Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-08-20
COUNTY AGENT NOTES
Make the Booth a Success

Material that will be used in the
making up of the Grant County Booth
at the State Fair will leave Lancaster
Friday morning, August %. Anyone
having material in the line of real
good vegetables, such as cabbage,
carrots, squash, pumpkins, celery, ETC.,
should bring them to the office of the
County Agent some time Wednesday
or Thursday morning.
The success of the County Booth in
it's competition will depend largely up
on the class and quality of material
shown therein. These two things are
regulated not alone by those in charge
of the booth, but every person that is
interested in keeping Grant county as
the leader.
This season has been very backward
therefore it is very hard to secure ma
terial that is needed in the booth, in
cidentally at the present time the
prospects do not look too encouraging.
Much depends on the cooperation OF
all in the next four or five days
There are a few things that we
would like especially and need badly
to complete this show, and one OF them
is Buckwheat, 1928 crop; and others
are clover and timothy seed. Then
too we are in need of some very tall
corn to come up to the standard which
we set last year. Anyone having one
half dozen stalks of corn ranging IN
height from IA to Is feet kindly assist
by bringing them in for our exhibit.
Also, one other thing the we are short
of at this time is samples OF threShed
beans, meaning by this one-half peck
samples of threshed wax, kidney or
navy beans.
A Carload of Grade Cows for the Ma
tiOnal Show and Sale.
At the National Dairy Show to be
held this year in Milwaukee Sept. 27-
Oct. there is being held grade COW
show and sale.
We have informed the people in
charge that Grant county will have a
carload of such animals. That means
that we must secure promises of 70
COWS within the next week in order
to hold our place with the other coun-
ties of the state. At the present time
we have six or seven head listed. The
class of COWS that we want are COWS
with c.. T. A. records as follows:
If testing was done before. the COW
was three years old she must carry
record of $50 lbs. butterfat; if after
she was three years old she must car
nv a record of $50 lbs; or it is pos
sible for us to consign heifers to
this sale that are sired by pure bred
and out of COWS that would qualify in
this show. We are not particular what
breed of cattle are in this carload
shipment, but we are very anxious to
have high record and the best pos
sible type that we can secure IN this
consignment
We feel that it is valuable phase
of the National Dairy Show and one
that offers world of opportunity
towards the advertising of the better
class of cattle that can be found in
Grant county Results are bound to
show in so far as it will bring buyers
from out of state points to our county.
Undoubtedly most dairymen would
like to keep their high producing COWS
but if you can sacrifice one for the
good of the cause I feel certain that
you will be well repaid for so doing.
Anyone caring to list COWS in the
consignment will kindly notify this
office or any of the various COW testers
in the COW testing association work
in the county We ask that you do so
before the first of September and up
on receipt of your application for con-
signing one we will send you blank
to fill OUT. B. keenan,, Co. Agent.