Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-04-05 | Page 4 | Annual Stock Show Opens in Salt Lake

ANNUAL STOCK SHOW OPENS IN SALT LAKE SALT LAKE, April 5. Despite bad weather heavy arrivals were registered regis-tered yesterday at the Union stockyards stock-yards here for the fourth annual in-tcrmountain in-tcrmountain stock show which opened this morning and which closes Wednesday Wed-nesday night, Splendid specimens of registcied beef cattle in the Hereford. Shorthorn, Guernsey, .Ilolstein and Jersey breeds are entered. Pure bred swine, including Berkshire, Berk-shire, Duroc Jersey, Poland China and Chester White breeds occupy adjacent pens. There are many varieties of sheep. The purpose ot the show is to impress im-press ranchers and cattlemen with the advantage of raising pure bred stook, it 1b said. The exhibitors of the 20,000 entries know that all cannot receive finjt prize, but are willing to let others know the progress in stockraising of the last few years. Stockgrowers will be shown that humane treatment pays, so that in shipping no overcrowding of cattle cars, insanitary cattle pens or lack of water has been permitted. J Utah Stock Healthy. Very little disease has shown in ihe Utah cattle. The eradication of tu- berculosis is held as an example! throughout the country. Stockgrow j ers of the state, in fact all the inter-1 mountain country, have learned it does not pay to raise low grade or scrub stock. Results are stock of the highest high-est grade is raised, it is pointed out and shown that these are results of previous stock shows. The management of the Intermoun-tain Intermoun-tain Slock show urges that all visit the show. It is expected many people peo-ple from the state and surrounding country will attend.