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Show I News Notes t i It's a Privilege to Live In UTAH j VERNAL January 1, 1929, figures bjow there were 100,000 horses in Utah, with a value of $3,317,000, and 4000 mules, valued at ?2G7,000. AMERICAN FORK Production of poultry in Utah in 192S amounted to 1093 carloads, valued at ?5,3SG,392.C0. A total of S17 carloads, valued at $4,-720, $4,-720, 6S9, were shipped to points outside out-side the state. CEDAR CITY Building in the business busi-ness section of Cedar City has taken on almost boom town proportions the past week, several new business buildings build-ings having been started in addition to several still under construction that were started earlier in the summer. PRICE Partial results of the testa conducted on Carbon dairy cattle for tuberculosis have been determined, and, according to O. P. Madsen, county coun-ty agent, only one animal reacted to the experiments. Fortunately the cow had not been used by its owners for dairy purposes. j VERNAL With more than $1,500,-1 $1,500,-1 000 invested in the production of honey ! in Utah on January 1, 1929, there were 70,385 colonies of bees in the state. In 1928, total honey production in the state amounted to 5,007,720 pounds, valued at $506,772. Beeswax production produc-tion the same year amounted to $21,-115.50. $21,-115.50. RICHFIELD According to A. Woodruff Wood-ruff Magelby, chairman of the Monroe Mon-roe Lamb Feeders' association, feeder j lambs from all parts of southern j Utah are being brought into Monroe J for feeding. On account of the cold 1 spring and the many losses incurred the lamb crop is 50 per cent short. More than SO, 000 head will be fed. Those the feeders are receiving are of good grade. M T. PLEASANT Construction work on the new Maple canyon road j was begun last week under the su- ! pervision of Marinus Larson of j Moroni. The survey was made by 1 forest service officials and provides for a 12-foot road with lC-foot passing j I places each 300 feet along the project, j i A large percentage of the work is be-( be-( ing donated by citizens of North San- ; ! pete. j j PROVO The apple crop in Utah ! : county is very light this year, accord- j j ing to County Inspector H. V. Swen- ! j son, and because of this condition ! j growers will be faced with the problem" pro-blem" of keeping them free from worm stings and limb rubs. Shipping of apples ap-ples began in the county recently with j the first carload leaving Spanish Fork. Other cars are being loaded at Snow and Orem. The apples are of good quality and size. PROVO More than 150 fine art masterpieces from the French, Italian, Ital-ian, Flemish, English, Dutch, Spanish, Span-ish, German and American art schools are being exhibited at the Brigham Young university by the Colonial Art company, according to Professor E. H. Eastmond, head of , the local institution's in-stitution's art department. The exhibit, ex-hibit, which is an outstanding one, has been open for the past several days and will be open until late Thursday evening. The public is invited to witness wit-ness the exhibit. j HEBER CITY Weather conditions have been generally good throughout Utah during the past week and cattle .round-ups an'd lamb shipping are in progress, the weekly weather summary i issued recently by J. Cecil Alter, meteorologist me-teorologist in charge of the federal weather bureau, showed. Sugar beets, tomatoes and apples are maturing rapidly and the weather has been excellent ex-cellent for harvesting aUalfa, hay seed, and for threshing grain and alfalfa alf-alfa seed. The alfalfa seed harvest is practically completed without frost injury. OGDEN Working forces of the Amalgamated Sugar company are busily engaged in putting the Ogden factory of the company in condition for the season's run to begin October 14- It is said that beet digging will ! begin in Weber, county about Octo-I Octo-I ber 10 and the factory will be put m commission four days' later. The crop in Weber county is one of the heaviest in years, both in acreage and expected sugar content. It is said also that labor conditions in Weber county are excellent, but in Cache valley it aay be necessary to import laborers tor topping and digging. Froffl 300 men will be needed in Cache valley val-ley and Idaho. ofth(,DoN7ArTiCleS f lncorPration of the Ogden Union Stockyards company com-pany were filed in the office ot the Weber county clerk recently and iu ecn-c;:on with the filing it was an-I an-I nounced that the new company, which ' 13 a, Subsidi-y of t,le Uniony' SJCL ; yards company, which has been in ; successful operation in Ogden for a number of years, had procured control i of the stockyards at Pocatello and Monger, Idaho. The aculi o these two stockyards is expected to mean much to the old Union s Ik yards, as well as to stockgrowcrs throughout the lutermouutaln country |