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Show News Notes It 'a a Privilege to Live In I UTAH LOGAN Clear and cold is Cache valley's weather allotment. The thermometer registered 42 degrees below ziro at Lewiston and 32 below be-low at Logan Tuesday night, and Wednesday It was 28 degrees below I zero in Logan. OGDEN Report of the output of 34 canneries, representing 20 companies, com-panies, in the state of Utah shows ' 3,538,953 cases, representing approximately ap-proximately i?8, 000, 000. last year, according ac-cording to figures released by Robert Ro-bert C. Nye, secretary of the Utah Canners' association. PRICE A reward of $20 has been offered by the Carbon County Fish and Game association to anyone any-one who submits evidence leading to the conviction of any hunter killing kill-ing pheasants or quail. A number of the birds have been killed off recently, re-cently, according to O. Acord, head of the committee. SALT LAKE Utah in 1929 produced pro-duced over 4,500,000 pounds of excellent ex-cellent honey, practically one-half of which was exported out of the state, D. W. Hillman, state apiarist declared in an address before the twelfth annual meeting, Utah State Beekeepers' association which was held at the Newhouse hotel. LEHI Roads into Cedar valley remained blocked throughout Tuesday, Tues-day, the task of clearing them going slowly, and many miles yet uncleared. un-cleared. For the second consecutive consecu-tive night, the friend and relatives of the Cedar valley students, attending at-tending the Lehi high schools, cared for the marooned children. MONTICELLQ During the past week some 800 turkeys were delivered deliv-ered to the Utah Poultry Producers' association at the Moab Garage warehouse for the January trade. Due to the heavy storms throughout through-out the county, some farmers were unable to deliver their birds and the shipment was much lighter than expected. FROVO The annual fish and game report of the Uintah national forest registers 650 elk, 1975 deer and 125 black or brown hear in this district. The report shows decreases de-creases in some species, and the entire extermination of 40 head of mountain sheep because of the transfer of the Granddaddy lakes district to the Wasatch forest. SALT LAKE Water prospects' for the state are much better now than at this time last year, according accord-ing to information available in the office of the state engineer and the state highway offices. Measurements Measure-ments on Utah lake show that there were 70,000 acre-feet more water in the lake January 1, 1930, than on January 1, 1929. SALT LAKE Over two million pounds of the 1929 crop of turkeys were shipped to eastern markets by the Utah Poultry Producers' association, asso-ciation, it was learned recently with the announcement that the January turkey pool of the association to-. to-. tals seven carloads, or 175,000 pound3. The shipments of the 1929 crop nearly doubled a record which no western state has come near to reaching. SALT LAKE Utah shipped approximately ap-proximately 3000 carloads of fruItB and vegetables in 1929, as compared with 4194 carloads in 1928, according accord-ing to the annual report of Leonard S. Fenn, supervising inspector of the state and federal shipping point inspection service In Utah. This was a decrease in, the total number of cars shipped, but an increase in the number for which the inspection inspec-tion service was used. VERNAL The severe weather is causing hundreds of quail and pheasants phea-sants to seek shelter on farms and in barnyards within the city limits. The Vernal Gun and Rifle Club, Boy Scout troops, farmers and Individual Indi-vidual residents of Vernal are cooperating co-operating in feeding the birds. Sacks of screenings are being sent to all communities of the county. Sheepmen are compelled to haul . feed to their desert flocks because the snow is crusted. LOGAN Golden Raleigh's Dorothy Doro-thy 594S95, a purebred Jersey cow in the herd of the Utah Agricultural College, has completed another offi- cial production test in which she yielded 617.66 pounds of butterfat and 11,783 pounds of milk in 365 days. Dorothy was started on test when she was 6 years and 11 months of age, and, with this record, rec-ord, again qualified for the register of merit of the American Jersey Cattle club. OGDEN W. H. Anderson, Weber county fish and geme warden, reported re-ported recently that he had found a number of birds dead as the result re-sult of freezing. The birds included includ-ed quail, jaybirds and pheasants. They were found in the foothills east of Ogden. The death of the bird3 is attributed to the fact that they have not been getting sufficient suffi-cient food. A large number of game birds have been fed during the recent cold snap, but It has been found Impossible to care foi all of them |