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Show Intermountain News Briefly Told for Busy Readers OPEN SPARROW WAR. BANNER WHEAT CROP. A CLEAN SEED DRIVE. DAIRY CHIEF ARRIVES. STUDY FORECLOSURES. TWIN FALLS, IDA. narvey Hale, Twin Falls county agent, has launched the annual fight against sparrows by providing a quantity of poison which is being distributed to the farmers to be mixed with grain. RICHFIELD, UT. The Sevier county thresher's report for 1932, as submitted by County Agent S. R. Boswell, shows that the total grain and seed threshed last year was 82.042 bushels in excess of the amount threshed in this couuly for the peak year, of the last six years. BEAVER, UT. Beaver valley dairymen have had another jolt with butter fat taking another drop. The price has reached the low margin mar-gin of thirteen cents. GUNNISON, UT. A campaign to interest farmers in the use of clean seed is being waged in the territory covered by Clinton Kjar, inspector for Sanpete, Wayne, Sevier, and Piute counties. All seed dealers are being solicited for cooperation. LOGAN, UT. Roy C. Jones, extension ex-tension dairyman in charge of the western section, United States de. partment of agriculture, has arrived in Utah to discuss breeding of dairy cattle with farmers of Utah, Salt Lake, Tooele, Davis, Weber, Cache , and Box Elder counties. IDAHO FALLS, IDA. Hope was held by sugar manufacturing companies com-panies of Utah and Idaho, that 19-33 19-33 sugar beet contracts would be drawn at a special committee meeting meet-ing late this month. A previous meet of delegates and company representatives rep-resentatives failed to result in agreement on prices. BURLEY, IDA. Seven prominent promi-nent Minidoka project farmers have been chosen to act as an executive committee to investigate pending mortgage foreclosures. IDAHO FALLS, IDA. Abuses of cash relief measures have forced Bonneville county relief council to order that only merchandise be distributed dis-tributed to the needy, Sylvia Olsen, secretary, announced. BOISE, IDA. Approximately two million dollars less was received by Idaho dairymen for their raw products pro-ducts in 1932 than in 1931, it was revealed in a report by the state bureau of dairying. LOGAN, UT In marked contrast to the past several years when several deaths have been reported from the dread spinal meningitis, not a case of the disease has occurred occur-red in Logan this winter, according to the health report of the city. PROVO, UT. A hospital survey to determine the need of a new hospital hos-pital in Provo will be undertaken here soon under the direction of Dr. L. W. Oaks, chairman of the hospital hospi-tal committee of the Provo chamber of commerce. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. The poultrymen of this region will be able to borrow federal funds to finance fi-nance the purchase and raising of . baby chicks through the Poultry Finance Corporation of Utah. PROVO, UT. Preparation for marriage will be studied as one of the functions of the family in a new class, "Family Relationships." which will be taught in the spring quarter at Brigham Young university, beginning begin-ning March 20th, announces Prof. E. Warnick, home economist, who will teach the course. TWIN FALLS, IDA. Approximately Approxi-mately $40,000 will be spent by the Amalgamated Sugar company for improvements to its Twin Falls plant, and probably a greater amount will be spent on the Burley plant in the near future. TWIN FALLS, IDA. Regular trips between Arkansas and Idaho by motor truck are planned by Jud-son Jud-son . Davis of Walnut Ridge, Ark., who seeks to exchange Arkansas rice for Idaho beans. The man arrived ar-rived here recently with 10,000 pounds of rice and exchanged it for an equal amount of Idaho beans. SHERIDAN, WYO. A Sheridan ranch recently shipped 369 silver foxes, valued at between $35,000 and $40,000 to Hackensack, Minn., where they will be fed for priming before being pelted. PRICE, UT. Twenty-three bands, Including two from Colorado, have registered for the third annual in-termountain in-termountain band tournament here April 6, 7 and 8. STANDARD VILLE, UT. Florence Flor-ence Olson, 17, daughter of Robert and Christina Olson, died of a fractured frac-tured skull suffered in a coasting accident here. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Calci-nm Calci-nm phosphate deposits covering thousands of acres in Utah along with those of two adjoining states, are so abundant that they can furnish the nation with phosphate fertilizer for centuries to come af- ter the deposits in Florida, South Carolina and Tennessee are depleted, deplet-ed, according to the report of the president's research committee on social trends, just made public. Calcium Cal-cium phosphate deposits in Utah and vicinity amount to probably 12,000,000,000 tons, the report states. |