Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1916-11-17
After Very Successful Season
In competition with the finest herds in the country
Rusk county blooded stock makes big winnings

Roberts, Galloway and Ferndell herds
made the entire circuit and were,
therefore in competition nearly every
week Notwithstanding this compe-
tition, however, the Ferndel herd
was among those present in every
instance.
The aggregate winnings of the
Ferndell herd was as follows: rs
firsts; sc seconds; "A thirds; 10
fourths; 16 fifths; II championships
and grand championships. The herd
Won the diploma as premier exhibitor
at shows. They were also premier
breeder at 6 shows. They won the
Ayrshire Breeders Association cup
at the North Dakota, Minnesota and
Illinois State Fairs.
About four years ago the late
James j. Hill sent Prof. Shaw, of
the University of Minnesota, to Scot
land with instructions to bring back
the best Ayrshires he could buy re-
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time Ferndell Farms made their in
itial purchase of fourteen cows and a
bull. Since then there has been
added to the herd by purchase twelve
head. The remainder of the herd,
numbering nearly one hundred head,
have been bred on the farm. The
IN ion
with the herd winnings is the fact
that it is the young stuff bred on the
farm which have been the most sue
cessful in the show circuit Anyone
who has the price can buy a show
herd, if they have the ability TO in
diligently select the same. 1t re-
quires genius and infinite patience to
breed up a herd. The Ferndell and
Hill show herds first met at the
Grand Forks fair. The Hill herd
succeeded in winning the grand
championships on their imported bull
and COW. The Ferndell herd, how
ever, were both premier breeder and
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two herds met again at Minnesota
in competition with five Or six other
herds. The Hill herd won five flrsts
and Ferndell seven. Ferndell won
junior championship on heifer OF
it's own breeding. They also won
first on young herd and get-of-sire.
toto
junior yearling heifer, was undefeat-
ed throughout the circuit. She was
junior champion at the North Dako-
ia, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Illinois
State fairs. She is pronounced by
many competent judges as being
practically faultless in conformation.
Silver Pet of Ferndell, tWo-year-old
heifer was also moderated through
out the circuit. She was senior and
grand champion at Fargo, Grand
Forks and Sprinfield She is a daush-
ter of champions. Her great grand
dam was champion at the National
Dairy show in 1905. Her grand dam
Fair in 1905 and her dam was cham
pion at the same show in 1908. At
the wisconsin State fair Ferndell
Victor, the junior herd bull, showing
in his two-year-old form defeated
Caviliers Kilnford Ringmaster the
son of Mr.. Seltzs undefeated bull,
Bargenoch Gay Cavilier an Imp
Kilnford Bell 3rd, the cow that won
the sweepstakes over all breeds at
the National Dairy show in 1913 and
1914. At the Illinois State Fair Fern
dell's Loyalty, young bull of great
promise, was grand champion, and at
the Waterloo Dairy Show Ferndells
Trust a senior calf, won first in the
hottest kind of competition
In the show game to be success
full two things are essential: first,