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Show , i News Notes I I It's a Prlvilega to Livo in Utah Fountain Green Jericho wool pool, shearing approximately 94,000 head of sheep, owned by Fountain Green and Mount Pleasant woolgrowers, shearing at Jericho, is still unsold and present Indications point to shipment for storage stor-age at Boston awaiting more favorable favor-able market conditions. It is estimated esti-mated this poll produces around 900.-000 900.-000 pounds of wool, shearing from the finest and smoothest type of Rambou-Illet Rambou-Illet sheep, producing an even grade of fine staple wool. The selling committee commit-tee of 1927 Is composed of James L. Nielson as chairman. Abe Livingston and N. M. Nielson, who have authority to handle on the market as price will justify and if considered favorable. Salt Lake Reduced cattle supplies throughout the United States are indicated in-dicated by the April 1 survey of the department of agriculture. Only about 92 per cent as many cattle were on feed, for market In the eleven corn belt states April 1 as on the samo date last year, it Is reported by George A. Scott, regional livestock statistician. Decreased feeding was apparent in all states but one, Indiana. Brigham City Tho new Industries committee of the Boxelder Commercial club and chamber of commerce, com posed of James E. Halverson, John C. Knudseon and E. M. Tyson, recently completed a dairy cow census of Box-elder Box-elder county east from Pormontory, Incidental In-cidental to the establishment of the proposed milk condensory in this section. sec-tion. Ilebor Special ottention will be paid to the control of white top, burdock, bur-dock, Canada thistle and morning glory in a weed eradication campaign in Wasatch county this year, according accord-ing to Lyman II. Rich, count;.- agricultural agri-cultural agent. A weed program fo: the year was outliired recently at a meeting of Harden Eenniou, state commissioner com-missioner of agricul.urc; Dr. F. Jl. Stephens, state arlculturale Inspector, and W. W. Owens, county agent loader, with the Wasatch county commissioners. commission-ers. Sentiment favors a thorough campaign to check and control the noxious weeds that have born absorbing absorb-ing a portion of the returns from agriculture ag-riculture In this county, explains Mr. Rich. Provo Utah has more wool pools than any other state In the intermoun-tain intermoun-tain region, says the annual wool review re-view of the National Association of Wool Manufacturers. Among those mentioned in the bulletin are the Man-ti Man-ti range, Manti farm, the Mt. Pleasant, Ephraim, Parowan. Lr.gan, Ituntsvllle, Coalville, Wayne county, and tho Jericho, Jer-icho, the latter supplying tho largest volume of any pool In the country. Ogden Prices on cattle held up well l:Mt week, according to the weekly review re-view of the Oi'dcn livestock market by F. R. Sawyer, government livestock reporter. re-porter. Beef steer prices were firm, with sho stock running about la cents higher than for the week previous. There Is a good demand for (juallly stock, but the usual Heartily Is reducing reduc-ing the marketed volume of this clasn. Receipts for the week t''al 1970 head, against 2ens arriving the week previous pre-vious and 2579 during the same period u year ago. Myton Active operations have start ed at the Antelope shearing corral, about eight miles southwest of Myton. Each day's clip of wool Is trucked to Price, either to bo ftorr.d or shipped. The corral Is operated by tho Antelope Shearing Corral association, composed of sheepmen who usu tho Nine-Mile country for their winter range. About GO. 000 sheep will bo handled at tho Antelope An-telope plant during tho six weeks run this year. Vernal Snowfall In the Uintah mountains, are recorded at the local forest olllce, Is far In excess of last year, nconllng to Supervisor A.' G. Nord of tho Ashley National Forest Service. Practically nil of the Know Ih well packed and haa a heavy water content. Salt Lnko OflUialK of the r II y and county, together with the board of governors gov-ernors rind the highway, civic Improvement Im-provement and advertising commit tecs of the chamber of ciUimeieo, will hold U luncheon at noon Monday at. Ihu chamber of coininei ce for tin: purpose of dlnoiKnIng the condition of lb.. Wan-ntch Wan-ntch boulevi.rd which enelrcli 11 the north and eastern part of the clly. Al the conclusion of I ho liiii':li"on, lho.se attending will make a motor tour of I I inii'.eiiloii of tho highway. j Ocil"n--Thi rout'i to Fish lake from I :-!.' Una v.i'.i bo ahorh ncd thirty ti 1 1 1 -"i I by 111') coi. al ru'i ion of n r.l.xli'rij ini,i I dirt road between f looi-oiiorry arid Kl'.h lai.e. It. Is shown by forest service serv-ice nMieh'.lf! who gave evldero-o to rl. ! M. .I'M i-eil'liill, speaker of till) hou in of I I'' .l':.ell'llllveM of I , a ( 1 ' J; I :ll a t U 1U i urid J. M. V. Ci.indall. i |