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Show State Fair Will Have Exceptional Display of Resources and Talent , s Exceptionally fine agricultural crop and livestock yields with better bet-ter prevailing prices for products, far-reaching industrial prosperity, increased employment, and an all-around all-around era of bettered conditions are expected to play a prominent part in making Utah's 1941 state fair a truly outstanding event. As usual, the big state-wide exposition ex-position sixty-first of its kind will present for eight days, September Sep-tember 20 to 27, inclusive, a comprehensive com-prehensive close-up of the Beehive state's productiveness in varied agriculture will be represented in branches of endeavor. All phases of hundreds of exhibits. So will the livestock industry, which may always al-ways be depended upon to make the state fair exhibits of cattle, sheep, swine, horses, poultry, etc., one of the intermountain country's finest and largest livestock shows. Evidence of greatly increased interest in the fair and a widespread wide-spread desire on the part of all citizens to show Utah products and activities at their very best is seen daily a fair association headquarters headquar-ters at the state capitol. Inquiries regarding exhibit rules and regulations, regu-lations, time of making entries, premiums to be won, and various other items in connection with exposition ex-position management and display-requirements display-requirements are more numerous than ever before. They are taken as certain indications of a rec'ord- ) 1! breaking entry list in all exhibition departments. Questioners find no red tape attached at-tached to the making of an entry in any department. They learn that entry fees are low and the rules governing the making of displays simple and' confined largely to delivery de-livery at the fair grounds on specified spe-cified dates and the maintenance of sanitary exhibit conditions. They iearn also that premiums are liberal, the grand total of cash awards being well up in the thousands, thous-ands, with the addition of many special prizes such as trips to national na-tional conventions, cups, medals, and ribbons. More than $7,800 will be paid out to winners in the livestock department alone. Winning Win-ning exhibitors in the agricultural department will receive nearly $1800. More thousands in cash will go to the boy and girl exhibitors. Feminine exhibitors will share liberally. li-berally. Youthful inquirers find that the same exhibit and contest advantages advan-tages that have made the Utah state fair the year's largest and most interesting of 4-H and Future Fu-ture Farmers of America rendezvous rendez-vous will prevail to an even greater great-er extent in 1941. As always the exposition climaxes the previous 12 months' boy and girl activities in crop and livestock growing, home economics, farm mechanics, forestry, for-estry, and the like. Here at the Utah state fair v champions in the many branches of 4-H club and F. F. A. work are crowned. Here, too, winners in many boy and girl contests are acclaimed. ac-claimed. Notable awards to the youthful contestants include trips to the 4-H National Club congress in Chicago for the winner of the style dress revue, and individual canning contest. The youthful contests include livestock judging, poultry judging, poultry killing and dressing, crops clubs identification and placing, forestry identification and placing, log-sawing, boys' and girls' demonstration, demon-stration, boys' and girls' health, home economics judging, and the style dress revue, all in the 4-H club division. F. F. A. activities are embodied in crop exhibits of cereals and grains, sugar beets, vegetables and fruits; farm mechanics including farm drawings, photographs, plans and posters, record books, farm rope and leather projects, farm structure or models, farm wood and cement work projects, farm machinery repair projects, demonstration demon-stration and power, F. F. A. chapter chap-ter exhibits, poultry and eggs, swine, dairy cattle, sheep, and beef cattle. The women's department under the supervision of Mrs. Johanna Youngdale, offers many opportunities opportuni-ties for the exhibition of needlework needle-work and cooking. Both profes-( profes-( Continued on page eight) STATE FAIR TO START ON SEPTEMBER 20th (Continued from page one) sional and amateur sections are maintained. Hundreds of cash awards are made for exhibits of table linen and furnishings, bedroom bed-room linen and spreads, hand-made pillows, rugs, fancy bags, wall hangings or scarfs, children's and infants' garments, ladies' garments, gar-ments, knitting or crocheting, remodeling. re-modeling. The elderly ladies' di- vision features the work of women 70 years old and over. Work done by the blind is another interesting feature. Canned fruits, vegetables, jellies and jams are exhibited In , the women's building food division. Special efforts are being made to outdo all previous exhibits in the manufacturing and mining departments. depart-ments. The fine and applied arts department will as heretofore attract at-tract the newest works of famous ' intermountain artists. Fish and game commissioners are planning a superior exhibit of wildlife. Farm machinery will be featured on "machinery row." Last, but not least, entertainment entertain-ment adjuncts of the highest value are promised. At least 11 vaudeville vaude-ville and circus acts have been engaged en-gaged for day and night performances. perform-ances. The annual horse and dog shows will provide their usual-maximum usual-maximum enjoyment. So will more than a dozen bands, and the famed Monte Young carnival. |