The Coolidge examiner., 1930-04-11
FLORENCE HI Wins
JUDGING CONTEST

JQUOAlAO VVAVA AOA
The Florence high school stock
Judging team won the annual state
Judging contest, according to an
nouncement made Saturday after
noon at the office of Halbert w.
Miller. state director of vocational
education. 1t scored $50 points. Pc
oria's team was second with 664
points.
Other schools finished in order,
Fort Thomas, Phoenix, Mariana, Gil
bert and Snowflake.
Member sof the winning stock
/ Judging team we're Richard Hess,
/ Don Tucker ord BurforC Gladden..
/ Hall Bradshaw of the Phoenix
UniCn high school team was The
high scoring individual of all teams,
getting 375 points out of possible
333 points.
Dairy honors were won by Fort
| Thomas high school with 1880
pbAAiS, DAOWIldht HlSu SCAOOl was
second with 1921 points, Gilbert
high school was third with 995
points out of a possible $500 Other
teams finished as follows: Flor
ence, Chandler, Yuma, Phoenix,
Peoria and Mariana. Boys on the
winning teams were Nash Willis,
Beryl Rose. and Ellis Ruston. Nash
Willis was high man in the dairy
contest, getting 358 points.
Friday morning the stock judg-
ing teams went first to the feed
pens of Ray Cowden, west of Phoe-
nix, where beef cattle were judged.
From there they went to the Gil
bert Farms, Inc, near Gilbert, to
Judge horses. The final stop was
made at the Arizona State Teach
ers college at Tempe, where swine
and sheep were judged.
Winners of this contest are now
eligible for trip to the American
Royal Livestock show, which is
held in Kansas City in the fall.
They also will be presented with
the state vocational education tro-
ply cup.
Friday evening the Future Farm
er members held their first public
speaking contest, Frank Edgar of
Phoenix winning. Raymond Gill
land of Chandler was second. The
winners subject was cooperative
Marketing as a Solution of Farm
Problems" The other competitors
were Eyins Baldwin of Snowflake,
and Nash Willis of Fort Thomas.
Edgar viii next appear in the
contest to be held here during the
week of May 5, when the western
district of agricultural and voca-
tional teachers mold their annual
conference in Phoenix. He will
compete with representative from
other western states
ner of the regional contest goes to
the national finals in Kansas City.
Winners of the dairy judging con-
tests received a silver loving cup,
presented by national manufact-
urer of stock feed and are given a
trip to the National Dairy show,
held in St Louis next winter. The
dairy judging was begun at the
Mission Dairy ranch, where Hol-
stein and Guernsey cattle were
rated, Ayrshires were judged at
Alec McMinn's, near Glendale; Jer-
seys at the Fred Chesney ranch.
Prof. l.. M. Klemmedson of the Uni
versity of Arizona supervised the
work of the teams.
In the afternoon the boys belong
ing to the Future Farmers of
America met in the agricultural de-
partment rooms of the Phoenix
Union high school and conducted
the ritual for the Green Hand"
Future Farmer" and Estate Farm
er" degrees. The Green Hand de-
gree was put on by the Phoenix
high school team The Future
Farmer and State Farmer degree
was given by a picked team of
members under the direction of A.
Mark Bliss, instructor of agricul-
ture in the Peoria high school.