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Show Aristocracy of Farm and Ranch Gather in Bid for Top Honors at Live Stock Show lu wcslern Newspaper Union.) CHICAGO.-Aristocracy of farm and ranch will foregather foregath-er m a spectacular display at America's largest live stock and farm show, the Internationa Interna-tiona Live Stock Exposition, held this year November 29 to December 6 in the International Interna-tional amphitheater at the Chicago Stock Yards. Famous throughout the world, the show celebrates its 42nd anniversary as the country's premier showing of the meat-making breeds of ive stock, draft and pleasure horses, and farm crops. Under Un-der present conditions, it also takes . world precedence for size and importance among all events of this kind. Officials of the exposition report that earlier predictions that the total number of animals to be exhibited ex-hibited this year would exceed the 12.000 mark have been realized with the closing of entries. A final tally of the exhibits discloses a huge increase over last year's entry. It is reported that an all-time record rec-ord entry has been set for three principal breeds of beef cattle that will be featured the Shorthorn, the Hereford, and the Aberdeen-Angus, which yield the main supply of the nation's finpst monc Swine Exhibits Large. There are also big increases in the swine exhibits this year, with six of the eight breeds in this division divi-sion showing large advances over 1940, and the total is the highest in many years. The draft horse entry en-try of approximately 400 head, and the sheep entry of nearly 1,000 head, compare closely with the showing in these two departments at the 1940 show. Visitors at the coming exposition will see 1,000 or more of the finest horses of this country and Canada which will include ton weight draft horses of five different breeds as well as riding and driving horses that will be exhibited in the famous International Horse show which will be held every evening and on four afternoons during the eight-day run of the exposition. . Owners of the leading tables of three and five gaited saddle horses, harness horses and ponies, and roadster horses have listed their finest specimens for these competitions. compe-titions. Each of the International Horse Show programs will also feature fea-ture trick riding and driving performances, per-formances, a demonstration of sheep herding by the national champion sheep dog, parades of prize-winning draft horses and beef cattle, led by a kilty-clad band of bagpipers, plus the thunderous paces of huge six-in-hands of draft horses, shown by the packers and brewers. Illinois Top Entries. Illinois leads all of the 35 states and Canada from which entries are received, the management announces. an-nounces. Prospective exhibitors from 60 Illinois counties have registered reg-istered entries. Iowa is second among all the states in county representation, rep-resentation, with entries from 51 counties, followed by Indiana with exhibits to come from 33 counties. All past records have been far surpassed in the number of prime steers, lambs, and pigs exhibited in the junior classes of the show by farm boys and girls from 10 to 20 years old. The entry is over 700 E ' W t Here's a youth a mite too young to have an entry in this year's exposi-on exposi-on but he's busy helping his father, AHw Atlanson of Wilson, 111., get a nure-bred Shorthorn ready for com-Petition com-Petition representing the Ede.lyn ifrZ, one of Illinois' 1941 record Above at left is shown Lucille Ehende, Sheldon, III., with her champion Angus steer at the 1941 Illinois state fair, which is entered in ' competition at this Live Stock Exposition. ,At right above is another 1941 entry, Herbert Her-bert Rees, Pleasantville, Iowa, winner of championship at the Iowa state fair this year. At right below is last year's "Corn King," Charles Fischer of Shcl-byville, Shcl-byville, Ind. His "crown" and that of all former winners are again at stake in this year's record rec-ord entry show in Chicago. head, an increase of nearly 50 per cent over any past year. A tribute to the skill of these young people is the spectacular success of one of their number at each of the past three successive shows, when the grand champion steer over aU breeds was exhibited on two occasions occa-sions by a girl and once by a boy, all under 18 years old; and six times within the past 13 years the grand champion steer has been exhibited ex-hibited by youths under 21. The 12,000 or more animals that will be exhibited this year by owners own-ers from nearly every state in the Union and province of Canada will compete for awards that carry with them more than $100,000 in cash prizes. It will require the services of 65 of the continent's leading live stock, horse show, and farm crops authorities to name the winners. Canadians Will Judge. Chief judging task goes to W. L. Carlyle, noted Canadian stockman of Calgary, Alta., and to J. Charles Yule of Carstairs, Alta., who will together judge the individual steer classes consisting of well over a thousand entries. Mr. Carlyle was formerly head of the animal husbandry department at the University of Wisconsin and was successively dean of the Colorado, Colo-rado, Oklahoma, and Idaho State agricultural colleges. He is now manager of the duke of Windsor's Canadian ranch near Calgary. Mr. Yule is well known to American Amer-ican stockmen as the judge of the steer classes at the International show last year. The climax of their work, after three days of preliminary judging, will be the naming of the grand champion steer from among the thousand or more beeves that will be shown for this honor by scores of cattle experts, young and old. It will be the third time in the past 40 years that a Canadian has judged the steer classes at Chicago. Chi-cago. At all other times, cattle experts ex-perts from England, Scotland and South America have officiated. Six other Canadians will act as judges this year, five in the sheep classes of' the exposition, and one in the small grain classes of the International Grain and Hay show, the latter ranking es the world's largest competitive farm crops show. This feature' is being held for the twenty-third time in connection connec-tion with the Chicago exposition. Grain and Hay Show. The crops contest annually attracts at-tracts a showing of several thousand thou-sand samples of the current year's harvests in competitive classes that include corn, small grain, seed and hay. Growers of the championship cham-pionship crop samples in each division di-vision are named "Kings" of that particular crop of the year. Officials Of-ficials of this division announce that championship , exhibitors will be guests of honor of the exposition at a banquet for champion growers to be given at the Saddle and Sirloin club, famous stockmen's club at the Chicago Stock Yards. , Farm youth will take an important impor-tant part in the programs of the opening week-end. As a pre-open-ing event, championship teams of boys and girls from 20 or more states will compete on Friday, November No-vember 28, in a Junior Live Stock r '"fj ff' -1 Judging contest, in which finalist winners in state-wide judging contests con-tests earlier in the season will compete com-pete for national honors. The contestants con-testants will all be either 4-H or Future Farmers of America club members of high school age. The Chicago Association of Commerce Com-merce will award three agricultural college scholarships to the three highest ranking individual participants partici-pants in this contest; and one of the large Chicago packers will present $100 scholarships to the three individuals in-dividuals who score highest in judging judg-ing cattle, sheep and swine. A similar contest is being staged for teams of agricultural college students. Last year 31 state agricultural agri-cultural colleges sent teams to compete com-pete in this event which has been a feature of the International Live Stock exposition since .the initial show in 1900. A great many of the leading live stock judges and live stock farmers of the present day obtained their first actual judging judg-ing experience in training for and competing in these contests. 4-H Club Congress. For the past 19 years, the National Nation-al 4-H Club congress has been held annually in connection with the Chicago show. A permanent 4-H Club building stands adjacent to the International Amphitheater at the Chicago Stock Yards, where the winning state exhibits in 4-H work will be on display during the week of the exposition. It is anticipated that 1,450 farm boys and girls (rom 45 states will take part in the Twentieth National congress, representing top winners of the current year in state-wide contests in which 1,420,000 rural youths, now engaged in 4-H work, participated in the preliminaries. They will visit Chicago on free all-expense trips to compete in contests con-tests that will determine whom among them will be the national champions of the current year in 4-H accomplishment. According to officials of the congress, 11 national contests are planned this year. Most of these events will be judged during the opening week-end of the show, and the winners will be introduced to exposition visitors at the International Horse show. At this time, the entire congress delegation dele-gation and their leaders, numbering number-ing Over 1,600, will parade. Leading them will be a team of eight ton-weight draft horses, featuring fea-turing four matched pairs of geldings, geld-ings, each symbolic of the fourfold four-fold club standard: "Head Heart Hands and Health." Highlighting the procession and ceremony will be two 4-H bands, one from Douglas county, Nebraska, consisting of 60 members who have completed their fourth season sea-son of concert work the other from Calumet county, Wisconsin, a band of about the same size that has been organized for 10 years. New features-of the 1941 congress will include a 4-H wool exhibit of fleeces produced in sheep and lamb projects, and a Boys' Sheep Shearing Shear-ing contest. This event will be open to any youth under 21 years old who has had some previous shearing experience. It will be held as an adjunct to the National Sheep Shearing contest, which has been a feature of the Chicago show for the past four years. Sheep Shearing Title. Top professional shearers and amateurs from all parts of the country annually compete in this event for the national shearing title. Awards Erre made on the basis of speed, plus efficiency in handling sheep and fleece, and absence of cuts. The International sales of prime beeves, lambs and hogs are famous sources of supply for the choice meat cuts in demand for the holiday holi-day trade. Hotels, restaurants, the railroads, and clubs, the country over, are the principal buyers. |