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Show County Growers Place Well At Cedar Show Saucer Five Ranch Wins Several Special Awards for Fine Boars The Cedar City Livestock Show held last week end brought returns re-turns in ribbons and cash awards t o several Washington county growers, but perhaps the happiest happi-est junior exhibitor was Brooks Taylor, son of Bishop and Mrs. Byron H. Taylor, who topped the honors for 4-H club entries in the pig division, reports Anson B. Call, county agent. Wins Two 'A' Gradings With two pens of porkers and one single, he won an 'A' grading on his single and one pen, and 'B' grading on the other, and won second place on his gilt, first place going to a young Stanworth boy of Hurricane. At the conclusion of the show, Brooks disposed of his pigs at good profit, says Mr. Call. On-his On-his individual barrel he realized 20c per pound for 270 lbs. One pen of three pigs weighing a total of 780 lbs., sold at 24c per pound, and a second pen of three totaling 720 lbs., sold at 18c. These were top prices says Mr. Call, adding that 14c" is an average price for such exhibits. The 270-lb. single was purchased by Reed Smith of Cedar City; Nelson Packing company com-pany paying 24c per pound for the one pen and Utah Parks the 18c per pound for the other pen. In the cattle division Evan Woodbury of St. George took first for his Hereford two-year-old bull. E. S. Gardner, Pine Valley took first for aged cows; Evan Woodbury, Wood-bury, second, and Paul Hafen, third. Special awards in the exhibit of pigs outside of the 4-H class went to the Saucer Five Ranch, who took first place with their purebred pure-bred Duroc boar, and first with their junior boar; also first 'with their Berkshire boar senior and first with their junior Berkshire. (Continued on page eight) Cedar Livestock Show (Continued from first page) The exhibit from the Saucer Five Ranch was pretty much in a class by itself, according to the report. The Saucer Five also walked off with honors at the recent Utah State "Fair, with their Duroc hogs, their ribbons including first on junior boar, first and second on junior' sow pigs; second on aged boar; second on their young herd. Breeding from such stock as Beverly Chief Duroc, Sturdy Built All-American Senior Boar of 1942, prize Berkshire stock from the LT. S. A. C, and grand champions of national record, the Saucer Five Ranch is building up a herd of merit, and plan to go far in this work in southern Utah. |