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Show y j; News Notes f ', ! It' a PriviUge to Liv in i j Utah I CEDAR CITY Iron county ranks third In production of sheep and wool. Tha county has 180,000 Bheep, worth. $2,016,000. The wool clip In 1927 totaled to-taled 1,584,000 pounds, valued at $520,400. MOAB-Juab county raak3 first In production of silver, second in copper, I third In gold and third in total value I of minerals mined. With twenty-eight producing mine3 operating in 1927, tha total production of gold, silver, copper, 658,852.25. MORGAN Morgan county produced 10,000 tons of alfalfa hay, valued at $92,000, in 1927. It also produced 62,-000 62,-000 bushels of barley, 60,000 bushels of potatoes, 49,000 bushels of spring wheat and 30,000 bushels of winter wheat, besides good crops of other grains and vegetables. MYTON Horace W. Shelby of My-ton, My-ton, water commissioner for Uintah hasin, reports that the present duty of water, one second-foot to 220 acres, will continue until October 15. Thereafter There-after Indian land will be entitled to one second foot to 1000 acres, and the balance of the water will be divided, according to acreage, among irrigation companies. OGDEN Weber county beet raisers are Immensely pleased with the weather conditions which have prevailed pre-vailed for about two days. The rain which began falling has been continuous continu-ous and a heavy snowfall is reported from Huntsville. The greater part of the snow that has fallen in Ogden has melted almost as it fell, but the moisture mois-ture remains and is appreciated. SALT LAKE Approximately 2000 carloads of sugar beets will be moved to the various sugar factories over the Salt Lake & Utah railroad, A. J. Anderson An-derson traffic manager announced. This will be an increase over last year of about 200 or more carloads, he said. Besides sugar beets, apples and green tomatoes are being moved oast and west Mr. Anderson said tha apples are going to California. HEBER CITY The report states that the crop in the state is now estimated esti-mated at 6,S92,0'00 bushels, as compared com-pared with 5,G7S,000 of wheat for 1927. Hay production is estimated at 1,612,-000 1,612,-000 tons. Records show the estimate in October, 1927, was 1,547,000 tons. Mr. Andrews' report indicated that the potato po-tato crop has reached 3,260,000 bushels. bush-els. The potato estimate last year was 2,970,000. CENTERVILLE Among the winners win-ners from Davis county at the Utah state fair agriculture exhibit are Thomas Thurgood of Clearfield, first place on wheat and barley; William Potter of Farmington, first place on corn; C. R. Egbert of Centerville, first place on walnut3 and almonds; William Wil-liam L. Rigby of Centerville, first place on melons, sheaf grasses, Elberta peaches and bumper crop oats. RICHFIELD The beet harvest has Just started in Sevier valley. According Accord-ing to S. R. Boswell, county agricultural agricul-tural agent, the favorable growing season of the past few weeks h2s materially ma-terially helped the crop to mature. It Is anticipated the sugar beet factory, near Elsinore, will commence operations opera-tions by October 10, the usual data for opening the bins for beet storage. Cutting and sugar refining will start at a later date. PROVO The outlook for this season's sea-son's crop production in Utah based upon information available up to October Oc-tober 1, Is for larger production than that of a year ago, Frank Andrews agricultural ag-ricultural statistician for the United States department of agriculture, announced. an-nounced. "The wheat crop of the state is now estimated at 6,892,000 bushels, compared with 5,678,000 in 1927. All hay is estimated at 1,612,000 tons, as compared with the final crop of 1,-671,000 1,-671,000 tons for last year. OGDEN District Forester R. H. Rutlcdge and his assistant, Raymond E. Grey, have returned to Ogden from a visit to the Kaibab forest in northern Arizona, where they made an inspec tion of the summer and winter ranges. The officials report that the ranges are in poor condition and that does and fawn3 are in correspondingly bad shape because of lack of forage. The forest also is said to be overcrowded with deer, which prevents the young trees from getting a start. On tha opening day of the hunting season about forty bucks were killed, according accord-ing to the officials. The hunters numbered num-bered about 150 and 50 per cent of them were from California. HA1LEY The sheep industry has more to do in Blaine county with tha farmers getting out of debt, buying automobiles au-tomobiles and educating their children than anything else, according to II. H. Neal, cashier of the First National bank, of Hailey. BUHL October 1 Is the date when turkeys are started on the fattening process, which lasts about three weeks, providing birds for the market from three to four weeks ahead of the time desired. William Hazzard of Euhl, first vice-president of the Idaho Turkey Tur-key growers association, has had a flock ranging In the grain fields on his ranch in Snake River canyon northwest north-west of here for several weeks and has Just put thom on fattening fe:d In order thr.t the first choice hire's may be read fur the Thuuksoivius market |