Show I 1 news notes its a privilege to live in UTAH OGDEN monday will mark the addition of the ogden airport to the fields equipped for or night landing the candle power beacon liast according to harold B tripp manager of 0 the field is expected to be ready then and placed in operation farmington sweeping alt without warning upon south farmington about 8 p m sunday a raging flood ot of water from davis creek following the channel of the disastrous deluge here a few years year 1 ago ca caused U sed C considerable 0 asid erable property damage and washed out the state highway heavy rainstorms brainstorms rain storms east of here sunday about were the probable cause ot of the hood flood LOGAN according to harry C parker cache county agricultural inspector potato and grain fields in this county on which certified crops are being grown all passed inspection of the state department of 0 agriculture during the past week the inspection was made by C S barrett who stated that the local fields were cleaner and freer of 0 disease than last year TREMONTON more than ducks have been raised in the bear river migratory bird refuge during the last year many of which have been to migrate to distant parts it was reported by david H madsen superintendent of the refuge superintendent in madsen returned to his office re cantly after having spen pen several days at the refuge he reports thousands ot of young ducks now in tho the stage a general survey was made MYTON the total precipitation according to the government registration in myton from july 1 1928 to july 1 1929 was inches while the average covering the previous ten years was inches during the past year inches tell fell during the period when it was beneficial to growing crops the temperature during the growing season of about tour four months is from 83 to degrees maximum while the minimum is from 30 to 60 50 degrees PLEASANT GROVE some boys and girls are being used in picking the string kring bean crop in this section it is an interesting sight to see each mor morning ning at four large trucks loaded to capacity with boys and girls ranging from 12 to 18 depart for tho the bean fields their chatter and song awaken residents from lehl lehi to provo the canning company furnishes transportation por tation and pays the pickers 1 I 14 1 4 cents a pound some of the best pickers can and do make 1350 a day MYTON A recent survey of dairying under the uintah irrigation project indicates that the dairy industry in the uintah basin Is increasing quite rapidly it has already been found beneficial in solving the financial problems of 0 the farmers here the survey shows that there are dairy cows on the uintah irrigation project as compared with 2815 in 1928 and 2175 in 1927 it Is found that on project land owned by whites there are 2006 dairy cows on leased land owned by indians and so on SPANISH FORK this section was visited by the heaviest rainstorm ot of the season late saturday afternoon the downpour was accompanied by a high wind which did considerable damage to ripened grain by blowing it down and making it difficult to cut the second crop of lucerne bay which was being cut was also damaged beets potatoes and many other crops however were greatly benefited by the tha storm wind put iba lighting system out ot of commission tor for a short time but it was soon repaired PROVO wool shorn from utah sheep this season amounted to pounds compared with a year ago the utah wool report issued recently by frank andrews federal agricultural statistician declares the lighter clip resulted from poorer condition of sheep cheep that were affected by a dry tall fall and long winter the report explains average weight a fleece in 1929 Is 81 pounds compared with 89 in 1928 number ot of sheep shorn this year was against last year farmington davis county has harvested practically 85 per cent of a splendid crop of apricots the fruit this year according to H P mathews district agricultural inspector has of brought an exceptionally good price some of the fruit was waa inclined to run small but of a splendid color which offset the size the size she of this fruit was due to the fact that the trees were loaded to capacity and in most cases were thinned tho the growers were pleased with such a yield after harvesting not more than a halt half crop of cherries PRICE steady and heavy rains which began early saturday afternoon and continued without appreciable interruption ter until 6 p m sunday have rendered roads in this section of utah almost impassable and a serious traffic is threatened highways covered with several inches of mud and debris and bridges weakened and washed away by floods have caused the utah state road commission to issue warning to tourists it Is believed that mall mail and other traffic out ot of price may be held up tor for at least a flay day |