The Lamar register., 1922-04-19
FIRST ANNUAL STOCK SHOW
The Most Successful Event of the Kind
Pulled on in This Section of
the State.

When the idea of promoting a stock
show at Lamar for the southwest ter
ritory was first proposed by the Lions
Club it was not dreamed that it could
be made the success that finally prov
ed to be, but the earnest work of the
committee appointed consisting of J.
Russell Mayfield, Allyn Cole, Frank
Reynolds and Clof Simpson, ably as
sisted by the members of the club and
the stockmen generally made it rapid
ly assume proportions that almost
swamped the preparations made.
There has never before been gath
cred together in this section of the
country such large or such a fine
collection of stock for show purposes.
DIR. j. b. Finch, stock expert of the
Kansas Agricultural college, was pres
ent to do the judging and he express
ed the greatest surprise at the quality
of the stock exhibited especially in
the dairy cattle and hog divisions. He
said there were animals there superior
to any exhibited at the international
stock show last fall and several which
he believed had few superiors any
place. Soon after the arrival of the
handsomely groomed squad from the
Model Dairy Farm of the A. V. S. b.
& /. L. Co. at Holly, there was a very
noticeable movement to groom up the
entire show and by evening of the
first day there was n splendid change
in appearance all over the show
grounds. While in the dairy division
the Model Farm carried off the great
est honors, yet they had warm COM
petition from L. Writ Markham, Green
Heath, Coy Barnard, VIM. Turpin, Roy
Bloyd, NJ. S. Davidson and others. In
beef cattle there was also great com
petition and as will be seen by the
list Of prize winners there were more
exhibitors and more equal division of
honors. This condition applied also to
the hog and horse divisions, while the
sheep pens were not numerous. The
largest exhibition was the A. B. S.
Co. with large displays in all divisions
but the sheep.
Many of our business men had in
teresting displays also of their mach
inery and goods used in connection
with stock raising and farming gen
orally. There were also some agri-
cultural exhibits. The show was at
tended by large numbers of people on
Friday at day and night sessions, and
the grounds were simply jammed all
day Saturday. The many activities in
attended. The stock judging contest
by the high school teams of the val
ley was an interesting feature of Fri
day evening and was won by the
Rocky Ford high school; individual
first honors went to Donald Grove Of
the Las Animas team.
A very pleasing feature of the show
was volunteer band of "a pieces, re-
Gently organized in the south country
of Prowers and Baca counties, which
furnished some excellent music on the
second day. The regular band of La
mar and Wiley gave a very entertain
ing concert on Friday afternoon. The
banquet and dance for the stockmen
on Saturday evening was also largely
attended and proved a most enjoy
able feature of the program.
The auction on Saturday afternoon
drew much attention from the stock
men and many of the animals brought
good figures. Not all were sold, how
ever, as the bidding was so spirited
that they did not have time to sell all
the fine animals offered.
The list of prize winners is publish
ed below:
Dairy Cattle Section.
F. I. Reynolds. superintendent. Pure
bred division tbulls). Event number
one. Three years and over:
A. r. s. Co, Center Farm, Lamar
first: M. s. Davidson & Son, Lamar.
second: Gov Barnard, third.
Event No. 2-over two and under
three wears: A. " s. r. &I.T. Co.
Holly. first: L. W. Markham. Lamar.