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Show I News Notes t It's a Privilage to Livt in 2 I Utah AMERICAN FORK Utah county took the alfalfa hay lead from Cache county in 1927, production totaling 117,000 tons, as compared with Cache's 116,000 tons. Cache county led in 1926, with 152,000 tons, compared with Utah's 146,000 tons. AMERICAN FORK Representatives Representa-tives of all irrigation and canal companies com-panies in the American Fork district, meeting at American Fork recently, were unanimous in giving their support sup-port to the proposed Deer Creek dam project. Business men of the district dis-trict also voted their support. PROVO With the quality of the product excellent and the market the best it has been for several years, cabbag raisers of Utah county have enjoyed an exceptionally good season so far this yar, according to H. V. Swenson, Utah County agricultural inspector. in-spector. PROVO Discovery of several spices of birds never before identified in Utah is reported by Clarence Cot-tam Cot-tam of the zoology department of Brigham Young university, who recently re-cently made a surrey of the Bear river marshes, large wild fowl sanctuary sanc-tuary located at the north end of Great Salt Lake. BRIGHTON Elever. inches of snow has fallen on the city's watershed near Brighton during the past twenty-four hours, H. K. Burton, superintendent of waterworks, said recently. The new snow fell on top of about six remaining re-maining inches of the first snowfall, making a total stand of about seventeen seven-teen inches. PROVO One and one-tenth inches of snow fell in this city early Thursday Thurs-day morning in the first snowfall season, according to a report of the local weather statistician. Rain fell all day Wednesday and changed to snow Thursday morning. Thursday evening the temperature was gradually lowering and freezing weather was predicted for Friday morning. RICHFIELD The local station of the Utah Poultry Coop started receiving receiv-ing turkeys and other poultry recently. recent-ly. Poultry was received at Marys-vale Marys-vale by the association. Thi3 service to poultry raisers, most of the crops being contracted, extends over the entire southern part of the state, and has now become the most effective manner to market the big annual poultry poul-try crop. MYTON W. Day, who resides east of Myton, is very much pleased with his results in the dairy industry and now is probably the largest producer in this part of Duchesne county. Mr. Day is milking 35 cows and his cream check now runs from ?300 to $400 a month. He has 20 head of Jersey heifers for which he has been offered $75 a head and a high blooded Jersey bull which cost him ?200. MT. PLEASANT A stretch of fifty-five miles of new cement road under federal aid road project No. 89, has just been completed on South Fifth West street in Mt. Pleasant, connecting with the Main street pavement pave-ment which was completed two years ago. The new pavement was laid by the A. G. Young Construction company of Richfield at an approximately cast of about $18,000. PRICE Literally a blinding snowstorm, snow-storm, so far as night traffic is concerned, con-cerned, hit Price last week. Snow began be-gan to fall about 4:30 p. m., let up a little around 8, and an hour or so later began falling more heavily than ever. On the Price-Helper highway it was difficult to see headlights of an approaching automobile more than a few feet, and traffic necessarily was slowed down to a snail's pace. LOGAN Over 2300 people visited the horticultural show which came to a close recently at the Utah Agricultural Agri-cultural college, according to Prof-fesor Prof-fesor Francis M. Coe, head of the horticulture department at the college and who was in charge of the show. The feature of the show this year was Utah apples LOGAN Reports of the Lewiston-Cornish Lewiston-Cornish and Richmond-Lewiston Hard Improvement asociations, filed with Robert L. Wrigley, county agricultural agent, show increases in milk and butterfat production for October as compared with September. In the the Richmond-Lewiston association, with 335 cows milking and 78 dry, average butterfat production per cow was 24.94 pounds, compared with 21.76 pounds for last month. The average milk production per cow was C96.7 pounds, compared with 642.5 pounds for September. Seventy-one cows in the association gave 40 pounds of fat or more, compared with 49 cows for last month. GUNNISON Testing of dairy cattle cat-tle for tuberculosis is progressing satisfactorily sat-isfactorily in Sanpete county. Drs. E. Thorpe, C. C. Parry, Shirley Nebeker and E. D. Libery are conducting con-ducting the test. The north end of the county is practically all finished. Recently testing continued at Axtcll, Fayette, Clarion and Centerfield. Gunnison and Cristenburg will be visited visit-ed soon. The work is conduclcd under the direction of the county agent, C. O. Stot. |