Fat Barrow Show 



Any Man Would Be Proud to Put 

 These Prize Hogs on Display 

 As Did These Illinois Farm 

 Boys and Girls in Chicago 



WHERE do the top fat barrows go that 4-H and FFA 

 kids show at county fairs? Many of them go straight 

 to market. 

 But some of the best find their way to the 

 Chicago junior market hog show and sale held every 

 year in mid-September. 



At this year's show held in the noisy, bustling stock- 

 yards, fat barrows that carried oflF the purple ribbon at 

 county, and even state fairs were pitted against each other 

 for championship crowns. 



King of them all was a plump 290-pound Berkshire, led 

 to his crown by Russell Kates, 13-year old farm boy from 

 Grand Ridge in La Salle county. 



His hog was later sold at auction to Swift for $1.20 a 

 pound, 20 cents higher than last year's champ. The sale 

 brought young Kates $348. 



A pretty 12-year old girl, Marcia Tuftie, La Salle county, 

 was the top winner in the division for pens of three. Her 

 champion pen, averaging 271 pounds per head, brought $45 

 per cwt. from a Chicago packing company. Her hogs were 

 Hampshires. 



The champion pen of five were Chester Whites shown 

 by Jerald Jorstad, 15, Kendall county. They averaged 217 

 pounds per head and sold for $39 per cwt. 



Winners in the various weight classes included Roger 



By LEW 

 REISNER 



rield Editor, 

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Chicago Daily News Phofo 



^^ Champ of the fat barrows at |unier show is this 



Borkshire shewn by Russell Kates, 13, Grand Ridge, 

 La Salle county. 



Worthington, 17, whose pen of five won the class for hogs 

 230 to 270 pounds. 



Jeanette Hubly, 16, Livingston county, showed a pen of 

 Chester Whites to first place for pens of five, 270 to 300 

 pounds. 



Billy Trainor, 11, Livingston county, showed a pen of 

 cross Chester Whites which won top spot in the class of pens 

 of three, 200 to 230 pounds. 



Jerome D. Donnelly, 12, Bureau county, showed the best 

 heavyweight pen of three with his Hampshires. Phillip 

 Trainor again won the class for lightweight individual hogs, 

 and Robert Bomkamp, 20, Macoupin county, showed a 

 Spotted Poland China hog to first place in the mediumweight 

 division. 



Leftt Marcia Tuftie, 13, La Salle county 4-H club member, showed 

 her pen of three to a grand championship In this division. Below: 

 Jerald Jorstad, 15, has sparkle In eye over winning grand champion- 

 ship award in pen of five division. He was one of ISO boys and 

 girls from Illinois, Wisconsin, and Indiana competing. 



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