Show ff News Notes its ies a privilege to live lisa in iii V TAL till ah WO mt UTAH considering six major turm farm products estimated prices to utah growers in february were 69 per cent higher than for fe february 1928 RICHFIELD dirt la Is beginning to fly on the installation ot of the new municipal water system to cost tor for which bonds were voted last tall fall EPHRIAM garfield Patte nghe and T cook representatives of frank bond and sons of albuquerque N M were in ephraim the first of the wick week and again contracted contract dd for 1300 rams from the ephrain Ep hrair rambouillet rs OGDEN Weber county farmers will try out two new crops this year it was announced by county agent A L Christi nansen one hundred and fifty acres of dry beans will be planted in an effort to establish the bean industry and five acres of red clover seed aced will be planted in a similar purpose RICHFIELD TO stimulate drodge aloa of sugar beets in sevier county in 1929 the gunnison Gunn lson sugar company to 1 cooperating with the sugar beet association in this territory and tho the utah agricultural college is a augat buga beet production contest to be known as the farmers twenty ton sugar suga beai club LOGAN testing of dairy cattle for tuberculosis begun in cache county recently according to county agricultural agent robert L wriley icley Wr ley the work of testing cache countes coun tys dairy cattle caille was in charge of three state and federal government veterinarians cattle in cornish and lewiston wiston Lc districts was tested MANTI forest ranger S made a trip to the mammoth ranger station forthe for the purpose of measuring the snow he reports 68 indies inches of snow enow with a water content of 18 inches which is approximately 3 inches greater than the average water content at this time of the year at that station ranger anderson reports two feet of snow in lower joes valley HYRUM lions club and form farm bureau are making efforts to raise the tha bean acreage from 90 to at least acres before the planting season begins it is feared that if the necessary acreage is not subscribed the local bean cannery canners will not operate this year which would mean the loss of a payroll to farmers and employees employee a of about FILLMORE forest supervisor C A mattson and assistant supervisor C J olson of the fish lake forest reserve returned recently from a trip lasting a week to fillmore and holden while at fillmore they held a conference with rangers L A robins and E L jensen regarding fore forest it districts plans for scipio kanosh and elsinore ranger districts the plans outlined hr in detail all recurrent work to be done each year ear and the amount of t work that should be completed in the year beroid OGDEN acreage ot tomatoes in utah will be increased about acres this year it was announced rec recently enily by george shorten assistant secretary of the utah canners association the increase will be general over the stated state with about acres increase in weber county estimated planting for the whole state will run about acres weber county will have about 2500 acres DRAPER the draper construction company has been awarded the general contract for the building of the growers market according to the architects ashton evans the first unit will consist of a market for all year trading and also two new administration buildings which will cost about the balance of 21 will be spent for a warehouse a block long with two stories and a liase base ment TOOELE Poultry men of tolela county led by iirth hurst tooele thoele county agricultural agent inspected three bi bis hai hatcheries cheries of salt lake county recently according to V L martineau salt lake county agricultural agent most of their time was w as spent spend at the community hatchery draper where about chickens are being hatched this is by far the larg cat hatcher in utah and ranks in size with any hatchery of the united states SALT LAKE pros proa pacts in utah indicate a baby chick production of nearly for 1929 double the 1928 figure C 0 edmunds manager of the utah poultry producers cooper cooperative active association declared in a report recently the expectation pec tation is borne out bythe by the fact that already commercial egg production for 1929 has increased about 15 per I 1 cent over thle the same 1928 and may ie be expected to Inc increase more as hem bens nature mature |