Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1916-11-30
BARABOO LAD
WINS FIRST PRIZE
ON BABY BEEF
Alvin MorIey's Steer Takes Honor
Place in wide
Contest
OTHER SAUK COUNTY
BOYS GIVEN AWARDS
All Winners Receive Cash Awards
Contestants All Under
Twenty-One Years

First prize for the best specimen
of a baby beef was awarded to Alvin
Morley, Baraboo, yesterday afternoon
at the first annual Wisconsin Boys
baby beef show in the university
stock pavilion at Madison. The judg-
ing of the stock, which was done by
J. G. Imboden of Decatur, ILL.,, took
up most of the morning. Fourteen
other cash prizes were awarded to
Ghe youthful baby beef owners.
The winning steer was purchased
Immediately after the contest by a
representative of the we'll known Lodi
breeding firm, Herr Bros. & Reynolds
The proud possessor of the silver cup
and $50 award was loathe to see his
own pet steer, which he had raised
and fed with his own hands, killed
and cut up in the exhibition today
Therefore he decided to sell it as
quickly as possible. The purchase
price was $3.50.
The exhibition was a decided sue
cess, considering that this is the first
attempt at an affair of this kind by
the Wisconsin Livestock Breeders as
sociation, which is in cooperation
off So1c NP f0ST In76
throughout the state. Ten different
counties we're represented.
Beef Demonstration
An interesting lecture and demon
stration of beef butchering was given
by T. G. Paterson of St. Paul at 2
o'clock in the afternoon. The audi
ence of youngsters were shown the
different cuts Of meat and their val
ues. The rapidity and dexterity which
characterized the slaughter and car
cass butchering was a great surprise
to the country lads.
Governor Phuipp and President
Charles r. Van Hise of the University
of Wisconsin inspected the stock
after the demonstration, and the for
mer delivered a few words Of appreci-
alton and encouragement to the fu-
ture stockmen. That he was impress
sed by the excellence of the baby
beeves was apparent by the following
words:
eff every boy in the United States
lowned as perfect a specimen of beef
as you boys have brought here today,
the food question. would be settled"
After a banquet at the Y. M. G. A.
the boy exhibitors listened to an in
teresting talk by Mr.. Imboden on
Baby Beef Production. The speaker
is we'll known throughout the west as
an excellent judge of stock. He said
that the raising of baby beef has be-
come popular because the gains are
more frequent, because they yield the
demanded smaller cuts to the consum-
er, and because it requires less CAPT
tai 70 produce this kind Of stock.
Plans were laid for an exhibition of
larger scope for the next year.
Limited to Boys Under 2f
The contest was limited to boys un-
der 21 years old, who have fed,
groomed, and who own their own
calves. Boys of all ages responded
TO the call for entrants, the youngest
being but eight years old-William
Radl, Lodi, who was the proud winner
of the fourteenth prize.
First, $50, silver loving cup, and
a free trip to the International Live
stock exhibition to be held at Chi
cago, December 2-9, won by Alvin
Morley, Baraboo; second, $40, Robert
Grey, Milton; Third $50, Lee Jewell,
Mineral Point; fourth $25, Alvin Nor
ley, Baraboo; fifth $40, A. G. Collin,
Mineral point; sixth, SIS, Walter
Hartmann, Lodi; seventh $3.50, Wen
dell Kelly; eighth $40, Howard Ros.
er, Baraboo; ninth, $3.50, Walter
Hartmann, Lodi; tenth, Floyd Grosin.
ske, North Freedom; eleventh, 81,
Howard Roser, Baraboo; twelfth 81
William A. 10y, Stilzer; thirteenth
$4, Wendell Kelly; fourteenth, 81
William Radl, Lodi; fifteenth, 81
George w. Smith, Jr., Burnett.