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Show I News Notes I It't a PriviUge to Liv in ', Utah j KAYSVILXE One of he greatest opportunities ifi the country it offered la Utah, Davia, Weher and Salt Lake counties to strawberry raisers. These two products are used extensively for canning: factories and "cold pack." Utah berries are considered especially fine for these uses. VERNAL-Early Saturday morning: a frost visited part of Ashley valley. At the official government weather obserVyser's station, located a mile southwest of the center of Vernal, the thermometer registered low point at 33 above zero, one degree above freezing. freez-ing. GUNNISON Fifteen hundred baby turkeys, the first consignment nf 4000, were received here this week by Byard Tuft, who is embarking in one of the largest undertakings of this kind ever started in the valley. The first consignment con-signment will be followed with regular shipments until the total number is reached. MT. PLEASANT The third annual community fair of Mount Pleasant will be held September 8, according to the committee in charge. The committee com-mittee includes A. E. Darley, local Smith-Hughe high school agricultural agricultur-al teacher, chairman; Art Frandsen of the local Lions club; A. F. Reynolds, Rey-nolds, president, and George C. Sor-ensen, Sor-ensen, secretary of the local farm bureau, and Mrs. S. D. Longsdorf, chairman of the civic lague committee. PROVO Utah's second cherry special spe-cial of the season consisting of six cars, left recently on the Dnver & Rio Grande Western, bound for eastern eas-tern markets and high returns for the state's growers. The third special of seven cars, some of them carrying apricots,' will leave soon, according to A. J. Cronin, freight agent for the D. & R, G. W. at Salt Lake. Enough cherries and apricots will be abtain-able abtain-able before the week isr out for 25 more cars. CEDAR CITY-Four loads of Ram-bouillets Ram-bouillets from Parowan were shipped to Ozone, Tex., recently. Wilford Day and Milo Marsden, who accompanied them, reported that one of the Day Farms company rams topped the sale there at $325, and J. K. Madsen was a close contender for first honors with one selling at $310 and several at $300. Range rams were high sellers. Half a dozen carloads will be shipped from Parowan within te next few days. . , BRIGHAM CITY Enjoy peach days as Brigham City on Friday and Saturday, September 14 and 15," are the magic words of the advertising for Boxelder county's celebration this year. An intensive advertising campaign cam-paign will be waged from now until the peach festival. The attractive fruit display of last year promises to be outdone in 1928 by Carl Frischknecht and his associates, the decorative designs de-signs to be outlines and directed by William C. Horsley. The ' Smith-Hughes Smith-Hughes exhibit will supplemnt the main horticultural displays. TREMONTON The cannery here has opened full blast with 120 operatives, opera-tives, and the expectation of canning the largest crop of peas that has been grown in this valley since the Rocky Mountain Packing corporation installed install-ed its plant here. From sunrise until near dark, there has been for the past day or two a steady stream of trucks, loaded with peas, traversing all roads leading to Tremonton, with the cannery can-nery as their destination. The plant according to Superintendent Wads-worth, Wads-worth, will be operated night and day, with two shifts of 11 hours each until the close of the season. SALT LAKE An increase of car loadings on the Oregon Short Line during the year of more than 20,000 cars over the same period of 1927 is shown by a report isued recently by J. L. Amos, assistant traffic manager of the Union Pacific system at Salt Lake. From January 1 to June 30, this road loaded 107,105 cars of freight, compared with 87,057 during the same six months of last year, according to the report On the Salt Lake division of the Los Angeles & Salt Lake railroad, rail-road, a slight increase was also shown. During the 1928 period '17,140 cars were loaded, while the comparative figure for 1927 is 17,121 cars. BOUNTIFUL Pork will be in Utah this year, judging from the results nf thp TTnited Ktat.ps deDartment of agriculture pig survey for the first six months of 1928, released Monday by W. A. Peterson, at the local offices. of-fices. The report, shows a 13.4 per cent gain in the number of pigs saved this year as compared with 1927 The number of sows- farrowed this spring shows a 12 per cent increase as compared with spring of last year. There is also an increase in the number num-ber of swine over the six months period. per-iod. An average of 6.1 pigs per litter were saved in the spring of 1928, the MILLS-Ioe Nevile and Tom Hill have just returned from Mills, Utah, where they planted some fingerling rainbow trout in a stream running through a portion of the Salt Lake Union Pacific Athletic club grounds. They found many young ducks, which assures better hunting this year than ever before. The club has spent considerable con-siderable money this year on its hunting hunt-ing and fishing grounds for duck feed. W. E. Snader of Mills, who is looking after the interests of the club, sayf the deer in the mountains nearby are more numerous than ever. |