Show The County Agents Report Duchesne County Farm News by Lloyd Smith PARK CONSTRUCTION-IS IT A MONEY SAVER f It Is possible that the best thing municipal governments can do for property tax payers Is to buy land and build parks on a much larger scale than has been planned in the according to Professor Extension recreation specialist at Utah State This Intriguing possibility was outlined recently In a series of articles In the San Francisco The articles called upon the Bay Area to save Its open and from economic strangulation that is sure to come if they are covered with Here are some direct quotations from the usual thought that property should not be taken off tax rolls is valid only if the property returns more in taxes than it costs in Most subdivisions built today do city comes out fairly well as far as subdivision costs with the property returning slightly more than it when you add in the costs of schools and county a house on a to square lot comes nowhere near paying for Itself in property is for this reason that many recreation planning experts say you save money by building parks because you keep the land from being developed as subdivisions which require continuing tax subsidies from business and industrial the dollars and cents part of the picture that is There are other major but possible less obvious benefits from having extensive open space around For property values are higher in near parks and open spaces than 9 they are In Certainly people must have homes and this argument cannot be carried so far as to say that all land now surrounding the city should be made into a huge The important thing is to plan wisely and plan to set aside the parks where they should be before the land is swallowed up by Brain Fever In Horses Brain fever cases In horses In this area are expected to reach the epidemic stage unless steps are taken immediately to control states Lloyd Duchesne County agricultural This announcement came following one made last week by He states two cases have been reported and others are expected to be afflicted with the disease which is fatal in about 30 cases out of Horses which recover from brain fever never respond aa readily as the county agent Injury extent but seems to become more depending upon the length of time the disease is rampant in an Horse owners are urged to get in touch with Smith at once or in order that vaccinations may be made to curb the expected epidemic Smith states that in this group vaccinations may be made at clinics to cut the cost of vaccination to the horse |