stock. The successful practices employed by the winnei s in the 1952 Virginia Reap With Sheep Contest will also be brought out by Mr. Allen. The afternoon program ’■•ill deal entirely with beef rattle. "•liich have expanded rapidly in numbers in Amelia countv in re cent years. Curtis Mast, beef cattle specialist, will discuss different types of beef cattle production, urh as the growing of feeder ■alvcs and steer feeding. He will emphasize the practices needed in ; producing quality feeder calves md new methods wintering and j finishing steers. Marketing Your Cattle" is the .title of the talk which will be •men by K C. Williamson, beef attic marketing specialist He will r a flannclgraph ill show ing who buys Virginia feeder calves, prices of different grades and other in • formation pertaining to the feed er calf sales program, through I which more than 20.000 calves ! were marketed in 1952. He will 1 discu.-.N. also, marketing of other types of cattle

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