Show 4 news N notes tes I 1 I 1 4 i its 7 or a f privilege lege to live in n I 1 UTAH I 1 OGDEN monday will mark the ad of the ogden airport to the fields equipped for night landing the candle power beacon lugt t according to harold D B tripp trapp manager of the field la is expected to be ba ready then and placed in operation farmington Sive Sweeping without warning upon south farmington about 8 p rn in sunday a raging flood of water from davis creek following the channel of tho the disastrous deluge here a few years ago caused considerable property damage an and d washed out the state highway ile heavy a vy brainstorms rainstorms rain storms east of here bore sunday about 7 30 were the probable cause of 0 the flood LOGAN according to harry C parker cache county agricultural f 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 thit that the local holds fields were cleaner and freer of disease than last year TREMONTON more than ducks have been raised in the tha bear river migratory bird refuge during the last year many of which have been to migrate to distant parts it was reported by david 11 aadsen superintendent of the refuge superintendent in fra madsen returned to his office recently after having spen open several days at the refuge ile he reports thousands of young ducks now in ill the stage a general waa made MYTON the total precipitation according to the government registration in myton from july 1 1928 to july 1 1 1929 was inches while the average covering the previous ten years was inches during the past year inches inches tell fell during tho the period 1 when it was benefi beneficial beneficta cla l to growing crops tile the temperature during the growing season of about f four our months Is from 83 to degrees maximum while the minimum Is from 30 to CO 50 degrees PLEASANT GROVE some 2 50 boys find and girls are being used in picking the string bean crop in this section it Is an interesting sight to see each morning at tour four large trucks loaded to capacity with boys and girls ranging from 12 to 18 depart tor for the bean fields their chatter and song awaken residents from lehl lehi to provo the canning company furnishes transportation por tation and pays the pickers 1 14 1 4 cents cent s a pound some of the best era ca can n and do make a day MYTON A recent survey of dairying under the uintah irrigation project ct indicates that the dairy industry in the uintah basin Is increasing quite rapidly it has already been found beneficial in solving the financial problems of the tha farmers here the survey shows that there are dairy cows on the uintah irrigation project as compared with 2815 in 1028 and 2175 in 1927 it Is found that on project land owned by whites there are 2006 dairy cows on leased land owned by indians and so on SPANISH FORK thlu section wa was a visited by the heaviest rainstorm ot 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 sc second cond crop of lucerne hay bay which was being cut cui was also damaged beets potatoes potato cs and arid many other crops however were greatly benefited by the storm wind put the tha lighting system out oui of commission tor for a short time but it was soon repaired repaIr cd PROVO wool shorn from utah sheep this season amounted to pounds compared with a year ago the utah wool report issued recently by frank andrews federal agricultural statistician declares the lighter clip resulted from poorer condition of sheep that were affected by a dry tall fall and long winter the report explains average weight a fleece in 1929 Is 81 pounds com I 1 1 pared with 89 8 9 in 1928 number of sheep shorn this year was against jart ye year ar farmington FARMING TON davis county has harvested practically 85 par cent of a splendid crop of 0 apricots the fruit this year according to ll 11 P r Mat bowa district agricultural inspector has baa been of excellent quality and has baa brought an exceptionally goud good price some of the fruit was inclined to run ismall email but of oc a splendid color which offset the size tho the size of this fruit was due to the fact that tho trees were loaded to capa capacity elty and in most cases casen were thinned the growers were pleased with such a yield after harvesting not more than a halt crop of cherries PRICE steady and heavy rains which began early saturday afternoon and continued without appreciable interruption ter until 6 p m sunday have ren rendered derea roads in this section of 0 utah almost impassable and a serious traffic Is threatened highways covered with several inches of mud and debris and bridges weakened and washed a way away by floods have caused the utah state road commission to is suo warning to tourists it la believed that mall mail and other traffic out of price maybe may be held up lor tar at least a pro y |