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Show ii News Notes I V, It's a Priviltga to Live in I Utah 1 XEPHI N'ephi's second annual Bpring livestock show will be held at the Juab county fair grounds Saturday, Satur-day, March 31, according to Albert E. Smith, county agricultural agent. The show is being sponsored by the Xephi High School Agricultural club and the 4-H club boys, with the extension division div-ision cooperating. LOGAN The annual conference ol agricultural extension service workers will be held in Logan January 15 to 21. All of the county agricultural agents, the district home demonstration agents and specialists of the state extension ex-tension service, as well as representatives representa-tives of the extension division of the United States department of agriculture, agricul-ture, will be present. VERNAL Due to a number of cases of scarlet fever in Vernal and vicinity, the high and central schools will not reopen for a few days. The disease has appeared in a mild form and seven homes in the city are under quarantine. The county physician has also caused the suspension of Sunday schools and ordered children under 18 years to remain away from the movie theatre. OGDEN Some 31,776 sheep in Utah were inspected and found free from scab in December, 1927, according to a report of Thomas Redmond, chief state sheep inspector, to the state board of agriculture. The report shows that 6087 sheep were dipped once in compliance with the regulations of the department. These were sheep entering Utah from Colorado for grazing graz-ing purposes. The sheep were dipped in Uintah county. LOGAN Reports from the office of the registrar at the Utah Agricultural college indicate that 153 new students have entered for the winter quarter. The total registration for this quarter is already far above that of the fall quarter, which had the largest attendance attend-ance for that quarter in the history of the school. OGDEN Attendance at Ogden's ninth annual livestock show is averaging aver-aging 5000 daily, according to Jesse S. Richards, secretary. More adults are attending the show than have ever before been present and hotels of the city report a greater number of out-of-town visitors than have been present for any similar event. SALT LAKE: Although there are 35,000,000 more people in the United States now than twenty-five years ago, there are about 22,000,000 fewer beef cattle, sheep and swine to provide meat for them, according to Dr. J. R. Mohler, chief of the bureau of animal industry, United States department of agriculture. There are, however, about 8,000,000 more dairy cows, so the net loss in the number of food-producing animals is about 14,000,000 in twenty-five twenty-five years. Ten years ago the corn fields aggregated about 107,000,000 acres. This year they amount to less than 98,000,000 acres, according to the latest estimates, representing -an average av-erage shrinkage of nearly a million acres a year. MYTON The winter range for sheep in the Nine-Mile and Green river districts, south of Myton, is being utilized util-ized by the following sheepmen, who have bands in that locality; Crystal Brothers, J. Thomas. Coleman Brothers, Broth-ers, Lewis & Sons, Murdock Brothers, Knights Investment company, Hancock Han-cock & Goodrich, and Ray Dillman. The number ranging in that locality owned by these men totals about 30,-000. 30,-000. Several bands have been brought in from the opposite direction. The problem so far this season is water, which is being hauled with ice for the camps, while the sheep use the snow, to quench their thirst. CEDAR CITY Drilling for oil in Cedar valley within the next thirty days was assured by Miller Robert Taylor of Kansas City, president and managing director of the Quad States Holding and Royalty corporation, if enough acreage to warrant drilling can be leased in the meantime. According to Mr. Miller, who met citizens of the valley at a mass gathering recently, approximately 20,000 acres have already al-ready been leased by the Cedar Valley syndicate. SALT LAKE) All the states west, of the continental divide had fewer sheep and lambs on range January 1, 1928, than a year ago, according to a report of Stephen Bray, local representative of the market news service of the United States department of agriculture agricul-ture and the Utah state department of agriculture. The decrease for the entire en-tire area west of the divide was about 150,000 head, the report said. The largest decrease was in Utah, where the number still on feed January 1 was about 60 000 less than last year. PARK CITY It is estimated that Utah contains 515 billion tons of high-grade high-grade bituminous coal. Utah's coal industry furnishes employment to about 5000 men with a payroll of ?60,-000 ?60,-000 per day when the mines are running run-ning full capacity. VERNAL Flocks of tufted quail, driven from their brush refuges by the heavy snow on their feeding grounds, have invaded farm yards, where they are fraternizing in friendly fashion with domestic fowl. Shelled corn is being furnished so that the birds may be tided over the winter. BEAVER Snow readings at various points in the Beaver mountains, given for December 31, 1927, show a depth of ten inches at Copes Hollow, twenty-six inches at Thompson Holes; twenty eight inches at South Fork, and twen ty-six inches in Merchant valley. |