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Show j News Notes j l It'" Privilege to Live in Utah Logan For the purpose of stini lating Interest among cattle breed of the state to insure the entrance"8 a Utah Btate herd In the Pacific l' ternational livestock exhibition f" Portland this fall, Earl J. Cooper 'd rector of the extension service of'th Holstein-Friesian Association of Am ica, and R. E. Everley, field kZ the association for the northwest n Tuesday afternoon with members16! the Utah State Holstein Breeder's sociation at the Logan chamber commerce. Salt Lake City. John f. Oldrovd executive secretary of the state land board, returned Tuesday from a trl to southern Utah. While in Piute he met with the commissioners of thai county regarding the taxes on proper ties taken over by the board on fore closure proceedings. Recent rains are general throughout the state, Mr. old-royd old-royd reported, but in some places they are too late to do much good, in gfr vier county the beet crop is a failure, he declared, and the estimated loss on beets there this year is placed al $300,000. . Ogden. The grass cattle movement was begun at the Ogden Union Stockyards Stock-yards Monday with 535 cattle offered for sale. Prices generally were good and offerings found good demand. Salt Lake City. With a radius ol ISO degrees and a power of 450,000,000 candles, the new B. B. T. French light has been installed at Woodward land-ing land-ing field for mail aviators who maj arrive in Salt Lake at night. It's the farthest west light of its kind, the first having been tried out in Nen York. Others will be installed on the air mail circuit between here and San Francisco. Ogden. The 1926 pea crop of Utah was approximately -65 per cent of last year's pack, according to Utah canners who, with perhaps one exception, finished fin-ished packing Tuesday. The lighter crop this year is a natural result ol an unusually big crop last year, being somewhat below normal. Growing Growing conditions and lack of water are Responsible for the lesser cro this year. Salt Lake City.- Tourist camps throughout the stae are exceptionallj well kept, according to L. H. Male, sanitation engineer ' with the state board of health, who has just returned from an inspection trip of sanitary conditions through southern Utah. Mr. Male left Salt Lake May 26 and returned re-turned last week, jubliant over prospects pros-pects in the state. Brigham City. Following a thorough thor-ough inspection of the peach outlook situation in Utah this season, David F. Smith, chairman of the state board of agriculture and manager of the Growers' exchange, makes these observation: obser-vation: "The quality of Utah peaches this year promises to be large and extra ex-tra fine in every way. We are quite sure that the estimated yield as has been published is more than true. Salt Lake City. Utah has an opportunity oppor-tunity to outdistance Ohio, leading cattle state in the Union, in the opinion opin-ion of George D. Deyo of Urbana, Ohio, who has been importing large consignments of Jerseys into Utah this summer. Mr. Deyo makes this prediction after a study of conditions in Utah, which he says, are far more favorable to efficient dairying and dairy breeding than are conditions in Ohio. He says: "The high altitude in Utah makes for quick heart action and a faster blood flow which produces pro-duces more milk. ' Utah produces the best alfalfa hay known. Roosevelt. Second crop alfalfa seed is rapidly going into the burr, and this fact in pleasing the farmers, because be-cause cutting the first crop and making mak-ing seed out of the second crop 8 rather new in the Uintah basin. It h too early to make comparisons with last year, but present indications seem favorable. Price H. S. Kerr, assistant chief engineer of the state road commission and Engineer J. S. Young of the Cm-ted Cm-ted States bureau of public roads completed com-pleted an inspection of the survey made on the Castlegate-Nolan federal aid project, and left for Salt Lake City recently. Salt Lake City. An unusual development devel-opment came to the hog market Thursday Thurs-day when three carloads of hogs were sold on the market at the Salt Lake union stockyards for $1.75 higher than the top price for the day at Omaha. This lot, all from the corn belt, re sold to a coast packing compaW through a local commission compaW for $14.75 a hundredweight. One ed car was sold at $14 top viA u over prime heavies in this lot S01 for $12. Grantsville. The Grantsville bors purebred Hampshire Sheep club hold its first annual show at Gram ville Saturday, September 4, it was nounced Tuesday by J. L. rat!l and John T. Flinders, Grants business men instrumental in sponsi ing the club. The gentlemen canie Salt Lake to extend an invitation the livestock and agricultural coning tees of the Salt Lake Chamber of morce and to other agencies in "'j interested in boosting practioa' work nmong high school stuH'nt-' |