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Show I News Notes H X It' a Privilege to Liu in I Utah i! EPHRAIM Ranger J. Ollerton of the Manti Nation forest made a trip to the Mammoth ranger station recently re-cently and reports twenty-eight inches of snow, with a water content of five inches. HEEER The "lion's share" of premiums pre-miums at the recent Utah inter-mountain seed show, in certified seed potato, classes, went to the Wasatch County Seed Growers' association as the culmination cul-mination of a long program of seed improvement. ELS I NO RE A Carload of poultry went out recently destined for San Francisco. The birds were gathered from the poultry yards in the vicinity of Monroe and this city. The carload comprised more than 4000 birds and wa3 shipped in a special poultry car. MYTON Sheepmen of the the Nine Mile and Green River districts near Myton have been forced to begin feed-i feed-i lng their flocks with corn because of the scarcity of feed due to dry autumn v. eather. Conservation estimates liace the numbsr of sheep in the region re-gion at between 40,00 and 50,000 head. PF.OVO The annual Utah county Poultry and Rabbit show will be held r.t 164 West Center street in this city, January 22 to 2G, according to officers of the Utah County Poultry and the Utah County Rabbit Breeders' associations. asso-ciations. T. H. Horay of Salt Lake will judge the show. CASTLE DALE Engineer Carl A. Erickscn and a crew of surveyors are p.gain doing the preliminary survey work for the Salina canyon highway. According to the engineer, the survey, started last summer,' will now be completed com-pleted unless something unforseen happens to change the pesent program. pro-gram. EPHRAIM FantI National Forest Woolgrowers" association is officially on record for an "open" game law in Utrh to permit the killing of deer, male and female, and of elk when they are damaging the range. The reso-luticn reso-luticn to that effect has been submitted submit-ted to the Utah Woolgrowers' association. asso-ciation. SALT LAKE Barnyard squawks, cackles and general atmosphere emanated em-anated from the spacious room at 33-39 33-39 AVest Broadway last Monday from mornirg until 10 o'clock at night. More than 1000 birds of almost every size, color and type vied for honors in the fortieth annual show of the Utah Fe.ultry association. OGDFN The tenth annual Ogden livestock show, held January 5 to 10, vr.s a great success, officials, judges, visitor and exhibitors declared, and ranked among the greatest In the country- Attendance this year was one-fourth larger than ever before, with over 20.000 persons passing through the gates In six days. SALT LAKE California produced 209.000 pounds of the 647,009 pounds of cheese marketed at San Francisco iu December. Wisconsin w-as next, sapping 153,000 pounds of cheese to j the coast. Idaho supplied 142.000 pounds. Utah furnished 320 pounds . during the month. Practically no eggs ; went from this region to San Francisco Francis-co or Los Angeles in December. RICHFIELD' Low bid for the con- ! tract to place the gravel surface on I the 16.495 miles of the state's end of j the Zion-Mt. Carmel highway was sv.b-rei'ted sv.b-rei'ted by A. G. Young and company, : of Richfield, it was revealed when the i -!ed bids were opened at the offices of the state road commission recentlv. ! Under the bid of this concern, the total cost of the gravel surface for i the project would be $67.9S0.05. j SALT LAKE The storm which re- ; cntly came up from California hur- I rird past Utah leaving only a light j snow in its wake, hut the area of low j barometric pressure forced l's way j into the north where there was an j Intense c.ld wave which threatened ! to reach Utah. This cold wave has j row gone eastward and there is indi- cr.ted little change in the Utah temper- j atore. according to J. Cecil Alter. UTAH Al thou f h the number of cattle on feed for market In the eleven j corn belt states was 3 per cent greater ! on January 1 than r.t the seme time j last year, cattle on feed in Utah the -; first of this year totaled 25.000 head, compared with 27.000 head In 192S I and 40.000 in 1927, according to a re- j port released Tuesday by Frank An- j drews, local statistician of the United j , States department of agriculture. i i LOGAN Methods proposed for con- , trolling Bear river and the location of the control works for the federal nil- , gratory bird refuge to be established there wo'-e considered by represents- i u th'es of the United States biological j t survey and the Irrigation division ef i f the bureau of public roads in T.own j recently. The plans are those devd , a f ped by L. M. Winsor and staff of the ' v bureau dining the past summer. j c MANTI Stock was benefited daf ; big December by new snows, v.hil, sheep en the western winter rans1"'; suffered from a short pol led of eel' j we:; titer, said Ihe monthly report I j sued by Frank Andrews, ngriculau'11' . statistician for the United States i' i pe.:lni"ul of agriculture. The sur"' ;i: of h y an, I feed r;.:ns Is still n;pf cu cu'.ly sul'ic'cut for ordinary vii'.'-"' tti Heeds, but anxiety s ex pi'i se;l '" lis twin' sl.:cni '!i who de net tb'u' !' j lm supply will last tlueuc.h H Km;:., u.'i'j ' i X. Inur I (in L - |