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Show 'SHOW TO STRESS I SHKH1G Prizes Offered for Inter-mountain Inter-mountain Exhibit in April Aggregate $5000. Fat Cattle to Be Sold at Auction; Keen Competition Competi-tion Expected. The Iiitoi mountain 'Stock show, which will open the first week of April at the 1 Salt Lake Union Stock yards, bids fair to attract the largest exhibit of choice g cattle, hogs, and sheep ever shown in jH Utah, according to if. K. Parsons, prea- 1 ident of the show, and J. H. Ken, sec- rctary. S Prizes aggregating ir'oUOO, or mora 1 than four times as much as those of J any former year, will be awarded to the exhibitors of the best stock, Mr. tg Kerr said yesterday. .r "The awards will bo giveu for inch- vidua! fat, cattle, and carloads of feeder , cattle, fat hogs, and fat sheep. M Sales Follow Show. ' ' AH fat stock will be sold at auc- . M lion,'' Mr. Kerr said. "The contest is open to any livestock fattened iu the territory from Canada, to Mexico, not farther' east than Green River, YYyo., nor west of Huntington, Ore. m "Feeding livestock lor fattening pur- poses is practically' how . in the inter- I mountain country, and livestock shows are demonstrating to stock growers j that it is not necessary to ship stock . away for fattening.'' Competition Assured. While it is vet too early to estimate 1 the number of cattle, sheep, and hogs that will be sent from the various parts of the .iutermonutaiu country, officials J of the show arc confident that competi tiou will be keen. Every effort will 1 I be made t i facilitate the movement of I the slock to and from the exhibition. Stockmen of the jntermountain coun- JH try are becoming more than ever aware o of the benefits' of holding fat st' -It shows, and it is expected that many owners will attend the exhibition, ao-cording ao-cording to Mr. Parsons. They have realized, he said, that scientific feeding and breeding increases profit, and results re-sults accomplished by other growers are of great interest to them. |