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Show 44 I News Notes j Z It's a Privilege to Live in i Utah LAYTON Utah's potato crop in 1927 totaled 2,790,000 bushels with a market value of $2,228,000, an increase of 505,000 bushels over 1926. BRIGHAM During the week thousands of pintail ducks have been feeding in the grainfields west of this city, adjourning the marshes. The ducks have migrated here from Canada according to game officials, and are so numerous that an estimate of their numbers is almost impossible. OGDEN Weber county peaches are unusually free from insect infestations and general blemishes this year, Le-Roy Le-Roy Marsh, district agricultural inspector in-spector reports. Estimates of this year's crop is set at 175 carloads. The orchards of North Ogden are said to be in the best of condition and will undoubtedly un-doubtedly yield the most fruit. GUNNISON Cauliflower shipments from the fields at Westview and Clarion Clar-ion are increasing almost daily and two carloads were sent out Wednesday, bringing the total car shipments to date up to sixteen. The peak of the harvest will be reached about September Septem-ber 6, at which time extra forces will be added to handle the big crop. VERNAL The crew of the deep test of the Ashley Valley Oil company, On the Ashley valley structure, ten miles southeast of Vernal, is drilling through the cobble rock dumped into the hole to plug it back from the depth of 870 feet to 530 feet for the purpose of straightening the hole. It will l e several days before drilling for increased in-creased depth is resumed. MURRAY Plans for entering a county Guernsey herd in the state fair this fall were made at a meeting of Guernsey breeders held recently at the lom of Arthur B. Erekson, South Cottonwood. Cot-tonwood. A committee including Mr. Erekson, L. E. Madsen, James G. Burtt, J. B. Erekson and V. L. Martin-eau, Martin-eau, county agricultural agent, was appointed ap-pointed to arrange the matter and select the herd. BRIGHAM CITY Plans are gjing forward for the community fair to be held at Corine September 7, under auspices of the Corine farm bureau. This is the first fair of the kind to be held in the valley. The executive committee com-mittee consists of Presdient Sterling Wright of the Corine farm bureau, C. G. Adney and Abraham Evans. Agricultural Agri-cultural Agent R. H. Stewart is assisting. as-sisting. LOGAN Farmers of Utah will profit pro-fit a great deal by revising an old misconception mis-conception that seed from some other farm is better than from their own, Dr. George StewTart, agronomist with the experiment station of the Utah Agri cultural college, staled in answer to inquiries on "home grown seeds." However, Dr. Stewart said, there come times when seed grown on a given farm should be replaced by seed from another farm, but this is only when Vie seed formerly used is mixed, diseased di-seased or otherwise of poor quality. OGDEN Use of granulated soap with arsenate of lad in spraying apples ap-ples in Weber county this year has been successful, saving one orchardist alone more than 4000 bushels of apples, ap-ples, it was stated recently by LeRoy Marsh, district agricultural inspector. H. A. Thomas of Ogden suffered a loss of 50 per cent of his crop from worms last year despite his using arsenate of lead in water, as was regularly rec-:ornmended, rec-:ornmended, Mr. Marsh says: This year less than 5 per cent of his crop is wormy. The smallest of the figure he attributes to his use of the soap CEDAR CITY With the aid of Mel-' vin Cropper of Deseret, the American Legion bucking horse committeeee will have at least twenty head of professional profes-sional bucking horses for the race meet and rodeo at Cedar City September 6, 7 and 8. Some of these horses are well known to rodeo fans. Cropper won the riding contest of the 1926 Cedar City . rodeo against older and better known men of Pendleton and Cheyenne. He is to be a contender for the belt this year. Bob Vaughn, win ner of second place in 1926, will be here. Buster Vaughn of Pendleton is expected and many professional riders have expressed their intention of be,ng here. SAT LAKE Total expenditure of the state road department from January Janu-ary 1, 1928, to June SO, 1928, amounted to S1 9-75 Sfi9 40 it in shown hv a finan cial statement of the department for that period, which was made public recently. On January 1 of this year there was a balance of $10,955.49 of road funds in the state treasury, and receipts from various sources during the first six months of the year amounted to $1,986,501.30, bringing the total balance and receipts to $2,-797,456.79 $2,-797,456.79 for the period. On June 30. 1928, the department had a cash surplus sur-plus of $774,082.16 end a loaned surplus sur-plus of $458,638.45, making a total surplus of $1,232,702.61. Loins returned re-turned to highway and revolving funds during the six months amounted to $289,366,78. LOGAN The Cache county !air will be held here September 18 to 20, one week earlier than has been ihe case in recent years, in an effort to avoid the bail weather that has accom panied local fairs in the past, state? President George Dunbar of the Cache County Fair ass-ociation. Three thousand thou-sand fair programs will be mailed in the near future to homes of Cache county and ten large twenty-four-sheel stands will be used for billboards advertising ad-vertising the county fair in Cache valley, val-ley, Boxelder county and southern Idaho. |