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Show l News Notes : : Z It's a Frivilege to Live In UTAH OGDEN Monday will mark the addition ad-dition of the Ogden airport to the fields equipped for night landing. The 2,500,000 candle-power beacon ligt, according to Harold B. Tripp, manager of the field, is expected to be ready then and placed in operation. FARM1NGTON Sweeping without warning upon south Farmington about S p. m. Sunday, a raging flood of water from Davis creek, following the channel chan-nel of the disastrous deluge here a few years ago, caused considerable property damage and washed out the state highway. Heavy rainstorms east of here Sunday about 7:30 were the probable cause of the flood. LOGAN According to Harry C. Parker, Cache county agricultural inspector, in-spector, potato and grain fields in this county on which certified crops are being grown all passed inspection of the state department of agriculture during the past week. The inspection was made by C. S. Barrett, who stated that the local fields were cleaner and freer of disease than last year. TREMONTON More than O,000 ducks have been raised in the Bear river Migratory Bird Refuge during the last year, many of which have been to migrate to distant parts, it was reported by David H. Madsen, superintendent of the refuge. Superintendent Super-intendent Madsen returned to his office of-fice recently after having spen several days at the refuge. He reports thousands thou-sands of young ducks now in the stage a general suivey was made. MYTON The total precipitation, according ac-cording to the government registration, registra-tion, in Myton, from July 1, 1928, to July 1, 1929, was 811 inches, while the average covering the previous ten years was 7.28 inches. During the past year 2.50 inches fell during the period when it was beneficial to growing crops. The temperature during the growing season of about four months is from 83 to 100 degrees maximum, while the minimum is from 30 to 50 degrees. PLEASANT GROVE Some 250 boys and girls are being used in picking the string bean crop in this section. It is an interesting sight to see, each morning at 5:30, four large trucks loaded to capacity with boys and girls, ranging from 12 to 18, depart for the bean fields. Their chatter and song awaken residents from Lehi to Provo. The canning company furnishes transportation, trans-portation, and pays the pickers 1 1-4 cents a pound. Some of the best pickers pick-ers can and do make $3.50 a day. MYTON A recent survey of dairying dairy-ing under the Uintah irrigation project indicates that the dairy industry in the Uintah basin is increasing quite rapidly. It has already been found beneficial in solving the financial problems pro-blems of the farmers here. The survey sur-vey shows that there are 3515 dairy cows on the Uintah irrigation project, as compared with 2815 in 1928 and 2175 in 1927. It is found that on project pro-ject land owned by whites there are 2006 dairy cows; on leased land, 365; owned by Indians, 144, and so on. SPANISH FORK This section was visited by the heaviest rainstorm of the season late Saturday afternoon. The downpour was accompanied by a high wind which did considerable damage to ripened grain by blowing it down and making it difficult to cut. The second crop of lucerne hay which was being cut was also damaged. dam-aged. Beets, potatoes and many other crops, however, were greatly benefited bene-fited by the storm. Wind put the lighting system out of commission for a short time, but it was soon repaired. ' PROVO Wool shorn from Utah sheep this season amounted to 19,764,-000 19,764,-000 pounds, compared with. 22,072,000 a year ago, the Utah wool report issued is-sued recently by Frank Andrews, federal agricultural statistician, declares. de-clares. The lighter clip resulted from poorer condition of sheep that were affected by a dry fall and long winter, the report explains. Average weight a fleece in 1929 is 8.1 pounds, compared com-pared with 8.9 in 1928. Number of sheep shorn this year was 2,440,000, against 2,480,000 last year. FARMINGTON Davis county has harvested practically 85 per cent of a splendid crop of apricots. The fruit, this year, according to H. P. Mathews, district agricultural inspector, has teen of excellent quality and has brought an exceptionally good price. Some of the fruit was Inclined to run email, but of a splendid color which offset the size. The size of this fruit was due to the fact that the trees were loaded to capacity and in most cases were thinned. The growers were pleased with such a yield after harvesting har-vesting not more than a half crop of cherries. PRICE Steady and heavy rains, which began early Saturday afternoon and continued without appreciable interruption in-terruption until 6 p. m. Sunday, have rendered roads in this section of Utah almost impassable and a serious traffic traf-fic tieup is threatened. Highways covered with several inches of mud and debris and bridges weakened and washed away by floods have caused the Utah state road commission to issue is-sue warning to tourists. It Is believed that mail and other traffic out of Price may be held up for at least a iay. |