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Show bSSis Precipitation Is Maturing Pastures and Will Make Plowing Easier. Special to The Tribune. POCATKLLO. Idaho, Oct. 31. The weather and crop report for thin week states that the recent snowstorms were general all over the state, and that beneficent results will -accrue' In thd maturing ma-turing of pastures. The report adds: "Farm work was interfered with to some extent. In many sections qf the satc for a few days s by unfavorable weather conditions, but in most of the agricultural districts the farm activities peculiar to this season of the year were engaged in quite continuously throughout through-out the week and satisfactory progress made. .'Kain and snow fell gen era I lv October 2g. 23 and 28, and, besides aiding the pastures, placed the soli jn better condition con-dition for plowing ;tnd seeding. Freezing Freez-ing temperatures were registered during the week, but no reports of damage to the potato and beet crops have been made to tho weather bureau. "Tho weather Interfered but little with orchard activities, and the greater per-centagf per-centagf of the fruit remaining on the trees at the beginning of -t-he week was picked. Fears were felt ."for . the apples remaining- in the orchards later in the week' on account of added cold snaps. "Potato- digging is About . completed, some remaining Tn the ground in the southeastern part of the state. Sugar-beeV Sugar-beeV hHi'vft progressed Satisfactorily. I Many f:irmii:s throughout the state, par-ticulrvrlv par-ticulrvrlv i:i-.hcs southeastern part, are busy plowing and seeding, and in some I localities, wheat la coming up niceK. "Cattle are being removed from tho ! forest range in good condition gene-rally. Many cattle and sheep are being shipped, some to market and others to feed yards." In the absence of Meteorologist Clinton B, Xordquest, Observer .lames K. Hutchison Hutch-ison wjiK in charge of the bureau during i the week-. |