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Show Governor to visit livestock gIi on Governor Scott Matheson Mathe-son will attend the Beaver County Livestock Show to be held at the Fairgrounds East of Minersville this Saturday, May 12th. This will be a good opportunity for people in this area to visit and get acquainted with our Governor. He attended the annual range tour last June and enjoyed it very much. All show steers and dairy cattle should be on the grounds not later than 9:00 a.m. according to Ralph Pearson, show president. The fitting and showmanship showman-ship contest for beef cattle and dairy cattle will begin at 9:30 a.m. followed by judging of the show steers and dairy cattle. After the steer judging the range bull class will be judged, followed follow-ed by judging of sheep and swine. All horses should be on the grounds by 12:00 noon with judging to begin about 12:30 p.m. Judges for the show will be: Beef, Sheep and Swine, Nyle Mathews, Extension Area Livestock Specialist, O Richfield; Dairy - Ned Zaugg, Extension DairySpe-ciallst, DairySpe-ciallst, Logan. Horses will be judged by Dr. Don Thomas, Former 'ension Horse Specialist, .ogan. A roastbeef luncheon will be served by the Minersville Miners-ville American Legion Auxi liary at the new fair building. Ribbons and premiums will be awarded to winning exhibitors, and special prizes donated by Beaver County businesses and organizations or-ganizations will be awarded at the show. Guessing the weight of one or more range bulls will again be a feature attraction attract-ion of the show, with attendees atten-dees tryingtooutguessCom -mission Chairman Howard Pryor, who has an uncanny knack of guessing the huge bulls weighing over a ton within a few ounces. He has won the contest for two years in a row, and will surely be on hand to try a repeat performance. The annual show is a pre -view of the shows to come throughout the year, culminating cul-minating with big shows and sales at Richfield and Cedar Ce-dar City, just before the state fair. While much of the stock is not quite ready for showing, show-ing, it serves as a beginning begin-ning in training both the stock and youngsters for the bigger shows later in the year. The Beaver County Livestock Show has certainly cer-tainly proven its worth as a training ground, as it is not atall unusual for Beaver Bea-ver County stock to walk off with top honors in both beef and dairy at the big shows, as well as the annual carcass contest. |