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Show News Notes 1 2 It' a Privilege to Liva in Uiah EPHRAIM Ran'T J. Olh-rton t the Mantl Nation forest made a trip to the Mammoth ranger station recently re-cently and reports twenty-elht inches of ;.now, wllh a water content of five incl.es. HEBEM The "lion's share" of premium.') pre-mium.') at the recent Utah Inter-mnun-ta.:n htcd show, in certified seed potato -1.-:.sh' s, went to the Wasatch County Seed Growers' association as the culmination cul-mination of a long program of seed improvement. ELSINOP.E A Carload of poultry wont out recently destined for San ' ran cisco. The birds were gathered from the poultry yards In the vicinity of Monroe and this city. The carload comprised more than 4000 birds and j w.is shipped in a special poultry car. MYTON Sheepmen of the the Nine Mile and Green River districts near My ton have been forced to begin feeding feed-ing their flocks with corn became of the scarcity of feed due to dry autumn v eaiher. Conservation estimates place the numbsr of sheep in the region re-gion at between 40,00 and 50,000 head. FROVO The annual Utah county Poultry and Eabhit chow will be held r.t 104 West Center street in this city, January 22 to 2(i, according to officers of the Utah County Poultry and the Utah County 4RahhIt Breeders' associations. asso-ciations. T. II. Horay of Salt Lake will judge the show. CASTLE DALE Rngiaeer C;:rl A. Erickson and a crew of surveyor are sgain "doing the preliminary survey work for the Salina ennyon highway. According to the engineer, the survey, started last summer, will now be com-r-leled unless som-.-lhing unforseen happens to change the pesent program. pro-gram. EPHRAIM Manti National Forest "Woolgrowers' association is officially on record for an "open" game law in TJtah to permit the killing of deer, male and female, and of elk when they are damaging the range. The resolution reso-lution to that effect has been submitted submit-ted to the Utah Woolgrowers' association. asso-ciation. SALT LAKE Barnyard squawks, cackles and general atmosphere em-mated em-mated from the spacious room at 33-3D 33-3D West Broadway last Monday from morning until 10 o'clock at night. More than 1000 birds of almost every size, color and type vied for honors in the fortieth annual show ot the Utah Poultry association. CGDEN The tenth annual Ogden livestock show, held January 5 to 10, was a great success, officials, judges, visitor and exhibitors declared, and ranked among the greatest in the country. Attendance this year was one-fourth larger than ever before, wilh over 20,000 persons passing through the gates In six days. SALT LAKE California produced 209.000 pounds of the 647,000 pounds of cheese marketed at San Francisco in December. Wisconsin was next, ' shipping 153,000 pounds of cheese to the coast. Idaho supplied 142,000 ounds. Utah furnished 320 pounds ! tiring the month. Practically no eggs went from this region to San Francisco Francis-co or Los Angeles in December. RICHFIELD Low bid for the contract con-tract to place the gravel surface on the 16.495 miles of the state's end of the Zion-Mt. Carmel highway was submitted sub-mitted by A. G. Young and company, of Richfield, it was revealed when the scaled bids were opened at the offices cf the state road commission recently. X'nder the bid of this concern, the total cost of the gravel surface for the project would be $67,980.05. SALT LAKE The storm which recently re-cently came np from California hur-T'ed hur-T'ed past Utah leaving only a lieht Miow-in Its wake, but the area of low barometric pressure forced i's way Into the north where there was an intense cold wave which threatened to reach Utah. This cold wave hs tow eone eastward and there is indi- ted little change In the Utah temperature, temper-ature, according to J. Cecil Alter. UTAH Although the number of cattle on feed for market In the eleven corn belt states was 3 per cent greater j on January 1 than at the same time last year, cattle on feed in Ut"h the first of this year totaled 25.000 head, compared with 27,000 head In 1928 and 40.000 in 192", according to a report re-port released Tuesday by Frank Andrews, An-drews, local statistician of the United Slates department of agriculture. LOGAN Methods proposed for con- I trolling Bear river and the location of the control works for the federal mi- ; gratory bird refuge to be established j there were considered hy represents- j fives of the United States biological j purvey and the irrigation division cf : the bureau of public roads in Logan j recently. The plans are those devel- j f ped by L. M. V.'insor and staff of the J bureau during the past summer. MANTI Stock was benefited during dur-ing December by new snows, while sheep on the western winter ranges suffered from a short period of cold v eaiher, said the monthly report Is-s.ied Is-s.ied by Frank Andrews, agricultural statistician for the United States de-pci de-pci tni'.nt cf agriculture. The supply of hay and feed grains is still apparently appar-ently sufiicient for ordinary winter lioids, but anxiety is expressed by cmc sl-'imtn who do not think-fh-: Eii:,r::y will last through a long, hard .Y.uiUr. |