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Show Ogden Livestock i Show This Week For the twenty-fourth year since its inception, the Ogden livestock show will offer to intermountain stockmen an over-all picture of the past year's progress in livestock growing during the four eventful days of the show. Noveber 8 to 11. With wartime adding an addi-tloned addi-tloned touch of practical usefulness to the show, officials are expecting the 1942 exhibition to be "all business," busi-ness," but a splendid sports card, the annual stockmen's ball are scheduled to add zest to the program. pro-gram. Advance inquiries for premium lists and catalogs are greater than ever 'before and are taken as an indication that interest in the show is more widespread than at any other time in its hitsory. The closing date for all entries is Noveber 2, and everything is ready for the show. Special ephasis has been placed this year on the carlot and feeder divisions and on the junior departments de-partments of the show, with premiums pre-miums doubled in the departments. depart-ments. Commercial and range classes are receiving greater consideration this year, in line with a request of the government officials that all shows be given as strong a local color as possible. The Ogden livestock show is offering of-fering $15,000 in prizes, and a num-bzer num-bzer of commercial and extra prizes offered swells the total of premiums to a very attractive figure. The show premiums include $3000 in prizes for the Hereford section, $2100 in the Shorthorn and $2203 in the Aberdeen-Angus. The hog and sheep divisions are attracting wide attention among growers and promise to constitute an important part of the annual exposition. Three auction sales are planned for the show. The pure,bred Hereford Here-ford sale will be held Tuesday, November 10 at 10 a. m. uhder direction di-rection of the Intermountain Hereford Here-ford association. The prize winning fat cattle, sheep and hogs will go under the hammer Wednesday morning, November 11, at 10 a. m. and the carlot feeder cattle will be sold at 1 p. m. Wednesday. |