GENERAL ENTRY DEADLINE: July 13, 2007
Horse Entry Deadline July 9, 2007
HORSES ARRIVAL NO LATER THAN: Monday, July 23, 2007.
RELEASE TIME: Livestock Sunday, July 29 at 6a.m.  FFA Horses will be released 8:00 a.m. to noon on Saturday.  Exhibitors leaving early will forfeit premiums and action will be taken against the chapter.  Only the head superintendent can excuse FFA members.

GENERAL RULES:
1. Read carefully the General Rules and Regulations in the Open Section of this Premium Book.
2. All FFA livestock, ag mech., agronomy, classroom entries should be made out in the exhibitor's and chapter name, and address should be included.
3. Unless the exhibit is considered worthy of a prize by the judge, no award will be given.
4. All exhibits must belong to members who are in good standing in the Local Chapter and State Association.
5. Activities of the Fair will proceed on schedule whether entrants are busy or absent from the area.
6. NO OUT OF COUNTY students will be allowed to participate in the FFA Department, but are allowed and encouraged to show in Open Class.
7. Animals must be owned by the following minimum days prior to Fair:
Breeding Beef .................................................June 1
Market Beef ....................................................February 1
Market Swine ..................................................June 1
Breeding Swine &Sheep ...................................June 1
Market Sheep ..................................................June 1
Horses ............................................................May 1
Verification must be made. Bill of sale or proof by student, parents
or ag instructor is required.
8. Animals using behavioral modifications and diuretic drugs will be
disqualified from showing and all premiums will be withheld.
9. The decision of the judges will be final.
10. Livestock will be penned by NOON Wednesday, July 25, 2007.
11. In case of no competition, the judge shall decide whether the exhibit shall be placed in the first, second and third place.
12. There will be separate classes for each breed listed under the
various classes.
13. All Market Steers will be judged by hip height.  All Market Steers weighing 1049 pounds and under will be shown as Feeder Steers.
14. Market Steers will be weighed at the fairgrounds.
15. No animal may be shown in both Market and Breeding Classes.
16. FFA members must be carrying the project(s) and have records
up to date.
17. All cattle exhibitors will be required to use neck ropes at least 1/2
inch in diameter, in addition to halters in the stall.
18. All bulls over yearlings must be shown with nose leads.
19. Heifers must be spayed or proven free martin heifers in order to
show in Market Classes.
20. No market animal will be allowed to nurse 60 days prior to fair.
21. ALL first and second place winners in FFA Department are eligible
to enter in the Open Classes, providing there is already competition
from an Open Class Exhibitor in the class the member wishes
to enter, and provided that if in Open Class there is a Champion
judged, the FFA can bring up Champions and Reserve Champions
only to be judged for Overall Champion. The same animal may not
be entered in more than one department.
22. All livestock must be FITTED. No ribbons or premiums will be
awarded to un fitted animals. All livestock shown in Showmanship
must be fitted by the individual showing and no one else.
23. TIE OUT RULE -If you tie your animal outside the barn, it CANNOT
be tied out until after 8 p.m. and MUST be back in the barn by 9 .m.
24. No more than two entries per lot by any one exhibitor.
25. MURRAYMERE FARMS will award a Herdsmanship Trophy or check
to the chapter doing the best job.  (See Herdsmanship Rules)
26. A Showmanship Contest will be held preceding the judging of each
department of the show.  Each exhibitor is expected to compete
in the Showmanship Contest.  Beef Showmanship will be after the
Market Steer Show and before the Breeding Beef Show.
27. Round Robin Competition is limited to the top two showmanship
places of each section.  Round Robin Competition will be a YOUTH
Show, 4-H and FFA together.
28. Stalls and livestock housing needs to be kept relatively clean at
all times.  If there is a problem, the Chapter Advisor will be warned
by the Fair Manger. If a second warning is required, the Chapter's
premium money for that area will be withheld.

DIVISION 1 -FFA AGRICULTURE MECHANICS
Superintendents: Park County Ag Instructors
RULES:
1. There will be no double entries by an individual or chapter.
2. Entries will be judged on the basis of workmanship, evidence of sound planning, number and degree of skills involved, practicality and agricultural usefulness of the entry.
3. All entries must be student's work and result from the training program in agriculture mechanics.
4. The judges reserve the right to re-enter entries in Classes in order to make up more judgeable groups of entries.
5. Judges shall give greater consideration to an item built entirely by the student rather than a prefabricated item.
6. Entries in Classes 1 through 6 must be mounted on display boards
that may be any size less than 2 feet by 4 feet.  Display boards may
represent several student's work.  Points from these classes will
have equal value with other similar classes in judging sweepstakes.
Individual items not mounted will not be judged.  Boards not meeting the specifications will be placed below those boards that do.
7. All entries must be removed from equipment and placed in proper class area to be judged.  Example: Pickup bumpers and stock racks.
8. All projects not of quality will not be judged. This will be left to the discretion of the Agriculture Mechanics Committee, The items must be removed from the display area.
9. Only major agriculture mechanics projects pertaining to the handling
or producing of crops or livestock or major shop equipment shall be considered for Champion or Reserve Champion Agriculture Mechanics Projects.
10. Any entries in the Agriculture Mechanics Class that are found to have been shown in previous years will disqualify that chapter, for all premiums, for that year, in the Agriculture Mechanics Show.  The Agriculture Mechanics Committee shall have the responsibility for making this decision.

SCORE CARD FOR SELECTING
CHAMPION AND RESERVE CHAMPION
AGRICULTURE MECHANICS PROJECT

WORKMANSHIP -Quality of all student's work; cutting, bending, welding, painting, etc.-50%
CONSTRUCTION -Proper design and use of materials to perform the jobs for which the project was intended -50%
Show Date: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 at 8 p.m.
Premium Schedule: A
Class:
1. Display of Posters showing phases of agriculture safety, mounted on display board.
2. Exhibit of reconditioned tools for home use, mounted on display board.
3. Skill Board -Arc Welding, minimum of four different skills.
4. Skill Board -Oxygen-Acetylene Welding, minimum of four different skills.
5. Skill Board -Electricity, minimum of four different skills.
6. Skill Board -Any Four Skills. Example: forge, rope, mechanical drawing, etc.

Premium Schedule: B
Class:
7. Wood Construction -Projects for use in home: cutting boards, cabinets, tables.
8. Wood -Cabinet and Box-type projects: show box, feed storage boxes.
9. Wood -items used in farm and ranchstead: sawhorse, saddle racks, gun racks.
10. Wood -Farm & Ranchstead Conveniences: picnic tables, benches, lawn chairs.
11. Wood &Metal -Farm & Ranchstead Conveniences; picnic tables, benches, lawn chairs.
12. Metal -Small Shop Equipment: light stands, racks, bolt bins.
13. Metal -Medium Shop Equipment: acetylene carts, welding tables, car ramps.

Premium Schedule: B
Class:
14. Metal -Large Shop Equipment: hoists, engine stands.

Premium Schedule: B
Class:
15. Wood -Small Service Utility Equipment: Mailbox, pack saddle.
16. Metal -Small Service Utility Equipment: branding irons, saddle rack, ladder.
17. Wood &Metal -Small Service Utility Equipment: signs.

Premium Schedule: B
Class:
18. Metal -Box-type Projects: tool chest, fuel tanks.

Premium Schedule: B
Class:
19. Metal -Pick-Up Conveniences: hitches, bumpers.

Premium Schedule: B
Class:
20. Metal -Pick-Up Conveniences: grill guards, tail gates.

Premium Schedule: B
Class:
21. Metal -Pick-Up Conveniences: headache racks.

Premium Schedule: B
Class:
22. Wood &Metal -Equipment Utilizing Electrical Power: drop cord holder, shop light stand.

Premium Schedule: B
Class:
23. Wood &Metal -Equipment Utilizing Electrical Power (must contain a moving part): air compressor, power hacksaw.

Premium Schedule: B
Class:
24. Wood -Small Feeding Structures: feed boxes and bunks.

Premium Schedule: B
Class:
25. Wood -Large Feeding structures: feed bunks and hay feeders.

Premium Schedule: B
Class:
26. Metal -Small Feeding Structures: feed boxes and bunks.

Premium Schedule: B
Class:
27. Metal -Large Feeding Structures: feed bunks and hay feeders.

Premium Schedule: B
Class:
28. Wood &metal -Small Feeding Structures: feed boxes and bunks

Premium Schedule: C
Class:
29. Wood &Metal -Large Feeding structures: feed bunks and hay feeders.
 
Premium Schedule: C
Class:
30. Metal -Stockracks
31. Wood -Stockracks
32. Wood & Metal -Stockracks

Premium Schedule: C
Class:
33. Wood -Any Other Structures used in productive farm or ranch enterprises: crates, tables.
34. Wood &Metal -Any Other Structures used in productive farm or ranch enterprises: trimming chute, headgate, Al chute.
35. Metal -Any Other Structures used in productive farm or ranch enterprises: wool sacker, branding iron stove.
36. Metal -Any Power Driven Equipment: woodsplitter, tractor blade,  dump box.

Premium Schedule: C
Class:
37. Metal -Gates

Premium Schedule: C
Class:
38. Metal -Portable Panels: minimum of four panels

Premium Schedule: C
Class:
39. Metal -Fencing Equipment: post drivers, tamping bars, post
pullers.
40. Metal -Recreational Equipment: barbecue, fireplace set, hunting
stoves, roping dummies.

Premium Schedule: C
Class:
41. Small Platform and Utility Trailers

Premium Schedule: C
Class:
42. Large Platform and Utility Trailers

Premium Schedule: C
Class:
43. One and Two Horse Trailers.
44. Four-Horse or Large Tandem or Triple Tandem Axle Livestock Trailers
45. Goosenecked Livestock trailers
46. Goosenecked Flatbed Trailers.

Class:
47. Grand Champion Ag Mechanics Project
48. Reserve Champion Ag Mechanics Project
Grand Champion Ag Mechanics............................................$50
Reserve Champion Ag Mechanics.........................................$25
 

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