Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1919-05-15
Club WINNERS TO CHICAGO

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Iowa boy and girl club champions
were to have been given a trip 70
Chicago last winter to the Iuterna
,i0nal Live Stock Show but due to
the influenza, il was Indefinitely
postponed. Those same club cham
pions are to take this delayed trip To
Chicago during the week of May rs.
Three Audubon county boys are
gong on this trip. Sam Rutherford,
winner of the LADY Beef contest /;
Harold Griffith. winner of the Pig
Club conteat and Lyle Graves, corn
club winnc will leave Audub)a for
Ames where they will Join tn, Jthey
club winners on their trip.
Special arrangements with pack
|, ing companies will be made to visit
the plants. The Union Stockyards
will be inspected, and, as e side trip,
an excursion similar to those OF
other years will be taken to Mil
waukee by way of boat on Lake
Michigan. While in Milwaukee they
will visit the stockyards there.
Accompanied by their club lead
ers, these beef, corn and pig win
ners will assemble in Ames on May
26th, where they will receive pre-
liminary instructions regarding the
trip.
While in Chicago. it is planned to
visit all places of note in the city,
including the parks, zoos and art in
stitute.
To Sam Rutherford of Ross, has
been awarded championship honors
for Audubon county in the 1918
Iowa Baby Beef Club contest con-
Quoted by the Iowa Beef Producers
Association in cooperation with the
Agricultural Extension Department
of Iowa State College and the Au-
dubon County Farm Bureau.
To win the championship young
Rutherford fed his grade Short
Horn calf for a period of 293 days.
The animal weighed $50 pounds at
the beginning and 1880 pounds at
the end, having made total gain OF
$50 pounds and daily average gain
of 2.15 pounds.
One requirement in the contest
was that each contestant write a
story and send it to the state club
leader at Ames. telling Just how the
calf was fed and handled Extracts
from the story written by young
Rutherford are as follows:
This calf was bought from a herd
of one hundred and fifty. Was fed
with little trouble, being good feed
er. The object of entering this
contest was to help produce food to
feed the soldier boys the best, and
help win victory over the enemy"
With a total yield of 70.4 bushels,
based upon a 16 percent moisture
test Lyle E. Graves of Audubon, the
Is year old son of M. ID. Graves,
won the 1918 junior corn club cham
pionship for Audubon county in the
contest put on by the Audubon
County Farm Bureau, working with
the Agricultural Extension Depart
ment of Iowa State College at Ames.
In a report which he submitted to
the state club leader at Ames, Lyle
tells how he grew his acre of corn.
In his report he says:
81 bought my seed corn in the
winter and it tested 9S percent. In
the spring / plowed and narrowed
twice and then planted my corn.
narrowed it twice after it was big
enough, and plowed it three times. "
Harold Griffith, IA year old son OF
w. H. Griffith of Audubon has been
awarded the 1918 championship as
the best pig club feeder in Audubon
county in the annual contest con-
Quoted by the Audubon County Farm
Bureau in cooperation with the Ag-
ricultural Extension Department of
Iowa State College
To win this contest. Harold took a
Poland China-Duroc Jersey cross pig
that weighed 50 pounds and fed ii
| 12O days. At the close of the con-
test it weighed 80 pounds, making
an average daily gain of 2 pounds.
The final standing was based on gain
in weight, cost of gain and reports.
Each contestant in the club who nm
ished submitted written report
along with the story of how the pig
was fed. Here is the boys own
story of his work:
81 fed my pig faithfully for four
months. using self feeder, in
which I fed shelled corn. shorts and
| tankage. also fed milk, and al
ways kept fresh water and salt be-
| fore 1t.
at also furnished him good dry
hog house, plenty of shade and pas
ture.
at was six months old at the end
of the contest. having made an av-
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