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Show RABBITS ARE . ANUISANCE Xada Farmers Want More Bounty for Them Instead of Giving Them Protection Chautauqua for Beaver County! Once the Chautauqua is inaugurated there is little doubt of its continued success. It is a valuable education for the children as well as their parents. par-ents. A number of Nada farmers are intensely interested in organizing a . Farm Loan Association, but as most of us have our "patents pending" we will defer the organization for a time. C. J. Silvers, who has been working work-ing for Tebbs Bros., is home for a few days to attend to some plowing and fencing on his place. R. C. McGinty went to San Bernardino Ber-nardino to work for a short time, but expects to return to put in his crops. Miss Irene Dinwiddle spent Sunday Sun-day at home. She is attending her school at Milford. Dr. Hobbs announces that he will teach school free of charge in his residence, to those who wish to attend. at-tend. This is certainly very rene-rous rene-rous of Dr. Hobbs. One of the heaviest snows of the season fell on March 14. I. L. aud John Wade are at present pres-ent staying on the homestead of the latter. I. L. Wade expects to remain re-main and put in a crop. We had thought that, all of the troubles that dry-land farmers could possibly have, had been experienced at one time or another, these last four years, but the report that the State Fish and Game Commission advocates the protection instead of the extermination of rabbits is certainly cer-tainly the limit. He should see the waving corn, the fields of grain just heading out, potatoes almost big enough to eat, besides the Bmall garden gar-den vegetables disappear as if by magic, when discovered by that worst of all pests the dry-lander has to fight, the rabbit. In the report of agricultural college experts we read "the results of the past fully justify the hope and prophecy of a great future in the dry farm end of Utah's agriculture." Surely the un-developed un-developed land of Utah is more valuable valu-able for agricultural purposes than to furnish sport for a few gentlemen of leisure and as to being food for the poor lot those same poor receive re-ceive assistance and protection from the rabbits, they need not remain poor. No, double, treble the bounty on rabbits, you great State of Utah and like the bread upon the waters, it shall return to you again, In increased in-creased taxes and increased population. |