The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1920-09-24
Boys and Girls Club Work
Shown at the Fair
DAIRY CLUBS EXHIBIT
Splendid Showing Made at the
Mankato Expo; Great Display
Attracted Attention

esting departments Of the big Man
kato fair was the boys and girls club
work. Boys and girls made the big
gest exhisit OF their work that has
ever been made In Blue Earth county.
The big tent was filled. to overflow
ing with their products while the
stalls and pens allotted for their i've
stock were crowded. Not only were
the exhibits larger. but 1t was inter
esting note that the general quality
far SUPPRESSED that Of former years.
All departments Of the boys and girls
club drew large crowds at all
times. both men and women being
interested in all departments: It
was wlth difficulty that the judging
OF this work was completed Saturday
night
The dairy calf exhibit was the
largest and best ever made. Tween
ty- one calves Of the highest quality
were shown by boys and girls In
this project. w. A McKerrow OF
University Farm judged this work
and In doing 90 stated to the boys
Ind girls that they were already
Ebeating their fathers In the quality
Iof work they were doing. These
Who watch9d them handle their
calves In the show ring could set
papys pointer. along this Line. This
6pr63ect In divided into four classes as
{ollowa: Ftrsti year pure bred class;
second year pure bred class; first
year grade class: second year grade
class.
Lisa, Of MJpRsrs.
In the first year sS1re bred class,
George Hannay OF SAmhoy wins frst
w1kh . Holstein calf. Bisl prize Is .
free "trip to the University Farm boy:
q + score !. Of BIB, the highest score IN
thu Sptatect add therefore is the
dairy calf club champion for Blue
Earth 4 county. He will receive the
GaHdfGold engraved medal offered by
che etate Oetgymsn's association.
G1aytou YonpS bfs Nankato'wins SEQ.
Fo4t N the hrst ,ysE pure bred class
N&s b Quet1sy and rsseiyes q In
81 n tiss 3ss ,a and G Mann
G ssss.,s raised lsssSe da.rns ss! sa Eacs
win receive IS. Arthur Preis of Good
Thunder wins fourth place with Q
Holstein oAlf. His prise - 35.
Lewis Anderson of Lake Crystal
wins afth WITH AsHelstsih heifer and
Second Year Pursbred Glass.
In the second year rarebred class.
Fred STANFORD ,Mankato. wins drst
and win receive Q free trip to Uni.
ssgssy T nsld HSs: so o snon s osn
ter wins second and wfllf receive 50.
Both boys raised Holstein heifers.
In the FIRST year grade class. Donald
Brooks ofsMsnkato wins Arst with O.
Guernsey heller. He will receive a
free trip to Boys and Girls Short
Eourse. Floyd Watts Of Good Thun.
der wins second with a Guernsey ana
/, receives g. Clayton Case OF Vernon
Center wins third with Holstein
Garden. Cty. wins. fourth with a Hol-
fstein and ~rek9ise& IS. Others ex-
hibiting in THIS class were Fred
| Stanford, Waliiam, Rauchman,l Clar-
ence Prsuss, Henry Thompson. Mar
garet fHynBon, and Otto Emmler.
Each viii heceife 50 IN recognition
81 the splendid work that they have
, Mt The second year grade class
lCAyton Young. Mankato, wins nrst
With aueusey hsifer. He Her receives ssrss
Course. tiAra Olson of Spring Is
Elknd wins second with Guernsey
tand reoeivesfts. and Roy Hoffman Of
Mankato wins third with Rolstein
and receive So.
Showing Of Baby Bseves.
7 One Of the interesting features Of
boys and ygirls', club work was the
tsh6wipg Of baby beeves raised by
boys and girls. This project L. d.
Eviasd into two classes, the calf GLASS
ana the juior yearling icless: r. the
ton wins FIRST Nth Herefords heller.
| He receives a1free trip to the Junior
Live Stock show at South st. Paul
| in November and he will take his
calf with him. Kelvin LANCE OF
yanesville wins second with Short
horn and viii receive a; free trip to
re Junior Live Stock shpw; Clara
Emmler Of MAffkatoe wins third with
q Shorthorn, She also win receive
show. In the Juior yearling class
Graeme. Lang Of Mapleton wins first
!, with a Shorthorn heifer. He Will re-
ceive a free trip to the Juniorl Live
Stock show and will take his calf
! with him. Marjorie erase, Good
Thunder, wins second with q Short
horn heifer and receives a free trip to
the Jptior 1--we Stock show. She
viii also take hep calf with her.
Milford erase of Good Thunder wins
third with e Shorthorn steer, his
Stock show and he will take his calf
with him.
New Feature Introduced.
One Of the new features OF the
boys and. girls club work at the fair,
was the team demonstration contest,
This contest was open to all denon
stration teams of the country includ-
ing bred teams, sewing teams, can
ming : teams and poultry teams who
had not competed In former years.
Previous to this year this contest has
been restricted to canning only but
in enlarging 1T in this way proved of
greater interest than ever. The
bread team from Mankato composed
n Leona Peterson, Myra Jones, and
4uth Miller won first and will re-
6efve free trip to boys and girls
short course and $1b In cash. The
Medic sewing team won second and
win also receive q free trip to the
short course. This team is composed
Of Esther Weaver, NADIA Grofld and
Lucille Richard. The Good Thunder
bread team composed OF Martha
kellogg, Pearl Harnsr and Rose Kel.
logg, won third with prize of $f5.
The Lake Crystal canning team COM
posed OF Esther James. lsia Dodds.
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