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Show j News Notes : J It' a Privilege to Live in Utah Layton Layton dairymen have been erved notice by the Layton-Kaysville Dairy association that care must be exercised in keeping beet-tops away from dairy cattle. The notice was sent out after it was discovered that some of the milk coming to the station was from cows that had been eating beet tops. The beets taint the milk and the taint is particulraly noticeable after af-ter the milk has been bottled. Nephi Fire on the farm of Dean Winn, two miles northwest of Nephi, resulted in the destrucion of property proper-ty valued at $1500, Wednesday afternoon. after-noon. Three cattle shed3, 100 tons of hay and a quantity of farm machinery were destroyed. Logan While rain ended a three 1 week's spell of most delightful October Octo-ber weather, those aware of the need of moisture to complete the germina-ion germina-ion of ' fall grain on thousands of acres in the valley did not object tc the downpour. Washington State highway depart ments spent $649,125,101 for road and bridge construction during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1926, the agricultural agri-cultural department announced. The expenditures by state in elude: Arizona, Ariz-ona, $2,442,947; California, $1S,090,72&; Colorado, $5,5646,590; Idaho, $3,636,-681; $3,636,-681; Montana, $1,267,242; Nevada, 53,-, 055,959; New Mexico, $3,322,54S; Oregon, Ore-gon, $15,553,453; Texas, $19,985,007; Utah, $4,123,798; Washington, $7;S45, 566; Wyoming, $3,973,491. Salt Lake Duryig the last few weeks there has been a greater movement move-ment of feeder lambs to feed lots than the situation at the opening of the 1926-27 feeder season indicated would be likely. With a decrease in the number of feeder cattle in the corn belt, feeders in that region turned to lambs and took large numbers that normally are finished at home. Con-. Con-. trasted with this was an early season apathy in Colorado feeding districts. The Colorado situation has righted itself it-self and large numbers of Nevada feeders have been moving. into Colorado. Colo-rado. Heber A Utah district, the , He-ber He-ber valley, is achieving considerable fame in producing lambs. Heber lambs ranged on almost ideal range, are in strong demand each fall on the middle western markets. Myton L. C. Potter alfalfa seed producer, who resides on the North Myton' bench, has finished threshing his crop and has 284 sacks of seed. So far this is the largest crop reported for this season in this part of the basin. Mr. Potter's" last year's crop totalled 667 sacks and was a record for the season of 1925.. Ogden The state road commission may designate the Salt Lake-Ogden highway as an arterial highway, Henry H. Blood, chairman of the state road commission, advises Mayor George E. Browning in a communication communica-tion received by the mayor. Draper The first carload shipment of eggs was loaded out of Draper. Up to this date the 'eggs exported from Draper have been graded at the Draper Dra-per and Salt Lake plants of the state association and have been shipped out of the state from Salt Lake City. In the future it Is expected that the export ex-port will consist largely of direct shipment ship-ment in carload lots. Draper's eggs go to the New York market. Fairview Fairview Nimrods have been very fortunate this season. Deer in the surrounding hills seem to be plentiful, according to the hunters. Some of the doer were shot just a few miles east of the c-ity limits. Hunters from the surrounding counties and several sev-eral sportsmen from Salt Lake have succeeded in bagging their limit. Gunnison With organization of a local poultry association at Gunnison the poultry industry in the Gunnison valley holds promise of rapid expansion. expan-sion. The organization has started on a campaign to secure a large sign-up cf members. Plans already have been made to ship several thousand baby chicks into the valley next spring to enlarge existing flocks and start new ones on farms whose operations are interested in entering the new activity. Myton Starting Monday a series of community farm and home meetings meet-ings will be held tnroughout the Uintah basin. It is announced by the Uintah farm bureau. These meetings will be attended by officials of the Utah state farm bureau and the Utah Agricultural extension division. M. P. Brown, president, and M. S. Winder, secretary, will represent the state bureau, while Rena B. Maycock will attend as representative of the college. col-lege. E. E. Smith, who is collecting seed for the Utah exhibit to the international, in-ternational, hay and grain show, will make the trip at the same time to meet wita basin seedsmen. Salt Lake In 1925 Salt Lake received re-ceived approximately 1,500,00 tons of freight, or a daily average of 4110 tons Of this amount 500,000 tons was forwarded for-warded to other points near-by, a daily average of 1370 tons. Myton Two shipments of rainbow trout were recently received at Vernal Ver-nal and distributed in Ashley and Brush creeks. Two thousand were placed in each creek and the ones in Ashley creek were deposited near the Utah Power & Light company's plant. Ed Oaks, Uintah county game warden, accompanied the shipment. |