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Junior Livestock Auction
SATURDAY, September 29th
Starts at 10:00 A.M.
Junior Livestock Auction is the culmination of a lengthy project
for the young people who are members of 4-H or FFA. While many
projects are exhibited at the San Benito County Fair, perhaps
the projects that are the most work intensive, the most expensive
and the most exciting are the livestock projects.
Livestock must be purchased, fed, provided good veterinary care
and kept clean and groomed. 4-H members can borrow the money from
parents or other relatives or use a low-cost loan that is offered
by local banks. When the animal is sold at auction, the loan can
be repaid and a profit realized. Besides the value of hard work,
budgeting is one of the skills that such a project teaches.
The County is justifiably proud of
its many 4-H chapters, FFA Clubs and their contributions.
Come to the fair and see what they
have done!
A lot of action is expected at this
year's auction. At first, you might find the auction unsettling.
How can these earnest, fresh-faced kids -- caps perched smartly
on their heads -- bear to dispatch to the butcher the earnest,
fresh-faced beasts they've nurtured all these months? However,
the kids seem quite at peace with the entire enterprise. You have
to concede there's something at once comic and respectable about
a 10-year-old girl somberly herding her hog back and forth, a
garland of flowers on its back, while folks cheer and bid up the
price to outlandish proportions. Some of the kids even present
small gifts to the buyers of their animals. This isn't the kind
of behavior that will get them a series on Fox.
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