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Show THE BENCH FARMER GIVE YOUR SON OR DAUGHTER DAUGH-TER A DAIRY ANIMAL FOR FAIR TIME .... We sure had a circus at our farm the other day. Ann got the rope on that calf she is getting ready to show at the County Fair. You never seen such goir.s on as started then. The calf ran. Ann held onto the rope, and if you could of been there it would of done your old heart good Ann a slidin' all over that corral a screamin' for all she was worth, the calf a bellerin' and the dog a barkin.' I can see it yet. I guess she thought trainin' a calf would be easy. Like the first time I tried raisin' spuds. Yau know, my place is on a side hill. Well, the ground was steep and I put a sack at the bottom of each row and figured that when the spuds got ripe they would roll down the side hill into the sack. I've bought my spuds ever since. It really tickled me all over to see my daughter, Ann, working work-ing with this artificial heifer she is getting ready for the fair. When she was trying' to lead it, 1 couldn't tell who was leadin who. She really worked. I haven't been so tickled since I seen Bruce Fitzgerald crank on the second-hand baler motor when he was showing us how easy it would start. This heifer of Old Boss' just don't look too good. To start on, her one ear was frost d.i and it looks a little funny. But most of all she would look better if she could of had some of that milk Vern Bromley had stored in his bathtub last winter. Even my cows didn't look very ship shape this spring. I guess it was because as my grain started going, I started cutting their ration, and when my grain was gone and I had to start buying at the mill, they were cut again. Even Max Gardner's Gard-ner's happy smile didn't help my cows very much when ne quoted the price. Hard winters and short rations ra-tions are soon forgotten when you have lush pastures and plenty of hay. We might even sell a little hay this summer. We have already forgot that $70 hay last winter or have we? Something very sad happened the other day One of the horses of my team died. I haven't had a harness on him for a long time, but I have been reluctant' to sell the team because I hated to recognize the passing of the era of Old Dobbin. Maybe it passed for some several years ago, but others are still hangin' on to that last team. I seen Evan Howell in the drug store the other day buying spray for his horses to keep the flies off. 1 There is still one farmer who i cares enough for his old work horse to look out for its comfort. com-fort. Back to gettin' that calf ready for the County Fair. The wav Ann got pushed around by that artificial heifer of her's the other day, it seems to me the County Agent better see if he can't arrange a full course instead in-stead of a special feature at the U B I C on how to get an animal ani-mal ready to show at the Fair. The County Agent tells me that whoever is going to join in all this fun on showing dairy stock at the Fair, should contact Elmer Yergensen. I think his address is Myton. I will try and find out before next week. The Bench Farmer |