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Show News Notes It's a Privilege to Live In I UTAH HEBER CITY Hay production in Utah last year reached 1,500.000 tons and brought $17,3S0,00O on the markets. DUCHESNE Utah growers produced pro-duced 522,000 bushels of corn on 18,000 acres last year. The crop was valued at $626,000. LOGAN The agricultural experl- I rnent station of the Utah State Ag- ' ricultural college has just Issued I a new booklet on the domestic I slaughtering, cutting, and curing of pork, known as Circular 80. i MT. PLEASANT The testing of ; dairy cattle for tuberculosis has ; been completed in Indlanola, Mil- ' burn, Fairview and Mt Pleasant, i this work having begun on October 21. This week the government and state men are testing at Spring City, Moroni, Ft. Green, Freedom and Chester. GARLAND Five times the amount of celery shipped from Garland Gar-land and Tremonton districts last year Is expected to go out to the markets this fall, it was announced by Leonard S. Fenn, supervising instructor in-structor ot the Federal State Market Mar-ket News service, who returned from a tour of inspection. LOGAN Five hundred acre-feet of water under the United States reclamation project will be taken by the city of Smithfleld. This was the statement of Mayor J. W. Klrk-bride Klrk-bride ot that city at a meeting held recently to discuss the situation of that section. The city stated that it was ready to subscribe for the amount and also favored the project PROVO Every citizen of Provo is urged to send a carton of celery to at least one out-of-state friend during celery week, November 17 to 23, according to the celery committee com-mittee of the Provo chamber of commerce, which held a meeting recently re-cently at the local chamber offices for the purpose of discussing plans tor the distribution of Utah's favorite fa-vorite crop. OGDEN The Amalgamated Sugar Su-gar company, on November 15, will pay beet growers supplying its six factories $2,300,000, it was announced an-nounced at the company's offices here today. Of this amount $250,-000 $250,-000 will be paid out in Weber county coun-ty on account of the Ogden plant, about $S50.000 in Cache valley BRIGHAM CITY H. E. Rede-lings Rede-lings of Corrine give3 the following follow-ing figures taken from his record kept on 330 laying pullets for a J period from October 1, 192S, to September Sep-tember 30, 1929. During this period per-iod these pullets laid a total of 67.2S2 eggs, not counting the eggs used In the home. The total revenue re-venue from e0gs sold was $1591. 3S; expense, $570.17, majdng a total net gain of $1012.21. LEHI In payment for 550,000 tons of sugar beets which have Been delivered to various factories of the Utah-Idaho Sugar company during October, that company will mail checks to farmers November 15, aggregating $1,063,000, It was bnnounced from offices In Salt Lake. The checks will be sent to farmers of Utah, Idaho, Montana, Dakota, Washington and Alberta, Canada. Payment for beets received re-ceived during this month will be dispatched Dec. 15. OGDEN Completion of Improvements Improve-ments on the road from Ogden to Evanston mnrks one unit of the $3,000,000 construction, Improvement Improve-ment and maintenance program outlined by the state highway department de-partment for 1930. Chief Engineer Engin-eer H. S. Kerr and his assistant K. C. Wright, completed formal arrangements ar-rangements with several counties recently In regard to the coming program and have negotiated under way with many other counties of the state. PROVO Although the apple and peach shipment from Utah county this year are far below the totals for last year, tho tolal amount of fruit, vegetables and farm produce to be shipped out of tho county (luring (lur-ing the present year are expected to exceed last year's record shipment, ship-ment, necordlng to present In di- j cations, declares II. V. Swenson, j district Inspector. The present total to-tal of shipments la 485 cars of fruit, vegetables and produce against 6-9 for lart year, but, with a great many more cars of potatoes, onions, celery nnd ciibbago practically prac-tically ready to bo shipped, the total for hist year Is expected to bo greatly exceeded. j PROVO With over 75 per cent 1 Of the season's sugar beet crop liar- j vested Indications point to one of i tho largest yields In tho history of j this country, according to Victor , Anderson, Held man for tho I'l nil-Idaho nil-Idaho Sugar company, lleelgrow- ers aro well sallsfied wllh the ex- 1 cellent crop, which Indicates tha ' passing of a "lean" period In tho culture of heels In this territory. A check-up of the loading (lumps rovcnls a possibility of better thnn a 15-ton averago per acre from the Trovo district, a yield which Is cou- I sidured oxcuptlotuiL |