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Show Exhibits for 1931 Excelling Feature Visitors to the Utah State Fair in October, will be greeted by exhibits in all departments revealing the determination de-termination of the management and the exhibitors to make each state exhibition ex-hibition superior to the preceding one. This spirit of progress in Utah's big annual state show is one of the reasons why it ranks well up with the leading e-xpositions of its sort throughout the United .States. Prizes, awards and record-breaking achievements achieve-ments in many departments have, year after year, served to attract national na-tional attention to the fair in this, state. Saturday, October 3, the fair will open at the State Fair grounds in Salt Lake City, to continue to and including in-cluding Saturday, October 10. Following Follow-ing the long-established custom, the fair dates include those of the semiannual semi-annual general conference of the L. D. S. church. Visitors at the capital that week may combine their attendance atten-dance upon these two important events. According to the state fair management, man-agement, exhibits this year will be equal in quality and quantity to the best preceding fairs, with some new features sure to enhance the attractiveness attrac-tiveness of the departments to both casual visitors and experts. Always dependable from the standpoint of both educational and commercial value, is the livestock department, which has become national in scope and importance during the past few years. One of the principal features of the fair, connected ivith the horse exhibitions, ex-hibitions, will be the $1,000 fifth annual an-nual intermountaiir pulling contest for draft horses. The state fair, desiring desir-ing to stimulate and reward the breeding of better draft horses and superior horsemanship, offers this money stake of g.-enerous size. No entry or stall fee 'is required for this event. Of large and growing importance is the junior department of the state fair, comprising the exhibits of the Future Farmers, of America, Industrial Indus-trial Arts and Farm Mechanics and the 4-H clubs. The Future Farmer: of America exhibits will be open -to all boys of Utah who are regislerad with teachers teach-ers for vocational agriculture in the high schoo'ls of the state. The Industrial Indus-trial ArU; and Farm Mechanics section sec-tion is open to all boys and girls in Utah er.rolled in junior or senior high school, work in this class. The 4 II club ftr.hibjts, of course, is limited to mamlprs of 4-H clubs having the recognition of the state clrib department. depart-ment. In all the junior exhibits, state fair entry blanks must be in the hands of the secretary of the state fair association as-sociation on or before September 29. In these, as all other deportments, the 1931 State. Fair will bm a well-rounded well-rounded exhibition, with amyiscment concessions, sporf.s events ano.' other diversions added to the rdura tjonal features. , |