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Show Winter Weallier Slows I Up Utah Farm Work There will be but little more farm! work throughout the state this year s.iys the weekly report of J Cecil Alter, Al-ter, state meteorologist, which follows: Wintry weahtre Is BTowly terminating terminat-ing farm work over the state, though some plowing is .till 1.,-ing done, and there are many threshing machines ! lusy. Fall sown grain is. going into: the winter In fine condition, and the. Winter livestock ranges generally of-1 fer an abundance of feed. Light precl-M Ipitation this week, mostly snpW wafl 1 fairly general over the sLite. affording :imple moisture for stock on most ofji the desert ranges; though In 'h"? southern counties and on the adjacent; Arizona strip, moisture supplies are scarce, limiting the range considerably; considerab-ly; otherwise, cattle and sheep are do-! ing well, Kami work has stopped at; Levan, the ground being frozen and! under two Inches of snow Five inches of snow fell t Kanosh, and the j ground has frozen considerably, though some plowing is done In the ' ai"terncoi..v Sniiu is ample ln the hills I for t4oek at Ulaok Koek, and tin-J tin-J range feed has Improved at Mllford. Graalng is unsatisfactory around Mo-dona Mo-dona because of moisture shortage, wheh necesstates driving stock to I water; these conditions with the un-j 1 usual weather have been extra hard Ion stock. SnOw is. one inch deep at Manti, Stock in Carbon county is 1 in excellent condition, the ranges belni open and feed plentiful! some sugar bipcts are still in the field. Grain h8 been threshed and much plowing donel ;al islanding, though alfalfa sec.! i.s Bill in the stack. Highways Kelton, medium: Tooele, to Graihtsville, good. Salt Lake City.' j fair, Cii-ants tile, dry but rough. . ri. good Kanosh. fairly good: Lev- teret. fair, being Improved; Modena, I k I; St George; good; Hiawatha. fine, being worked; Castle Dale, excellent; excel-lent; Lnvry, getting rough and dusty; Duchesne, fine; Moab. good 00 |