Photo: #A vendor sells cotton candy at the Minnesota State Fair.
Photo: #A sheep being sheared at the Minnesota State Fair.
Photo: #About 200-thousand people know that sound...It's the Giant Slide. It's 50 feet high and 150 feet long, and has been at the fair for 40 years this summer.
Photo: #A cow being milked at the State Fair in front of a crowd of interested onlookers. At peak times, at the State Fair Milking Parlor's Moo Booth in the Cattle Barn, there are as many as 400 cows milked daily.
Photo: #The Tom Thumb mini-donut machine at the Minnesota State Fair. The machines were cobbled together by aviation engineers after World War II. They extrude the dough into a circular pan of soybean oil, as the mini donuts make their way down the chute into the bin for bagging. 360,000 bags of the donuts are sold every year at the State Fair. That's over 5 1/2 million donuts.
Photo: #The Ye Old Mill ride at the Minnesota State Fair.
Photo: #The Sky Ride at the Minnesota State Fair.

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Minnesota State Fair: What's that sound?

by Tom Crann, Minnesota Public Radio
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St. Paul, Minn. — The Minnesota State Fair has been going since last Thursday and it's always a feast for the senses. You might even say, sensory overload. Great people watching and visual distraction everywhere. The smells of the deep fryer, and the swine barn.

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And then there are the sounds. Here on All Things Considered, we've been collecting a rich variety of Sounds of the Fair and we're bringing one to you every night during the week.

We want you to match your audio wits with our MPR microphones, and see if you can guess tonight's sound.

Listen to the audio and then click on the picture on the left to see answer.

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