The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1920-04-29
COUNTY AGENT TO
COACH TEAM HERE


STOCK JUDGING CONTEST
PRIZES TO BE GIVEN
State Contest-Recognizing the i'm
portance of interesting the boys and
girls of North Dakota in the study
and improvement of the various class
es and breeds Of live stock, the Exten-
sion Division of the North Dakota
Agricultural College cooperating with
the State Fair Management have ar
ranged for the second annual Live
Stock Judging Contest to be held at
the State Fair, Fargo, Friday July 16,
1920.
County Contests Teams from the
various counties of the state will be
selected and coached for this contest
by the county agent, the boys and
girls club leader, or by some other
county extension workers, under the
direction of and assisted by the State
Extension Division of the Agricultur-
al College. The County contest must
be county wide in nature and must
be held before July 10th and under
the same rules and regulations as
those which govern the state contest.
The three highest scoring contestants
in all classes of live stock judged in
the county contest will constitute the
county team.
Eligibility Rules
I. Contestant must have reached
the 10th and not have passed the 10th
birthday by December 1st of the pres
ent year.
2. Contestant must have not attend
ed any State Agricultural School or
any College. (This rule does not apply
to- short courses of two weeks or less }
8. No contestant shall have partici-
pated in any meat, stock or horse
judging contest of interstate or inter-
national character previous to this
contest.
4. Participation in the state judging
contest is limited to one team, COM
posed of three members of each coun-
ty, selected at county contest as di-
rected above. In case of sickness of a
regular member an eligible alternate
may be substituted.
/ 5. The coach of each team shall file
with the superintendent of the contest
one week previous to the date of the
contest, an authoritative statement
covering the eligibility of his entrants
s. Contestant may or may not be
a regularly enrolled club member, but
only club members can represent the
State at Sioux City consequently mem
bership offers a greater opportunity.
(See selection of teams.)
Superintendent-Prof. J. H. Shep-
herd Of the Agricultural College has
been appointed Superintendent of the
contest.
The superintendent will see that all
rules and regulations governing the
contest are carried out, and that the
contest is conducted with fairness and
justice to all concerned. He and his
clerks and assistants will stage the
contest taking care of all the details
connected with it, in cooperation with
the State Fair Management and the
Extension Division of the Agricultur-
al College.
Judges-Judging committees shall
consist of two members, one of which
shall be a member of the Animal Hus-
bandry Department of the N. D. A. C.
and the other a pure bred live stock
breeded of the State. There commit
tees shall pass upon the rings of stock
to be judged, determining the correct
placing, they shall also hear each con-
testants reasons for the way he OF
she has placed the ring, grading ac-
cordingly both as to the placings and
reasons on the same.
A committee of the coaches selected
by the superintendent shall select the
classes of stock to be judged.
Glasses to be judged-Four animals
shall constitute ring. They shall be
plainly numbered, 1, 2, 8, 4, two rings
each Of the following classes will be
Judged. Draft horses, lard hogs, NUT
ton sheep, beef cattle and dairy cattle
Oral reasons will be heard on one
ring of each class Of stock judged.
Selection of Teams-The team chos.
en-, to represent North Dakota at the
Interstate Fair, Sioux City, Sept. 49,
"a will be the three highest scoring
contestants of the contest who are
actual club members. They may OF
NAV not be from the same county.
The team chosen to represent NORTH
Dakota at the International Non Col
leg'ate Live Stock Judging Contest
at Chicago December 1st will be the
highest scoring County team in the