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Show GRAIN SEEDING MOUTHED Threshing and Potato Digging Hampered by Wet Weather Grain seeding and potato digging arc nearlj completed. although tbr. shlng and beet handling have progressed pro-gressed but slowly because of wet weather, according tp the weekly weather, crop and range report, Issued yesterday by J f'ecil Alter, in charge of the Salt Lake office of the United States weather bureau. Thi- report follows: Additional rain and snow over murh of the state this week have further fur-ther retarded sugar boot pulling and hauling, potato digging, fall grain seeding, the threshing and beet handling han-dling have progressed slowly, and potato po-tato .Urging and grain seeding are nearly Completed, Tho storm Is proving prov-ing beneficial to the livestock Interests as moisture Is ample, and the fall grasses are still fresh In places. Sheep have gone more generally to the more, distant winter ranges. Cattle are doling do-ling well in the form pastures. Some jsllagr was stored it Richmond, but1 beet hauling has boon difficult, The beet harvest has been delayed at Ogden, hut It Is about half done.! land conditions are Improving Threeh-j I Ing has been delayed ,.t Deseret and farmers are becoming anxious about the alfalfa chaff for feed Winter' (wheat Is still growing it Mantl and its very promising; potatoes are mostly most-ly gathered, but a large acreage of1 I beets Is st ill out. Sheep are mov ing, j toward Nevada from Modena, and the1 .local prospects on the open range at WidtflOe are fair. The winter wheat1 land tin.- alfalfa pastures are excellent it Kanab. "Highways Logan: Paved and graded, good, cross-roads, bad Og-1 den: Main highways good, others poor Morgan. Main line .'oil, un-1 graded side roads, soft. Castle Hock ' Poor Tooeh Where graveled, good. ProvO! Poor, but drying. Levari: Graveled, cood, others muddy but Improving. Im-proving. losoret" Very bad, not j Worked. Cedar City: Excellent, now dry Thistle Poor Mantl: Storms' ttnd dragging beneficial Richfield 1 Hough from storms and heavy hauling, haul-ing, surface soft. Price: Very bad; Willow ('reek almost Impassable, stopping stop-ping some mall cars. Qreenriver Now fair." nn |