The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1909-07-16
A Calf of Breeds
II il Saffron Hued and May take Prize
at Spokane Fair

It is Saffron Hued and May take Prize
at Spokane Fair
"What you've got that saffron
calf tied up to the fence for in the
blazing sun this whole blessed morn
ing, can't see; not for the life of me-"
said Mrs. Bill Lubkins last Saturday
morning.
Mrs. Luhkins had emerged from the
kitchen, where she was preparing the
noon meal for the Lubkins family,
as Bill Lubkins, strolling across the
yard from the COW corral, leaned
broad and apologize shoulder
against the tottering rail OF the
shack stoop" Of the Lubkins man.
sion: ten miles from the town of
Spedinger, due south.
Mr.. Lubkins rubbed his shoulder
against the rail and spat from his
mouth fragments OF straw. He did
not directly answer his wife's re-
mark.
''She's part Holstein, and Here
ford and Jersey, and strain of
Galloway" said Mr.. Lubkins mus
ingly. "And old Struckel says she's
Dutch Belted along with the Hol-
stein. There was Guernsey too. III
that old Ruth cow, as we always
allowed. even If the Spokane Fair
folks said not; and what old Ruth
was her Calls got to be. That's
reason amt it. So she's Holstein
and"
Mrs. Luhkins screamed as the
twelve months heller, whose coat OF
sad, reddish brown had won the ap-
pellation Of saffron. playfully kicked
loose rail from its precarious posi-
tion in the cow corral. But Mrs.
Lubkins did not scream because Of
the accident to the fence. Her out
cry was explained by the accusing
finger that she pointed at the saffron
heifer.
whats that bucket OF water do
ing there, Bill Lubkins," she gasped.
you mean to say you're a-washing
that CALI"
"She's going to the Spokane Inter
state Fair" said Mr.. Lubkins stur-
Oily.
ITO the Spokane Fair. And what
are you entering her as. being-- what
breed, l mean, has your fool head
picked out for that ornery CALI"
demanded Mrs. Lubkins.
THAT ia for others. for them that't
paid for the work, to find out"
responded Mr.. Lubkins, and he
winked one eye oracularly at his
wife. 81 guess John Smith and Pro,
fessorMcDonald can do some figuring
up to Spokane when the calf lands
there. may enter her az Jersey. l
haven't made up my mind yet
Mr.. Lubkins stared moodily at the
saffron calf; for an interval OF such
exasperating length to his wife that
she wrathfully shook him by one
shoulder.
II was aegoing to enter her for
class; for her gen ral built and shape,
taking her by and large" said Mr..
Lubkins, gently detaching himself
from his wife's clutch. "But it's just
as you say, Sadie. ''I'll unite her and
go down to the barn.
"But what l was thinking of main
ly," said Mr.. Lubkins, retracing his
steps after unloosing the saffron
colored heller, twas OF her looks in
the livestock parade. You remember
the parade last year, with oil the
sight of people looking down from
the grandstand at the Spokane race
track, Sadie. And the big bulls
with blue ribbons, snorting at the
red ribbons. And how old Stuckel
was 40 swelled up over his beating
my Hereford Ben with his old Dick
that, by heck, could "a wrung his
scraggy old neck for him. l do be-
lieve our little heifer-if she scraped
through the judging-would cut some
dash In that parade this wear.