Show news notes Vs its a privilege to lwe arve in V r UTAH PROVO postal receipts during january show a 37 per cent increase over january last year according to a report submitted by postmaster J P mcquire the total receipts were compared with in january 1929 1920 LOGAN in making a report on his monthly survey of the mt aft logan watershed february 1 george D clyde of the utah experiment station reports that in only two years since 1021 1921 has the snow cover been as light as this year the other two years were 1924 and 1925 OGDEN though mild temperatures pera tures accompanied by some thawing of the snow layer prevailed ja in utah during the past alek wt lek the grain in most sections Is still safely covered and livestock on feed are doing well according to the weekly weather livestock and range report issued by J cecil atter alter federal meteorologist LOGAN forty two inches ol of snow was reported january as at the tony grove ranger station according to the report issued by george D clyde of the utah experiment station on february I 1 the regular monthly survey was made mada at mt alt logan logaa and showed an average decrease at all elevations of 44 inches of water over that on the same date last year HEBER at a meeting recently of the wasatch county livestock association it was decided that august angust 21 and 22 should be the dates tor for the show this year subject to the schedule drawn up by the utah state association of 0 county fairs at salt lake city A delegation of 0 officials of the local show will attend a meeting to be held in salt lake soon KAYSVILLE KAYS V ILL E utah potato growers expect to plant acres to their product this year frank andrews statistician tor for the united states department of agriculture in utah said recently eighteen thousand acres were planted to potatoes in utah last year growers of the 35 25 late crop states expect to plant acres to potatoes la in 1330 1930 last year acres acrea were planted HEBER CITY the program of the national marketing corporation merits tile the support of all ers whether their annual clip is 1000 to pounds says mr hooper the plan under which this wool corporation the second marketing unit organized under the federal farm board is setting out to do something worth while tor for the grower gets at the very toot root ot of the wool marketing problem 11 PRICE after three of his sheep were killed alla young owner of a ranch on coal creek near price investigated and found that a huge huga mountain lion was responsible young set a trap tor for the marauder and succeeded in nabbing him tor for a little while the animal escaped find and young tracked him to the tha mountains close to his ranch As lie be was down resting young yo ung spied the lion about a rod away I 1 and killed him PLEASANT grove the acre in the tha ground in utah tor for the crop of 1930 is estimated at 1300 or tho the same as were harvested in 1923 1929 a report issued recently by the local government statistician reveals for the united states as a whole the acreage in 1330 30 is IS compared with a year ago the late crop states have 4 1 acres this year compared with arge age ot of commercial strawberries now in 1029 OGDEN the value of 0 livestock in utah was on january 1 according to tho the report ot of frank andrews on january 1 1929 livestock in tile the state was valued at the number ot of cattle in the state at the be beginning inning of the current year was estimated by mr air andrews as with a 8 valuation ot of compared with la in 1923 1929 there were milk cows valued at or cows moro more than last year at the same time SALT LAKE nearly 30 tracts ot of grazing land in various parts of 0 the state on which conflicting ap licati locations ons had bad been fled filed were leased recently by the state land board to the highest respective bidders the payments called for in the leas es ranged from 6 to cl cents an a acre ere per year several applications tor for purchase nt at prices ranging from to 1050 an area arce were also granted by the board most alost of tho the land to la in state school sections and the individual tracts contain as high as acres PRICE C W jorgensen field director for the tha springville maple ton sugar factory has been in price the last several days looking over the prospects of sugar beet raising here and contracted tor for acreage ile ha reports that thus far lie ho has been ablo able to secure acres in carbon county with prospects tor for that many more and expected to have about in emery county it has been estimated that to guarantee a sugar factory in carbon county that at least acres must be cultivated |