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Show li.S. FARMERS CONTEST AT COUNTY FAIR Annual Election, Banquet Of Future Farmers Is Set Friday Future Farmers of Utah will elect officers, participate in stock judging and hold their annual banquet in Provo Friday in connection with the Utah county fair which opens Friday morning and continues con-tinues until Saturday night. More than 150 Future Farmers are expected to participate in the state convention, which is to be held in Provo. They will elect officers of-ficers at 2 o'clock in the Roberts Hotel and will hold their annual banquet in the L. D. S. First ward cliopol at 6:30 in the evening. Judging Event Set Delegates and members of the stock judging teams which will participate in the state Smith-Hughes Smith-Hughes judging contest at the fair, will meet at the Hotel Roberts at 7:45 a. m., for instructions. The contest, which is usually held at the state fair, will open at 8 o'clock on the county fair grounds, where the various stock exhibits are to be shown. Approximately 30 stock judging teams from schools in all parts of the state will enter the contest. Included In-cluded among them are several from Utah county which are or. ganized under the Smith-Hughes plan, Spanish Fork. Payson, Springville, Lincoln, Pleasant Grove, American Fork and Lehi. The entire, fair, which has the unique distinction of being free of charge and yet maintaining a high standard, is expected to be an outstanding out-standing show. Although no cash prizes are being given, the prize winners will get ribbons and commodity com-modity prizes donated by merchants mer-chants and farmers of tho county. Friday School Day - A special program is arranged for Friday under direction of the Brigham Young university and the three schools of the county and the county farm bureau will stage another lively entertainment Saturday Satur-day in connection with their annual an-nual '"muster" day. Speakers of national prominence will he at the Smith-Hughes banquet in the evening eve-ning and some of Utah's foremost men have been engaged to speak in the afternoon and evening of both days. Exhibits have already started to come in to the fair grounds, and boy scouts of the various districts of thc county were bringing in some excellent exhibits to the city and county building today. Among them, in addition to the scoutcraft work to be shown, were miniature camps designed and built by the various scout districts. Among the speakers listed are included: in-cluded: Governor Henry H. Blood, Senator Elbert D. Thomas. Secretary Secre-tary of State Milton H. Welting, Tracy R. Kelling, secretary of the Utah Farm Bureau federation, and Director P. V. Cardon of the state experiment station at Logan. |