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Show SCiiLii ASL'LjL, CO-WICTKD AT UNIQUE MOCK TRIAL Although the livestock of the community com-munity was of such good quality that K was difficult to find a worthy "prisoner," "pris-oner," the mock trial of a scrub bull recently staged at Waynesboro, Pa., drew an audience of more than a club of the chamber of commerce, the Franklin County Farm Bureau, and the county agent had charge of arrangements. The trial was conducted con-ducted according to an outline furnished furn-ished by the United States Department Depart-ment of Agriculture. Local legal ti-.lent made the court proceedings realistic. The sheriff and ; his force of deputies "arrested" the; bull and otherwise aided in conduct-! ir.rf court order. j For the convenience of busy farm-j ers the trial was held at 7 o'clock in the evening. The merchants of Waynesboro held a "dollar day," which was widely advertised, with the scrub-bull trial as an auxiliary attraction. Twenty-five hundred card invitations were mailed and 500 colored col-ored posters advertised the event. The trial took place on an electric-lighted electric-lighted platform erected in the ball park. Band music added to the entertainment en-tertainment andi the services of the Boy Scouts were enlisted to handle the traffic. A dairycattle specialist from the eparlment of Agriculture acted as expret witness for the prosecution. pros-ecution. Court of Bovine Justice A jury ot 12 men rendered a verdict of guilty after hearing the evidence laid before the court o bovine justice. The prosecution showed the detrimental effect which scrub bulk-' have on the dairy industry. It then described the prosperity and other beneii.s brought by purebred bulls, and pleaded forcefully for conviction The defense consisted largely of oratory aided by music and poetry as vain resort to save the prisoner from doom. One witness for the defense de-fense failed to impress the jury whon he testified that the scrub bull was a great labor-saving device. |