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Show DEER SEASON OPEN FOR 10 DAYS; MAY KILL ONE BUCK The open season 1'or doer is Nov i 1st. to 10th., both datos inclusive. ' The limit is one buck deer with horns. . It sbpuild be remembered the law forbids for killing of fauns of either sex. Residents of Utah , only, are allowed to kill, deer in this state. The minimum penalty for killing doe's is a $200.00 fine. j j All the permitted stock have now left the Manti Forest. Cattle and ' horses from a majority of the districts dis-tricts left in fair condition, however. J pn oue or two districts they were poor. ' A majority of the Advisory ; Boards have agreed to a later open-; ing of the grazing season and to the tagging of all permitted cattle another an-other season in the hopes of improv- ; ing the condition of both stock and ranges. The officers of one association, associ-ation, only, objected to tagging their stock. In this case they felt the : cattle were too poor in the sprin? to stand the jamming necessary in tagging tag-ging The best prices received for lambs that nas come to our atfrtion was 12 cents per cwt. f. o. b Sanpete shipping points. The best prices for beeT cows was six and three-fourths weighed up at the separating corrals at Castle Dale. One permittee sold a full car load of white faced cows from the range that averaged a trifle better than 1200 pounds per head. Sheep men complain that tho losses loss-es from predatory animals have heen unusually severe during the latter part of the season. The loss of one cow is renorted from bear on the entire en-tire forest. A recent inspection on one of our planting areas shows a yellow pine to be approximately three feet in height w-'th a growth this season of nine inches. The area on wliich the tree ocuurs contains on average of two hundred living trees per acre, varying in heirht from 8 to 3fi inches. inch-es. The planting was made in 1!U3 so that nearly all trees living at the present time have a good chance to j reach maturity. I |