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Show Livestock Show Again Proves Highly Successful With the buyer's banquet Friday night the eighteenth annual Millard Mill-ard County Junior Livestock Show came to a close after two very successful days of exhibiting hogs, lambs and beef. The show was well attended and premium prices were paid for most of the stock in the show. The exhibitors came to the barn Wednesday with their animals for entry, bringing their project books and. ready for the judging the following morning. That day started start-ed off with the hogs, followed by the sheep, and the cattle and dairy stock. Judges were George Henderson, Marden Broadbent, and Dr. Donald Bell. They picked 16 prime hogs, 9 prime lambs, and 22 choice beef in the fat stock classes. clas-ses. Blue ribbons were given for the breeding stock in sheep, hogs, beef cattle and dairy. George Eddie Ed-die Dutson won the championship in the dairy class, with Beulah Barney taking second place. That night the annual stockmen's stock-men's banquet was held in the Delta high school lunch room, with Otis Walch as MC. At this banquet, ban-quet, members of the show' committees com-mittees were introduced, winners in various classes, the county com missioners, and J. H. Croft, commissioner com-missioner of agriculture for the state of Utah, who was representing repres-enting the governor here. Also a-wards a-wards were presented by local firms to the grand championship winners( See pictures). Friday morning the sale of fat stock began with the fat hogs with Bill Creer of Spanish Fork selling his grandchampion to the Amercan Legon Post 117 for 60c a pound. The Delmart of Delta paid Chris Hansen 70c a pound for his reserve champion. The rest of the hogs went through the ring rapidly with Dewey Sanford buying a large proportion of them at good prices. The fat lambs were sold next and Stevens and company of Delta and Fillmore paid $1.35 to Jack Larson of Spanish Fork for his grand champion. They also bought the reserve champion from Theron Johnson of Delta for $1.60 a lb. This was the second time that the reserve champion sold for more than the grand champion, because the reserve champions were sold by local boys. After a short recess the buying of fat beef commenced with the American Legion Post 117 buying the grand champion fat steer from Scott Christensen for $1.00 a lb. which is the highest price to date paid for the fat beef animal at any livestock show. The reserve champion, shown by Vona Lue Greathouse of Lynndyl, was bought bou-ght by the Delmart for 41c a lb. Other fat beef brought premium prices as the sale continued. During the sale both the Deseret News and the Salt Lake Tribune presented special awards, with the Deseret News giving wrist wat ches to the grand champions in each class, and pen and pencil set to the reserve champions. The Salt Lake Tribune presented a Jersey Jer-sey heifer to Farrell Quornberg of Scipio, FFA, and a Hereford steer to Clemont Palmer of Hinckley, 4-H. Russell Knight gave a year of Kellogg's feed to the winner of the Tribune calf. Ralph Erickson gave $5.'00 to the owner of the winning Hampshire ewe. And the H. D. Lee company gave 5 pairs of overalls and 1 jumper to winners win-ners in different classes. Turner and Draper gave a halter to the winner of the Tribune heifer. Local firms did a lot of buying at the show and most of the sales were made to Millard county business busi-ness men and farmers. They kept the prices up and the sales were conducted rapidly. |