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Show l News Notes It' a Privilege to Live in i l Utah I t SALT LAKE Althu'rh there have been trememlour improvements in the oast Uvmty-live years, the agricultural agricultur-al development of Utah is scarcely beyond its huar.cy. KAYSVILLE Utah will ship approximately ap-proximately 1G5 caloads of cherries to al! parts of the United States during 1928 with a total value of about $750,000. The cherry raising industry in-dustry is one of the fastest growing and most remunerative businesses in the state. SALT LAKE H. W. Prickett, manager man-ager of the Utah traffic bureau,, and who represented the Ogden grain exchange ex-change at the interstate commerce commission hearing, returned from Seattle recently very well satisfied with the showing jnade before the commission, on behalf of the milling and grain interests of Utah and southern south-ern Idaho.. ROOSEVELT During the last fnw years Duchesne county has been watching the appearance and spread of three noxious weeds which for a time seemed to threaten the agricul- tural pursuits and especially the seed industry of the entire country. Today To-day the outlook is brighter, than at any time since the weeds were first discovered and rigid control measures are now in operation . HELPER Plans are under way foi the construction of a brick and cement block factory at Helper. The building will be erected in the rear of the Central Cen-tral commission company. The principal prin-cipal industry of the company will be the manufacture of cinder bricks, composed com-posed of coke breeze from the ovens of the Utah Fuel company at Sunny-side. Sunny-side. It is said the plant will cost $30,000. PANGUITCH Open and unprotected unpro-tected portions of upper Sevier valley experienced a severe frost on the night of June 26th. Potatoes, Beans and other tender garden crops were seriously damaged though the alfalfa recovered unhurt. Althouch such frosts are not unusual in the open portions por-tions of the section, very little damage resulted in protected parts of the valley val-ley next to the surrounding hills. SALT LAKE During the fiscal year ending June 30, last, 875 agricultural agri-cultural entries were filed on approximately approxi-mately 500,000 acres of unappropriated unappropri-ated land in Utah, according to a report re-port issued by Eli F. Taylor, register of the United States public land office m Salt Lake. Applications were allowed al-lowed in 488 cases for 206,194 acres of agricultural lands, while 345 relinquishments re-linquishments were received on approximately ap-proximately 150,000 acres. OGDEN Mills of Ogden made an excellent record for the year ending June 30, according to reports filed recently. re-cently. The Globe and Sperry mills show a combined output of 830,274 barrels of flour, the Globe producing 480,274 and the Sperry 350,000. The Royal Milling company, with less than a full year to its credit, produced approximately ap-proximately 275,000 barrels. The Hyl-ton Hyl-ton mill figures have not yet been made public. PRICE Dr. H. B. Goetzman, treasurer treas-urer of the Carbon County Fish and Game Protective association, announces an-nounces that 201,000 trout have been received by the association and plamV ed in eastern Utah streams this season. sea-son. Of this number 15,000 were planted in Range creek; 45,000 in Huntington creek; 10,000 in Beaver creek; 40,000 rainbow trout and 50,-000 50,-000 silver salmon fingerlings in the Scofield reservoir, and 41,000 released from the Nad Olsen state rearing ponding into Joe,s Valley. GREEN RIVER The La Barge road from Green River is the scene of the greatest county road activity in Sweetwater county this summer, according to Lester Vogel, county road superintendent, who spent Independence Inde-pendence Day in from the county road camp. The county has just placed its second construction crew on the road, which, by fall, will be complete up to where it intersects with the Washington Wash-ington highway. This piece of road will be the last link in a circuit to couple the Victory highway at a Vernal, Ver-nal, Utah, junction, with the Yellow- stone park. J OGDEN Large increases in the shipments of sheep are shown by figures given out Saturday by the Ogden Og-den Union stockyards for the month of June. The total of sheep shipped to and through the Ogden yards for the month is 152.173, as compared with 87,289 for the same month last I by the large shipments of Idaho j year. The increase was largely caused caus-ed by the large shipment of Idaho lambs. Hogs decreased, the shipment totaling IS, 751, as compared with 21,-504 21,-504 in June of last year. Cattle in creased from 4799 in June of last yeai to 7269 for June of this year. PROVO From all indications, grasshoppers in some districts are I going to be numenus this season, ac-! ac-! cording to H. V. Swenson, district agricultural inspector. Preparations should be made for controlling them and he considers the formula for mixing mix-ing the grasshopper bait very easy. Here it is: Twenty pounds bran (free from shorts), one pound white arsenic .ir one quart of sodium arcsenic (weed killer), two quarts of cheap syrup oi molasses, three-quarters ounce amy) acetate, two go'.lons water, one prun'' fait. |
