The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1922-11-03
Event IS MARKED
DOWN IN BOOKLET
November Is Date of Trip
To Twin Cities
GREAT TIME FOR BOYS
They'll Be Guests of Clubs and
Organizations ;. Winners
Of Pleasantries

Five boys Of Blue Earth county
are impatiently waiting for the long
days to pass between now and No
vember Is, which is the opening
day Of the Fifth Annual Junior
Livestock show to be held at South
St Paul. These young folks, as
champions of this county in Juyen
lie cattle pig and sheep breeding
and feeding have entered their pet.
in the Junior Livestock Show.
Going/ to the show from this
Mankato with his grade Hereford
calf, Alvin Bartsch of Mankato with
his grade Hereford calf, Douglas
Laurisch of Mapleton with his
grade Hereford yearling and Donald
Anderson Of Lake Crystal with his
Duroc' Jersey pig.
The Junior Livestock show is tn.
windup of the years club work
when the boys and girls from all
over the state, whose calves and
pigs and sheep have won prizes in
their own county shows, come to-
gether and contest for the state
honors.
The first day of the show, Wed
nesday the Is, will be given over tC
final preparation of the animals for
the show ring. They will be groom
ed and "prettied" up to the last de-
gree On Thursday. the judging
will take place and following that,
in the evening, the young folks wi.
be banqueted and entertained at the
st. Paul Athletic club as guests O.
the Str Paul Association. Govern,
Preus has been asked TO present the
trophies won in the show in add
ton to making a talk. Prom
men and officials of the twin cities
will be present to do honor to tn
boys and girls who by their good
work at home won the right to en-
ter the state show.
Beef Calves Pigs and Sheep
On Friday the beef calves. pig:
and sheep will be sold at publ,
auction and then the-youn"
will be sent home with the proceeds
in their pockets. Last year, if
ten year old girl had the gran
won and the sale of the steer
amounted to almost $500.
Thoughtful people regard the
Junior Livestock show as one of
the big forces. for agricultural bet
terment in the state of Minnesota.
the motive underlying the promotion
of livestock raising among junior
farmers is two fold First, to
teach the young folks the value OF
improved livestock, their care and
management; second, that the
youngsters may serve as an inspfr-
alton to their elders. :
ltmeans something in the future
welfare of the state, when several
thousand boys and> girls each year
are laying the foundations of car
GERS as successful farmers, as they
are in club work. AS we older peo-
pie look back over our Own lives
we can appreciate what it would
have meant had some such lesson
been implanted into US during our
early youth. We are told and verify
believe that what this state needs is
more good livestock that will con-
sumo the roughages and grains
produced in system of diversified
farming and convert these feeds in
to beef and pork and wool and milk
cheaply and quickly. Given a know
ledge of feeding and management
and good livestock to work with,
you have the ingredients OF success
and profit in farming. This, briefly
is the lesson that the Junior Live
stock show is undertaking to teach
the people of this state will do well
to foster this growing institution by
manifesting a sympathetic interest
in the work Of the boys and girls.