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Show Intermountain News Briefly told for Busy Readers MANY DEER SLAIN TURKEY LOAN MADE WOULD CLOSE WELLS APPLE CROP INCREASE STORES INCREASE SALES SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Production Pro-duction estimates for Utah's apple nud grape crops increased from October Oc-tober 1 to November 1, while the forecasts for the corn, potato and pear crops decreased, Frank Andrews, An-drews, federal agricultural statistician statisti-cian here has reported. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Department De-partment store sales In Salt Lake City during October were 17.2 per cent above the level of the same month last year. WEST JORDAN, UT. Poultry production in the Jordan valley is showing a substantial increase. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. The school districts of Utah received $171,428 in the third apportionment of the district school funds for 1934-1935. 1934-1935. PROVO, UT. Action to compel owners of artesian wells to shut them off will be taken by the Utah county commission at an early date. In past years much water has been wasted by allowing artesian wells used solely for irrigation purposes, to run all through the winter. SALT LAKE CITY, UT A merchandizing mer-chandizing loan of $350,000 has been approved by the Berkely Bank for Cooperatives for the Northwestern Turkey Growers' association, a cooperative co-operative marketing organization of 10,000 western producers, with headquarters in Salt Lake City. BOISE, IDA. A total of 561 fire outlook towers were completed by the Civilian Conservation Corps on national, state and private forests from the beginning of Emergency Conservation Work to August 1, it was announced at the office of Robert Rob-ert Feehner, director of Emergency Conservation work recently. BOISE, IDA. A total of 262 046 pounds of milk and 11,733 1 pounds of butterfat was produced by 454 cows of the Boise Valley Dairy Herd Improvement association during 30 days recently, D. V. Wilfong, testing supervisor, said. Of this herd, 66 were dry. BOISE, IDA. This has been a record-breaking deer season in the Moore's creek district, reports W. A. Tolley, deputy game warden. Ac- cording to Tolley, 6809 hunters bagged bag-ged 1757 deer in the 1934 season. Of this number, 718 were bucks, 1139 does and 402 fawns. TWIN FALLS, IDA. One of the biggest shipments of motor license plates ever applied for by Twin Falls county has been received here. POCATELLO, IDA. The annual banquet of Southern Idaho Foresters, Forest-ers, at the University of Idaho, southern branch, has been set for December 7. OAKLEY, IDA. Fossils of a mastodon, about the size of a modern mod-ern elephant, and scores of camel's and horses' teeth, the remains of prehistoric animals which roamed North America during the existence of Lake Bonneville, were unearthed recently by FERA workers near here. BRIGHAM CITY, UT H. E. Larsen, president of the Box Elder Wheat Production Control association, associa-tion, reports that approximately 80 per cent of the compliance papers for 1934 of the wheat growers of the country have been approved at Washington. MOSCOW, IDA.-Winter killing in orchards, alfalfa and other crop stands can be held to a minimum through late fall irrigation, according accord-ing to M. R. Kulp, experiment station sta-tion irrigationist at the University of Idaho. Penetration of fall rains generally is over-rated, Mr. Kulp believes. Unless heavier than average, aver-age, rains do not soak the all-important all-important root zone with moisture plants require during their dormant period. TWIN FALLS, IDA.-2275 has been set as the Red Cross allotment for south central Idaho MOSCOW, IDA. 120,000 new trees are being set out at the University Uni-versity of Idaho. ttIE' IDA-RHhard C. Ross, United States statistician for Idaho, announced that the next agriculture census will be taken In 1935. The first census was taken ilmZm 1,1 1810 "ml " TftRK n ' T,sns culture to 1986 will include the names and ad- of the fam. operator, it Will also include farm tenure, Tann acreage, which hi,.i,iB 'nnd all pasl,,,,. land, and all fan, woodland; the total value of the farm (he acreage and yield of each ,,c he principal Held crops and hf ". n; number of lives and toe yield of each of the principal tables; the number and value of each class of livesio,,;: po,,. nnd farm poK,lall', . ,.'U;in,IK' merennts' vlslon of Jerome Chamber of .ve has Indorsed p,lln g ; " H..,m,i,.v Christmas loX M" ' " . WOAMIAO, IDA, Some 8000 f ttle In addition to the 20 bead already lis,,,, r,. ty -im: e,::;;;,,,;';;!;:1"" ,,f |