Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-10-02 | Page 7 | Davis Farmers Plan Fair Trip

sis inns PUWFMR THP Many Agriculturists From! County Arrange to Visit Grounds in Body. More than 200 fanners from Davis county will attend the Utah state fair in a body next Wednesday, according to VC. J. Thayne, count- agricultural agent of Davis. Mr. Thayno has made arrangements for the Davis county representatives to gather at one of the Salt Lake hotels. They will be escorted to the fair grounds by representatives from the Utah Agricultural college, many of whom are stationed in various counties as agricultural agents. The college men will accompany the visitors during their trip through the fair and will endeavor J to assist them in-seeing all that the fair has to offer. Wednesday has been designated by the Murray school board as "state fair day." The schools will close and arrangements ar-rangements are being perfected to have the pupils visit the fair in a body. At the state fair board meeting held yesterday in the Xewhouse hotel. President Presi-dent W. C. Winder, who is a veteran fair worker, veulured the assertion that the present climatic disturbance is the annual cquinoxia! storm, which usually strikes in the very middle of the exposition ex-position week. That being the case, the outlook for next week should be very encouraging, he said. Exhibits of livestock are arriving rapidly. Most of these are cattle, which have been shipped long distances, the object of the early shipment being to condition the stock before entering the paddock for nudging. According to D. W. Pratt of the fair board, it will be necessary to utilize much of the space in the coliseum this year for exhibiting ex-hibiting the cattle, owing to the unprecedented un-precedented entries in this department. The University of Utah will have a variety of exhibits. .ear the main entrance, the department of military science and tactics will display its magnificent mag-nificent collection of heavy ordnance. This equipment, according to university officials, is valued at more than $300,-000. $300,-000. The collection includes a famous Trench "75." The university also will have charge of the mineral department through Dr. J?. H. Bradford. This exhibit will be ehown in a r.ew building, especially constructed con-structed for the mineral department. In Victory hall the university will participate in an exhibit designed to assist in olimi na; ion of the smoke evil in Salt Lake. Beside:, the foregoing displays, tl-o state institution will fill its.' own building with exhibits from practically every department and school in tho institution.