The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1921-04-29
CALVES FOR THE YOUNG
Purebred Animals Were
Presented Youths

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SCENE AT FAIR GROUND
National Citizens Bank Com
bines Its Efforts With the
Farm Bureau
Officers and directors of the Ma
tional Citizens bank CO operating
with the Blue Earth County Farm
Bureau have taken the initiative in
Ia movement which means much in
the future development of the live
stock industry in Blue Earth county.
This is financing project by which
Twenty head of purebred Guernsey
female calves and twenty seven head
of female Holstein calves were pur-
lchased in the state of Wisconsin at
a cost of $500 to be distributed
among the boys and girls of the
county on easy terms. The average
Iprice of the calves distributed yes
terday al the live stock pavilion was
about $16S including transportation.
The calves are sold to the boys and
girls on one years time at six per-
cent interest. The calves were dis
posed of to the boys and girls of the
bank on the condition that the pro-
per care of the animals will be look
ed after during the summer, and that
each of the calves will be exhibited
at the Mankato fair this fall in COM
petition with other calves in the
same class, and they further agreed
to offer the calves for sale at the
Mankato live stock pavilion at auc-
ton, the date of such sale to be de.
termined upon by the boys and
girls club agent, the boys and girls,
and the officers of the National Citi-
zens bank. Should the boys and girls
at the end of the year wish to bid in
the calf themselves and further de-
velop the animal, the bank will
make such arrangements.
Professor l.. " Wilson of the ex-
tension department of the state uni
versity, purchased the calves men
selected herds. All of the calves are
beauties, and were secured at an
average price of about $16S each in
Guiding shipment to Mankato. They
are all September and January and
= February calves. Mr.. Wilson stated
that the DANES and sires of the
calves are all animals of high tests
George w. Sugden, vice. president
of the National Citizens bank. JUS
before the drawing of the calves by
numbers said that the institution he
, represented had always been inter,
ested in the live stock movement. II
had conceived the idea OF financing
a calf club two years ago, but hao
gotten started too late, for then il
was impossible to find the right
number of calves. This year in con,
nection with the cooperation o.
,. County Boys and Girls Club Agent
NJ. III. Coe, the project had been pu
over, and the money has been loaned
to the boys and girls in order tina
they make a start in the livestock
industry. This will be something tina
will be well worth while. The officer:
t and directors of the bank will cal
on the boys and girls during the
summer and aid them in every wa!
3 possible. In closing, Mr.. Sugden urge'
:, every boy and girl 20 seek the de
e yeIopement of the prize calf.
f County Boys and Girls Club Agen
:, Coe reminded the boys that the BLU
y Earth county calf club is the larges
: in the state. They should take pride
e in this and bring the development o
h young animals to the. very hlghes
standard possible. They should MAKE
= up thir minds to be winners, but
doing this be good losers.
S. B. Wilson, president or I'M
t Guernsey Breeders association, II
- addressing the boys and girls pres
ent and their parents, said that n
considered the movement initiated
: by the National Citizens bank ant
v the Blue Earth County Farm Bureau
q as one of the most important and ia
e reaching to be inaugurated here 10
: many years. The speaker said tina
r he hoped that the boys and girls will
" put forth every effort to develop TIT
: calves they take home with them t
v the highest degree.
q Professor L. V. Wilson of the uni
yersity farm was outspoken in hi
c praise of the work of County Boy
t and Girls Club Agent Coe, who hal
!. brought the local club up the high
q est standard in the state.
The BOYS and girls who were al
? loted calves of the Holstein breet
: yesterday were as follows:
Asa Abbott, Bennett Peterson. Mil
= ton. Truwe, Ralph Mccormick, Fret
Miller. Vernon McElroy, Herman
Graeber, Roland Whiting, Lawrence
Waddell Melville Washburn, Harolt
i rlSher, Letna GOTISUH, NINA Wooi
son, Irma Waddell, Harold Klein
schmidt, Arthur Brown, Ben Nc
Cargar, Ernest Gornson, Oscar Corn
! son, Harvey Gilman, Duane Butler
: Ernest Anderson. Olaf Nelson, Clyde
Mccormick, Willard Miller, Ro!
Z Jorgenson, Charles Wiedenheft Merle
=. Woolson, Esther and Laura Hohen
: stein. =,
The list of boys and girls who will
Hook after the development o.
Guernsey calves during the summer
, and compete for prizes at Mankate
Fair next fall are: ..
] Oren Willard, Leland Norman
Glen Yaeger. Eileen Lang, Georgt
Gilman. Floyd Watts. Leland specht
Justin Lang, Clarence Gilman, Eta
! Caches, Omen Jones, Kelvin Lange
Lenore Specht and Eden Detamore.
Homeward the calves were taken
Some of these aristocratic animal
llo6e in sedans and others Eoccupie
quarters in equally as swell autos
There was a look on their faces whicl
seemed to say. There is nothin
to swell for us"