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Show State Fairs To See War Efforts Of America Filmed America's war efforts at homo and abroad soldiers and sailors at the fighting front, in camp and aboard slilpj farmers striving for Increased crops In this country, and hosts ot olhers engaged In backing up tho fighters are to be shown In motion pictures at State fairs In twenty-threo states this summer and fall, in connection with the combined combin-ed exhibits of tho government. The military naval and food production pro-duction and conservation films ae to be supplemented by beautiful views of America as seon In tho national na-tional parks, and by pictures showing show-ing reclamation of arid lands, high way construction and other govo'U-ment govo'U-ment activities. The pictures, with tho combined government exhibits, will be shown from September 28 to October 5 at the Utah State Pair. Admission to tho government displays will bo free. Five groups of tho films will travel on as many fair circuits, and beginning In August will bo shown from New York to California. FOOD GROWING FILMS ARK NUMEROUS Decauso ot tho ctfoits of the department de-partment of agriculture) to stimulate Increased food production, probably more films will bo shown en this subject than any othor. I.ctures have been taken In many putts of the county to lllustrata Improved methods of agrlcultuio, Mode raising, rais-ing, home economics tuwl forebt mangement. Tho best and most np, proprlato of these will be shown at tho fairs. The Washington horse show, showing typos of pure-broil horses from the, fast trotter lo t'.io draft animal,, was filmed nt tho capital. Pictures of boys' pig clubs, tnkin In Louisiana, nio expected to Interest every farm youth, for they show tho slops In forming onu of Uncle Sam's pig clubs, and how a boy earned tho price ot jls flv.t pig, which later took a bluo ilbbe-n and brought money enough to tsart n real herd of prlzo hog. Poultry fanciers aro oxpected to find Interest Inter-est In films of the government poultry poul-try farm In Maryland. FOREST WORK PORTRAYi.l) To tho forests of tho ITo'thwest the government cameras want to get pictures of the terrible foret fires that yearly destroy thousands of acres ac-res of valuablo timber and sometimes some-times wipe out whole townships. In this film are seen the work of the forest rangers and the spentacla of an entire community going out to fight a fire. Other forests are shown during dur-ing the cutting ot the timber, when the iodgepole pine is sent down the I mountain flumes to be cut into railroad rail-road ties,, mine props and lumber, and during the grazing season when thousands of shee pand cattle are turned into these government ranges rang-es to produce food, wool and leather. leath-er. Cotton planting, cotton ginning and manufacture, and the fight against the pink bollworm pest all were filmed in the South. Cooperative Cooper-ative berry picking in the Pacific Northwest and work of the coopera-tlxe coopera-tlxe dairy testing associations In New England indicate that the 'camera covers the country. ROAD BUILDING ON SCREEN I The building ad repair of public roads of various types have been photographed pho-tographed In many different states. The whole process, beginning with the quarry where the rock Is tested test-ed to determine Its strength and durability, Is shown. Then comes the crushing and further testing of tho rock, the use of cement and macadam, tho grading and filling ot the road and tho final polishing, off with the big steam rollor. American manufacture of wool, especially timely during the war, and processes ot grading and sorting sort-ing wool after It reaches warehous- a through the combing and winding wind-ing until It la ready to be made into in-to different grades of woolen cloths also re covered In film. Other features fea-tures of Improved and scientific farming treated Include tho building build-ing of silos, tho proper handling of poultry, and tho production of scientifically scien-tifically pure milk. |