Illinois Leads All States 

 at International 





Farm Bureau Members 



Win Many High Awards 



Illinois led all states in the number of 

 blue ribbon awards at the 1935 Inter- 

 national Livestock Exposition. And Farm 

 Bureau members in this and other states 

 captured the bulk of the coveted prizes. 



It was fitting that a 4-H Club boy, 

 Cleo Yoder, of Johnson county, Iowa, his 

 father a director in the Johnson County 

 Farm Bureau, should win the highest 

 prize of the show, the grand champion- 

 ship in the open steer classes. Cleo, an 

 18-year-oId lad, has had six years in 4-H 

 Club work. This year he chose a pure- 

 bred Angus for his entry. The Scotch 

 judge said his calf was "the best steer 

 to win the prize in ten years." Sold at 

 $3 a pound, the steer returned its owner 

 nearly $4,000 including prize money. 



Karl Hoffman of Ida Grove, Iowa, an- 

 other Farm Bureau member, took first 

 in the heavy carlot Hereford class, and 

 first in lightweight carlot hogs with 

 Hampshires. Frank Norrish, Whiteside 

 County, 111. Farm Bureau member won 

 sixth in lightweight carlot of Herefords 

 with very fast competition. Eighty-one 

 carloads of fat cattle passed the sifting 

 committee. Both Hoffman and Norrish 

 are patrons of the Chicago Producers. 



Among the exhibitors from 34 states 

 and Canada, who placed animals or crops 

 in the blue ribbon and championship 

 classes, Illinois stockmen and farmers 

 won a total of 47 championships and 

 110 first prize ribbons. 



To J. Garrett Tolan, of Sangamon 

 county. 111., went the high honor of 

 exhibiting the grand champion winner 

 m the Aberdeen-Angus bull classes as 

 well as the best ten head of this breed 

 shown by one exhibitor. Another Illinois 

 purebred beef cattle breeder, J. C. An- 

 dras and Sons, of Scott county, ex- 

 hibited the champion Hereford bull, Don 

 Axtell 16th; and Kenneth S. Hawkins, of 

 Kendall county, was a blue ribbon ex- 

 hibitor in the same competitions. 



H. P. Olson, of Knox county, took both 

 the male and female grand champion- 

 ships of the Red Polled cattle show on 

 members of his exhibition herd; and 

 John Thomas Adkins, Morgan county, 

 and Bruington Brothers, Warren coun- 

 ty, had top winners in the Milking Short- 

 horn contests, Adkins showing the grand 

 champion cow. 



Edellyn Farms, Lake county, the 

 property of Thomas E. Wilson, Chicago 



FIRST PRIZE COUNTY ©ROUP OF THREE ANGUS CALVES IN JUNIOR FEEDING 

 contest, 1935 International, from Mercer County. Lawrence Morgan, left. Kad the channpioa 

 Angui tteer !n the 4-H club show. 



packer, were heavy winners in the Short- 

 horn cattle classes, and Haylands Farms, 

 Christian county, had a first and third 

 prize award in the Shorthorn carlot fat 

 cattle show. 



Illinois draft horse breeders were par- 

 ticularly successful in the Belgian, 

 Percheron, and Shire competitions. H. C. 

 Horneman, Vermilion c o u a t y, was 

 awarded both the stallion and mare 

 grand championships of the Belgian 

 show on members of his show string, and 

 one of his entries won the King Albert 

 Cup, presented by the Belgian Horse 

 Association at Brussels for the best 

 horse of this breed at the International. 



R. C. Flanery, of Edgar county, was 

 a blue ribbon exhibitor of Percherons; 

 and G. Babson. a newcomer among the 

 draft horse exhibitors at the Exposition, 

 won many of the highest awards in the 

 Shire horse classes. Mr. Babson's farm 

 is in DeKalb county. 



The champion draft gelding over all 

 breeds was for the third successive year 

 the imported purebred ClydesdaU geld- 

 ing, King, a star member of the Wilson 

 and Company exhibition six horse team. 



Lawrence Morgan, Mercer county, was 

 awarded the breed championship of the 

 4-H Club show on his purebred Aber- 



deen-Angus steer. Billy Cahill, of Piatt 

 county, showed a first prize Angus 

 bullock, as did James Padgett, and Ne«l 

 Sherrick, of Adams county, led out a 

 Shorthorn baby beef that headed the 

 line of middle weight steers of this 

 breed. ♦ 



Mercer county made the best showing 

 in the competition for county groups of 

 three steers from a state, with first and 

 third. A trio of calves from Adams was 

 in second place, and the winning Mer- 

 cer county group took the championship 

 over similar first prize groups from 

 other states. 



The champion barrow of the junior 

 contest was shown by 19-year-old Robert 

 Lemans, of Greene county. He won the 

 award on a Hampshire that was sold 

 before the Exposition was concluded for 

 25 cents a pound to the Stock Yard Inn, 

 Chicago. 



Illinois youngsters also figured promi- 

 nently as exhibitors in the carcass 

 classes. Betty Parkman, a 4-H Club girl 

 from Mercer county, showed a purebred 

 .\ngus steer that on slaughter yielded 

 the champion beef carcass. Weighing 

 664 pounds, it was sold at auction to 

 the Hotel LaSalle for 31 c«its s 

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JANUARY. 1936 



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