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Show News in Brief Income of Utah sheep ranchers and wool growers will be approximately approxi-mately $15,000,000 in 1937, according accord-ing to Professor A. C. Esplin, sheep and wool specialist at the Utah State Agricultural College. The sheep and wo'l indu try furnishes about one-half of the total livestock live-stock ini-cme and approximately cne-third of the total agricultural income for the state, he said. In Utah farms under three acres have increased frcm 762 in 1925 to 1,425 in 1935. There are 7,286 farms of the 20 to 40 acre size, which is the largest acreage cla-s in the state, the nearest to it being the 50 to 90 acre class with 5,501, according accord-ing to the 1935 Lnited States Census Cen-sus of Agriculture for Utah. Weekly Week-ly News Letter. When selecting grapefruit for the table, pick out those with thin kins and balance them individually individual-ly in ycur hand. You will find that the fruit which is heavy fcr its size usually has the mcst juice. Stroked. cued meat will have a brighter color and a milder flavor if it is :"r.'hened in cold water before be-fore smoking. In feeding chickens and turkeys fcr market, it i- advisable to eliminate elim-inate fish meal and cod-licr cil from fe:d durin? the last few weeks to avtid fishy taste and cdor in the meat, eay poultry nutrition specialists. j (- j There are 211,708 cews and heifers heif-ers iwo years and over in Utah as j compartd to 192.922 in 1930. accord- ' in? to the United States Census j fcr Agriculture. "From July 1 to Nrvember 30, 1 1936. tctal exports of farm prcd- J ucts we.e valued at $343.9C8.00O", J sa. s Foreign Crops and Markets, bi-monthly publication of the Bu- r'-.tu cf A?rrjj)tural E moir.e" , "Thie represented a decrease cf 9 1 per cent in comparison with th same 5 months of 1935 when the export value steod at $379,355,000. The volume index for the July-November July-November period wras 55 per cent of the pre-war level as against 64 last season, representing a decline of 14 per cent." . A federal egg purchase prcgram, designed to remove surplus eggs from the market and to distribute them through relief channels, and also to encourage the hatching of a normal number of chickens for the current season, was recently approved by Secretary cf Agriculture Agricul-ture Henry A. Wallace The purcha-e program has been ineugurat"d because of an unusually unus-ually sharp drop in recent weeks in the wholesale and farm price of esgs. The wholesale price of eggs at New York City dropped from a Yiph point of 43 cents a dozen) in Ncvember to about 28 cents a dozen in early January, and1 it is e timated that there has been a similar decline in farm prices of eggs. An item of interest during 1936 has been the irmoort situation. Imports Im-ports of butter duririg the first ten mrnths of 1936 were 7 358.000 pound0, compared with 22,057 000 poundis during the corre-ponding p-ri-d of 1935. Cheese imports in the same two periods were 47.739,000 pounds, and 40,032,000 pounds, respectively. re-spectively. Imports of dry skiini milk frrm Janvinrv to October, in- clu;ive, were 1S.869.0C0 pound'7 in 1936 compared with 4,600 pounds in 1933. Casein imports this year were 17.754.000 pounds, and 1 .511,000 p.unds last year. . "Impoverishment of rural families famil-ies must be fcught with common eii;e. The situation must be corrected by starting at the ground and attempting to reconstruct the basis of individual capitalism which has beer undermined by depressin; foices." Secretary of ' Agriculture Henry A. Wallace. (. That farm mortgage loans made by the Federal Land Banks and the Land Bank Commissioner in 193" were lesr than one half cf the 1935 volume is interpreted by Governor Gov-ernor W. I. Myers cf the Farm Credit Adminbtratoin as reflecting the continued decrease in emergency emerg-ency refinancing and less pressure by other creditors for liquidation. An analysis of the .1936 history of this gTeat cooperative credit institution insti-tution for agriculture shows upturns up-turns in cash financing of crop and livestock production, however, according to the statement of the Governor. |