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Show l News Notes! ( It's a Privilege to Livi in Utah ! I S SALT LAKE According to the last census of the department of agriculture, agricul-ture, Utah stands at the top of all the states In the percentage of farms using us-ing electric power. OGDEN Announcement of rules for the fourth annual Utah intermountain egg laying contest has been made by Byron Adler, station poultryman at the Utah Agricultural college, and superintendent su-perintendent of the contest. The fourth annual contest opens November 1, 1927, and close October 23, 1923. PROVO Twenty-three barrels in one day ! That was the record picking pick-ing for the James H. Clark strawberry farm on Provo bench for the year 1927. Five and one-half tons of strawberries straw-berries in one day. It took a squad of ninety-seven girls to accomplish thi3 feat, which Is a new mark- in strawberry straw-berry history, by a large margin, for Utah. PARK CITY Taking all the mineral min-eral products from Utah in 1926, they have a value of approximately $119,-270,000. $119,-270,000. This makes Utah the greatest great-est mineral state in the west BEAVER Beaver will soon begin a drive on eradication of noxious weeds. John E. Blazzard, district agricultural inspector of five southern counties, including in-cluding Beaver, met with the county "commissioners at their last meeting and asked their support in the work. BINGHAM Mining supplies 85 per cent of the freight traffic originatlnj within the state. The mines, mills and smelters afford employment to over IS. 000 men and call for an annual payroll pay-roll of thirty million dollars. MT. PLEASANT The first carload of live poultry, about 4000, spring chickens from north Sanpete county, left Mt. Pleasant for Oakland, Cal. A. W. Willardsen, vice president of the Utah Poultry Producers' Cooperative Cooper-ative Marketing association, has been in Mt Pleasant this week assisting local lo-cal poultrymen with the shipment. EPHRAIM The Ephraim-Oranse-ville road is again open to travel and is in good condition. Men are working work-ing on the Orangeville side and on the Ephraim side, keeping up repairs. PROVO A decided increase In planted acreage and crop production for 1527 over 1926. is indicated in the July Utah crop report, issued Tuesday Tues-day by Frank Andrews, agricultural statistician for Utah. Acreage planted to spring wheat this year totals 152.- 000 compared with 149.000 for last year. The production forecast for 1927 is 3.379.000 bushels compared with 3.-129. 3.-129. OuO bushels last year. Spring wheat has been planted on 90,00 acres this year compared with SS.OtO in 1926. The production in 1926 was 2.376.000 bushels and the forecast for this year is 2.437.000 bushels. MORGAN Work has been speeded up the last ten days to prepare the lo-cad lo-cad canning factory for one of the biggest big-gest campaigns yet contemplated. Owing Ow-ing to the fact that it is not necessary to operate the other big plant at Smilhfield. the entire interests of the company are this year centered at Morgan. Superintendent W. R. Ed-dington Ed-dington announces that the machinery machin-ery has been placed in excellent running run-ning order and the entire first floor will this year be operated by new closing clos-ing machines leased by the American Can company to the local factory. LEHI Utah's 1927 sugar beet crop is forecast at 645.000 tons, compared w ith an actual harvest of 415.000 tons last year, according to a state crop survey by the department of agriculture, agricul-ture, issued Tuesday by Frank Andrews. An-drews. Utah agricultural statistician. The acreage this year for the state is 61.000 acres, compared with 71.000 acres hist year. The condition of the beet crop July 1 was 92 per cent, considerably con-siderably better than the 7S rer cent normal condition reported the first of the month last year, i MANT1 What appears to be. at this time, a successful venture into the field of poultry has been launched by J. M. Tanner and sons of Fairvie on their ranch In Thistle valley, two miles south of Indianola. At the present pres-ent time the Tanners have approxi- . mately 2200 turkeys on their ran.-h. ranging in age from one week to ton weeks. The majority of the broods have been hatched on the ranch In incubators in-cubators from eggs produced by their own hens. S.M.INA Snlina and the Immediate vicinity will set a precedent for southern south-ern Utah Friday. July 15. when a "P-v tota day" will be observed. Through the activities of the potato growers nnd Professor T. Hogenson. of the Utah Agricultural college. S. R. "es-wcll. "es-wcll. county agent, nnd the cltUren. plans have been completed to have general meeting of those engaged In the potato culture, which has been greatly stimulated Ibis voir throuith the org.iniration of the North Sovlor Potato ('rowers' association. I. Kill Expenditures amounting to about $61,000 have been made in preparing pre-paring the national guard camp 1,1 Jordan Narrows for the Utah guards-j guards-j men, who will go Into training there j July K. it was slated Thursday 1'V va' j jutaut C, aeval W. G. Williams. H1' ; thought that work on the camp ,V,,"K1 he oomph-led bv .lulv 10 ! MT. Pl.KASANT M.nor Joseph ! Soely -.aid that It Is tenciallv belie"'1 I that snlhclent iic.-cpl.ible pledges h:0J 1 he Ml rece,ed lo assure tie' s:uv "- 1 j'lhe Sanpete Waler 1's-is' as ,ieiatio' prelect for the sloiage of water e ' Uoiniobcn y creek. |
