The Adair County news., 1922-07-18
co TO EUROPE TO
STUDY LIVESTOCK
Three Boys Won Prizes for Ef-
fiCienCy in Judging Value of
Farm Animals.
OLDEST OF THE YOUTHS IS II
Boys Learned That Fat May Be Added
to Cattle and Hogs Without Profit
Will Attend the English
Royal Stock Show.

College Park, Md.-Because Warren
! Rice, Joseph Glackin and George Wor-
rilow of Cecil county, Maryland,
learned that a dairy COW may produce
milk and no money, that beef cattle
may iHci in weight without in
creasmg in worth, that hogs may add
fat without adding profits and that
! sheep may grow wool without growing
! in value, they were given q free trip
to Europe to find out what the Old
World has accomplished in the efficient
| breeding and management of live
! stock
They carry rOund-trip tickets to Liv-
! erpoOl, complimentary tickets to the
! English Royal Stock show at Cam
/ bridge. numerous letters inviting them
| to visit some of England's famous es-
tates and what they have left of $115
! in prize money.
Warren Rice is seventeen years old,
Joseph Glackin is fifteen and George
/ Worrilow comes right between with the
! handy age Of sixteen. They are all
| farm boys, raised on Cecil county
farms, and the dairy calf, the baby
| beef, the gamb0l-ng lamb and the
squeuI.G- p.rGer may be said to have
/ been a part Of the atmosphere Of their
early environment.
Animals Get Charity.
/ 1t was agricultural club work, CON
/ Quoted by the University Of Maryland
! extension service in cooper alton with
the United States Department of Agri-
| culture, however, that first taught the
| Maryland boys to extract the nefariOus
| secrets from. unprOdUctive animals.
| They soon discovered that some Of
their best friends among the barnyard
tribe were merely the recipients Of
! charity instead OF faithful servants,
| as they had supposed.
The truth became more and more ap-
| parent as they travelled about in their
own and neighbOring counties in COM
| pany with their county agent, w. c..
| SnaTr, who was coaching them for the
state dairy cattle judging contest at
! the TimOnium state fair They learned
! to note the difference between the
bovine eyes and heads, shapes and
sizes of body, textures of skin, udders
and milk veins and other Characters
tics which distinguish the COW that has
been bred for generations for milk
| production. They became expert in
rating one fine cow above another fine
COW and in giving reasons for their de-
cisiOnS.
When the state contest was held in
September, each of the three Cecil
county boys went home with cash
awards of from SIS to $25 and a pure
bred bull calf, in addition to a loving
cup offered as a team prize.
Following their experience in match
ing wits with other farm boys the three
young Marylanders were polished up
and sent to the National Dairy show at
st. Paul in October to represent their
state in the Junior dairy cattle judging
contest. Here, in the dust of the judg-
ing rings, they met boys from all parts
of the United States and came away
with fifth place. Warren Rice, how
ever, did better than his teammates
and ran up the highest individual score
in the contest.
Win Cash Awards.
From st. Paul the team went, in easy
stages, to Atlanta, picking up along the
way interesting bits of information
that came in handy on October 20,
when the Marylanders again went into
action against 13 other state teams.
In this contest the boys were re-
quired to pass judgment on dairy cat
tie, beef cattle, hogs and sheep and
to give oral reasons for their. selec-
tiOns. They did it so well that the
judges handed them $115 in cash
awards and pinned to them the big
prize of trip to Europe which was
offered by the Southeastern Fair assO-
citation.
Now they are in England, with six
weeks of travel before them. The prize
they won includes the expenses of
County Agent Snarr, who trained
them; e. G. Jenkins, state boys club
agent for Maryland, and c. L. Cham
bers of the United States Department
of Agriculture, who are the other men,
bers of the party.