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Show ji; News Notes I ! ! It' a Privilege to Liva in I Utah UTAH More than 500 buck deer will have been killed in Utah this year by the close of the season, it was estimated recently by J. Arthur Me-cham, Me-cham, state fish and game commissioner. commis-sioner. MAGNA -Salt lake county heads all counties in the state in number of producing mines, tons of ore treated, treat-ed, production of gold, copper, lead and zinc, !s third in production of silver, sil-ver, and leads in value of all minerals. miner-als. EPHRAIN Snow and mud conditions con-ditions have been responsible for the closing of the Ephrain-Orangeville road connection between Sanpete and Emery counties, it was announced recently re-cently at the offices of the state roa.d commission. PROVO Fruit and vegetable growers of Utah county have had one of the best years this reason in the history of the county, according to local agricultural officers, and more fruit and vegetables have been graded and shipped this year than ever before. be-fore. LOGAN Farmers of Duchesne county are converted to the dairy business, according to W. W. Owens, state county agent leader, who just returned from Duchesne and Uintah Uin-tah counties, where he made investigations inves-tigations of the agriultural needs before be-fore selecting a county agent fo:' Duchesne. PRICE The beet harvest of thu Carbon county farm lands is about half, completed, according to an announcement an-nouncement recently by Orson P Madsen, county agricultural agent. The beets this season are yielding about one-third higher per acre than in 1927, and the quality is better thaji in any previous year. SALT LAKE General market tendencies ten-dencies for turkeys at Thanksgiving suggest that prices will be about the same as last year, possibly a little lower, it was announced recently by Claude C. Edumunds, manager of the Utah Poultry Producers Cooperative association. Prices paid last Thanksgiving Thanks-giving ranged from 38 to 40 cents pound. PROVO Inspectors of the California Cali-fornia department of agriculture have been instructed to refuse admittance to that state of any shipments of fruit from Utah in which any hay or straw contamination is found, according to a letter received recently by Dr. F. E. Stephens, Utah state inspector of agriculture, from A. C Fleury, suisr-vising suisr-vising quarantine officer for California. Cali-fornia. PRICE More than 400 hogs on the ranch of R. L. Lisonbee, in the Nine-Mile section of Carbon county, have died of cholera recently, it was revealed by Orson P. -Madsen, district dis-trict agricultural director, who returned re-turned to Price recently from a trip into in-to that region. Approximately 100 more head are afflicted with the disease, according to the agricultural director. SALT LAKE Expenses of the state in October amounted to $751,-628.34, $751,-628.34, according to the monthly report re-port of John Walker, state treasurer, made public recently. The report shows a balance on hand October 1 of $1,148,077.53. The receipts were $1,023,477.98, making a total of $12,-173,477.51. $12,-173,477.51. The balance on hand October 31 was $1,421,897.17. The sale of cigaret stamps during the month was $12,235.83. LOGAN Results of a recent eco-nonic eco-nonic survey of Utah's apple indus-try indus-try was discussed by W. P. Thmas, the Bluebird, before the first regular monthly meeting of the Utah Agri-agricultural Agri-agricultural ecomonist, recently, at cultural experiment station staff, according ac-cording to an announcement by the program committee, including George D. Clyde, F. B. Wann, D. W. Pittman, Byron Alder, E. G. Carter, D. A. Burgoyne and Mr. Thomas. MOAB It was stated that the storms of the last few weeks have placed the road through Logan canyon can-yon in Cache and Rich counties, and the Cedar-Long Valley road in Iron and Kane counties, in poor condition bo that they probably are closed for the winter. Although one of these roads may be passable for a time state road officials are discouraging motorists from attempting travel over them. BRIGHAM CITY In response to a call from President O. P. Bates, of the Tremonton Commercial club, about BO have given approval of the plan of the Utah Poultry P'-oducers' association as-sociation for the establishment of a grading plant and warehouse in Tremonton. Tre-monton. Jesse W. Hoones of Brig-ham Brig-ham City, president of the association, W. Garr, manager tf the association's plant in Brigham City, and others explained ex-plained the workings of the association LEHI Apple picking, grain and alfalfa seed threshing and grain planting are virtually completed in Utah, as a result of the excellent weather of the last week of October, according to the weekly crop report issued recently by J. Ceil Alter, government meteorologist. His report re-port continues: "Fail plowing and sugar beet and potato digging are Well along, thoi'g'i hampered in most places Ly hard soiis. Fall grains, pastures and ranges re at a standstill stand-still fur the w-.nt of moisture generally, gen-erally, forage Leiiig poor as a rule." |