The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1922-09-29
CECIL COUNTY BOYS an ROYAL
STOCK SHOW.
London Daily Mail Tells OF Stock
Judging Team.

Of Rising Sun; Warren Rice, of
Sylmar, and George Worrilow, Of
North East, composing the Boys
Stock Judging team that won vic
tory over the English team at the
Royal Agricultural Show, held at
Cambridge, England, July 5, are re-
counted in the following article by
F. e. Busy, a director of the Lon
don Daily Mail, which gives high
praise to our farmer boys.
The three American young farm
ers, says the London Daily Mail,
while enjoying visit to England as
the prize in cattle judging compe-
tition, competed in similar contest
promoted by the London Daily Mail,
at the Royal Agricultural Show at
Cambridge, England, and-were sue
cessful in carrying off the gold chal-
lenge cup.
The International Federation of
Young Farmers Clubs was created
about year ago by the Daily Mail,
and since that time the movement
in England has enjoyed great i'm
petus. The present contest is the
first of its kind to take place in
England, and the American young
farmers met selected team from
the Daily Mail Young Farmers Calf
Clubs.
Four British Friesian cows, four
Guernseys, and four dairy Short
horns were judged successfully at
the farms of Mr.. Macarthur, Bottis-
ham, Cambridgeshire; Mr.. Albert
Peake, st. GATHERINGS, and Messrs.
Chivers, River Farm, Haslingfeld,,
Cambridgeshire. The competitors
were allowed 15 minutes for general
examination and placement of each
group OF cows, after which each one
gave reasons for the placing to the
two judges, Mr.. James Macintosh,
OF the Dairy Husbandry Section of
the National Institute of Dairy Re-
search, Reading, and Mr.. w. c.
Snarr, County Agricultural Agent,
Maryland, U. 8. A.
The English team included one
girl, and all impressed the onlookers
by their businesslike methods of in
spection.
One of the best known cattle
judges at the Royal Show conversed
with the members of the American
team. He remarked that their
knowledge of cattle Judging was
amazing, and that he, hoped that the
Young Farmers Club movement
would spread rapidly in England, as
he was convinced that it would be of
the greatest value to English farm.
ers. The scores were as follows:
United States Team George Wor-
rilow, Joe Glackin, and Warren
Rice. Net total, ITO.
English Team-W. F. C. Tucker,
Miss H. Tansley, and H. Staples.
Net total, $50.
The English team and their
friends gave three cheers for the
Americans when the result was
made known, The American team
expressed very great appreciation of
the sporting manner in which the
English team accepted defeat, and
were generous enough to say that
the discrepancy in points would
probably have been less but for
their own greater experience in the
American method of cattle judging,
and their longer training generally.
The visitors will hold the cup for
one year,
! On the day following the contest
the winning team was entertained
at a presentation luncheon at the
Daily Mail Model VILLAGE Welwyn
Garden City, Herts,
In presenting the cup, Mr.. F. e:
Busy, director of the Daily Mail,
stated that he was amazed at the
of cattle shown at the
Royal Show by the winning team,
but that he was presenting the cup
with the sincere hope that 1t would
be won back again by the English
clubs next year.
Joe Glackin, In accounting the cup,
thanked on behalf of himself and
his American colleagues, the young
farmers in England for the enthusi-
astic reception they had received.
AS little personal appreciation,
each member of the winning team
was presented by the Daily Mail
with a silver medal with his name
engraved thereon,
After the presentation the party
proceeded to inspect the Daily Mail
Model Village, where they were met
by many members of the Daily Mail
Young Farmers Clubs living there.
The boys and girls of both parties
made friends at once.
The Americans greatly admired a
300-year-old barn, the. structure of
which is mainly made up of oak
beams from dismantled ships of
several centuries ago. This barn is
now the home of two dozen Short
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