Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 228, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1917 — STOCK SHOW OPENS FRIDAY [ARTICLE]

STOCK SHOW OPENS FRIDAY

FARMERS WILL HAVE CHANCE TO COMPARE LIVESTOCK OCT. 12 AND 13C Jasper county’s first pure bred stock show will open Friday morning and continue until Saturday evening. The committee in charge has completed all arrangements for the two days’ show and are expecting that a great deal of good will be derived from the exhibit, for it will give the breeders of the community a chance to get together and compare their stock with that of their neighbor and see whether their method of raising stock obtains as good a result as that employed by those who use different methods from his. Other counties have been holding annual shows for the past several years and are well pleased with the results obtained. Each year the communities in which they are held find that their grade of stock isteadily improving and there is no reason why the same condition will not result here. The activity of County Agent Learning has already shown rseults. His farmers’ clubs throughout the county have aroused enthusiasm among the farmers. They have served to better acquaint the farmers with each other’s methods and materially increased the class of stock and farm products. He has been ably assisted by competent men throughout the county and there can be no doubt but that a county agent is very beneficial to a community. The entries for the show must be in by 10 o’clock Friday morning. Classes have been arranged for every type of farm animal in such a manner that grades will not have to show against pure bred stock. The horses and cattle will be exhibited at the Hemphill and Leek barns and the sheep and hogs will be cared for in the open pens back of the Leek t>arn. J. W. Schwab, of Purdue, will be the judge, assisted by P. S. Ritchey, also of Purdue. The premium list appeared in the Semi-Weekly Republicanof October 5, and" the Evening Republican of October 4.