Winners in Fat Stock Show Named, April, 1948

From the April, 1948, issue of Extension Farm-News, published by North Carolina State College

The 1948 series of Fat Stock Shows and Sales opened March 31 when the Eleventh 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 Easton of Edgecombe County, exhibitor of the Grand Champion steer in last year’s show, again received top honors by exhibiting another Grand Champion. The “champ” sold for 75 cents per pound. The title of reserve champion went 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 from State College were Leland I. Case, Jack Kelley, Jesse James, and J.C. Pierce.