From the April 1948 issue of Extension Farm-News, a newsletter for county agents and specialists of the North Carolina Extension Service
The 1948 series of Fat Stock shows and Sales opened March 31 when the 11th annual Rocky Mount show and sale was held. This year’s event included 43 steers and 208 hogs shown and sold by youths from nine counties.
Douglas Eason of Edgecombe County, exhibitor of the Grand Champion steer in last year’s show, again received top honors this year by exhibiting another Grand Champion. The “champ” sold for 75 cents per pound. The title of reserve champion when to the steer entered by Dalton Proctor of Wilson County.
Top honor in the swine department, the Grand Champion individual, was won by Mack Mills of Pitt County. Mack sold his animal for 75 cents per pound. R.V. Knight of Tarboro exhibited the Reserve Champion individual hog. The Grand Champion pen of three was entered by F.W. Fisher of Battleboro and the Reserve Champion pen by Kenneth Coleman Webb of Macclesfield.
Attending the event form State College were Leland I. Case, Jack Kelley, Jesse James, and J.C. Pierce.
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