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Show li New8 Notes jj ' It' a Prtviltge to Live in Utah ' : ' CXIDKN -County Agricultural Agent A. L. Christiansen announces that thirteen fanners In Ogilen 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 la the largest num- 1 ber of tsmerl yet to undertake the growing of certified seed in the valley. I'tati seed it is said, has been making larger yields than that brought In froai , the outside. Mr. Christiansen, District Agricultural Agent LeRoy Marsh and a committee from the farm buretu will assist the farmers. BKKtHAM CITY The contracting ' for beet acreage for this season la the Hrigtiam and Curiam! districts has been begun by field men of the t'tah-Idaho t'tah-Idaho Sugar company. The contract as agreed upon by the beet growers' association and the sugar companies seems to be satisfactory, ami the farmers, it Is said, will use all available avail-able land In the growing of beets this year. VBRNAL -According to observa- ! Hons made by the national forest S tv-Ice tv-Ice the amount of snow throughout ; the east end of the t'intah mountain 1 lange, taken on an average. Is under ; the amount of the corresponding per iod a vear ago. At the end of January an average of uhout 14 inches was on the ground in elevations between 7000 anil 8000 feet, and an average of ttOtS. : 24 to '!! inches in elevations between 9000 and 11,000 feet. )(il)i:. t'tah litnners will paj growers approximately $2 a ton more for peas tbis year than they did ,'D 1927, It was agreed Tuesday at a m?ot ; Mr of committees of the t'tah Stitj Farm bureau and the Utah fanners' association. MAQNA Aid of the county commit' sion in establishing a mail deliver system in Magna was sought in a pe tition received from Dr. ( K W'aslpha of Magna. According to the petition Magna citizens are willing to cor.tph with postofllee regulations as to tlm numbering of hous, s and in return dt sire a delivery system. The matte-was 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 lionneville park was announced an-nounced Tuesday by John L. Reynold-. who recently purchased the baseball Held. Mr Reynolds bad just c impleted ; a tour of California, Texas an I Ariz- ona, during which he made a study o( the best automobile camps in the thre i states. DELTA-Operating revenues of th Pahvant Power and Light company of Delta, for 1927, as shown by the annual an-nual statement filed with the public utilities commission, show a decreas of $2,638.80 as compared with 192'. Revenues for 1927 were $34,418.04 as compared with $37,086.84 In 1926. The j net income shows a loss of $1530. 26. j The capital stock of the company Is listed ut $21,127.03 OG DEN 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 ths coming season. Two crops, peas and i tomatoes, were considered. The crops association will meet with the canners I at Ugden soon. HEBKR CITY Eggs handled by the ' Utah State Poultry Producers' associ- j ation for 1927 showed an increase of ! JHOO'OOO in value over the preceding year. During 1927 423 carloads of egg I were shipped by the association. LOO AN Directors of the Cache county farm bureau met at the court-house court-house recently and adopted their 19.'.'8 program, the principal features r f which promise to be taxation legislation legisla-tion and wheat marketing. The bu reau will work fir reclassification of property for taxation throughout the entire tax system. It was decided to ' form a wheat marketing local in the c:uinty to work in cooperation with the , state wheat marketing association. President J. H. SchenK was in charge of the session. i OODKN Commissioner Ilnrmnn W. Tcery bewailed the fact that Ogden wis so deeply In debt when a committee commit-tee representing farmers in the north- I w-stern part of the county appeared to j urge the paving of a link of higb.vay between Five Points and the county Hi. e on the Harrisville road. OO DEN At a conference between j a committee representing the Utah State farm bureau with the Utah Can- ! ners' association held in the office of the canning association in the Kissel 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 170,000 cases of eggs, or, COUBtM one by one, 61.0(10.000 eggs. BRH5HAM CITY--Field men of the T'tah Idaho Sugar company have begun contracting beet acreage for next sea-BOO sea-BOO in this territory. The contract ls ! as agreed upon by the beet growers' j association and the sugar companies. OrSOO A. Chrlstensen, field superin- ! Undent of the sugar company in this iistrict says that, due to the good av- j erage tonnage last year thirteen and me-third tons per acre and the high sugar content, and also to the general mpression that the winter has been a 'avorable one, farmers are optimistic it the outlook for the next crop. |