Evening star., 1951-08-30
State
Fair 10 Honor
Dagger Today
D. c. Area Youngsters
Take Major Share
Of Livestock Prizes
BY Staff Correspondent Of The Stor

day is Matt Dagger Day at the
Timonium State Fair in honor OF
the 78-year-old president emeri-
tus of the Maryland State Fair
and Agricultural Society, which
is sponsoring this 10th annual
gathering of city and country
people 10 miles north Of Balti-
more.
Mr.. Dagger. head of the fair
for 35 years, resigned last year
as its president, but the fair di-
rectors made him president
emeritus. William F. Schluder-
berg of Baltimore, a leader in
keeping the fair going, is the new
president. Included on today's
program is a special Matt Dagger
Handicap at the packed Timonium
race track on the fair grounds.
Montgomery County Day-un-
ofhcially-came yesterday, and
Washington area youngsters
grabbed a major share of the
prizes in early judging of live
stock among Maryland All Club
members. The All judging is
being held early this year so the
contestants will be home by the
time school opens.
Riggs Girls Win Again.
Keeping up the standards they
have set for themselves in earlier
contests, Barbara Ann and Joyce
Riggs of Gaithersburg won first
prize for senior heifer calves in
the All Holstein Judging. With
the same year old animal.
GoshenS Delight Mooie Dot, the
Riggs girls won the grand cham
pion Holstein female prize at the
Montgomery County Fair in
Gaithersburg last week.
The sisters-Barbara Ann is 10
and Joyce 17-have more than
80 purebred Holsteins in their
dairy herd, and both have won
other prizes in five years at the
State Fair. Their parents are
Mr.. and Mrs. Remus D. Riggs Of
Green Hills Farm.
Barbara Ann, a dairy husbandry
sophomore at the University Of
Maryland, is National All cham
pion girl and was a member Of
the Maryland All dairy-judging
team that won last years ma
tional contest and then went on
to win an international cham
pionship at Cambridge, England.
Another winner in the All
wine-judging contest was IT.
year-old Elizabeth Ann Prough,
who is a partner with her father.
Marion Prough, in the 53-acre
hog farm near Sykesville, Md.
She won the grand champion-
ship for Berkshire pigs with her
Ern-Mar's Betsy, Sd, and took
firSts in the competition for junior
and senior spring gilts-maiden
sowS to city slickers-and senior
COWS and second in the judging
of spring boars.
Raises Purebred Berkshires.
A four-year veteran of All
Club work, Elizabeth Ann is rais-
ing purebred Berkshires as club
project.
Waring Jones, jr., of Lothian,
in Anne Arundel County, won first
prize in the All Club tobacco
exhibit.
Other Montgomery County All
Club members won blue ribbon
in miniature exhibit contest with
model floor plan of a 20x20-
foot poultry-laying house. A
Frederick County All delegation
won the first prize with a model
of a chicken nest. They won an
all-expense trip to the North East
ern Poultry Exposition in Harris
burg, Pa, in october. All to-
gether, total of $78,236 in pre-
miums-$11,875 for All members
is being offered at the fair.
which runs through September 8.
Judging of All dairy a beef
cattle continues today, with a
horse breeders show added. To-
morrow's schedule includes an
equitation show, team and in
dividual demonstrations and the
All Club tractor operators con-
test. Next Thursday will be Gov
ernor's Day, with Gov. McKeldin
expected to arrive about noon.
The fair grounds are open from
Is am. to 10 pm. daily.
Dance Starts Festivities.
The State Fair Barn Dance for
4-Hers last night started round
of activities for youngsters that
will end Sunday with All Club
parade featuring members prize
winning animals. Added this
year, beginning Sunday. will be
nightly performances by a vaude-
vile company from New York.
The list of winners yesterday
included:
4-H Club Dairy Cattle.
Holsteins-Lady Manor Helen Master
MonRton SnSM Md senior M 0ss and Il grand CHAMPION
and Four Winds Mistletoe, shown by George
Wills Of McDonough, Nd. junior cham-
pion. Others who placed in the contest
for junior heifer calves were Irwin king
of Gaithersburg. second; Bruce Berlage
of Olney fourth, and Barbara Ann ana
Joyce Riggs Of Gaithersburs, tenth. In
testants. included Robert Dorsey Of Boyds.
Barbara Ann and Joyce Riggs Of Gathers
burg, fifth; Helen v. Thompson of BoydS
and Douglas Vernon and Ralph Henson.
all of Gaithersburg.
other Montgomery County contestants
in the junior yearling heifer contest in:
cluded Larry Dorsey of Boyds, first; Basil
Waters of Olney. fourth, and Janice May
Palmer of Olney, sixth. Senior yearling
heifer contest: Joan Toms Of Olney, third;
Barbara Ann and Joyce Riggs Of Gathers
burg, fifth; JANICE May Palmer Of olney,
seventh. and William L. Thompson. IT.. OF
Jerseys: Basilla's Regala May, shown
by Patricia Messer Of Gaithersburs, Junior
champion.
Guernseys and Ayrshires Judged TO-DAY.
Chester Whites-Holterholm Model Rose
Sd, shown by Robert H. Hotter Of JEFF
ferson, Md, Junior spring gilt; Holterholm
Tip Top Trend I'd, shown by Robert H.
Hotter, senior spring gilt; Holterholm
Model Rose 5th, shown by Robert H. Hol-
ter, senior SOW; Holterholm Leader, shown
by Robert H. Hotter, spring boar.
Durocs-Monocacy F1ashy Lady, shown
by David Burtner Of Frederick, junior
spring gilt; Rural Miss, shown by Donald
Morrison of Dayton senior spring gilt;
rison, senior SOW and champion Duroc
female.