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Show Intermoiintain News Briefly told for Busy Readers GOOD MILK RECORD COMPETE WITH IDAHO GOODWILL PLANS LOOM HIGHER TLRKEI PRICES MILLIONS FOR FARMERS TWIN FALLS, IDA. Higher prices are likely to prevail for the Thanksgiving, Christmas and January Janu-ary turkeys offered by Idaho growers grow-ers this year as the result of a decrease de-crease of about 21 per cent in the volume of production from last year. IDAHO FALLS, IDA. Idaho potatoes may not find much room in eastern markets on account of large crops in Maine, Wisconsin, and New Jersey. BOISE, IDA. Twenty-three herds, consisting of 476 cows, 28 of which were dry, made a total of 841,088 pounds of butterfat during the month of August, In the Boise Valley Dairy Herd Improvement association. This made an average per cow, including dry cows, of 716 pounds of milk and 30.2 pounds of butterfat. POCATELLO, IDA. Fanners In 20 western drouth-stricken states have received more than 82 million dollars in payment for drouth cattle cat-tle purchased by the agricultural adjustment administration and turned turn-ed over to the federal surplus relief re-lief corporation for processing for relief distribution. SALT LAKE CITY, IT. Revenue Reve-nue to the state general fund of Utah for the first six months of 19-34 19-34 from the state beer tax was $68,-650.42, $68,-650.42, it is shown from a statement prepared under the direction of the managing clerk, for the biennial report re-port of the state tax commission. BOISE, IDA. The national guard of Idaho has received forty new trucks, sent by the war department to replace the old wartime models which have been in use since 1919. IDAHO FALLS, IDA. A movement move-ment to weld northeastern Idaho sections into one large community by sponsoring goodwill tours into neighboring territories from Idaho as a focal point is the aim of chamber cham-ber of commerce members, merchants merch-ants and business men, who recently made a goodwill tour into the Star valley section of Wyoming. BOISE, IDA. Collections of income in-come tax amounting to $6,674.43 during August brought the total by this impost this year to $217,126.34, the department for finance announced, announc-ed, compared with $66,382.96 for the same period of 1933. SHELLEY, IDA. Idaho Spud day, Shelley's annual celebration day, will be held here October 3. The affair, sponsored annually by the Shelley chamber of commerce as a harvest festival and demonstration demonstra-tion of the value of the Idaho spud in this section of the state, will include in-clude all of the usual features. OGDEN, TJT. A report Issued by forest service officials says that since July 1 there have been 636 fires in the national forests of Region 4. Of that number 336 were man caused and 42 were serious seri-ous fires. More than $1S3,375 has been expended by the service in fighting the fires. The fires burned burn-ed over an area of 89.785 acres. damage to which is estimated at $433,188. Emergency guards on duty were 164, total expenses for which have been $19,230. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Reserve feed loans for the benefit of those who winter their flocks and herds in places where weather conditions prevent regular transportation of feed, are being made available by the emergency feed loan section of the farm credit administration. MOSCOW, IDA. While Idaho farmers have done some real work in eradication of grasshoppers this summer, they still have plenty of work? before them to prevent the spread of the pests again next year, according to information being sent out by the University of Idaho experiment ex-periment station. The grasshoppers laid their eggs before they started their travels last spring. While the grasshoppers themselves were destroyed and stopped from doing considerable damage, the new crop will hatch out next spring and an- other swarm of the pests will start traveling. ST. AKTHOXY, IDA. H. J. Finch, field supervisor for the emergency emer-gency crop loans, announces the maximum amount which farmers In drouth areas can borrow for fallowing fallow-ing or planting of winter crops has been received. A farmer who borrowed bor-rowed the limit of $400 in the spring can now borrow an additional addi-tional $350, and those who have no previous loans can borrow up to $400. BOISE, IDA. Thirty convicts at the state pentitentiary have applied for hearing at the fall meeting of the state pardon board. |