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Members of Baby Beef, Fat Barrow and Poultry Clubs Make Excellent Showing.
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ELMER ISAKSEN SECOND IN OPEN CLASS OF 70
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Also Captured First Hereford in This Class, and Reserve Champion Hereford.
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Brown county was well represented at the Junior Livestock show at South St. Paul, both by exhibitors and also by people from the county attending. Those exhibiting from Brown county, who had the best animals in their individual classes at the county show, were as follows: Purebred junior yearling class–Richard Alt, Sleepy Eye and Harold Potter, Springfield; purebred calves-Maynard Potter, Springfield, and Edgar Scheibel, New Ulm; grade junior yearlings -- Elmer Isaksen and Lloyd Anderson, Sleepy Eye; grade calves--Lurena Isaksen, Springfield and Lola Runck, New Ulm; fat barrows-Darwin Martine and Edward Anderson, Sleepy Eye; pen off at poultry–Esther Benson, Morgan. Esther Benson is a member of theFranklin Poultry club, and as there are about 15 boys and girls fromBrown county enrolled in the club, this entitled one from Brown county to make the trip.
Lurena Isaksen and Lola Runck placed 12th and 13th in the open class, with 65 showing, and third and fourth Hereford, respectively .Richard Alt placed fourth Hereford, and 16th in the open, while Harold Potter received 12th in the open and seventh Shorthorn, with 47 showing in this open class. The county received third with Hereford group.
The stock show opened on Tuesday, the judging took place on Wednesday, and the animals were sold on Thursday. On Wednesday a banquet was given to the club members and their parents by the St. Paul association, this taking place in the St. Paul Union depot. Following the banquet, a program was given in the old Orpheum theatre, for the club members, and as a part of the program, the prize winning animals were exhibited on the stage.
The following are prices received per pound for the animals sold at auction. The first five were sold individually, being in the upper 15 of each class. Elmer Isaksen, 22c; Lurena Isaksen, 17c; Lloyd Anderson, 15c; Lola Runck, 14c; Harold Potter, 14c. The following sold in groups and five of them were calves fed by local boys in the county, but were not prize winners at the local fair: Richard Alt, 11.91c; Maynard Potter, 13c; Edgar Scheibel, 13c; Linus Leitschuh,12.75c; Earl Cunningham, 11c; Frank Johnson, 12.51c; Louis Runck, 13c; Ambrose Bertrand, 14.21 c. The pigs sold for 12.25c, and the poultry for 28c per pound.
Brown County Journal,
November 20, 1925
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