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Show Intermountain News Briefly told for Busy Readers TURKEY CROP LIGHT THOUSANDS SIGN PACT CHINESE WIFE CALLED PLAN LIVESTOCK SHOW BINGHAM COUNTY WINS JEROME, IDA. The beet harvest har-vest this season has been the largest In the history of the district SHOSHONE, IDA. Present indications indi-cations are that a turkey crop only about half of normal compared with the last several years will be produced pro-duced here. Hopes are expressed that better prices will be received this year than was the case for tbe year of 1932. LOGAN, UT. A total of C523 wheat growers in Utah have signed applications for contracts to reduce their wheat acreage for 1931 and 1935, according to the manager of the agricultural adjustment administration admin-istration for Utah. GRANGEVTLLE, I D A. A romantic ro-mantic figure here since hordes of gold hungry minors stampeded to this district more than half a century cen-tury ago, Polly Bcmls, the Chinese wife of a white man, died at a hospital hos-pital here recently. Mrs. Bemis was 81 years old and had lived in Idaho for about 05 years. OGDEN, UT. An appropriation of $12,500 toward the cost of staging stag-ing the 1931 Ogden livestock show has been voted by the Weber county commission. BLACKFOOT, IDA. Bingham county, Idaho, was 24th In the United States In production of potatoes, po-tatoes, on the basis of the 1930 census, cen-sus, and Bonneville county was 25th, according to a report of the census bureau at Washington, D. C. No other Idaho county was In the leading 50 counties of the nation In potato production. BOISE, IDA. Trouble and expense ex-pense of gathering serum to combat Infantile paralysis will not be repeated re-peated this year, L. J. Peterson, the 6tate bacteriologist reports. He explains ex-plains that studies of the treatment of the disease disclosed the inoculations inocu-lations did no good. OGDEN, UT. The assistant regional re-gional forester reports that tho grazing season on the forests in the fourth region has closed. The season sea-son was extended from 15 days to a month because grazing conditions were not good on ranges outside of national forest areas. Livestock is reported in good condition on the upper ranges. OGDEN, UT. Approximately one and one-quarter million dollars will be the first payment to sugar beet growers In the Amalgamated Sugar company territory for October deliveries. CASTLE DALE, UT. The bonded bond-ed Indebtedness of Emery county Las decreased from $30,000 In 1030 to $24,000 at the present time. IDAHO FALLS, IDA. A preliminary prelimi-nary check of the wheat production control committee for Bonneville county has announced that there Is shown to be 1,047,000 bushel3 of wheat of an average production of 1,120,000 bushels had signed under the wheat bonus plan. Approximately Approximate-ly CCS of nearly 1100 farmers In the county have signed under the production pro-duction control plan. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Utah-Idaho Utah-Idaho poultry Interests have launched launch-ed a vigorous attack against the national na-tional proposal to levy a compensating compensat-ing tax on eggs, poultry, mutton, beef and other products which compete com-pete with pork. It is said that the very existence of the poultry Industry Indus-try Is threatened by the measure. ID AIIO FALLS, IDA. The early part of November saw national potato po-tato shipments around D00 cars per day, with Idaho providing approximately approxi-mately 20 per cent of the total amount The relatively high percentage percent-age of Idaho potatoes reaching the terminal markets is thought to be excessive by some operators, while others state that the 100 car per day rate Is not too high in consideration consid-eration of the production this sea-Eon. sea-Eon. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Salt Lake City has a total of 33,000 chil-dren chil-dren between the school ages of 6 and IS years, It was announced by a recent school census taken by the board of education. EPHRAIM, UT. The pheasant penson in Sanpete county was the most successful ever staged, according accord-ing to reports from local hunters. The game birds were reported to be more plentiful than usuaL BEAVER, UT. A Beaver county re-employment office has been established es-tablished here, All unemployed men desiring work will register at thl3 office, and the work will be divided according to the size of the family. . PROVO, UT. Froduee shipments for Utah county In 1933 have totaled total-ed 198 cars, compared with 250 cars for last year, according to the agricultural agri-cultural agent. BOISE, IDA. Major crops In Idaho will bring $17,000,000 more this year than last year, according to a crop survey recently made. The crop values reported are: hogs, $250,000: lambs, $1,375,000; wool, 1,773,750 ; p o t a toes, $ 1.512,500 ; wheat, ?4,3G0,8G0; apples, $$12,500 f boans, $2,010,000; hay, $3,044,000. |