98 TWENTY-SECOND ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART II 



Team and Individual Judging Contests 

 Around one hundred and sixty-three boys and a few girls made up 

 thirty-two judging teams and individuals consisting of county winners in 

 judging work. They had been coached in judging livestock and corn and 

 gathered at the state fair for the final test. The livestock judging teams 

 passed on two classes of draft horses, two classes of market hogs and one 

 class of dairy cattle and one of fat steers. 



The Baby Beef Show 



One of the big attractions at the dairy cattle barn was the baby beef 

 show. "A finer bunch of Hereford fat cattle has never been seen at a 

 fair or show ring," declared Mr. H. H. Killdee, in charge of the animal 

 husbandry department at Ames College and one of the judges. Mr. Kill- 

 dee also stated that baby beef club boys have proven that baby beef is the 

 most economical and profitable beef on the market today. Baby beeves 

 when finished weigh around 900 to 1,000 pounds and will run 19 to 20 

 months of age. Similar comments were heard from prominent judges 

 and breeders. 



There were over 70 calves in the Angus class, 47 "white face" and about 

 30 Shorthorns. One Angus prize steer won the grand championship again 

 this year. 



Purebred Heifer Division 



There was healthy competition in this class of club stock. Jefferson 

 county and several others brought up some fine exhibits of Herefords, 

 Shorthorns and Angus. 



Results In the Boys' Demonstration Team Work 



There were twenty-eight boys in Animal Husbandry and Agriculture 

 demonstration teams, competing for honors at the state fair this year. 

 Poultry teams lead with fourteen; five in the pig club, four in the beef; 

 three corn, and two in spraying. 



The poultry team from Appanoose county won out in the poultry dem- 

 onstration work and also won the championship over all the boys' demon- 

 stration teams and won the much coveted trip to the Sioux City Inter- 

 state Fair. Jefferson county dairy team won second. 



Club Poultry Makes a Big Show 



Last year Iowa poultry club members with the help of Mr. C. P. Earle, 

 state poultry club agent, put on a very ambitious poultry show of 650 fine 

 purebred chickens. At that time the work was organized in about twenty 

 counties and the boys and girls show attracted a lot of attention for fair 

 visitors and poultry breeders. 



This year the boys' and girls' poultry show was housed in the main poul- 

 try building as the "junior department exhibit." Mr. Earle was sent out 

 this year by the Iowa State College to organize the work in more counties. 

 Many county agents called for Mr. Earle and this year a show consisting 

 of 950 birds was put on. Mr. Earle reports seventy-eight poultry clubs 

 organized in thirty-three counties and the demand for the work in other 

 counties is growing. Fourteen demonstration teams explained every 

 phase of poultry husbandry in the boys' and girls' building. 



