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Show News Notes j It't a Privilege to Lie in t Utah I --" - UTAH Considering six major lam products, estimated prices to Utah growers in February were 6.8 per cent higher than for February, 1928. RICHFIELD Dirt is beginning to fly on the Installation of the new municipal mun-icipal water system, to cost ?25.000, for which bonds were voted last fall. EPH Rl AM Garfield Pattenghe and T. Cook, representatives of Frank Bond and Sons of Albuquerque, N. M., were in Ephraim the first of the week and again contracted for 13G0 rams from the Ephrair Rambouiilet i s-soeiition. s-soeiition. OGDEN Weber county farmers will try out two new crops this year, it was announced by County Agent A. L. Christinansen. One hundred and fifty I acres of dry beans will be planted in an effort to establish the bean industry and five acres of red clover seed will be planted in a similar purpose. RICHFIELD To stimulate production produc-tion of sugar beets in Sevier county in 1929, the Gunnison Sugar company is cooperating with the Sugar Beet association as-sociation in this territory, and the L'tab. Agricultural college is a sugar beet production contest to be kncr.n as The Farmers' Twenty-Ton Sugar Lest club. LOGAN Testing of dairy cattle for tubeiculosis began in Cache county recently, according to County Agri-j Agri-j cultural Agent Kobert L. Wri.r'ey. The woik of testing Cache county's 22,500 dairy cattle was in charge of three state and federal government veterinarians. CatUe in Cornish and Lev.iston districts was teste;!. MANTI Forest Ranger S. Illertar, ma-.ie a trip to the Jlammoth ranger i station for the purpose of measuring ' the snow. He reports 68 inches of 1 snow, with a water content of 18 inches which is approximately 3 inches i greater than the average a:c-r con- tent at this time of the year at that I station. Ranger Andc-rson reports two ! feet of snow in Lower Joc-'s vaih y. HY RUM Lions club sgrA farm bu-1 bu-1 re:tu are mr.'cinjf erTort.s to raise the bean acre:".;e from 90 to Et leac 12o acres before the planting season begins. be-gins. It is feared that, if the neces- j sary acreage is not subscribed, t'".e I local bean canr.ery will not operate this year, which would mean the loss of a payroll to farmers and employees of about ?o0.000. FILLMORE Forest Supervisor C. j A. Mattson and Assistant Supervisor j C, J. Olson of the Fish Lake forest reserve returned recently from a trip, lastinjr a wee'.;, to Fillmo'. e and ! Holden. While at Fillmore they held a conference with Rangers L. A. Robins Rob-ins and E. L. Jensen regarding forest districts plans for Scipio, Kanoih and Elsinore ranirer districts. The plans outlined in detail all recu.Tent work to be done each year a':d the amount j of nonremnent work that should be j completed in the next five-year pero:d. OGDEN Acreage of tomatoes in Utah will be increased about 800 acres this year, it was announced recently by George Shorten, assistant secretary of the Utah Canners association. The increase will be general over the state, wiih about 100 acres increase in Weber county. Estimated planting for the whole state will run about b'000 acres. Weber county will have about 2500 acres. DRAPE!? The Draper Construction company has been awarded the general gener-al contract for the building of the growers market, according to the architects, Ashton & Evans. The first unit will consist of a market for all-year all-year trading and also two new administration ad-ministration buildings, which will cost about $tir,500. The balance of ?210.-000 ?210.-000 will be spent for a warehouse a block long with two stories and a base-Jncnt. base-Jncnt. TOOELE Ponltrymen of Tooele county, led by H'.gh Hurst, Tooele county agricultural agent, inspected three bi.T hatcheries of Salt. Lake county coun-ty recently, according to V. L. Martin-eau, Martin-eau, Salt Lake county agricultural agent. Most of their time was spent at the Community hatchery, Draper, where about 150,000 chickens are being be-ing hatched. This is by far the largest larg-est hatcher in Utah and ranks in size witli any hatchery of the United Slates. SALT LAKE Present poultry prospects pros-pects in Utah indicate a baby chick production of nearly ,1,000,000 for 1020, double the 102S figure, C. C. Edmunds, manager of the Utah Poultry Producers' Pro-ducers' Cooperative association, declared de-clared in a report recently. The expectation ex-pectation is borne out by the fact that already commercial egg production for 102'J has increased about 15 per cent over the same period in 1928 and may be expected to increase nunc as hens (nature. BINGHAM Net Income ot $lf,!,-25S.5I1 $lf,!,-25S.5I1 for 10:!S, as compared to f:i9,-4il().2(i f:i9,-4il().2(i in 1927, is shown by the annual I report of the Ilhighani Mines com- J pany, operaling in the Hinr.'iiani and I Tintic (list i i,-ts. Despite he fact that j lo.ver raitiiiigs were reported, James ' P. Graves, presitlt nt. tie. dares thai the j net fiiMire quote. 1 is wi'ter a deduction , of $:;5,I)S0 was made fur pro? porting and tle clopnient work, ami that, j 'llolh (he Victoria mine, loraled in the Tin! it- di-liii'l, and the Pallon an. I ' I.. -ilk mine, in the ltiiieham dislricl, ' showed imp: over.ient.i during; ti;o lal tcr part of the year. |