The Delta independent., 1921-01-21


Kansas Agricultural College 1881
University of Minnesota 35O6
Ohio State University 2474
Colorado Agr. College 3450
Pennsylvania State College 3446
Texas Agricultural College 3435
Oklahoma Agricultural College 3431
Macdonald College, Quebec 84O6
University of Saskatchewan 1884
Ontario Agri. College s349
University of Missouri 1886
University of West Virginia 32S3
University of Wisconsin 3277
Kentucky State University 1851
South Dakota Agri. College 1904
Syracuse University, New York 2914
Mass. Agricultural College 2726
New Mexico Agricultural College 2667
Professor ]. H. Shepherd of North
Dakota has been superintendent of
this contest for fifteen years, and has
developed a very efficient staff of
assistants The students judged twelve
classes of stock-three of horses;
three of swine and three of beef cat
tle-both market and breeding classes
being judged. The coaches selected
the stock to be judged, drawing for
places on the four committees and the
first four classes to be judged are in
the rings by in the morning The
contestants are divided into four
teams and are under the charge of as
sistant superintendents. They are al
lowed twenty minutes to Judge the
rings, make all necessary notes and
turn in their placings before being
moved on to the next class. BY the !
time the four classes have been judged
by the four separate squads, another
set of four classes is ready to move
into the ring, and by the time the
twelve classes are judged, it is usual
ly 200 in the afternoon. The contes-
tants are then taken to dinner for
which they have been ready for some
time, and following that, begin to give
reasons to the judges for the placing
they have made on two out OF every
three classes.
The contest has grown so large that
it has become necessary to have a
committee of judges for each ring OF
stock on which reasons are to be
given. This committee is made up of
one college Judge and two breeders.
When a man comes in to give his rea-
each Of the three judges grades him
on a score of fifty.
The three grades are averaged by
the clerk and recorded. In the mean
time grades have been made out for
every possible placing Of the classes
and this grade is also recorded on
the students card. Sometimes only
two points may be taken off for
switching very close pair. while II a
bad defect has been overlooked and
an inferior animal placed up, the grade
may be cut 80 to 40 points out OF
possible fifty.
utes each, and allowing for some
waste time, 1t Is 700 or 500 o'clock
in the evening before the students
are thru. and the work of tabulating
the scores begins in earnest Several
adding machines are kept in commits
sion and as soon as the scores begin
to come in, the superintendents
assistants begin their tabulating. Come
times it is morning before these
grades are all checked over and veri-
fled, some of the men going to bed
for a few hours while others run the
machines. So interested do these men
become in the results OF the contest
that they have to be forced TO take
time off by Dean Shepherd.
Charles Stoker Of Delta, Colorado,
was high man in the Colorado team.
standing fourteenth in individual
scores and standing fifth among the
105 contestants Judging swine. John
Goe OF Denver ranked twenty-second
and Harold Lasceles OF Seagirt, N. j.,
was forty-first man. T. J. Snyder Moab
Utah, SEVENTEEN and Charles McLain,
seventy-second. The college was fifth
in horses, sixth In swine. eighth in
sheep and seventeenth in cattle; be-
ing from the West, the Colorado men
picked little more for size and
strength than for smoothness and
type and went down for that reason.
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