Evening star., 1948-09-07
GrangeDayHe|d
After $4,000 See
Tirnonium Fair
Crowd Sets Record
For Attendance and
Sum Bet on Races
By james BirchfieId
By jones BirchfieId
Stor Stoff Correspondent

tne maryland SLdIe rdlT tOudy dlteI
a Labor Day crowd set record for
attendance and the amount bet on
the races.
More than $4,000 persons, includ-
ing 1928 at the race track, yester-
day broke the previous record of
6219l set on Labor Day two years
ago
The amount that passed through
the pari-mutuel windows, S522,65O,
also topped the previous peak OF
s490,256 set on Labor Day, 1916.
Roads leading to the fair grounds
north of Baltimore were snarled
by bumper to- bumper traffic.
Poultry Judging Today.
Today's program, which includes
poultry judging, is under the dlrec.
ton of Edward F. Hotter, master OF
the State Grange.
Visitors will find that the best
that Maryland agriculture has will
be on display the remainder OF this
week at the 67th annual fair.
Fat cattle, sleek dairy COWS, sheep
with curled horns and lazy hogs
are all here to show the farmers
city cousin what is being done IN
the country. :.
And in the crop buildings are dis
plays of vegetables-squashes, oeets
okra and savoy cabbages-shocks OF
grain and stalks of corn. 1t Is al
most the year end for the farmer
and these displays represent the
best of his summers work.
The farm women are represented,
too. There are exhibits OF hano-
made quilts, rows of canned fruits
and garden products, bread ana
cakes and cookies, all destined 10
make the city mans mouth water.
Livestock Judged.
Livestock judging by All Club
teams was feature yesterday
Boys went into the rings to try
their skill in picking the best beef
and dairy animals.
In the dairy contests the winning
eight boys will be divided into two
teams to compete at the Dairy Cat
tie Congress at Waterloo, Iowa, and
at the All-American Jersey Snow
at Columbus, Ohio. Both shows
will be held next month.
Maryland All Club dairy judging
teams have won first place at the
Waterloo show for the last two
years, and last year placed second
at the Royal Show in England.
To Compete in Chicago.
In the beef section. the winning
team will compete with teams from
other States at the International
Livestock Show in Chicago. This
show will be held in December
The results of yesterdays judging
competitions will be announced to-
night at the annual All banquet.
As the agriculture section OF the
State Fair got under way yesterday
special exhibits told the story OF
agriculture to the city visitor One
building was given over to displays
on soil conservation. Here mlnla-
ture fields were laid out in contour
strips to show how Maryland soil
may be kept where it will do the
most good
Dairy Industry Has Display.
Other buildings contained edu-
cation dairy displays, showing the
value of the dairy industry both to
the farmer and to the urban resi-
dent.
There was poultry. too, all kinds
of it, from mammouth geese to vest
pocket size chickens. Some were
dressed in gaily-colored plumed tur-
bans, while others wore coats of
curled feathers, looking as though
they had been fished out of pond
and their feathers had failed to dry.
Up on the midway was the ferris
wheel for the children. and along
the way were machinery displays.
Here the farmers could at least
look at the machinery they haven't
been able to buy.
Most of the city people who came
to the fair were out for lock at
the races on Timonium's half mile
track. In the livestock section, the
judging of Percheron horses and
Holstein cattle drew the largest
crowds.
Hagerstown PercherOns Win.
The prize draft horses of DR.
Robert c. Snavely of HagerstoWn |
had things pretty much to them
selves in the Percheron competi-
ton, for Rem Degas and various
offspring took most of the blue
ribbons.
The other exhibitors who took
prizes also depended on the same
family line, descendants of the IA
nous Don Degas. Others to win
riboons included Frank A. Palmer,
Olney; William Page, Buckeystown;
Warren Howes, GaitherSburg: Mas
ten D. Long, Thurmont: Richard R.
Remsburg. Jefferson, and Mrs. Ed
win 1. Cissel, West Friendship.
McKendree Walker g. Sons of
Gaithersburg took the top prizes for
Holstein COWS, winning the senior
and grand championships. Amcana
Farms, Litchfield. Conn, had the
Junior champion.
Other multiple winners in the
Holstein judging included;
David Ifert of Middletown, A.
Dotty Remsburg of Jefferson, Frank
B. Ramsburg & Sons of Middletown,
Herbert S. Miller of Myerstown. Pa;
the Tull Brothers of Seaford, Del,
and Locvale Farms of Middletown.
Other Prize Winners.
Amcana's Baker Farm Dunwood
Pride took the grand champion and
senior champion crowns after win
ming the class for bulls years
old. Amcana Bellboy was declared
Junior champion after winning the
prize for those a year to 18 months
old.
Other prize winners included
Garden f1owers-l-Mrs. Paul
Morelock, Westminster; 2-Mrs. Ell
mer Eek, Hyde; 3-Mrs. C. R, Emory,
Towscn.
Cakes and cookies-l-Mrs. Harry
w. Hanley. White Hall; 2-MrS.
Clifford Smith, White Hall; Mrs
Carroll Davis, Towson: Mrs. Stella
Mason, Baltimore (tie).
Pies-1-Mrs. Annie J. Million,
49, 49,