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Show $500.00 Cash Goes to Nation's Fastest Shearer The public is going to get a chance to become acquainted with the Professional Shearer, by witnessing wit-nessing his great skill in removing the fleece from the silver horde cf the range. Fifteen of the fastest sheep shearers in the United States will fight it out on one hundred woolies apiece at Great Falls, Montana,' July 10 and 11, 1929. The first cf these fifteen men who spreads his legs to permit his hundredth chorn sheep to lunge into the finished pen, will carry a new title, that of U. S. Champ Sheep Shearer. He will also be richer by at least Five Hundred Dollars, the largest cash sum ever paid any man for shearing one hundred sheep. The chances are, he'll also win one or more of the many ether prizes, cash and? trophies, that have been posted for the First U. S. Championship Sheep Shearing Shear-ing Contest. Every man in this contest will be paid regular shearing rates for every sheep sheared by him dur-jng dur-jng the contest Each man finishing finish-ing one hundred sheep during the contest will also be presented with .in E-B Shearing Handpiece. Cash prizes will go to the five tvrn turning In the fastest time on one hundred sheep, first prize $500 2nd prize $250 3rd prize $150 4th prize $75 and 5th prize $50. The National Wool Growers Association As-sociation will give a cash prize of $100 for the best appearing finished pen of sheep, In addition, twenty Gb .". additional prizes, ranging in value from $5.00 to $50.00 have been posted for special shearing events during the course of the contest. The arrangements are such that every man who competes in this big event will participate in the winnings, as well as have the satisfaction satis-faction of working on the last run of the season. The purpose of the contest is threefold. It will decide who is the Champ U. S. sheep shearer. It will establish an official U. S. Record on shearing one hundred hun-dred sheep, and it will demonstrate In a practical way the thorough efficiency of modern shearing methods. In the United States, the shearer and his work have been unsung. Only a limited few know anything of the romance of this profession, the splendid type of men who follow fol-low it, or the tremendous feats of endurance that they must perform to qualify for the annual shearing runs. The thousands who will witness wit-ness the event in the Livestock Pavilion at Great Falls, Montana, July 10th and 11th are sure to experience ex-perience new thrills sounding the keynote of modern existence SPEED. Professional Shearers are requested re-quested to write to Contest Committee, Com-mittee, Montana Wool Growers Association, Placer Hotel Building, Helena, Montana for full details at once. They should write at once, ao entry can be arranged well in advance of the big contest. |