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Show News Notes t lt' a Privilege to Livt in I Utah LAYTON Production of all potatoes pota-toes in the -tate of Utah in 1927 I amounted to 2,970,000 bushels, wortn to the growers about $2,228,000. The acreage ) -927 was larger by 6000 than in 192G. HEBER CITY Production of teed grains amounted to 4,000,000 bushels, valued at about $3,000,000, in Utah was oats, amoun.ing to 2,142,000. in 1927. The principal one ot these Barley increased to 1,410,000 bushels In 1927, compared with 800,000 in 1926. WELLS VILLE Five hundred ana forty-six cows in the We'.!sville-Ool-lege Cow Testing association produced an average o 5S0 pounds oE milk per cow and 22.71 pounds of buttert'at during dur-ing November, according to a report just completed by Reuben Hansen, tester. Fifty cows in the association produced more than forty pounds of fat each. OGDEN Murray K. Jacobs, dairy ' and food representative, reported re-j re-j cently that 0:,'den milk and ice cream I made a high average in butter fats, as indicated by the test of the state chemist, which he has just received. Milk is a'-eraging around 4 per cent, fee cream 15 per cent, which Is among the highest in the state. The state requirement for butterfat in ice cream is 12 per cent. LOGAN Boxelder county will place on the market approximately three carloads of dressed turkeys this year, says R. H. Stewart, county agricultural agricul-tural agent, in ..i3 annual report to W. W. Owens, state county agent leader of the Utah Agricultural college extension ex-tension service. The birds sold have been rated as number one cockerels and number one pullets, the report eaid. BRIGHAM CITY According to Robert Ro-bert H. Stewart, county agent, most of the details have been worked out for Boxelder county's big poultry show, which will be held in Brigham City December 14 and 15. The show will be held in the Dunn building, on North Main street, and it is stated that practically all of the poultry I ra:sei-s of the county will enter ex- ' hibits. MURRAY The committee repre- scnting the territory in Salt Lake i county east of the Jordan, and extenfl-; extenfl-; ing from the point of the mountain i to Fort Douglas military reservation, met the Murray city hall recently and reported on subscriptions so far obtained for water in the proposed Deer Creek reservoir to be constructed on Provo river by the federal reclama- tion service. j SUGAR HOUSE Two new indus-j indus-j tries will mark the expansion of j Sugarhouse. A two-story building, ' costing $30,000, will be constructed l immediately by the Utah Radio Pro-: Pro-: ducts company at 2234 Highland drive. I David Neff, president of the Neff Holding company, and large share-i share-i holders in the Radio Products com-i com-i pan, said that leather belting and oleo-, oleo-, margarine would be manufactured In the aew building. OGDEN Invitations to stockmen, city and county officials and others who are interested in the development of livestock in the intermountain coun- -try, have been mailed by Ezra J. Fjel-sted, Fjel-sted, secretary of the tenth annual Ogden livestock ghow. The show will be held from January 5 to 10, inclusive. inclu-sive. According to Mr. Fjelsted, the show will be the outstanding exposition exposi-tion in the history of the Ogden livestock live-stock show. EPHRAIM During the open season sea-son just past on deer, between 450 and 500 deer were killed on the Manti ! forest, Rangers W. Thursby and C. I Cox report. Considerable more than i the total number were killed in the Manti forest, with 225 for Ranger C. Cox's district and 103 for Ranger W. Thursby's district. In addition to the number reported it is likely that many deer were taken out upon which no check was made. BEAVER Supporting the state-wide movement to secure for Utah a state school for the feeble-minded, the Mil-ford Mil-ford Lions club has signed a petition I favoring the establishment of such an j institution. An amendment to the I petition was made by the Milford llons, stating that all legislators from southern Utah are to try to bring the school to Beaver, utilizing the site and buildings of the former Murdock academy. aca-demy. SALT LAKE Continued cold weather of the past wselt has halted plowing in most sections of the state and has forced livestock men to put their cattle on full feed, J. Cecil Alter, chief of the local weather bureau, announces in his weekly agricultural report. Fourteen inches of snow fell in some parts of the northern section COALVILLE Utah's snap beans, canned, more than doubled in the years 1025 to 192V, output having grown in value from $00,000 to $128,-000. $128,-000. LOGAN Ferhaps the only place m Utah where silos are being increased in number Is in Beaver county, accord-to accord-to a report just made by Lew Mar I'rice, county agent, and tiled Willi the exlensmn service of the Utah Agricultural Agri-cultural college. Durini; the past year seven silos were built by dairymen m an el'iYi-l (0 :!0,.(, t,u,l;l.,u dairy leeil for l'.io v.iiu r months. |