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Show News Notes I r It's a Privilege to Live in X Utah I DUCHESNE Millard, Uintah and Duchesne are the heaviest producers of alfalfa seed in the state. LEHI The 6ugar industry is a' source of great wealth to Utah farmers farm-ers and business rflen. Last year 106,-465 106,-465 tons were produces in the state,1 having a value of $14,404,368. OGDEN A fund of $27,726 has been set aside for maintaining and improving the Uintah forest during the fiscal year, begining July 1, it has been announced by officials of tha district forest service here. The allotment allot-ment for improvements includes $7470 for minor roads and trails, and $1270 for range improvements. RICHFIELD Richfield will be tha scene July 14 of "the second annual midsummer meeting of the Utah State Woolgrowers" association, it was announced an-nounced recently by James A. Hooper, secretary. Following business session in the morning and afternon, association associa-tion member will be feted at a banquet and celebration at Fish lake. LIBERTY Bear Lake valley's Black and White day this year was unquestionably, according to residents here, about the most successful dairy show ever held here, and one of the features which provided perhaps a much food, for thought to the dairy farmer was an exhibition of nine dairy cows owned in this immediate vicinity. These animals had made outstanding records in cow testing association work. PLEASANT GROVE Utah's straw-berry straw-berry crop now being harvested is expected to amount to 2,800,000 quarts', as compared with 2,544,000 a year ago, according to the estimate of Frank Andrews, agricultural statistician sta-tistician for the United States department depart-ment of agriculture, released for pub-lacation pub-lacation Tuesday. The report of Mr, Andrews shows that there are 1400 acres in bearing this year, an increase of 100 acres over 1927. PANGUITCH A special butterfat test was run on every can of milk taken in at the local cheese factory early in the week. The test, taken as a check for the regular employees of the factory, showed variations of 2.2 per cent to 6.3 per cent. The factory is now receiving over 3500 pounds of milk daily, while the figure should more than double when Panguitch Lake and Hatch are put on gathering routes. EPHRAIM Recently eight cars of wool were shipped from Ephraim, totaling to-taling 353,272 pounds. Five cars of wool were purchased by James Monsen for a Philadelphia firm, while the other three cars went to Boston. They received re-ceived 33 1-4 cents per pound and tne sale, will bring about $117,463 to Ephraim sheepmen. Four cars of ewes and lambs were recently shipped to Arch Swapp of Wolcott, Colo., by Faben and Milten Larsen. OGDEN Ogden's new airport is the scene of' much activity daily, when men with tractors, graders and other equipment are at work putting the field into shape for accommodations of the airplanes, which will soon be in evidence. Present activities' are under supervision of crews; from the city street department, under the direction di-rection of City Street Supervisor Harold Har-old R. Tripp and City engineer Harry C. Errett. OGDEN Sixty cars of Idaho fat lambs, 18,000 in number, from the districts of Ketchum, Hailey and Hill City, left for eastern markets in a special stock train recently. Twelve men left with the shipment and were given accommodations in a special coach attached to the train. The shipment ship-ment was one of the largest that has ever passed through Ogden. The lambs were unloaded, fed and watered at the Union Stockyards in this city. SALT LAKE "What is so rare as a day in June" may have properly been the lament of the city dweller during the past few days, but to those engaged en-gaged in agricultural pursuits, the weather has been all to their liking. Utah ranges and crops have been greatly benefited by the storm, according accord-ing to J. Cecil Alter, meteorologist in charge of the local United States weather bureau. .The rainfall for the storm as measured at the Salt Lake station was .35 of an inch. CEDAR CITY Crop conditions in l Cedar and Parowan valleys are well above average for this time of the year. Although cold weather persisted persist-ed unusually late this spring, the subsequent sub-sequent warm rains and excellent prowing weather have compensated for the retarded season. The alfalfa crop promises to reach a new record and the outlook for a good alfalfa seed crop Is evident. Range conditions are above average, according to reports. The fruit crop, however, with the exception of berries, r&s materially damaged by late frost?. HEBER Utah's winter wheat crop is estimated by the bureau of agricultural agricul-tural economics of the United States department of agriculture at 3,164,000 bushels this year, as compared with 2,888,000 bushels last year. This increase in-crease of close to 10 p"r cent in the Utah crop is in the face of a decrease of about 9 per cent in the nation's winter wheat crop, the bureau's figures fig-ures show. The nation crop estimate for 1928 is 512,252,000 bushels, while last year's figures were 652,384,000 bushels. |