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Show News In Brief The general level of farm product prices received by farmers farm-ers in m.d-March at 103 of the 1910-14 average, was 6 points higher than a year earlier, the Agricultural Marketing Service reports. All major groups of farm commodities except grains and cotton were sold at h-.gher prices than in March, 1940. The index of prices paid, interest, inter-est, and taxes in mid-March was 128 cents of pre-war the same as Ma.ch 15, 1010. The mid-March ratio of prices received for farm products to prices paid, interest, and taxes was 80, compared with an average of 100 for the 1910-14 period. Utah has a mean average temperature tem-perature of 48 degrees Fahrenheit but the temperature varies in different parts of the state from 59 to 38 degrees. The length of the growing season between the latest killing frosts in spring and autumn is Irom 185 to 200 dajs in "Utah's Dixie"; 150 to 100 days in the principal agricultural valleys; val-leys; and 80 Vo 90 days in the higher agricultural valleys. The average growing season for the state is about 128 days, from may 20 to September 25. Placing two tomato plants in each hill gave 44 to 49 per cent reduction in curly-top damage during the past year and produced pro-duced .sufficiently greater pay for the extra plants used, the Utah Agricultural Experiment Station reports. Data obtained during the past two years indicates that hatcha-bilily hatcha-bilily of (iigs is an. inherited i-hai aeU i '.''!:(. Some of the families fam-ilies show increase in hatchabil-ily hatchabil-ily as a result of selective breed-n;;. breed-n;;. Selections have been made on a baiis of family rather than individual records, the Utah Agricultural Ag-ricultural Experiment Station reports. |