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Show Two Livestock Shows Offer Opportunities To Junior Exhibitors With termination of the annual Utih State fair, Junior livestock producers are reminded of two other major sholws where attractive premiums are offered exhibitors of superior stock in 4-H club classes and opprtunities are offered for sale of animals at generous prices. The annual Ogden livestock show will open February 7, 1939, and continue con-tinue to February 14. The third annual Intermountain Junior Fat Stocit siilW is scheduled for June 7, 8 and 9. 1939. Producers are encouraged to commence preparations immediately immediat-ely for either or both of the events. Animal husbandmen assert that exhibitors ex-hibitors can begin fitting and feeding feed-ing of show animals now for the Ogden show to good advantage. Selection of the best sheep, dairy animals, beef cattle, and hogs for the res. ctive show classes should be made as the initial step in preparation prep-aration for the event. If breeding cf ewes and sows is taken care of now, lambs and market mar-ket hogs should be of suitable size to enter in the fat stock show in North Salt Lake. Care should be taken in selection of breeding animals, ani-mals, particularly sires, the offspring off-spring of .which are shewn to be of superior show quaity. The junior producer will also do well to make selections fcr exhibits in the beef cattle classes. The second annual (Intermountain (Intermoun-tain Junior Fat Stock show proved to be an unusually favorable means of encouraging young producers to bo proficient in feeding, breeding, fitting, and selection of animals. Hundreds of youths from Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah and Nevada communities were attracted at-tracted to the show and received fancy prices for animals exhibited and marketed. The grand champion champ-ion fat lamb .produced by LaVoy Pculson of Richfield sold for $2.05 per pound to a Salt Lake City restaurant. res-taurant. Verl Anderson of Ttemon-tcn Ttemon-tcn received $35 per hundredweight from Hotel Utah for the grand charrpicn baby beef, and Harvey Colby of Sigurd was paid $25 per hundredweight for his grand champion cham-pion hog. |