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Show MANY EXHIBITS AT STATE FAIR PLANNED 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 preceeding 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 expositions of its sort throughout the United States. Prizes, Priz-es, - awards and record-breaking achievements in many departments have, year after year, served to attract at-tract national attention to the fair in this state. Opens Sunday Saturday, October 3, the fair will open at the State Fair grounds in Salt Lake City, to continue to and including Saturday, October 10. Following the long-established custom, cus-tom, the fair dates include those of the semi-annual general conference of the L. D. S. church. Visitors at the capital that week may combine their attendance upon these two Important Im-portant events. . According to the state fair management, man-agement, exhibits this year will be equal in quality and quantity to the best of preceding fairs, with some new features sure to enhance the attractiveness at-tractiveness of pendable from the standpoint of both educational and commercial value, is the livestock department, which has become national na-tional in scope and importance during dur-ing the past few years. Horse Pulling contest One of the principal features of the fair, connected with the horse exhibitions, will be the $1,000 fifth annual intermountain pulling contest con-test for draft horses. The state fair, desiring to stimulate and reward the breeding of better draft horses and superior horsemanship, offers this money stake of generous 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, Indus-1 trial Arts and Farm Mechanics and the 4-H Clubs. 4-H Club Exhibts The Future Farmers of America exhibits will be open to all boys of Utah who are registered with teachers teach-ers for vocational agriculture in the high schools of the state. The Industrial In-dustrial Arts and Farm Mechanics section is open to all boy sand girls in Utah enrolled in junior or senior high school work in this class. The 4-H Club exhibits, of course, is limited lim-ited to members of 4-H Clubs having the recognition of the state club department. de-partment. In all the junior exhibits, state fair entry blanks must be in the hands of the secretary of the , state fair association on or before September 29. In these, as all other departments, the 1931 State fair will be a well-rounded well-rounded exhibition, with amusement j concessions, sports events and other diversions added to the 'educational features. |