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\merican Agriculturist, July 5,A924 , 1“^ _ ’ 
We Need Competent Judges at Our Fairs 
livestock Men Look to Them for Ideals of Type-Room for Improvement 
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By MARK J 
MINERAL!!, 
.COMPOUND 
FOR 
. T3 A/iait'K i qmITH We will say* that a breeder of registered 
E XHIBITORS of livestock are now tfy JViAKJA j. Oivuir sheep has fitted a commendable show but 
making plans and looking forward j o nPT1 0 f on show day it is revealed that the judge 
to the time when they shall hear the click- by a “ heading State fairs is a versatile man, who judges all classes 
ing of the steel rails under them as they livestock at a y ts and the of sheep and perhaps the poultry and one 
h on a water-barrel and gaze out upon and who listens to e C TX the rank or two other classes of livestock, 
the country through the box-car door, nature of Amlvica.n citi- After the first class is shown the exhib¬ 
it has been my privilege to cross the and through the barn. A tor who is a keen judge of judges has 
continental divide when on an eleven-day zens JiP kman ° nce brought out sized up the judge and thereafter shows 
trip in a “ side-door pullman and I hope well-u , that this ignorance his animals regardless of merit as he him- 
that I may be permitted to do so again, this fact and stated that ^ it Lt brings them out as he 
Fortunately for the fairs, the showrng to is the thinks the so-called judge will like them, 
of livestock is a fascinating business, was § re{ ^r u , 1 -[ lustration he I n such a case as this what benefit or 
With the approach of loading out tune— case in Engla . . , c i a i me d would education are the onlookers to receive. 
„ the man who has exhibited stock, there crted ^'“d bZZ It seems hardly possible but I have been 
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MINERAL REMEDY CO. 451 Fourth Are., Pittsburgh, Pa, 
CATTLE BREEDERS 
onlookers the pre¬ 
miums often look 
large but when it is 
realized that the re¬ 
muneration is for a 
year’s work and 
often longer the 
show - ring from a 
financial standpoint 
becomes less inter¬ 
esting. 
Breeders exhibit 
their stock at the 
fairs for several rea¬ 
sons—no doubt the 
leading one is for the 
purpose of advertis¬ 
ing and selling stock. 
Another benefit, if 
not purpose, is to 
keep p o’s t e d and 
learn what people 
■ want in the way of 
type. It serves also 
to take the conceit 
out of a man when 
he sees what the 
other fellow has 
“Breeders exhibit their stock ... for the purpose of advertising ^ 
posted and learn what people want in the way of type. 
were sh'own and 
“judged.” This was 
surely highly in¬ 
structive for the 
members of the ring¬ 
side, who were striv¬ 
ing to add to their 
pure bred livestock 
knowledge. 
The State appro¬ 
priates money to 
foster agricultural 
fairs and I have long 
felt that if prizes 
offered by fairs are 
too small, the real 
object for the appro¬ 
priation of this 
money is defeated. 
Insignificant prizes 
do not attrac£ good 
stock that is 'worth 
inspecting and that 
will have an inspir¬ 
ing effect upon the 
spectators. Very 
often the pens will be 
$10 Down Buys 
HOLSTEIN BULL 
We offer for sale several wonderfully bred 
registered Holstein bull calves on the in¬ 
stallment plan. Prices from $50 to $100. 
This is your opportunity to get a pure 
bred bull. 
Write for particulars 
HENRY MORGENTHAU, Jr. 
Fishkill Farms 
Hopewell Junction, New York . 
1 nr GRADE H0LSTE1NS T C K 
I/O AND GUERNSEYS TOl JdlC 
AND GUERNSEYS 
?o head ready to freshen, 100 head due to 
freshen during March* April and May All 
large young, fine individuals that are heavy 
producers. Price right. Will tuberculin test. 
A. F. SAUNDERS, Cortland, N.Y. 
BROWN SWISS 
_ . . . 1 _ rnu rt 
Accredited herd of high producers. The year 
completed in Dairy Improvement Association 
we had high cow and high average herd. Herd 
Bull: Lucile's Milater of Lake View 9744. 
Young stock for sale at reasonable prices. 
J. E. CULLINGS & SONS Pavilion, N.Y. 
_ _. after believing for Shorthorn caUle at a leading . she 
several months that his stock would be ^^petition and if not they can bring in their 
hard to beat. Irecall hearrng A. J. Love- whatbjreedof .cattle they mg^, at small expense and rece.ye the pro- 
the man who showed the Champion 
/-vc' AT 'D two-year-old Lucky Farce 
ONE Or OUK Reg. Jersey heifers has just 
sms a wwfcffa !«■' 
S. B. Hunt, Hunt, *• 
SWINE BREEDERS 
petition iUlU 11 ttvoc eucj --- 
kdir’ixcse- 'and! Sk 
Its rV ed way effitire,y 
Sa The1obt that I havlbeen coming to is does not care to go to a fair and spend time 
that if our fairs are to do justice and serve looking at sheep or other livestock that is 
niciiu, c-uiiuiL m -v v , . 1 t i +i ie exhibitors and 110 better than the stock he has at home. 
prove and progress. On the other hand J he [ r rmblic-as outlined above. State fairs have competent judges as do 
fairs -are held to entertam, to educate and to the genera p . the better class of County fairs nowadays 
to serve as an inspiration to the public, competent ] 8 “T he judge but there is great room for improvement_ 
In this country our general public is woe- stock must P 1 ^ much ab J t the amon g many of the lesser fairs that are 1 fi7 — PIGS FOR SALE—167 
aSvestol taftl tZls he is judging as do the exhibitors, attended by thousands ot people. I 1 
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herd of Berkshires at the World’s Fair in 
Chicago, say that to most people their 
ducks looked like swans. < 
So we will say that stockmen, m the 
main, exhibit in order that they may im¬ 
prove and progress. On the other hand 
Feeding Pigs for Sale 
100 Chester and Yorkshire Crossed 8 weeks old 
$5 00 each 56 Berkshire and Chester Crossed 7 
to 8 wetks old. $5.00 each.. 31 Pigs 9 to 10 weeks 
old $6 00 each. Sold subject to your approval. 
If not satisfactory, return them at my expense. 
No charge for crating. 
MICHAEL LUX 
9 Lynn St., _ Woburn, Maas. 
Clippings from the Sheep Shearer’s Bench 
J PRESUME Mr. Seely sees some very 
- tired nights,” observed a neighbor as 
he watched Mr. Albert Seely as he sheared 
sheep for me this spring. Mr. Seely, 
veteran sheep shearer of this section, 
replied that he had not experienced them 
as yet. Each morning, before breakfast 
he was out and sheared a sheep or two and 
did not stop until the daylight was gone. 
ft is crowding along toward sixty years 
since Air. Seely’s grandfather taught him 
to shear but he has shorn sheep each sea¬ 
son regularly for the past forty years. In 
the season of 1923 lie clipped 4210 head. 
On his week-end traps to his home he 
finds his mail piled up like a bank presi¬ 
dent’s—everyone wanting their sheep 
shorn within the next few days. His dates, 
however, will take him through June and 
probably some of July. 
Some sheep shearers shear sheep 
throughout their lives and yet know no 
more about sheep husbandry than a di\- 
good s clerk but not so with ^lr. Seely 
he has been a close observer and has a 
good memory. A much-discussed subject 
is the number of sheep that a good man 
can shear in a day Mr. Seely said that 
the most he ever sheared in one day was 
86 head—in two lots owned by different 
men, Shropshires and Southdowns. 
It is a fact that all men do not want 
their sheep shorn at the same time the 
time that the lambs come and the 
amount of feed and facilities for keeping 
the sheep comfortable all have to be con¬ 
sidered. Some very prominent sheep men 
will not have their sheep shorn until June 
as they say they lose money by early 
shearing. It takes warm days to bung 
the oil up in the fleeces—on the other hand 
the lambs do not do as well when nursing 
ewes in warm weather that are can\ mg 
long fleeces. In the case of my yearling 
ewes Mr. Seely thought they would have 
shorn a pound more a head if they could 
have gone a month longer. All sheep 
were inclined to shear dry this spring 
because of the lack of warm days. 
Along in February and March Air. 
Seely goes out and tags ewes for sheep- 
men that intend to shear late after the 
lambs have come. Unshorn sheep when 
turned out on soft grass will become very 
filthy and maggots will often cause trou¬ 
ble. * Mr. Seely believed that of all reme¬ 
dies for maggots that had come under his 
observation, oil of tar and chloroform to be 
the most effective. Sometimes in a brush 
pasture the backs of the sheep vv ill not 
dry out after rams and maggots will 
hatch out. 
So-called grub in the head in sheep is 
caused by the gad-fly depositing the 
young larva* on the nostrils of the sheep 
the young grubs crawl up into the sinuses 
of the head and the irritation results. In 
flv time sheep are restless and bothered 
trying to dodge the flies. It is an old rule 
to put tar on the noses of the ewes to 
repell the fly for this very reason—Mr. 
Seely said to take a piece of two by four 
and nail a board on each side of it so as to 
make a little trough two inches wide and 
deep enough so that the sheep’s noses 
will about touch bottom—place salt in the 
bottom of the trough and smear tar along 
the edges of the boards—in this way the 
placing of tar on the sheep’s noses will be 
taken care of by the sheep. 
Mr. Seely believes that the wool-box 
is the neatest way to do up wool and espe¬ 
cially so for use with fine wool fleeces— 
wool from sheep like Oxfords and Shrop¬ 
shires can be rolled up very nicely. The 
wool trade likes what they call a “lofty” 
fleece—lots of wool for the weight of the 
fleece. Wool when tightly packed in a bin 
or box will often gain in weight in that 
respect wool is not like some farm prod¬ 
ucts. If packed in too damp a place it will 
discolor and mildew. W ool absorbs mois¬ 
ture. I have seen the figures regarding 
the increase in weight of a large shipment 
of wool from the arid western States to the 
seaboard. I believe it was enough to 
practically pay the transportation. 
Air. Seely shears on a bench and shears 
by the head— Mark J. Smith. 
Yorkshire and Chester cross Berkshire and 
Chester cross 8 to 9 weeks old. price So each. 
Pure bred Berkshires, also Chester Whites sows 
or boars 7 weeks old, price $6 each. I will ship 
any amount of the above lot C.O.D. on your 
approval; no charge for crating, Safe delivery 
guaranteed. A M _ LuX 
WOBURN, MASS. 
206 Washington St. Tel. 1415 
Big Type Polands Breed ll 
T\ror*t tp dnqp nnt, stirnlus stock to make room. 
Greatest 
Hogs 
Want to close out surplus stock to make room If you 
swer tills'A<L Ilmclaud get real Bargain. Best Breed¬ 
ing. Registered^ Write 'OHIO 
Registered O. I. C. and Chester White pigs. 
Eugene P. Rogers, WayviUe, N. Y. 
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