| Show news notes its a privilege to lac in UTAH PROVO postal receipts during january show a 37 per cent increase over january list last year according to a report submitted by postmaster J P mcquire the total receipts were compared pare d with in january I 1 1929 LOGAN in making a report 0 on his bin monthly survey ot of the mt logan watershed february 1 george D clyde ot of the utah experiment station reports that in only two years since 1921 has the snow covier cover beca as light as this year the tha other two years were 1924 and 1926 OGDEN though mild temperatures pera tures accompanied by some thawing odthe of the snow layer prevailed evallea in utah during the past ack the grain in most sections Is still safely covered and livestock on feed ore are doing well according to the weekly meekly weather livestock and range report issued by J cecil cec 11 alter federal meteorologist LOGAN forty two inches ot of snow enow was reported january 28 at the tony grove ranger hanger station according co roling to the report issued by george D clyde of the utah experiment station on february 1 the regular gular monthly survey was made at mt logan and showed an average decrease at all elevations of 44 inches of water over that on the same date last iasi year HEBER at a meeting recently ot of the wasatch county livestock association it was decided that august 21 and 22 should be the dates for the show this year subject to the schedule drawn up by the utah state association of 0 county fairs at salt lake city A delegation of officials clas of the local show will attend a meeting to be held in salt lake soon KAYSVILLE utah potato growers expect to plant acres to their product this year frank andrews statistician tor for the united states department ot of agriculture in utah bald aalde recently eighteen thousand acres were planted to potatoes in utah last yew year growers of the 35 late crop states expect to plant acres to potatoes in 1930 last year dacres were planted HF HEBER CITY the program of the national marketing corporation merits the support of all ore ers whether their annual clip la Is logo 1090 to pounds says mr hooper the plau plan under which this wool corporation corpora tho the second marketing unit organized under the federal farm board la Is setting out to do something worth while for the gets at the very toot of the wool marketing problem PRICE after abree threatt of his sheep were killed silas young owner of 0 a ranch on coal creek near price investigated and found that a huge mountain lion was responsible young set a trap tor the marauder end and succeeded in nabbing him tor for a little while the animal escaped and young tracked him to the mountains close to lits his ranch As aa he was down resting young spied the lion about a rod away and killed him PLEASANT PHEASANT GROVE the acre in the ground in utah tor for the crop ot of 1930 Is estimated at at 1300 or tho same as were harvested in 1929 2929 a report issued recently bythe by the local government t statistician reveals for the united states as a whole the acreage in 1930 la Is 30 compared with a year a ago 0 o the tha late crop states have acres acrea this year compared with iago ot of commercial strawberries now in 1929 OGDEN the value of livestock in utah was on january 4 1 according to the report of frank andrews on january 1 1929 livestock in the state was valued at the number ot of cattle in the state at the beginning of the current year ads estimated by mr andrews as OCO with a valuation ot of compared com pared with in 1929 1920 there were milk cows valued at or cows more than last year at the same time SALT LAKE nearly 30 tracts bracis of grazing land in various parts ot of the state on which conflicting ap locations licati ons had been filed were leased recently by the state land board to the highest respective bidders the payments called tor for in tho the to leases as ranged from 6 to 61 cents an acre per year several applications tor for purchase at prices ranging from to 1060 1050 an arce were also granted by the board most aloa of the land Is in state school sections and the individual tracts contain as high as acres PRICE C W jorgensen field director tor for the springville maple ton sugar factory has been in pries price the last several overal fl days looking over the prospects ot of sugar beet beat raising here hare and contracted for acreage he reports that thus far he has been able to secure acres in carbon county with prospects tor for that many more and expected to have about BOO in limery emory LI mery county it has been estimated that to guar antee a sugar facto factor 7 in carbon county that at least acres must be ba cultivated |
