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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 12, 1960)
FRIDAY, AUGUST 19. I960 MEDFORD MAH. TRISUHE, MEDFORD, ORE. Horse Show to Start Fair, Ends With Tractor Driving The annual .Tnrlriinn Pntmtv 4-H and FFA fair gets under way tomorrow with a display of horseflesh and riding skill. The horse events continue into Sunday afternoon. Fair events start at the fair grounds south of Medford at 10 a.m. with the horse judging contest with members of all horse clubs in the county competing. This event is fol lowed by halter classes for juniors and intermediates. After lunch the horse show continues for junior and inter mediates. The fair continues Sunday at 1 p.m. with halter classes for seniors with other classes following. At the same time exhibits in home economics, forestry and miscellaneous exhibits will be brought in. Monday, home economics judging contest and style re vue judging starts at 8 a.m. . A rabbit judging contest follows at 1 p.m. with rabbit judging. A poultry judging contest also starts at 1 p.m. followed with judging of the various poultry classes. A poultry showmanship contest starting with senior classes will be held at 1 p.m. also. Monday evening events start with the poultry show manship contest at 7 p.m. Held at the same time will be the rabbit showmanship con test. Tuesday's events start with the home economics exhibit judging. Livestock judging contest is scheduled at 8:30 a.m. Highlight of the morn ing's events will be the beef fitting ocntest. Wool judging starts at 1 p.m. Held at the same time will be beef showmanship. The showmanship champion ship finals for beef will be held at 7 p.m. Wednesday events start at 8:30 a.m. with beef female judging. Judging order will be by breed as listed in the premium book. One of the newer events in the 4-H program is the for estry judging and identifica tion contests set for 10 a.m. Crops judging will be held at the same time. The flower arrangement contest starts at 12:30 a.m. Wednesday afternoon vents get under way at 1 3 Iy p.m. with beef market steer judging. The beef steer cham pionship will be held at 7 p.m. Swine judging at 9 a.m. starts off Thursday's events. This will be followed by dairy judging. The increasingly popular dairy goat judging contest will be held at 10:30 a.m. Market sheep judging starts at 1 p.m. Held at the same time will be the guide dog obedience judging, a class held for the first time last year at the fair. Dairy judging will fill the show rings at 2 p.m, Thurs day, Swine showmanship starts the evening's events at 7 o'clock. The ever large dairy judging continues at 7 p.m., also. Friday fair events start winding up with sheep show Herefords To This Year at4 Fair-goers this year will see plenty of tiie reddish brown and white beef animals called Herefords or white faces again this year at the Jackson Coun ty 4-H and FFA fair. As the name implies, the native home of this breed is the county of Herefordshire, England. This county of gent ly rolling hills and superior grazing is the breeding center of Herefords. Earliest records of this breed show that in 1742 in Herefordshire a nine-year-old boy named Benjamin Tom kins inherited a dark red cow with a mottled face named Silver from his father. This supposedly was the be ginning of the Hereford breed ing program. Smaller Today Today's animals are small er than the original of the breed. Then mature animals weighed over 3,000 pounds. The style gradually changed to less weight and more qual ity, smoothness and early ma turity. First Hereford cattle came to America in 1817 when one of the founding fathers of the United States, Henry Clay, imported a young bull, W 4-H AUGUST 13-20 manship Scheduled for 9 a.m. Dairy judging is continued at the same time. Breeding sheep judging and the con tinued dairy judging are scheduled at 1 p.m. The annual livestock auc tion sale starts at 7:30 p.m, when, the youngsters parade their prize winning animals in front of friends and neigh bors and community mer chants who always bid gen erously on their purchase. Much of the meat from these carefully fed and cared for animals will find its way into local markets and a few dozen food lockers of Jackson coun ty residents. Saturday's events (Aug. 20) is the fair wind-up with dairy showmanship scheduled for 9 ajn. The tractor driving contest will be held at 2:30 p.m. Be Exhibited - H, FFA Fair a cow and a heifer to Lexing ton, Ky. About 1825 Admiral Coffin of the British Navy sent the bull "Sir Isaac" and a cow to the Massachusetts Society for promoting agri culture. However, it was T. L. Mil ler, Beecher, HI., who, in 1875 introduced Herefords to the western range country. In the 1880's Herefords were being exported from England to the United States and more than 20 other coun tries. Promoters of the breed brag, "virtually wherever man has gone, the Hereford followed and made good." Modern Hereford The modern Hereford Is red, varying from- a light yellowish red to a dark cherry red in different individual animals, with a white head, crest, breast, belly, switch and usually some white on the legs below the knees and hocks. Herefords graze well in lush pastures or where grass is sparse and water holes far apart, breed authorities claim Also, in the feed lot, Here fords make faster gains and are ready to top the market earlier because of their gen ' tie disposition. Urges You To Attend the at the Jackson County Fairgrounds 1 1 - MY HORSE Bonnie Holmes, Phoenix Sad- Phoenix Saddlehles' leader. When it conies ieliie club, and friend, pose wnh Mrs. David lo 4-H aenvutes ihe wnole family pitches in. Holmes, Phoenix, Bonnie's mother. In the Horses probably attract mors interest than background is Edward (Charkey) Anderson, other 4-H activities. Three Boys Back From Youth Range Camp Last Week Three boys, Ron Anderson, j Eagle Point; Mike Elmore, Applegate; and Larry Mc Dowell, Medford, attended the Oregon Youth Range camp held at the 'P" ranch near Frenchglen from Aug, 1 to 6. The purpose of the camp is to help develop leaders with an understanding of inter-relationship with the soil, water, forest,., range, wildlife and recreation resources and an ability to make objective de cisions concerning resource management and use. The camp Is sponsored each year by the Society of Ameri can Range Management, Pa cific Northwest section. Mem bers of the society donate their time to instruct the boys on the various subjects. The subjects included were wild life refuges and people, live stock and ranching operation, plant identification, recrea tion and people, range im provements, soil and vegeta- ition, geology of the Steen I mountains, range management and FAIR You'll wont to m thi grand show . . . a iis play of th achieva ments of (ho Four-H Clubt and the . Futuro Farmers of America, All of us, here at your friendly Groceteria, hope that all of YOU make it a point fe at tend the Fair. It't one ure way to show the Sirl and boy of jaek ion County that YOU are Interested in their practical Four-H and F.F.A. activities , , , and YOUR INTEREST it the very 8EST form of en couragement to worth while youth movements such at these are. Vv -' s t . , v and people, hunting and fish ing equipment, and a plant collection contest. About SO boys attended the camp from all parts of Ore gon. The boys held a liars club and fishing contest. -A 1 ' 11 f BIG HAT, LITTLE GIRL Linda Gibson, member of the West Side Hay Burners, poses witli her horse during one sf the many 4-H horse club activities. The 4-H horse activities am among the most popular for the 4-H boys and girts. A horse show is scheduled for Saturday, Aug. 13 with more than 100 horses entered in the fair grounds activity. DO NT MISS THE 4-H, F.F.A. FAIR Tomorrow at the Fairgrounds! FOR RANCHERS and STOCKMEN During thit year, these pricei will be raised on are lew The boys were sponsored by the Young Formers, Jackson County Stockman's associa tion and the Kiwanls club, County chairman for selection and seotarsmp were Ed Harsh man and Earle Jossy, See our complct lint at mercjiin jtte made of tfi vrv finett nurft. risl by eulty nianuf cfre7j wn& MKfg at iHc I tr e 1 1 poiiibS Clther ngl 8(, Curb or itnlfht UiM BUiilit UfKH theme or nflanl CM MuiiIim SmiHt Sttthi tni Stfp( Sdttc 89i Spun mi Booft (itr or iuH nwtki Cow HsbUw Curry Comb ttr4 Sfvtttn Stin u p items will become uarce and many, 8UY NOW while price . DUNHAM'S ssssssr 1 1 3. HK'a' 1 " DUNHAM'S i N C, Buffalo Graze With Ogden, N.Y. Br, and Mrs.! James Ryan, owners of Sham rock Farm assured the passing motorist he wasn't seeing things there really are buf falo on their land. The bison, one male and one female, were purchased along with a herd of Holsteta cattle by Jerome Miller, Spencer port, N.Y,, who rents part of Don't Miss The 4 Jackson County AUGUST 13th to 20th And Don't Forget This Favorite in the MIRACLE Cows on NX Farm the Byan pasture. Miller said the man who sold them to him said they were three years old and Bad been given ta him by g zss when the animals were stiti calves. Miller said he bought the bison because "they're some thing different." They were tame, he said, since they had been raised with cows, Poly-Ftfm Stronger, softer wrapper that lets you a tha gosdnesi tmide that' guaranteed to keep KOLSUM flavorful tnd heh 3 dayt bngert v Bakers of Your Lone Candidate for Legislature Withdraws Salem-WB-A. R EBtogsofc of Mapletar has; withdrawn as a Democratic candidate for the Legislature from Lan county because of business reasons. A successor will be named by the Lane county Democratic Central committee. - H, F.F.A. WRAP Favorite
