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Show News Notes It's a Privilege to Ltoe In I UTAH J HEBER CITY Hay production In Utah h'Jt year reached 1,600,000 tons and brought 117,380,000 on the markets. , . x ; . DUCHESNE Utah growers produced pro-duced 622,000 bushels of com on 18,000 acres last year. The crop was valued at $2J,000. i LOGAN The agricultural experiment experi-ment station of the Utah State Agricultural Ag-ricultural college haa Just Issued a new booklet on the domestic slaughtering, cutting, and curing of pork, known as Circular SO. j j MTV PLEASANT The testing of dairy cattle for tuberculosis has been completed In Indianola, Mil-burn,1 Mil-burn,1 Falnriew and ML Pleasant this work having begun on October 21. This week the government and state men are testing at Spring City, Moroni, FL Green, Freedom and Chester. ' i GARLAND Five times the amount of celery shipped from Oar-land Oar-land aid Tremonton districts last year Is expected to go out to the - markets this fall, it was announced by Leonard S. Fenn, supervising Instructor In-structor of the Federal State Market Mar-ket News service, who returned from a tour of Inspection. LOGAN Five hundred acre-feet of water under the United States reclamation project will be taken by the city of Smlthfleld. This was the statement of Mayor J. W. Kirk-bride Kirk-bride of that city at a meeting held ' recently to discuss the situation of that section. The olty stated, that it was ready to subscribe for the amount and also favored the project PROVO Every citizen of Provo Is nrged to send a carton of celery to at least one out-of-state L-tend during celery week, November 17 to 23, according to the celery committee com-mittee of the Provo chamber of commerce, which held a meeting re cently at the local chamber offices for the purpose of discussing plans for the distribution of Utah's favorite fa-vorite crop. OGDEN The Amalgamated Sugar Su-gar company, on November 15, will pay beet growers supplying Its six factories (2,309,000, It was an Bounced at the company's offices here today. Of this amount $250,-000 $250,-000 will be paid out In Weber county coun-ty on account of the Ogden plant about $850,000 In Cache valley , BRIGHAM CITY H. E. Rede-lings Rede-lings of Corrlne gives the follow, ing figures taken from his record kept on 330 laying pullets for a period from October 1, 1928, to September Sep-tember 30, 1929. During this period per-iod these pullets laid a total of (7,282 eggs, not counting the eggs nsed in the home. The total revenue re-venue from egs sold was tl591.38j expense, $570.17, making a total net gain of $1012.21. LEHI In payment for 550,000 tons of sugar beets which have been delivered to various factories of the Utah-Idaho Sugar company during October, that company will mall checks to farmers November 15. aggregating $4,063,000, it was announced from offices In Salt Lake.' The checks will be sent to farmers of Utah, Idaho, Montana, Dakota, Washington and Alberta, Canada. Payment for beets received re-ceived during this month will be dispatched Dec. 15. OGDEN Completion of Improvements Improve-ments on the road from Ogden to Evanston marks one unit of tbe $3,000,000 construction, improvement improve-ment and maintenance program outlined by the state highway department de-partment for 1930. Chief Engineer Engin-eer H. S. Kerr and his assistant : K. C. Wright completed formal arrangements ar-rangements with several counties recently in regard to the coming program and have negotiated under way with many other counties of the state. PROVO Although the apple and peach shipment from Utah county this year are far below the totals for last year, the total amount of fruit, vegetables and farm produce to be shipped out of the county during dur-ing the present year are expected to exceed last year's record shipment, ship-ment, according to present lndl-cations, lndl-cations, declares H. V. Swenson, district inspector. The present total to-tal of shipments Is 485 cars of fruit vegetables and produce against 629 for last year, but, with a great many more cars of potatoes, onions, celery and cabbage practically prac-tically ready to be shipped, the total for last year is expected to be greatly exceeded. PROVO With over 75 per cent of the season's sugar beet crop harvested har-vested indications point to one of the largest yields In the history of this country, according to Victor Anderson, field man for the Utah-Idaho Utah-Idaho Sugar company. Beetgrow-ers Beetgrow-ers are well satisfied with the excellent ex-cellent crop, which Indicates the passing ft a "lean" period in the culture of beets in this territory. A check-up of the loading dumps reveals a pissibflity of better than a 15-ton avorage per acre from the Provo district, a yield which Is considered con-sidered eac vtlonal |