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Show serving, furnishing, laundry work and labor-saving devices. These are all aside from the prizes for the snorts contests, the horse races, foot races and other athletics. cations in which prizes will be given for exhibits in home-making arts, such as cooking, housekeeping, sewing, pre- AIMH KEENJNJEHEST Practically Every Utah Product Included in the Prize Competition. With prizes offered at the Utah state fair for almost every Utah product in existence, from a tin roof to a guinea pig, rivalry among the competitors is keen. That it will be an interesting struggle, which the judges only can decide, is assured by the number of entries in nearly every class in which prizes have been hung up, and in some classes where there have been no prizes announced. Beginning with the horse department, there are 1S6 classes in which prizes have been offered, some of these awards being money prizes, others ribbons. In the cattle department there are 267 classes in which prizes will be awarded and in the swine department 241. These various classifications indicate different differ-ent breeds, weights, sexes, ages and general gen-eral conditions. The sheep have seventy classes open to competition for prizes, including four for goats. Special prizes are offered in the miscellaneous mis-cellaneous section, which embraces I pigeons, chickens, rabbits, guinea pigs, white mice, as well as such birds , as pheasants. In the horticulture section 123 awards will be made to first prize winners, aside from the grand award to the county having the best exhibit. The prizes mentioned have been only those ottered for first place. In many of the classes awards will be made for second and third choices, as well. The department of agriculture, dairy products and bees has offered 182 prizes, for everything from a head of cheese to an exhibit of pure-bred bees in action. Among the manufacturers the competition does not cover quite so wide a field, but embraces practically every important phase of the state's industrial activities. Blue ribbons are offered to the boys' and girls' club members who make contributions con-tributions which reach satisfactory standards both in farm products and in home economics work. For the women there are 295 classifi- . I |