Show 89 1 r sylv aa A S t it 6 k Z X 5 5 t fa 4 N M 14 horse pulling contest at sevier county fair horse pulling matches in which a standard d dynamometer will officially record effort exerted by each team will feature thirteen county fairs in utah this fall and constitute on of the major attractions at the utah state fair october 1 to 8 the dy purchased by the state f fair board will reach utah in time to be used first at heher heber city august 16 and 17 it will then be used at 0 ogden en august 20 farmington august 31 richfield september 1 2 and 3 nephi september 5 and G coal wile ille september 8 brigham city september 10 tooele thoele september 12 morgan september 14 manti september 16 and 17 provo september 20 and 31 tremonton Tre monton september 23 and 24 logan Septem september bez 27 and 29 and S salt t lake city during state fair w week ee k y this schedule 6 has just been completed by the exten extension sion service of the agricultural college which is cooperating with the st state ate fair board in conducting pulling matches throughout the state the agricultural college will furnish a man to superintend the pulling 1 contests which will be conducted in in accordance cor dance with rules used in other states and supplied by the horse association of america thus utah horses in reality will be competing not only against each other but against horses pulling during the fair season in colorado iowa and other states of the union instructions already are in the hands of fair association officers and hore hone owners and teamsters are arc being acquainted quain ted with the rules and regulations governing such contests A description of the dynamometer and an explanation of its mechanism also are being widely distributed in the hope of thoroughly familiarizing prospective t ive contestants with methods used in the contests the dynamometer was perfected at the low iowa state college and has been u used ed successfully in that state for three years in in experiments with draft horses as well wel as in fair contests last year a number of other states pure purchased based dynamometers dynamo meters for fair purposes and utah this year falls into line T there here is nothing mysterious about a dynamometer it is a simple mechanism which automatically records the pull of a team of two four six or more horses the principle of the mec mechanism is much the same as that underlying various cruder devices that have been used at fairs during several years past that is the team pulls against a weight but in this case the weight is a self recording mechanical device instead of a heavily weighted wagon a large stone or any other dead weight the dynamometer purchased by the utah state fair board will ill be mounted on a small truck the motor of which during the contest becomes part of the pulling device being mounted also the matter of transporting the dynamometer lynam ometer from one fair to another will be greatly facilitated in other states last year the horse pulling matches where dynamometers dynamo meters were used easily proved to be feature attractions recognizing this fact fact and desiring to promote interest in in county fairs throughout utah th the 2 state fair board purchased a 1 machine and through cooperation with the agricultural ri college will permit county fair associations to use it requiring only that these associations share the ex expense peruse of transporting and operating the dynamometer salt lake tribune 11 |