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Show NEWS IN BRIEF The volume of cooperative sales of livestock in Utah increased 550 per cent in the 1935-36 marketing period in comparison with 1934-35, according to the cooperative division divi-sion of the Farm Credit Administra- I tion. Higher livestock price levels were primarily responsible for this increase. Utah has two farmers' livestock marketing associations with headquarters head-quarters within the state. The mem- bership of these agencies amounts to approximately 1000 livestock men. During the 1935-36 marketing period, per-iod, the sales of these organizations amounted to $3,380,000 as against $600,000 in 1934-35. It is estimated that from Utah's 36,000 acres of sugar beets, 504,000 tons will be harvested this fall. That means an average of 14 tons to the acre. Economists say that the first 10 tons taken from each acre must be allowed for the expense of rais ing and marketing the crop. At that rate about 144,000 tons will" be left for the profit side of the ledger. Utah's range program as outlined by the agricultural adjustment administration, ad-ministration, will be under the supervision su-pervision of the extension service of the Utah State Agricultural college. col-lege. Only private lands are affected af-fected but this involves about 5,000,-000 5,000,-000 acres of country, according to Director William Peterson. A final payment for sugar beet growers who signed to control the 1935 crop under the specifications of the AAA, will be made in the near future, judging from reports from Washington, D. C. How much that payment will be and when it will be made has not been announced. So far the growers have received 80 cents per ton on their anticipated crop estimates. Now compliance blanks are being filled in by the farmers and when they have been checked at the national capitol pay envelopes will, no doubt, start to come Into the state. The September forecast made by the U. S. D. A. for all hay production produc-tion in Utah for this year is set at 1,139,000 tons as compared with 953,000 tons for 1935. Cash receipts from the sale of principal farm products in Utah rose from $25,165,000 in 1932 to $36,-635,000 $36,-635,000 in 1935, including $3,239,000 in rental and benefit payments. This is an increase of 46 per cent. Cash receipts constitute about 97 per cent of the total cash income from farm production in Utah. n |