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Show il News Notes:; 1 ', lt' a Privilege to Live in '. I Utah ! LAYTON Production ol all potatoes pota-toes in the rtate of Utah in 1927 amounted to 2,970,000 bushels, worth to the growers about $2, 228, 000. The acreage in 1927 was larger by 6000 than in 1926. HEBER CITY Production of feed grains amounted to 4,000,000 bushels, valued at about $3,000,000, in Utah was oats, amoun.ing to 2,142,000. in 1927. The principal one ol these Barley Increased to 1,410,000 bushels in 1927, compared with SOO.000 in 192B. WELLSVILLE Five hundred and forty-six cows in the We'.Isville-Col-lege Cow Testing association produced an average of 580 pounds of milk per cow and 22.71 pounds of butterfat during dur-ing November, according to a report just completed by Reuben Hansen, tester. Fifty cows in the association produced more than forty pounds of fat each. OGDEN Murray K. Jacobs, dairy and food representative, reported recently re-cently that Ogden milk and ice cream made a high average in butter fats, as indicated by the test of the state chemist, which he has just received. Milk is a-eraging around 4 per cent, ice cream 15 per cent, which is among the highest in the state. The Btate requirement for butterfat in ice cream is 12 per cent. LOGAN Boxelder county will place on the market approximately three carloads of dressed turkeys this year, says R. H. Stewart, county agricultural agricul-tural agent, in ..i3 annual report to W. W. Owens, state county agent leader of the Utah Agricultural college extension ex-tension service. The birds sold have been rated as number one cockerels and number one pullets, the report Baid. BRIGHAM CITY According to Robert Ro-bert H. Stewart, county agent, most of the details have been worked out for Boxelder county's big poultry show, which will be held in Brigham City December 14 and 15. The show will be held in the Dunn building, on North Main street, and it is stated that practically all of the poultry raisers of the county will enter exhibits. ex-hibits. MURRAY The committee representing repre-senting the territory in Salt Lake county east of the Jordan, and extending extend-ing from the point of the mountain to Fort Douglas military reservation, met the Murray city hall recently and reported on subscriptions so far obtained for water in the proposed Deer Creek reservoir to be constructed on Provo river by the federal reclamation reclama-tion Eervice. SUGAR HOUSE Two new industries indus-tries will mark the expansion of Sugarhouse. A two-story building, costing ?30,000, will be constructed immediately by the Utah Radio Products Pro-ducts company at 2234 Highland drive. David Neff, president of the Neff Holding company, and large shareholders share-holders in the Radio Products corn-pan, corn-pan, said that leather belting and oleomargarine oleo-margarine would be manufactured in the new building. OGDEN Invitations to stockmen, city and county officials and others who are interested in the development of livestock in the intermountain country, coun-try, have been mailed by Ezra J. Fjel-sted, Fjel-sted, secretary of the tenth annual Ogden livestock show. The show will be held from January 5 to 10, inclusive. inclu-sive. According to Mr. Fjelsted, the show will be the outstanding exposition exposi-tion in the history of the Ogden livestock live-stock show. EPHRAIM During the open season sea-son just past on deer, between 450 and 500 deer were killed on the Manti forest, Rangers W. Thursby and C. Cox report. Considerable more than the total number were killed in the Manti forest, with 225 for Ranger C. Cox's district and 103 for Ranger W. Thursby's district. In addition to the number reported it is likely that many Hopt wprp tnVpn out unon which no check was made. BEAVER Supporting the state-wide movement to secure for Utah a state school for the feeble-minded, the Mil-ford Mil-ford Lions club has signed a petition favoring the establishment of such an institution. An amendment to the petition was made by the Milford Lions, stating that all legislators from southern Utah are to try to bring the school to Beaver, utilizing the site and buildings of the former Murdock academy. aca-demy. SALT LAKE Continued cold weather of the past week has halted plowing in most sections of the state ' and has forced livestock men to put I their cattle on full feed, J. Cecil Alter, chief of the local weather bureau, announces in his weekly agricultural report. Fourteen inches of snow fell in some parts of the northern section COALVILLE Utah's snap beans, canned, more than doubled in the years 1925 to 1927, output having grown in value from $00,000 to $12S,-000. $12S,-000. I LOGAN Perhaps the only place In Utah where silos are being increased in number is in Beaver county, accord-; accord-; to a report just made by Lew Mar Price, county agent, and filed with tlie j extension service of the Utah Agri I cultural college. During the past year ' seven silos were built by dairymen n an effort to store enough dairy i'ae; for the winttr months. |