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Show II News Notes It't a Privilege to Liu in X Utah ' UTAH More than 500 buck doer will have been killed in Utah this year by the close of the season, it was estimated recently by J. Arthur Me-chani, Me-chani, state fish and game commissioner. commis-sioner. MAGNA Salt lake county heads all counties in the state in number of producing- mines, tons of ore treated, treat-ed, production of gokl, copper, lead und zinc, 's third in production of silver, sil-ver, and leads in value of all minerals. miner-als. EPIIRAIN Snow and mud conditions con-ditions have been responsible for the closing- of the Ephrain-Orangcville road connection between Sanpete and Emery counties, it was announced recently re-cently at the offices of the state road commission. TROVO Fruit and vegetable growers- of Utah county have had one of the best years this reason in the history of the county, according- to local agricultural officers, and more fruit and vegetables have been graded nnd shipped this year than ever before. be-fore. LOGAN Farmers of Duchesne county are converted to the dairy I business, according to W. V. Owens, state county gent leader, who just returned from Duchesne and Uintah Uin-tah counties, where he made investigations inves-tigations of the agriultural needs before be-fore selecting a county agent fo:' Duchesne. PRICE The beet harvest of thu Carbon county farm lands is about half, completed, according- to an announcement an-nouncement recently by. Orson P Madsen, county agricultural agent. The beets this season are yielding about one-third higher per acre than in 1927, and the quality is better than in any previous year. SALT LAKE General market tendencies ten-dencies for turkeys at Thanksgiving suggest that prices will be about the same as last year, possibly a little lower, it was announced recently by Claude C. Edumunds, manager of the Utah Poultry Producers Coonerative cssociation. Prices paid last Thanksgiving Thanks-giving ranged from 38 to 40 cents pound. PROVO Ins-pectors of the California Cali-fornia department of agriculture have been instructc1 to refuse admittance to that stae of any shipments of fruit from Utah in which any hay or straw contamination is found, according- to a iet.er received recently by Dr. F. E. Stephens, Utah state inspector of r.ricu!t urc, from A. C Fieu-y, supervising- o.uarantine officer for Cali-f Cali-f ornir-.. PRICE "lore than 400 ho-rs on the ranch of R. L. Lisorbee, in the Nine-Mile section of Carbon county, have dind of cholera recently, it w?.s , revealed by Orson P. Madsen, ciis- I trict agricultural director, who returned re-turned to Trice recently from a trip into in-to that reion. Approximately 100 more head are afflicted with the disease, according to the agricultural director. SALT LAKE Expenses of the state in October amounted to $751,-62S.34, $751,-62S.34, according- to the monthly report re-port of John Walker, state treasurer, made public recently. The report shows a balance on hand October 1 of $1,148,077.53. The receipts wera $1,023,477.98, making- a total of 512,-173,477.51. 512,-173,477.51. The balance on hand October 31 was $1,421,597.17. The sa'e of cigaret stamps during the month wns $12,235.83. LOGAN Results of a recent eco-noir eco-noir ic survey of Utah's apnle industry indus-try was discussed by W. P. Thmas, the Bluebird, before the firs-t regular monthly meeting of the Utah Agri-cgricultural Agri-cgricultural ecomonist, recently, at cultural experiment station staff, according ac-cording to nn announcement by the program committee, including- George D. Clyde, F. B. Vann, D. W. Pitiman, Byron Alder, E. G. Carter, D. A. Burcroyne and Mr. Thomas. MOAB It was stated that the storms of the l3st few weeks have placed the road through Logan canyon can-yon in Cache and Rich counties, and the Cedar-Long Valley road in Iron . and Kane counties-, in poor condition so that they probably are closed for the winter. Although one of thes-e roads may be passable for a time state road officials are discouraging motprists from attempting travel over them. BPJGHAM CITY In response to a call from President O. P. Bates, of the Tremonton Commercial club, about 50 have given approval of the plan of the Utah Poultry Producer.?' association as-sociation for the establishment of a grading plant and warehouse in Tie- monton. Jesse W. Hoones of Brig-ham Brig-ham City, president of the association, W. Garr, manager tf the association's plant in Brigham City, and others explained ex-plained the workings of the association LEHI Apple picking, grain and alfalfa seed threshing and grain planting are virtually completed in Utah as a result of the excellent I weather of the last week of October! according to the weekly crop report issued recently by J. Ceil Alter, government meteorologist. His report re-port continues: "Fail plowing and sugar beet and potato digging are well along, though hampered in most places by hard soils. Fall grains, pastures and ranges ire at a standstill stand-still for the w-nt of moisture generally, gen-erally, forage Lei.ig poor as a rule.' |