4-H Youth Wins Grand Champion at International Livestock Exposition
Elliot Brown, 20, of Rose Hill Iowa, owner of Lucky Strike Aberdeen Angus, earned Grand Champion honors at Chicago’s International Live Stock Exposition. A six year 4-H member and calf club leader, Brown described his prize animal born April 4 1928 fed on corn linseed meal mixed hay and oats with careful grooming and training to pose for judges.
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Elliot Brown
Chicago
Et Livestock
Rose Hill
Iowa
Lucky Strike
K Jaeger
Eddyville
Elliot
Changes in Feed Ration for Animal Care Grows Complex
The daily diet shifted on August 1 from linseed meal and molasses sprinkled over grain to ground barley twice daily and cooked barley at night with molasses, added to the usual corn oats and linseed meal.
Grows 8 Bales Cotton On 5 Acres Near Ellenboro
Ellenboro December 16. G C Hamrick reports eight 500 pound bales from five acres grown with the El lenboro school vocational ag program. He notes thirteen acres yielded nineteen 500 pound bales, total cost 336.57, per acre 67.31, expecting over 800 dollars from lint and seed. The record cites land rent seed fertilizer labor and ginning, using Coker No 5 seed and specific nutrients. North Carolina cotton growers may gain relief with higher yield per acre.
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Ellenboro
G. C. Hamrick
Vocational Agricultural Department
Ellenboro School
North Carolina
Raising Rabbits A Money Making Farm Enterprise
The Sears-Roe Buck Agricultural Foundation says rabbit farming is profitable with strong future demand for fur and meat. About 100 million rabbit skins are used annually in the U.S., 98 percent imported, while feeds are cheap and backyards can house many huts. Prolific does yield 20 to 25 kits yearly. breeds include Chinchilla and New Zealand White among others, with pelts influenced by fur texture color and handling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sears-Roebuck Agricultural Foundation
United States
New Zealand
Johnny Muskrat to Broadcast on Seven Stations
Johnny Muskrat a fur trapping and fur marketing broadcaster for Sears Roebuck Agricultural Foundation, will air talks on WLS Chicago and WCCO Minneapolis. He writes fur market letters for KJR Seattle KMEC Kansas City WCAU Philadelphia KOA Denver and WFAA Dallas to be broadcast during the fur season. He shares trapping and selling tips, reads letters from trappers, and features guests like El Comanche who will also judge the First National Fur Show.
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Johnny Muskrat
Sears-Roebuck Agricultural Foundation
WLS
Chicago
Minneapolis
WCCO
Johnny
KJR
Seattle
KMEC
Kansas City
WCAU
Philadelphia
KOA
Denver
WFAA
Dallas
Foundation
el Comanche
First National Raw Fur Show offers $5000 prize in Chicago
The Sears Roebuck Agricultural Foundation announces the First National Raw Fur Show with $5,000 in cash. The exhibition runs April 15 to May 1 in Chicago, open to all fur shippers who legally trapped pelts during 1929-30. Entries must arrive by April 15, 1930, and judging emphasizes pelt preparation rather than origin.
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Sears-Roebuck Agricultural Foundation
Chicago
Sears, Roebuck Raw
Johnny Muskrat
Johnny
United States
Alaska
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Four-H Boy
McNeely’s
Christmas
Coats
J. C. McNeely & Co
Shelby, N. C
Sears Roebuck
Comancha
R. W. Horsley
A&p
Forest City
INC
Bost
Bost’s Bakery
Eagle“Mikado
Eagle Mikado Eagle Pencil Company
New York
Couyicy
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