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Show News Notes I X It's a Privilege to Live in t J Utah LAYTON Utah's potato crop in 1927 totaled 2,700,1)00 bushels with a $ market value of $2,228,000, an increase of 505.000 bushels over 1820. ERICHAM During tin week j thousand ,f pintail ducks have l-.een feeding in the wainl'udda west of 'his city, adjourning; tV marshes. The clucks' have migrated hre from Canada according to '.rame officials, and are so numerous that an eii'.i;.:ate of their numbers is almost impossible. OCDKN Weber county peaches are unusually free from insect infestations I and (nneral blemishes this year, I,o Roy Marsh, district n'rrhultival in- Kpector reports. Estimates of this : year's crop is set (it 175 carloads. The orchards of North Orrden are said to be in the best of condition ?nd will undoubtedly un-doubtedly yield the r-'ost fruit. : ' GUNNISON Cauliflower shipments i from the fields at Wetview and Clar ion are increasing almost daily imd two carloads were sent out. Wednesday, 1 bringing the total c?r shipments lo ; date i;p to sixteen. The peak of th" harvest will be reached about September Septem-ber 6, at which time extra forces will be added to handle the big crop. VERNAL The crew of the deep test of the Ashley Valley Oil company, on the Afhley valley structure, ten miles southeast of Vernal, is drilling through the cobble rock dumped into the hole to plutr it hick from 111" dep'h of 870 feet to 530 feet for the puruose of straightening the hole. It will .e several days before drilling for Increased In-creased depth is resumed. MURRAY Plans for enUirint? a county Guernsey herd in the state f.ir this fall were made at a meeting of Guernsey breeders heW recently at I he home of Arthur B. Ereksnn, South Cottonwood. Cot-tonwood. A committee including Mr. Krekson, L. E. Madsen, James G. Burtt, J. B. Erekson and V. L. Martin-eau, Martin-eau, county agricultural agent, was appointed ap-pointed to arrange Hr? matter and select the herd. , BRIGIIAM CITY Plans are gjintf forward for the community fair to be held at Corir.e September 7, under auspices of the Corine farm bureau. This is the first fair of the kind to he held in the valley. The executive committee com-mittee consists of Presdient Sterling Wright of the Corine farm bureau. C. G. Adney and Abraham Evans. Agricultural Agri-cultural Agent E. H. Stewart 13 as-sis'ting. as-sis'ting. LOGAN Farmers of Utah will profit pro-fit a great deal by revising an old misconception mis-conception that seed from some other farm is better than from their own, Dr. George Stewart, agronomist with the experiment station of the Utah Agricultural Agri-cultural college, stated in answer to. Inquiries on "home grown seeds." However, Dr. Stewart said, there come times when seed grown on a given farm should be replaced by seed from another fp.rm, but this is only when the seed formerly used is mixed, diseased di-seased or otherwise of poor quality. OGDEN Use of granulated so?ip with arsenate of lead in spraying ap pies in Weber comity this year has been successful, saving one orcliardist alone more than 4000 bushels of apples, ap-ples, it was stated recently by LeTloy Marsh, district arhuUural inspector. H. A. Thomas of Ogdn suffered a loss of 50 per cent of his crop from worms last year despite his using arsrtra'e of lead in water, as was regularly rec-commended, rec-commended, Mr. Marsh says: This year less than 5 per cent of his crop is wormy. The smallest of the figure he attributes to his use of the simo CEDAR CITY With the aid of Mel-vin Mel-vin Cropper of Deserct, the Amer-an Legion bucking horse committeeee will have at least twenty head of prol'e.'S-eional prol'e.'S-eional bucking horses for the race roeet and rodeo at Cedar City Sep! ember 6, 7 and 8. Seme of. these horses are well known to rodeo fans. Cronpsr won the riding contest of the l9?S Cedar City rodeo a.?r.i"st older and better known men of Pendleton and Cheyenne. He is to be a contender fr the belt this year. Bob Vaughn, win rer of second place in 1 020, will le here. Buster Vau;rhn of Pend!"ton is expected and many professional ri lers have expressed their intention of he ng here. SAT LAKE To til expenditure of the state road deptri-meit from January Janu-ary 1. 1928. to Ju-e SO. 1S28. amo"n'ed to $1,275,300.40, it is shown by a Sra--cial staten-ent of the department for that period, which was made pu' !; recently. On January 1 of this ,' eir there was a balance of $:0.P.T ' ;.f road funds in the state treasury, an I receipts from various sources' d;:i'i:g the first, six mor.iV.s c-t the yoar amounted to Sl.08tt.noi.30. brin,.in'r the toial balance ar.d r'ceints to ?2,-797.45C.79 ?2,-797.45C.79 for .'he period. On Jsnc S'l. 1028, the i!epar!'-e ;t hnd a o.-.-h surplus sur-plus of $77-1.082.1 'o and a b:T.od -ur-plus of S45:.Cl8.,5, "'"-l-.in'v a fe-.l surplus of 1.23:1.702.61. I.na-s -e-turned to high-ray and revolving f.m ls during the six iron:h.s? an.oun ed to $2S9,RGG,78. LOGAN' The Cache county fair will be held here ?cpten'l:er 13 to 20. one week earlier than has been he case in recent years, in an effor" t avoid the bad weather that h-.s aceon-panied aceon-panied local fairs in Hie pa;,t. skate President George Durlnr cf th" Cache County Fair asio"iation. Three th m sand fair programs will be n:aile,i the near future to homes of Caclv county and ten large twenty. four-sluv stand's will he used for billboards advertising ad-vertising Yne county fair in Cache wil ley, noxeliler county and southern Idaho. |