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Show iNews Notes It' i a Privilege to Liv in 2 Utah RICHFIELD Three million and a half fish eggs are hatched each year at the Glenwood fish hatcheryi second in size, to the Springville fish culture plant, and, perhaps, the most important impor-tant in the state of Utah. LOGAN Although threatening storms began to appear here recently, the second day of "the annual three-day three-day Cache county fair, continued un- i abated amid great success. Thousands of visitors from all sections of north- ' ern Utah poured through the gates I throughout the entire day. ! HEBER CITY Many Utah sheepmen sheep-men have suffered large losses to their flocks which have been grazing on the 1 Caribou forest in southeastern Idaho clue to lupine poisoning, according to information received by E. C. Shepard, j supervisor of the Wasatch national forest. LOGAN To bring a cash return above feed costs of an average of ?121.62 each is the record made by 4E4 cows of Lewiston Cornish Dairy Improvement Im-provement association for 1927-28, according ac-cording to a special government release re-lease just received by Director William Peterson of the Utah Agricultural college extension service. GUNNISON Cauliflower shipments ship-ments from the Clarion-West View section, west of Gunnison, are reaching reach-ing their peak and this week an average aver-age of five to six carloads daily are expected to roll. Up to last Wednesday Wed-nesday forty cars had moved and three and four carloads a day were S'ent out at the close of the week. FILLMORE Ifce first coaching school ever staged in region six will be held in Fillmore, soon according to an announcement made by C. Oren Wilson, along with E. Allan Bateman, will conduct the school here, and a record attendance from the region is anticipated. The football schedule for the season will be drawn up at this meeting. SALINA A lease on 1080 acres ol coal land was granted to R. M. Jensen by the United States land office, Eli F. Taylor register, announces. The land is located in Salina canyon. Under Un-der the agreement with the government govern-ment $75,000 in the next three years an show an output of 30,000 tons annually an-nually beginning the fourth year. He also will pay the government a bonus of 10 cents a ton on coal produced. pro-duced. PROVO Over twenty carloads of onions are being shipped daily out of Utah county, according to H. V. Swen-son, Swen-son, Utah-county agricultural inspector. inspec-tor. The onions this year are of a general better quality and, due to the dry weather, farmers are able to cure them better this season than last. The price for the product is also much better than last year and the growers are expecting a very successful sea- 6011. RICHFIELD According to cattle raisers of this section it is becoming increasingly important to place the industry on a higher plane and with proper methods employed it should be possible to vastly increase the annual beef production and raise the industry indus-try to the place it should occupy as one of the most important means of subsistence. Of the many problems confronting the industry, in a local sense, is that of an increased calf crop. BEAVER In quantity almost universally, uni-versally, and in some of the departments depart-ments in quantity, as well the Beaver county fair, which closed here recently, surpassed previous exhibits. The statement applies alike to exhibits and amusement features. The latter was headlined by a rodeo, for which wild horses had been assembled off' the range last spring, and kept on good pasture land ever since so that the animals ani-mals were in fine fettle and excellent fighting condition. COALVILLE Working an average force of 200 men and 38 head of stock together with trucks, tractors and steam Shovels, the forces of A. Guthrie Guth-rie and company, incorporated contractors contrac-tors on the construction of Ech dam, continued work during August on the excavation of the core trench, placing of gravel and cobbles in the dam, placing plac-ing of concrete in the corewall and trash rack, the placing of the concrete lining in the outlet tunnel and rock excavation in the spillway and outlet channel. BRIGHAM CITY An army of turkeys,, rushed to the battlefield in motor trucks, has exterminated a devastating dev-astating hordes of grasshoppers on an eighty-acre pet.ch orchard near here. Advancing from the west, the hoppers were systematically eating up . the j peaches on the trees in the orchard of Dr. A. D. Cooley. Liberated from j the trucks, the turkeys marched up one row and down another, devouring the insects as they went. Within a few clays they had routed the enemy and were taken to another orchard near j by and later to a grain field, where they continued their campaign. MYTON Heavy winds rather than frost, appear to have caused most of what damage occurred to the alfalfa seed growers of this portion of the j Uintah basin during the recent cold snap. What frost there was was only lig-ht, and no damage from that source has been reported. Some of the growers grow-ers had already threshed their seed and delivered it to the seed plants in Myton before the cold snap occurred. The second crop seed appears in good shape, according U growers, and with a week or two of warm weather a cod liderable portion of it will mature. |