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Mother Lode Fair 2019
Sonora, California
Rabbit and goat might cost more Guy McCarthy / Union Democrat Signs on barbed-wire fence tout the Future Farmers of America and the 4-H Club at the Lazy JH Farm in Stent where Jordan Hampton lives (above). Hampton, 15 (right), is raising four little girl hog piglets that are 12 weeks old and weigh 15 to 20 pounds each, for exhibition, not for auction, at the 2019 Mother Lode Fair. lIvestoCk Continued from Page 18
five Californian rabbits for the Small Livestock Auction, and a mix of six other rabbits for cage show and showmanship at the Mother Lode Fair. She hopes some of the rabbits sell at auc- tion to help her pay for classes when she starts at Columbia College in September. “Another success would be having a lot of people come to the fair and see what small livestock is all about,” Montano said at her folks’ place. “And to interest new 4-H’ers.”
Hampton, who starts her junior year at Sonora High in August, said she believes rabbit and goat prices will be higher at this year’s Small Livestock Auction because there’s no live poultry allowed at the 2019 Mother Lode Fair due to outbreaks of Newcastle Dis- ease elsewhere in California. She knows about Newcastle because most of the time she raises and
`up past Phoenix Lake to small farms and ranches all over Tuolumne County, dozens of young 4-H’ers, Future Farmers of America members and Inde- pendent exhibitors like Ken- nedy are getting their animals ready for the Mother Lode Fair auctions. Jordan Hampton, 15, of Stent, is a former 4-H all-star and current vice-president of Sonora FFA, and she’s raising a 6-month-old, 80-pound Boer goat named Carlos for the Small Livestock Auction on Sunday, July 7, as well as a 1-year-old, 1,250-pound steer named Hank for the Junior Livestock Auc- tion. She’s also raising four little girl hog piglets that are 12 weeks old and weigh 15 to 20 pounds each, for exhibition only, not for the auctions. About 13 miles northeast of Stent, up past Phoenix Lake, is where Mary Montano, 17, a Class of 2019 graduate of Sonora High School, is raising
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