Great Frederick Fair Opens Tuesday as Exhibits Rise
The Great Frederick Fair opens Tuesday for a five day run, with quality exhibits in live stock home skills gardening and farm produce rising yearly. The fair traces back to an 1822 cattle show at George Creager's Tavern and the Agricultural Society of Frederick County founded around 1849. The premium book has listed cash prizes for top exhibits for nearly a century and the event has evolved from wagon meals and social visits to a modern five day celebration with racing dancing and demonstrations.
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Frederick
Frederick County Agricultural Society
George Creager
Agricultural Society of
Frederick County
Tavern Meadow
Maryland State School
Liberty
Court House
Ag Society Operates Fair
The Frederick County Fair opens next Tuesday and is run by the Frederick County Agricultural Society with about 265 life members. John T. Best Jr. is president, with John L. Shaw as vice president and Wade F. Hursey as secretary. The board includes Best, Shaw, Geisbert, Renn, Hahn, Sanner, Smith, Staley, Stauffer, Trout and Young. Geisbert fills the vacancy from Harry C. Dorcus’s death. he is a Urbana area farmer active in farm groups. Membership is closed, only by purchasing a life membership, sometimes up to 250 dollars and often passed down generations. Robert E. Clapp Jr. is counsel and C. Gordon Smith is chief marshal, with fair committees named for various tasks.
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John T. Best Jr
John L. Shaw
Wade F. Hursey
K. Kenneth Kefauver
Horace M. Alexander
Best
Shaw
Paul G. Geisbert
A. Irvin Renn
Walter J. Hahn
Emmons C. Sanner
Clyde W. Smith
Irving E. Staley
Frank N. Stauffer
Glenn Trout
Alvey D. Young
Geisbert
Harry C. Dorcus
Woodsboro
Urbana
Agricultural Society
Robert E. Clapp Jr
C. Gordon Smith
Emmons C. Lanner
Paul Geishbert
Staley
Sanner
Stauffer
Young
Renn
Smith
Trout
Hahn
San
Machinery Row Brings Second Midway At Frederick Fair
Frederick County Agri cultural Society presents machinery row at the Frederick Fair opening next Tuesday. The display features 16 farm equipment displays including windrowers harvesters balers and tractors with a focus on automation to ease farmer workloads. A tractor obstacle contest tests maneuvering amid a 40-foot alley and a 4-wheel wagon alley designed by University of Maryland staff with Timonium Fair regional winners advancing to state competition.
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Frederick
Central of Maryland Farm Equipment Dealers Association
Dad
Glenn Trout
Frederick County Agricultural Society
Clyde W. Smith
Alivin Renn
Agriculture Department
Joe Biser
Adamstown
Joseph Smith
Smith
Timonium
Biser
Twelfth Annual Tractor Operators Contest Friday at Frederick Fair
Nineteen contestants are slated to compete in the twelfth annual tractor operators contest at the Frederick Fair next Friday morning. Superintendent Earl McDevitt said entrants will face a written test a practical test on tractor parts and a maneuvering obstacle course with attached implements. Part of the test will be detailed in briefing notes.
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Ninteen
Frederick Fair
Earl McDevitt
Poultry Exhibit Draws 1300 Entries at Frederick County Fair
More than 1300 entries have been received for the Frederick County Fair poultry exhibit. Space limits force rejection of some entries from Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia and many Maryland counties. Displays cover farm flocks, single birds, bantams, ducks, geese, turkeys and wild life exhibits with prizes in all classes. Final judging Tuesday morning September 26 by Burnell Bortner with egg judging by Arthur Martin of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Special premiums from W & W Poultry Market and Harry T. Campbell Sons Corp.
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Poultry Department
Frederick County
Alton A. T. Williar
Pennsylvania
Virginia
West Virginia
Wilbar
Burnell Bort‘ner
Glenn Rock
Arthur Martin
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Maryland
Northeastern Poultry Producers Council
W & W Poultry Market
East Patrick Street
Harry T. Campbell Sons, Corp
Frederick area winners repeat in regional contest history
The text notes Smith from near New Market won the contest in 1959 as in previous years, with Charles Carpenter from RFD 1 taking jit in 1958 and Claiborne Noffsingler from Fengaville winning in 1957. Carpenter later earned top honors at Timonium in 1958.
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Frederick
Smith
New Market
Charles Carpenter
RFD 1
Claiborne Noffsingler
Fengaville
Carpenter
Timonium
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Great Frederick Fair
Jacob Kanode
Ella N. Graser
Masonic Temple
David Eigenbrode
Frederick Fair Board
J. Rolfe Castleman
Eigenbrode
America
Mammoth Midway
Frank Wirth
Lovely
Manhattan Rockets
Spring Garden Band
Alabama
Rudynoffs
Dancing Horses
Senor Cortez
The
Musical Wonder
Beautiful Rainbow Ballet
Lovely Manhattan Rockets
Linares
Johnny Woods
Janet Burger
John Woods
Hall Sands
Dorothy Conova
Sonny Cannon Co
Columbia Stage Lighting Co
New York City
Mr. Clair Brenner
Spring Garden
Jack Kochman
H Pace
John J. Fralinger
Mummer's String Band
Ag Society
Hahn, Smith and Renn
Stauffer and
Smith and Renn
Stauffer, Geishert and Shaw
Shaw, Dorcus
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