Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1955-07-22


County Livestock Judging Contest
was held at the farms of two of
our fine families in Ottawa Coun-
ty. The boys gathered at the AL
bert Myerholtz's to judge beef
cattle and swine and at the Harold
Behm's for the dairy cattle and
sheep judging. Mr.. Fulkert, of
Port Clinton, brought four of his
registered Columbian sheep to the
Benin farm for the boys to judge.
1t was an exceedingly busy time
that day, the wheat harvesting was
at its peak, but nevertheless both
Mr.. Myerholtz and Mr.. Benin took
time out to get these animals
situated properly for them to be
viewed and judged as to their rela-
tive merits. I'm sorry that / wasn't
able to get over to the Myerholtzs'.
Bill took Tom over, but | did get
to watch the judging at Behm's
when | went after him and it GER
tainly was interesting to me. To
top things off, Mrs. Behm had bak-
ed a big batch of cup cakes for all
the folks to eat with the lemonade
that was prepared by Mr.. James,
the vocational agriculture teacher
who is spending some time in OF
tawa County learning the fine
points of being a County Agent
under the expert tutelage OF our
Fred Grimm.
All in all, it was successful
day, and we parents of these Al
boys should be thankful that there
are folks like these in the county
who are willing to give their time
and labor to help our young peo-
pie along on the road to knowledge.
Wouldn't you farm folks like
to see what your farm looks like
from the air? Well, you're going
to have an excellent opportunity
to do just that, and it'll be too
bad if you don't take advantage
of it.. You see, on August 4th, the
Soil Conservation Field day will
be held, but instead of riding
around a farm on wagons, this
year you'll ride around the county
in an airplane. This will be
wonderful opportunity to see Soil
Conservation practices in action,
and at the same time see how
truly beautiful the fields and
woodlands look from the air.
You'll be able to recognize homes
of your neighbors, small towns
nearby, your favorite fishing spot,
but most of all you'll be able to
see how very important it is to
conduct your farm practices in
such a way so as to conserve that
most precious and life-giving sub
stance, the soil.
Your farm planner Dick Wat
kins, and the Soil Conservation
Supervisors have worked hard on
arranging this tour, and believe
me, it'll be worth your while to
take it. This field day will be held
at the Haar airport, just Southeast
of Elmore.
BY the way, that most affable
and considerate of gentlemen, Mr..
VIM. Rofkar, our representative to
the State Legislature, is one of the
Supervisors, and also one of those
wide-awake fruit growers that we
have in the County. He sure raises
some excellent cherries, we had a
chance to sample some of them
and they really were good. Mr..
Rofkar specializes in apples, how
ever, he has 26 acres of apple
orchard.
Today's Bit Of Nonsense
A crusty old Arkansas farmer
was approached one day by an
eager young salesman who was
peddling a set of books on Scien-
tific agriculture. The old farmer
was a difficult prospect.
''What do | want them things
for?" he scowled.
''If you had these books, sir, J"
the salesman pointed out, "you
could farm twice as good as you
do now"
Land O. Goshen, SON., roared
the old farmer, Il don't farm half