The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-06-23
SHEEP INDUSTRY FLoURIsHING
One Of the Heaviest Increases in
Lambs Known in state.


Hichheld. june 22-Tbe dockmasters
are now engaged iu marking their
lambs. They find one of the heaviest
increases i'm the history of sheep rails
ing lD this state, None of the fiOCks
VIII average less than q. per cent, and
some are as high as 100 per cent in
crease The sheep are iu excellent con
oiti0u. one of the noticeable things i'm
connection with this increase is that
the depreda lions OF coyotes and noun
tain lions are far less this season than
in the past. Just why this Els SO is not
known, as the animals are as plentiful
as ever BY some il is believed TO be
because of the splendid feed on the
ranges, which keeps the sheep
punched better than usual aud en-
abies the herders to keep q closer
watch. Old herdeTs do not remember
when the ranges have been ian better
condition than this spring. They are
like they were years ago.
some Of the beet growers in the Mon
roe fields complain that there is a
blight among their beets. Throughout
the fields some of the beet tops are
yellow and unhealthy looking, An ex-
animation of the roots of the beets
shows them to be covered with nu-
merOus fibers. Tt is the opinion locally
that this condition is caused from poor
seed, because the poor beets are not
in patches, as would be the case If the
fault was with the ground, but are
scattered along throughout the rows
among the healthy beets. The atten-
tiOn of the experts is called to the mat
ter. To some it is going to be quite q
loss. Otherwise the fields are looking
nne. They have been thinned, weeded
and cultivated. and outside of the
blight mentioned are as healthy and
thrifty looking as could be desired.
inquiry in all sections of the country
brings out The information that there
is scarcely a grasshopper to be found
this season. The only place where they
have been found at an is in some ot
the fields south Of Monroe. In other
places where they have been very bad
i'm the two years past not one has been
seen so Tar this year. What has hap
pened to them is a mystery.
The heavy rails on the Sewer branch
railroad have been laid 10 a point
about three miles south of Richfeld
and the work has been suspended for
the present. Tt is said that the COM
pany has sufficient of the light rails
TO meet the demand on the branch
which it is building into the reserva-
ton, ana il is impossible to say when
the work of continuing TO lay the heavy
rails here will be resumed. 1t is
hoped and has been intimaJed that
they viii be put TO Elsinore at least
iH time fer handling the beet crop of
this section this fall
The luCeru crop which is now being
cut viii be the heaviest ever had I'm
this county for the acreage. The only
reason why it may not total more I'm
tonnage than ia the past good seasons
is because of the fact that great deal
of the land heretofore devoted TO rails
ing Iucern is now devoted to sugar beet
growing.
Samuel AIeachim Of Annabella was
quite severely hurt by being kicked ON
the shin by a horse Monday. He was
riding a hay rake and driving the ami
NAL down a steep grade, when the rake
crowded onto the horse and it respond
ed by making a vigorous kick. Tt was
thought for awhile that Mr.. Meaeh-
inns leg was broken, but an examine
tion showed only a bad bruise with
the skin split couple Of inches.