The Mail-Journal, Volume 5, Number 26, Milford, Kosciusko County, 2 August 1967 — Page 26

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CHESTER — Craig Tucker, Milford, holds his huge trophy and his Black Angus which won the grand champion award at the county fair

Premium List Out For ’67 Barrow Show Nearly 10.000 copies of the Premium List for the 1067 National Barrow Show September 11-13 in Austin. Minn., are now in the mail. The 76-page booklet is being mailed again this year to purebred and commercial hog producers, farm school personnel, county agents and extension directors, vocational agricuuitnral instructors, and a ho other interested persons m the United States. The Premium list describes in detail the $40,000 in prize monies awarded to exhibitors. Rules and regulations governing the several divisions of the three-day show—purebred. crossbred, truckload, carcass contest, and judging contests-are also included in the book. The final deadline for boar, gilt, and single barrow entries is August 14. 1967. Absolutely no entries will be accepted if postmarked later than this date. Saturday, Sept. 2, is the deadline for entry of truckloads of market hogs. All entries

OUR CONGRATULATIONS TO— Kosciusko County —^ Fair Association * 51st Annual FREE FAIR — — OFFICE BUILDING— Shown here is United Telephone Company’s new general office building located a mile east of Warsaw, Indiana, aye United Telephone Co. of Indiana, Inc. A MEMBER OF UNITED TELEPHONE SYSTEMS PROVIDING KOSCIUSKO COUNTY WITH MODERN, DEPENDABLE TELEPHONE SERVICE

Wednesday, August t, 1967

Auto Thrill Circus—Aug. 8

last year. Craig is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Leon Tucker of r 1 Milford.

must be postmarked on or before | this date. Opening day activities will commence on Monday, Sept. 11, and con- ! elude on Wednesday, Sept. 13. This is the first time that the National Barrow Show will be a three-day ej vent; and this important change, along with many others, is described in the Premium List. A copy of this booklet and entry blank for the 1967 National Barrow Show may be obtained by mailing a card to the National Barrow Show’. Austin, Minn. Turkey growers should examine range turkeys for chiggers. which cause skin sores, particularly on the inside of the legs, say Purdue university extension poultry scientists. Ranges can be treated safely with malathion or sulphur. Weather conditions and 1967 crop prospects will largely dominate soybean prices for the next few weeks, according to Purdue university extension agricultural economists.

4-H Livestock Auction (An Editorial) The livestock auction of the Kosciusko county fair deserves our support—and it usually has our support—but this is a reminder that another livestock auction is not far away. The county's 51st free fair is August 7-12, and on Thursday night, at 6 o’clock (that’s Aug. Ift) is another 4-H livestock auction. Two county high school vocational agriculture instructors have called our attention to the significance of popular support for the auction. For without buyers, the sale would dwindle. Ed Washier, vo ag instructor at Milford, and Dick Edwards, vo ag instructor at Syracuse, are putting all they have into an effort to encourage buyers. They are urging individuals, businesses and organizations to get together and back the livestock auction. A similar combined effort last year, when two businesses, a professional group* and a service club got together to buy the grand champion steer belonging to Craig Tucker of Van Buren township, boosted the sale price of the prize animal to an all-time high of $1.15 per pound. At this sale Milford will enter from 15 to 20 steers, 30 to 50 hogs, and Syracuse will enter at least 10 steers and six hogs, Washier and Edwards said. The 4-II program is a good one, especially in a county that boasts of having the largest agricultural income of any county in the state of Indiana. Not only does the raising of animals by these youngsters encourage a healthy farm pursuit, in many cases it provides these energetic youths with an opportunity to earn their own funds for further education. We feel the county 4-H livestock auction deserves real support. We hope such support is forthcoming again this year.

INDIANA’S WHEAT ALLOTMENT SET Indiana’s 1963 wheat planning allotment annouunced by the Agriculture Department is 1,435,717 acres.

This compares with 1,652,379 for 1867. Secretary Orville L. Freeman announced the national allotment at 59,300,000 acres, compared with 68,1195,000 for this year.

IW £ ~<4B® *|i pP I m ■&&L. MISS SILVER LAKE—This year’s .Miss Silver Lake in the fair queen contest is Susan Thompson, the pretty daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Cole Thompson of Silver Lake. Susan is five feet, six inches tall and weighs 115 pounds. She has brown eyes and dark blonde hair. Miss Silver Lake will be a senior at Warsaw in the fall. She likes to water ski and sew. but, enjoys all outdoor sports. After high sehool | she would like to be an air line j. stewardess. ~ UST DEPARTMENT HEADS FOR FAIR Department heads for the 1967 county fair have been listed as follows: Horses—Superintendent, Dale Sponseller. Etna Green: secretaries, Don Hostetler. Dale Lowman. Cloid Swartz and Jerry Clase, Warsaw, Cattle — Superintendent, Myrort Metzger, r 2 Claypool: dairy cattle secretary, Emra Stookey, r 2 Milj ford. Sheep—Superintendent, Freeman i Gruenewald, r Warsaw; secretary, Wilbur Latimer. I Agriculture—Superintendent, Forest Bouse; secretary. Wayne Senger. Fine arts—President. Mazie AlexI atlder; vice president, Mrs. Ab Shively: secretary, Mrs. Gerald McKelvey; and treasurer, Mrs. Bette Lou [ Latta. Dehorn dairy calves when they are two or three weeks old. remind Purdue university extension dairymen.