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Show News Notes I It's a Privilege to Live In T ! UTAH I HEBER CITY The number of sheep and lambs on Utah farms and ranches on January 1, 1929, is estimated esti-mated at 2,866,000, compared with 2,-730.000 2,-730.000 one year before, and 2,650,000 on January 1, 1927. COALVILLE Shipment of the Summit Sum-mit county farm bureau wool clip was completed this week, with total shipments ship-ments amounting to 200.000 pounds. The pool this year was sold for 34 1-2 cents a pound, the highest paid for any wool In this locality. The clip was shipped to Boston. UTAH Marked improvement in Utah range conditions occurred in May, the monthly range and livestock report issued recently by Frank Andrews, An-drews, federal agricultural statistician declares. Lamb crop and wool clips are both short and heavy losses are noticeable among sheep and lambs, the report says. Normal morality prevails pre-vails among cattle, while calf crop prospects are good. GUNNISON Word was received recently re-cently by I. L. Henrie, leader of the Smith-Hughes project work in Gunnison Gun-nison valley, from the Holsfein association asso-ciation official test of America that he had been awarded a cash prize on his cow for taking sixth place in the official test given for 192S-9. Delia Homestead Lass, 2 1-2 to 3 years old, tested 402.59 pounds of butterfat in 25S days with an average test of 3. S3. WOODS CROSS The first carload of early mixed vegetables from the state was shipped from Woods Cross recently. This car was loaded with asparagus, carrots, beets, turnips, onions, radishes and peas, and was shipped to Montana. The shipper expects ex-pects to send many cars into Montant. and thus to relieve the congested conditions con-ditions on the Salt Lake markets, according ac-cording to District Agricultural Inspector In-spector H. P. Mathews. COALVILLE Graveling of the relocated re-located Lincoln highway around the Echo reservoir has been started by the Samsion Construction company. The gravel for this surfacing Is coming com-ing from Echo canyon, about a mdtj east of here. The same company has a contract for gravel surfacing the stretch from Echo to Baskin, about six miles, and also is encaged on this work. It is expected that the new Lincoln highway road will be open to traffic about July 4. KAYSVILLE The executive committee com-mittee of the Davis county farm bureau bu-reau held a meeting with the central committee and set tho date for the Davis county farm bureau day and fair for August 2S. The place has not been decided. Other years It has been held at Lagoon resort. Various committees com-mittees were npp. tinted. It was decided de-cided the exhibition will largely be made up of the usual flower show, w-onion's department, 4-H club work and fruits nnd vegetables. LOGAN The May report of the rihlimondl.ewiston Dairy Herd Improvement Im-provement association just filed with County Aeent Robert L. Vrlgler, by Le Roy Nelson, tester, shows average milk production per cow was 91C.S pounds, compared with SO 1.9 pounds for April. The average butterfat production pro-duction per cow was 33.6 pounds as compared with 30.97 pounds for the previous month. One hundred and twenty-two animals produced 40 pounds of butterfat or more. PROVO With die volume of production pro-duction greatly increasing, tho shipments ship-ments from the local poultry plant uro greater than the average for this time of (he year, according to local poultry plant officers. During tho last three weeks an average of 25.000 sacks of feed and lino cases of eggs have been shipped each week, while two carloads of cockerels also have been shipped in this period. Tlireo more carloads of cockrcls will be shipped tho coming week. HELPER Excavation work has started on tho silo for tho tipple of tho new- Peerless mine, one-halt mile nbovo Rolnpp. Work on tho rock tunnel tun-nel for the initio has been progressing progress-ing steadily and tho water liners a:o within two hundred feet of the coal vein. Nineteen hundred feet, of tunnel tun-nel has been drilled. The tipple wid bo a modern steel structure, nud will bo located where tho present Kolapp-Nolan Kolapp-Nolan highway project traverses the canyon. PLEASANT GROVE Crowds estl-mated estl-mated to exceed IS, 000 viewed (ho parade and participated In the entertainment enter-tainment at tho eighth annual Utah Strawberry day celeliral ion. As a part of tli o program, George L. Smith, president of the chamber of comtnerco In (ho morning presented (lie city with a plot of ground adjoining (he city park on the north, purchased by tho tho chamber of commerce (o augment tho city park. I, was accepled by Mayor Frank 11. Newman. LEHI Hogs on Utah farms were osl Itnaleil, mi January 1, I92H. as numbering num-bering 9S.OU0, compared wllh 75. (WO In lUL'S noil t'.o.noo In piT. FILLMORE Total farm receipts lens lolal farm expenses on 22 farms In eastern Millard county during l!i:iS. averaged Just JTllI), according lo tho llndlngii of an economic. Hurvey of the county in.ido under hn direction of (ho extension service of the Utah Agricultural Ag-ricultural college. The report id (bo Riirvey ns to the eiinlern end of tho county has recently boon made public, from Hie olllco of Morgan P. McKay, totinty agricultural ngiuit, |