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Show Interest Rises As Livestock Show Dates Near Interest that has been shown by prospective exhibitors in the annual Southern Utah Livestock Show at Cedar City indicates that records will be set this year in each division of the show. The annual event, the 14th consecutive show, will open on the College of Southern Utah campus on Thursday, Friday and! Saturday, Sept. 9, 10 and 11. Entry blanks have been mail ) ed to prospective exhibitors i throughout southern Utah, including in-cluding 4-H Club and Future Farmer Chapter members, who exhibited fat steers, lambs and swine, and to producers of breeding breed-ing stock, both sheep and beef and dairy cattle. Entries are beginning to arrive ar-rive in the secretary's office, and Wednesday, Sept. 8, the stock will begin to arrive at the show barns and corrals on the campus. cam-pus. While breeding sheep and cattle sales will be held on the second day of the show, emphasis empha-sis will be placed on the youthful exhibitors and the fat stock contests con-tests and sales. To win grand championship honors at this major show of the West is a distinction that stimulates stimu-lates young livestock growers to their greatest efforts. In addition to the honor of exhibiting ex-hibiting the grand champion in1 any division, many other con-1 tests attract the youngsters of southern Ntah. including fitting jand showing contests, judging contests and other endeavors iuj the livestock production field, j Judging of the stock and all contests will take place on the opening dav of the show, with breeding stock sales taking the spotlight on the second day. and the fat stock auction sales on the last day climaxing the entire show. Final arrangements for the show are nearing completion as the show dates draw near, and evervthing points to the finest j show in the history of the annual I event. |