LARRY NELSON (815) 674-3429 & Bill Chapin (815) 954-5129 Co- Superintendents
SHERRYL NELSON - Assistant Superintendent
Entries Close Monday, August 4, 2025 - 5:00 p.m.
Estimated Amount Offered $15,232.00

Pick up all premium checks in the office by 9:00 p.m., Sunday August 24th.
Judging Time - 9:00 a.m. Friday, August 22, 2025
Entry Fee - $7.00 per entry
Pen Rent - $3.00 per head for the duration of the Fair.
Entry and pen fees must be paid at the time entry is made.

All animals must be property of exhibitor for 30 days prior to opening of Fair. Partnerships not
accepted.
See 2025 State Exhibition Livestock Health Requirements.
Registration papers are required for all purebred livestock and must be made available for inspection by Directors in charge and remain in exhibitors possession for duration of fair.
Animals must be ear-marked if Breeding Association so requires.
Each exhibitor is limited to two entries per class and exhibitor may collect only two monies under one class number.
Young Flock: to consist of 1 ram, 1 yearling ewe, and 2 lambs.

• Weight Classes 492 and 494 will be allowed no more than 5 sub-classes each.
• Weight Classes 493 and 495 will be allowed no more than 2 sub-classes each.
• Market Lambs will be weighed Wednesday, August 20th at 3:00 p.m.
• Market Lamb Classes will be divided by weight into classes by the Superintendent in charge, as they see fit.
• Market Lambs (female or male) may be grade or crossbred, and can only be shown in Market Class.
• Shropshire and Cheviot will now be showing under "All Other Purebred Meat Breeds".
• Pee-Wee Showmanship is for children under 8 years of age as of September 1st of the previous years fair. 

ALL ANIMALS MUST BE CLIPPED, CUT AND GROOMED OR PREMIUM WILL BE FORFEITED.
ALL AISLES MUST BE CLEANED AND RAKED DAILY BY 8:00 A.M.

OPEN CLASS SHEEP

Trophies Given By:
FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF
MANHATTAN, FARM DEPT.
WILL COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION