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Show I! News Notes : ! ! It's a Priviltg to Liv in LAYTON Utah's potato crnn fa 1927 totaled 2,790,000 bushels with a market value of $2,228,000, an increaia of 605,000 bushels over 1926. ' BRIGHAM During the week thousands of pintail ducks have been feeding In the grainflelds west of this city, adjourning the marshes. The ducks have migrated here from Canada according to game officials, and are so numerous that an estimate of their numbers is almost impossible. OGDBN Weber county peaches are unusually free from insect Infestations and general blemishes this year, Le Roy Marsh, district agricultural inspector in-spector reports. Estimates of this year's crop is set at 175 carloads. The orchards of North 0den are said to be in the best of condition and will undoubtedly un-doubtedly yield the most fruit. GUNNISON Cauliflower shipments , from the fieMs at Westview and Clarion Clar-ion are increasing almost dally end two carloads were sent out Wednesday, bringing the total car shipments jt date up to sixteen. The peak of the harvest will be reached about September Septem-ber 6, at which time extra forces will be added to handle tho big crop. VERNAL The 'crew of the deep test of the Ashley Valley OH company, on the Ashley valley structure, ton miles southeast of Vernal, Is drilling through the cobble rock dumped into the hole to plug ft back from the depth of 870 feet to 530 feet for the purpose of straightening the hole. 7 will . severnl days before drilling for Increased In-creased depth Is resumed. MURRAY Plans for enterine a eoury Guernsey herd In the state fair this fall were made at a meeting of Guernsey breeders held recently at the lorn of Arthur B. Erekson, South Cottonwood. Cot-tonwood. A committee including Mr Erekson, L. E. Madsen, James G. Burtt, J. B. Erekson and V. L. Martin-tau, Martin-tau, county agricultural agent, was appointed ap-pointed to arrange the matter and select the herd. BRIGHAM CITY Plans are giing forward for the community fair to be held at Corine September 7, under auspices of the Corine farm bureau. This is the first fair of the kind to be held In the valley. The executive committee com-mittee consists of Presdient Sterling Wright of the Corine farm bureau. C. G. Adney and Abraham Evans. Agricultural Agri-cultural Agent R, H. Stewart Is as-listinir. as-listinir. LOGAN Farmers of Utah will profit pro-fit a great deal by revising an old misconception mis-conception that seed from some other farm is better than from their own, Dr. George Stewart, agronomist with the experiment station of the Utah Agricultural Agri-cultural college, stated In answer to inquiries on "home grown seeds." However, Dr. Stewart said, there come times when seed grown on a given farm should be replaced by sen! from another farm, but this is only when the seed formerly used is mixed, diseased di-seased or otherwise of poor quality. OGDEN Use of granulated soap with arsenate of lad In spraying ap pies In Weber county this year .has been successful, saving one orr.hardlHt alone more than 40U0 bushels of apples, ap-ples, it was stated recently by LeRoy Mareh, district agricultural inspe"tor. II. A. Thomas of 0?dcn suffered a loss of 50 per cent of his crop from worms last year despite his using arsenate of lead in water, as was regularly rec-jornmemled. rec-jornmemled. Mr. Marsh says: This year loss than 5 per cent of his crop is wormy. The smallest of the figura he attributes to his use of the soap CEDAR CITY With the aid of Mel-vln Mel-vln Cropper of Deseret, the American Legion bucking horse conwnitteeee wilt have at least twenty head of professional profes-sional bucking horses for the race meet and rodeo at Cedar City September 6, 7 and 8. Some of these horses are well known to rodeo fans. Cronper won the riding contest of the 1926 Cedar City rodeo against older and better known men of Pendleton and Cheyenne. He is to be a contender for the belt this year. Bob Vaughn, win ner of second place In 1926, will he here. Buster Vaughn of Pendloton Is expected and many professional riders have expressed their Intention of hen? j here. SAT LAKE Total expenditure of the state road department from January Janu-ary 1, 1928, to June 30, 1928, amounted to $1,275,369.40, it is shown by a financial finan-cial statement of the department for that period, which was made public recently. On January 1 of this year there was a balance of $10,955.49 of road funds In the state treasury, and receipts from various sources during the first six months of the year amounted to $1,986,501.30, bringing the total balance and receipts to $2,-797,456.79 $2,-797,456.79 for the period. On June 30, 1&28, the department had a cash surplus sur-plus of $774,082.16 and a loaned surplus sur-plus of $458,638.45, making a total surplus of $1,232,702.61. Lonns e-tumed e-tumed to highway and revolving funds during the six months amounted to $289,366,78. i LOGAN The Cache county fair will be held here September 18 to 20, one week earlier than has been .he case in recent years, in an effort to avoid the bad weather that has accom panied local fairs In the pa?t, states President George Dunbar of tho Cache County Fair association. Three thou sand fair programs will be mailed in the near future to homes of Cache-county Cache-county and ten large twenty-four-shec stands will be used for billboards a l vertising the county fair in Cache .-al . ley, , Boxclder , county and southern Idttho. " ' "' |