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Show ! News Notes It' a Privilege to Live in ! Utah Salt Lake City. Much Improvement can be seen In the lambs and ranges of Utah, Wasatch and other counties of the state since the recent rains, George A. Scott, federal livestock statistician, sta-tistician, reported on his return from a short visit to these secoions. The cattlo are also reported to be n good condition, but the farmers are a little worried about the market this fall. Most of the lambs have been contracted con-tracted for at a price around 10 cents a pound which Is a little less than was received last year. Hrigham City. Utah's fruit move-mnntment move-mnntment to eastern points was start- ' ed the first part of this week, when a :ar of choice pears from Provo was sent to Chicago, it was announced by L. I!. Heidke, intermountain representative represen-tative of the Federated Fruit and J Vegetable Growers' association. The first cars of Utah peaches will leave the state during the next day or so. Provo. Utah county will produce a normal crop of peaches this year, with the quality above the average, according accord-ing to II . W. Gore, county agricultural inspector. "The growers of the county coun-ty have taken better care of their orchards or-chards this year than usual and as a result they will produce a superior quality of peach," Mr. Gore declared in discussing the outlook for the present pres-ent season. Shipping will begin about August 26 and continue until September Septem-ber 4. Salt Lake City Sugar beets in most sections of the state are beginning to show benefits of recent rains; grazing ranges generally have been improved by the rains also, although desert ranees need more rain if fall and win- tor forage is to measure up to the standard of other seasons. Logan. To cooperate with the experiment ex-periment stations in the eleven western west-ern states in making preliminary survey sur-vey of the dairy industry in this re-Kion re-Kion with a view of correlating the results of the economic studies already under way, and unifying the efforts in similar studies to be inaugurated in the near future, three members of the United States department of agriculture agricul-ture have begun meetings with the directors di-rectors and dairy specialists of the experiment stations. Salt Lake City.- An increase of 19 per cent in wool consumed in the first six months of 1926 over the amount consumed in the same months in 1925 is reported by the department of commerce. com-merce. In commenting upon this announcement, an-nouncement, F. R. Marshall, secretary of tho National Woolgrowers' association, associa-tion, stated that the figures were of especial interest on account of the numerous articles recently appearing in the press in reference to the serious ser-ious decline in wool consumption and the rate of increase in the use of substitutes sub-stitutes for wool. Brigham City. Sportsmen of the state who make a practice of hunting in the marshes west of Brigham City each year will find the ducks and wild birds in excellent condition at the opening of the hunting season this fall by reason of the care and attention that has been given bird life in this section during the summer by Deputy Game Commisioner James S. Hull and his associates. Beaver. Harvesting is in full swing and threshing will begin within the next few days. Some of the fields of grain are reported to be an average aver-age crop, while others are not yieldi ing heavy. In some instances the grain has been threshed out by hailstorms. hail-storms. Brigham City. Brigham City's El-berta El-berta peach crop is good this year, and will be on the market quite early. Growers will begin to pick in real earnest in a week from now, and the peak of the harvesting will be reached before the end of the month. ' Myton. Storms every day for a week culminated in one of the worst storms ever experienced in this locality local-ity Wednesday. Rain came down in sheets and hai! was deposited in some places three inches deep. The hail covered an area of about five miles long and a mile wile. While considerable con-siderable damage is noted it is thought that the seed was not seriously hurt, none of it being ripe, and. as the plant was wet from previous rains, it was not easily damaged. Vernal. Lieutenant J. H. Peters of San Francisco, representing the U. S. Geodetic survey, was in Vernal this week to set up a magnetic compr.ss at the courthouse grounds. These in-truments in-truments are established in north and I south parallel locations of the air mil I route and eventually in every county seat, said Mr. Peters. The lieutenant is working between Utah and Califo nla. Salt Lake City. Establishment of a new intermountain bee culture station sta-tion may come to Utah, according to 8 letter received by D. H. Hillm.-n, I state apiarist, from James I. Ham- I bleton, apiculturist of the United j S-.at.es department of agriculture. j Osden. A road crew was engaged i Wednesday in removing tons of rock ; ;.nd debris washed on the main Salt ' Lnkfi-Ogdcn highway at the foot ol Wilcox hill Tuesday night as a rcsull ! i f u cloudburst In Farmingtoa can I you. |