Bill Werthlngton of Livingston county it 

 shown at the International exposition with 

 his grand champion Hampshire barrow. 



ILLINOIS showmen with their 

 blooded stock and samples of plump 

 grains captured more than a fair share 

 of the championship crowns at the 47th 

 International Livestock Exposition held 

 early in December at the Union Stock- 

 yards Amphitheatre in Chicago. 



City folks who viewed the blue- 

 bloods from the nation's farms with a 

 mingling of awe and envy saw more 

 than 10,000 prize cattle, sheep, hogs 

 and horses valued at $5,000,000 parade 

 before experienced judges. 



Champion junior showmen, the 4-H 

 kids from prairie, range and plantation 

 country, felt for the first time the glare 

 of limelight as reporters, photographers 



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and newsreel cameramen exposed them 

 to quick bursts of publicity. 



Throughout the show lUinoisans up- 

 held their state's prestige as a producer 

 ' of hogs and grain by winning more 

 than their share of blue ribbons in 

 these two divisions. 



One of the three big honors in the 

 junior division was won by Bill Worth- 

 ington, a 19-year-old, one-armed farm 

 youth from Pontiac in Livingston 

 county. 



Bill showed his 228-pound Hamp- 

 shire barrow, "Mike," through the 

 junior swine divisions to win the grand 

 champion award in the barrow class. 



Young Bill, an uncrowned hero of 

 the livestock show, lost his arm at the 

 elbow last April when a shirt sleeve 

 caug^ in the power take-off of a pul- 

 verizer plow. 



Worthington, a veteran 4-H club 

 showman, said he fed "Mike" on corn, 

 oats, buttermilk, minerals and Blue Seal 



Illinois won top soybean honors when H. L. 

 Stiegelmler (above) of McLean county 

 was declared the show's soybean king. 



protein supplement. Blue Seal feeds 

 are sold by the Illinois Farm Supply 

 Company, and Gordon Worthington, 

 Bill's father, is a Livingston County 

 Farm Bureau member. 



Herefords, a new breed of hogs de- 

 veloped largely in Illinois, were shown 

 at the International for the first time 

 this year, and in the fat Hereford swine 

 contest, the champion barrow title went 

 to Yalehurst Farms, Peoria, and the 

 reserve championship to Stephen Ashley 

 of Yorkville. 



Reserve Corn King champion went 

 to Edward W. Doubet, Hanna City, 

 who showed a yellow dent hybrid vari- 

 ety. He is the Illinois corn breeder 



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It taices a good strain to produce champion Steele. Here's the proof. Grand champion Angus bull, Eileenmere 500, and his offspring, 

 exhibited by J. Garrett Tolan of Pleasant Plains, Sangamon county, were chosen as best group of 10 Aberdeen Angus at Chicago's In- 

 ternational Livestock Exposition. One of his daughters. Blackcap Tolan ISO, was judged grand champion Angus female. 



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