The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-09-26
STATE FIRST IN
swine DIVISION
All Grand Championships al
Fair Won by Natives,
SH0RTHNRN JUDGING NOW
All Oklahoma Entries Are in
This Popular Contest,

II was Oklahoma's lucky day III the
swine division at the State FAR
grounds yesterday All grand cham
plonShips in two classes were won by
native breeders
!, remained for a group OF men com'
paratlvely new IN the Poland China
swine breeding buSlncs, to bring last
ing honors on Pauls Valley Garvin
county, and the state by holding down
three of the biggest breeders in Kan
sas to six firsts and following up this
strategic maneuvet by landing two
championships andthe grand champion
ship OF the great show,
New in the Game.
This in spite OF the fact that men
who performed the feat - McCord
brothers, K {, Gantl and Paul Bradley
are new in the game, this being Nc
Cords second year dt the fair and
CAN'T and Bradlcy's first
K A. Welch, the Red Oak breeder
kept up his end OF the game by win
ming the grand championship awatd
and this breeders performance was
important in that his SOW grand cham
pionship paved the way for McCord
brothers wallop, which ended by hold.
ing the two big prizes OF the division
within the state for the big type Po-
land-China division in the history OF
the Oklahoma State Fair.
In the Duroc Jersey classes W. A
Williams, Mapow, gave the contend
ers for grand championship honors a
knockout. Williams was strong for
Oklahoma breeders to land the coveted
puppies in both the SOW and boar enc
OF the numbers, and inasmuch as il
was his determination for the ribbons
to remain in the state he decided tC
pick them up himself, thereby maklnt
the victory over Kansas swine breeders
complete
Percheron Horses.
Oklahoma exhibitors had the field ior
! Psrcheron honors all to themselves, an
A. J. Hcnthorn, A. & NJ college, A. D
Outhier, Homestead, +. M Garner
Pawnee. + NJ. Long Kiel, and G. W
Campbell Oklahoma City, staged thu
friendly bouts for irsts and champion
ships Outhier beating the others To-
grand championship awards in both TN
stallion and mare numbers.
There were lively skirmiShes in bot
the Hereford and Holstein divisions, ii
both of which breeds the number OF en-
tries greatly exceeded those OF last year
Albcchar Farm, Independence, Kan
pulled down both the bull and co,
grand championships in the Holsteln di
vision.
Although the Judging OF the Here
iords started on schedule time at
o'clock yesterday morning, the mum
bers were no, completed late in the eve
ming. The classes were the first IN IN
ring this morning, and the awards wer
distributed principally among the whi,
face ianciers from Mississippi an
Texas, although n d. Pike, Weathe-
ford, Okla, and Commercial Land com
pany, Muskogcc, gave the visitors
tough struggle until the championship
were reached
Both me grand championship bull an
COW awards were pulled down by IN
beautiful llereiordS owned and exhih
tied by La Nerna Stock Farm, Jackson
Miss G
Todays Livestock Numbers.
The Judging in the Shorthorn clasS'
started promptly at 8 o'clock this morI
ing in the arena OF the livestock aud
torium and the overwhelming numb,
Of entries this year will necessita,c Il
awards running into the late aitcrnoo
The numbers in the classes OF this.
Oklahoma's most popular breed-a'
; confined with the exception ot a sing
, entry exclusively TO Oklahoma bree,
crs, the herds from without the sta
falling to reach this years show, b
the competition between the Soone
will be rife with interest, and the lul
contingent are out for the ScslpS
| Campbell. Patterson and lookabaug
the ccntrN Oklahoma bunch
In the swine pavilion the ScSsiD
| started with Berkshire swine, and {
| classes in these numbers will he fC
/ lowed with the TamworthS and Chest
II Whites. Decisions IN these class
/ will not be completed until late in t
II evening
II BY winning the grand championsf
II award in the Poland China hog class
II with their Sooner King McCord Brc
II PaulS Valley Okla, brought the hon
II of having been the first to win
II coveted purse to Garvin county a
II Oklahoma with big type black beau
II and the feat has placed the state in
II class OF Kansas, the grand champ
II having iloorcd the best in the herds
Il three OF the biggest breeders in Il