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Show Men Prepare Barn For Record Stock; Largest ftaber of Entries in Beef Class Ever to be Placed in Show Beef Entries Grow from 3 Calves To 240 for This Year's Show The fifteenth annual Millard County Junior Livestock Show will open on May 23 at which time the judges will place the animals according ac-cording to their grade. The following follow-ing day will be used to sell the fat beef, lambs, hogs, and breeding stock of all types. The show will be held in the sugar factory warehouse ware-house again after a lapse of four years while it has been rented to the government for storage purposes. pur-poses. Thirty-two men spent all day on May 15 cleaning it up and arranging it in stalls and pens. The show will exhibit and sell the largest amount of fat beef in its history. Two hundred and forty fat beef have been entered from as far north as Tremonton to as far south as St. George. Last year's show had 139 fat beef for sale that brought $29,000 with the increase in price and amount of stock sales this year are expected to exceed $50,000. Lambs and hogs have not been entered this year in the usual numbers, so their sales will be below be-low former years. The stock will be assembled in Delta beginning Wednesday morning. morn-ing. May 22. They will be weighed at the Sanford stock yards and these weights will be the selling weight. The reason for not weighing weigh-ing the stock at the barn is because be-cause the scales there are broken and no repairs could be got soon enough. Local calves will be shrunk 3, which will include all calves within a radius of 50 miles. Calves traveling from 50 to 100 miles to enter the show will be shrunk 1. Calves coming from a greater distance than 100 miles will not be shrunk. The annua! stockmen's banquet will be held Thursday night, May 23, at the Delta high school lunch room, served by the Sugarville Relief Re-lief Society. Dewey Sanford will be master of ceremonies. Principal speaker will be Lawrence Stevens, FFA member from Holden, who entered en-tered the FFA speaking contest and reached the finals in Kansa City. State officials have been invited in-vited to the banquet, and among those that have accepted are the entire board of the state department depart-ment of agriculture. D. H. Lilly- ' white, large commission house owner from Los Aangeles and Nelson Nel-son Crowe, editor of the Western Livestock Journal will also be pre-sen. pre-sen. Judges of the livestock will be " Maior George Henderson for the cattle; Prof. Alma Esplin for the sheep; and other judges will be David Sharp, head of the state 4-H organization, and Dr. R. C. Bell of the BAC. Auctioneers will be Col. Adams, and his son, Charles Adams from Salt Lake City. |