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Show : News Notes j i lt' a Privilege to Live in Utah LOGAN A herd of Holstelns will be shipped from Utah to the Portland Livestock Bhow about October 25, according ac-cording to H. P. Anderson, secretary of the Holatein-Friesian association. The herd will consist of twelve animals, ani-mals, four of which will be chosen from Cache valley farms, while the remainder will come from Weber, Salt Lake and Millard counties. The herd will be assembled at the Cache county coun-ty fairgrounds prior to shipping. PRICE! Wellington, a town six I miles east of Price, is held In the grip of a typhoid epidemic. More than fifty cases are reported In the neighborhood. neigh-borhood. It is the opinion of medical men here who have looked Into the spread of the disease that it has perhaps per-haps been caused by the unavailability unavail-ability of the water supply, dae to the washout of the flume at Gordon creek. The water supply of most of the farms east of Price in the valley has been affected since that time. CEDAR CITY Official ceremony fox the laying of the cornerstone of the new gymnasium at tne Branch Agricultural college will he held Friday, Fri-day, October 28. The events will begin with a student tody meeting at 1 o'clock, followed by a general assembly as-sembly at 2, to which the public will be invited. Immediately following the general assembly the cornerstone will be laid. . LEHI Establishment of an ornamental orna-mental tile industry in Salt Lake, the first of itB kind in the state, looms as a probability as the result of experiments experi-ments now being carried on here by C. M. Wheeler, formerly of the Heinz Roofing Tile company of Denver. Although Al-though it cannot be said definitely as yet whether Utah clay is suitable for making high grade ornamental tile, Mr. Wheeler says his experiments have so far been very promising. He is experimenting at the plant of the Salt Lake Pressed Brick company with a clay of unusual excellence obtained west of Lehl in Utah county. MYTON the favorable weather conditions for the past two weeks have proved beneficial to the farmers who raise alfalfa seed. Threshing machines have been busy and the seed plants in Myton are beginning to fill up. The Uintah Basin Seed Growers' association plant Monday had received 1200 sacks of this season's sea-son's crop, and the plant is running nine hours a day cleaning seed. AMERICAN FORK John E. Berg and W. C. Berg and W. C. Moley, sheepmen of American Fork, topped the market at the Chicago stockyards Thursday, when they marketed seven double-decked carloads of lambs. The lambs brought $14.15 per hundred pounds. The lambs will be used by the Kentucky Agricultural college, which is conducting an experiment in fatening western blackface lambs in the Blue Grass state. The American Fork men will remain In Chicago for another week to dispose of ten additional addi-tional carloads of lambs. LOGAN Nearly 200 carloads of potatoes po-tatoes will be shipped out of Cache county this season, according to Harry C. Parker, county crop and peBt Inspector. In-spector. At present about twenty carloads are leaving each week. During Dur-ing the past two weeks twenty-two carloads of federal inspected U. S. grade No. 1 potatoes have been marketed, mar-keted, and another twenty carloadB of commercial pack have left the country. PROVO Utah will produce approximately approx-imately 10 per cent more turkeys thl year than last according to Albertus Willardsen, vice president of the Utah State Poultry Producers' Cooperative association. This year's crop will bring Utah farmers about $200,000, Mr. Willardsen says, which is larger than was realized last year, due to increased production and the fact that the birds this season are in much better conditions. VERNAL The Peppard Seed company, com-pany, local buyer, has announced the following opening quotations on Its board for alfalfa seed: No. 1 $14.50 per hundred pounds; No. 2, $13; No. 3, $11; No. 4, $8.50 A premium of 5 per cent over the price offered for No. 1. Uintah county will this year harvest a fair crop of fairly good quality alfalfa seed. MYTON Myton plant of the Uintah Uin-tah Basin Seedgrowers'association has been incorporated and a call Issued for growers to exchange their certificates certi-ficates for shares in the company. The last fiscal year, according to a report issued, shows a net profit above all expenses of $2800. The new modern gravity cleaner will soon be installed. The committee on incorporation comprizes com-prizes WPlt'im Michael, George E. Howells, C. A. Larsen, William Zowe and N. L. Peterson. MYTON A force of men is at work on the bridge across the Duchesne river near Mytou. The bridge will be raised the same as on the north side. It will also be given a couple of coata of paint, and the base of the bridge will be cemented. LAYTON Green tomatoes hav proved the best crop this season so far for the local farmers. More than ninety cars have been shipped to eastern and southern points, one car going as far as Canada. Raising grr-en tomatoes is one of th largea' industries In the country. |