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Show CAPITOL EXHIBIT SHOWS CHANGE IN FARM METHODS The newest exhibit on the first floor of the State Capitol, and that currently attracting the most sightseers, is one which shows 100 years of progress in threshing thresh-ing grain in Cache Valley. The installation, completed under un-der the direction of Everett Thorpe, art instructor at the Utah State Agricultural College, and the Logan chamber of commerce, for Cache county, occupies three sections of display space in the northeast corner of the first floor. Small models show the endless apron thresher, in use in Cache Valley from 1860 to 1866, and powered pow-ered by two horses working on a treadmill. The second model is that of the Case Agitator Thresher, Thresh-er, used from 1886 to 1892, and powered by several horses on a turnstile arrangement. Another shows the steam-powered thresher used from 1892 to 1921, and the fourth the self-propelled combine harvester which has been in use since 1921. The small models actually ac-tually can be operated and were built to scale by L. K. Wood of Afendon. Mural Included In the background of the center display is a mural painted by Mr. Thorpe and showing the arrival of the fur trapper Jim Bridger into Cache Valley. Large photographs of Logan Temple and the Utah State Agricultural Agri-cultural College by H. Reuben Reynolds Rey-nolds appear on the wall behind the shelving of the other showcases. show-cases. There also are color photographs photo-graphs of a view of Bear Lake, a vista down Logan Canyon, a typical typi-cal Cache Valley dairy herd, and the college. |