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Show Mews Notes a Privilege to Live in 2 I Utah i OGDEN County Agricultural Agent A. L. Christiansen announces that thirteen farmers in Ogden valley will cooperate with the county farm bureau this year in growing a. large acreage of potatoes and grain for state certification certifica-tion for seed. This is the largest num-m num-m ber of farmers yet to undertake the growing of certified seed in the valley. Utah seed, it is said, has been making larger yields than that brought in from the outside. Mr. Christiansen, District Agricultural Agent LeRoy Marsh and a committee from the farm bureau will assist the farmers. BRIGHAM CITY The contracting for beet acreage for this season iu the' Brigham and Garland districts has been begun by field men of the Utah-Idaho Utah-Idaho Sugar company. The contract as agreed upon by the beet growers' association and the sugar companies seems to be satisfactory, and the farmers, it is said, will use all available avail-able land in the growing of beets this year. VERNAL According to observations observa-tions made by the national forest service, serv-ice, the amount of snow throughout the east end of the Uintah mountain range, taken on an average, is under the amount of the corresponding period per-iod a year ago. At the end of January an average of about 14 inches was on the ground in elevations between 7000 end S000 feet, and an average of from 24 to 36 inches in elevations between 9000 and 11,000 feet. OGDEN Utah canners will paj growers approximately $2 a ton more for peas this year than they did iD 1927, it was agreed Tuesday at a meeting meet-ing of committees of the Utah Statj Farm bureau and the Utah Canners' association. ' MAGNA Aid of the county commission commis-sion in establishing a mail delivery system in Magna was sought in a pe tition received from Dr. C. F. Wastpha of Magna. According to the petition. 1 'Magna citizens are willing to compl; with postoffice regulations as to the numbering of houses and in return desire de-sire a delivery system. The matte was taken under advisement. SALT LAKE Decision to expend $250,000 in building in Salt Lake City "the finest motor park in America" on site of old Bonneville park was announced an-nounced Tuesday by John L. Reynolds, who recently purchased the baseball field. Mr. Reynolds had just completed a tour of California, Texas and Arizona, Ariz-ona, during which he made a study of i the best automobile camps in the Hire ; states. i DELTA Operating revenues of th'! Pahvant Power and Light company ol Delta for 1927, as shown by the annual an-nual statement filed with the public utilities commission, show a decrease of $2,638.80 as compared with 1921. Revenues for 1927 were $34,448.04 as compared with $37,0S6.S4 in 1926. The net income shows a loss of $1530.26. The capital stock of the company is listed at $21,127.03 OGDEN At a meeting of the Utah Canning Crops association, held in the office of the Utah State Farm bureau, arrangements were made for general meetings with the Utah Canning association, as-sociation, consisting of twelve manufacturers, manu-facturers, to set contract prices for the coming season. Two crops, peas and tomatoes, were considered. The crops association will meet with the canners at Ogden soon. ? HEBER CITY Eggs handled by the Utah State Poultry Producers' association associ-ation for 1927 showed an increase of $500'000 in value over the preceding year. During 1927 423 carloads of eggs were shipped by the association, j LOGAN Directors of the Cache county farm bureau met at the courthouse court-house recently and adopted their 1928 program, the principal features of which promise to be taxation legislation legisla-tion and wheat marketing. The bureau bu-reau will work for reclassification of property for taxation throughout the entire tax system. It was decided to form a wheat marketing local in the county to work in cooperation with the state wheat marketing association. President J. H. Schenk was in charge of the session. OGDEN Commissioner Ilarman W. Peery bewailed the fact that Ogden ws so deeply in debt when a committee commit-tee representing farmers in the northwestern north-western part of the county appeared to urge the paving of a link of highway , between Five Points and the county lii.e on the Harrisville road. OGDEN At a conference between ' a committee representing the Utah ' state farm bureau with the Utah Can- i ners' association held in the office of the canning association in the Kiesel building, it was agreed that prices of tomatoes to the canneries should remain re-main the same as last year, $11 a ton. SALT LAKE For 1927 one poultry association shipped to outside markets mar-kets a total of 1T0.000 cases of eggs, or, conn led one by one, 61,000.000 eggs. LRKiHAM CITY Field men of the Vt;th -Idaho Sugar company have begun contracting licet acreage for next 8:-a-non in this territory. The contract is UK agreed upon by the lie-t growers' unsocial ion anil the sugar companies. Orson A. ChrislonHon, field oupi-rin-tfoili-nt of the sugar company in this tlistriet. say:; that, dm- to tin- good average av-erage tonnage last yar thirteen and one-third Ion:-! per acre and the high ru-.-'i' cuit t'l. and al.io to the gen-rat Imtir'-v.ion Hint the winter has linn a favorable one, farmers are optimistic t the outlook for the next crop. |