Hr Sit n Salt Lake Tribune Sunday tfarrti 8 1857 G IS 23rd Annual at USAC Daily Short Course To Open Monday s i f vw H J Special to The Tribune LOGAN— Samples of market milk lea cream and other dairy products hsvt been picked up In spot checks throughout Utah and put through laboratory testa In anticipation of tha 23rd annual dairy manufacturing ah'ort course Monday through Friday at Utah State Agricultural J Douglas Huber Heber Richard Schwarts left Roger Stephen sanitarian and Lo-ra- n — iiai 4 iiuil--sMt- Earl Fillmore head of Logan City Health Department make lab testa of dairy samples Frank Elder state soil bank forester with the State Board of Forestry and Fire Control reports that Utah’s landowners have until April 15 to enroll In the Soil Bank plan which will give larmers cash for converting poor farm lands from crop to timber production Based on Utah averages a farmer will plant 800 trees to an acre at a cost of $30 to $40 They were tested Feb 16 and and scored for quality There wero 112 samples of milk 10 chocolate milk 15 buttermilk 26 cottage cheese 68 ice cream and 15 sherbet Judges were: Guy P Stevens supervisor of dairying Utah Department of Agriculture Wilbur Parkinson sanitarian Salt Lake City Board of Health Eugene Tuttle Clymer’a Dairy Grand Junction Colo Prof Paul B Larsen and Prof Morris USAC Col- RESULTS OF the sample state Tea city and Inspectors testing will be used as a guide in made surprise calls Feb 18 at short course discussions and in clinics and conference with dairy plant technicians later In the year Thlrty-aevedairy equipment and supply firms and 15 sanitarians and state regulatory officials are assisting in the course Fifteen advanced students will handle creamery operations and short course committee duties during the event Climax will be the annual awards banquet March 8 at 6:30 pm at the Union Building More than 30 awards for best ice cream buttermilk sherbert and cottage cheese samples will be presented Sessions will discuss problems involving marketing nutrition and management plus dairy products THE FEDERAL government will pay the farmer between $6 and $15 an average of $11 each year for 15 years for each acre set aside unde the program In addition the government will pay the fanner $9 an acre If treed are planted by machine $16 If they’re There’s a $2 payment for site prepara tion and $7150 to offset the cost of the trees Thus the fanner who makes an initial outlay of about $35 an acre will receive the first year $2950 to about $3650 Thereafter the fanner needs to pay only the cost of irrigating the seedlings and the federal government will continue to pay the —— — rental averaging $11 — — d ono—and- the smallest one-- of Thetraie program the several soil bank programs Most farmers elect to sow some of the grasses on their land taken Off crop production under a program administered by the Soil Conservation Service obligates himself for only a few years under the grass plans 15 years under the forestation plan But Mr Elder said there are good profits for farmers who Checking milk samples In connection with forthcoming convert their poorest land to timber from sale of Christmas manufacturing short course at USAC are Clayton Huber dairy left trees and Duane Memmott Nephl students enrolled In dairy work To meet the high demand for trees the forestry board has used up all the seedlings that can be provided by the state nursery at Logan THE STATE HAS a agreement with Nevada to supply 35000 hardwood saplings NOSni SALT LAXI— UUh and vary little of duality waa offered and S Departments d Africultura — waa absorbed by local Interests Fed Most other states are In similar situations Mr Elder said: U Weak ended Friday — CATTLI: Sal- ataen and helfen wen too few seedlings for local use none for export California he able 750 Fad ataara and beifert fully than tha cloae of last week eowahigher and par cant of aupply eowa about SO bulla strong to SOc higher while cannen said has Douglas Fir saplings for export which the state will (O cant atockan and feeder! lata than and cutter eowa showed the most adpar — 10 par cant Compared with Thuraday vance Stockers and feeden fully purchase at the cost of $10 a thousand of laat waak fad ataara and helfen ateady Ona carload of averaga to high Farmers interested In enrolling in the program are asked to atrona to 15c hlahar eowa choice 1350 lb fed stecn aold at 15 70 bulla and atockan higher eteady fully with ana head weighing 1360 lbs at apply to the county Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation feeden nominally (toady to atrona 19 60 smaller lota of low to averaga Low to average choice fad fteen IS Committee choice 18 00 average to high good fad Individual to It 00 bulk 17 00 atandard to low good 16 75 atandard to low good 17 00 good It Including a few lota of fed 14 - y g - S5-4- 0 75-1- 7 Stockmen Warned on Bull Shortage Stockmen who must buy range bulls this year ahould locate them immediately according to George R Henderson extension animal husbandman at Utah State Agricultural College “Some sales have been cancelled because of the scarcity of bulls" he said''"'lt appears there are fewer bulls of the quality demanded by Utah stockmen available for sale this year than during the past several years” He recommended stockmen act now to locate the bulls they need and to be certain they can pick them up later If they don’t buy now Weed Confab Opens Wednesday weed conference will be conducted Wednesday In the Utah State Fairgrounds Coliseum by the Friday through State Department of Agriculture and a state weed committee Theme of the meetings Will be “economic enemy number one" Beginning at 1:30 pm Wednesday the public sessions will start with a panel discussion to include such topics' as desert winter range Irrigated farm and pasture land and dry farm lands THURSDAY'S MORNING session will be about the Colorado River and its relationship to weed problems Opportunity for weed control through the soil bank and what can be expected from new herbicides will also be reviewed Papers on weed control will be presented Friday morning by researchers actively engaged in this field throughout Utah A three-da- y A Look at the Markets Cattle prices finished steady to 50 cents and more higher at midwest livestock markets the past week Hogs were lower utility and atandard 50 Many atnall lota low to average choice fad helfen 17 7ft- 15 50 few head It 70-1- 5 00 many low to average good 15 0 atandard 13 50-1- 5 60 aome utility dairy type down to 11 50 Utility and commercial eowa 11 35-1- 3 50 lata few atandard SO-- 13 50 13 35-1- 4 canntn and cutten 50 50-1- 4 5 BO- 11 00 only thin ahally cannon down to 5 00 Commercial bulla 140014 50 Few medium and good faadcr ataen 14 75-1- 7 00 occaaional good flock belfen 15 50 CALVES: Salable 100 Moat of tha Comauppliee eonaiated of atockan parad with cloee of laat waak vaalcn nominally eteady atock calve atrona to SOc higher Good vealen 15 5031 35 uUlity and atandard vealen and calvaa 14 75-100 Around 50 head choice 350-33- 5 lb atock eteer calvee 30 00-3- 0 80 good and choice 18 0015 50 few medium down to 14 50 Around 40 head good to choice atock heifer calvaa in tha tame eonalgnment aa tha ataara 17 35-1- 7 50 ftw 17 75 common to medium dairy-typ- e heifer calvaa 11 50- 14 50 BOOR) Salable 410 Compared Thun- der laat waak butcher hoga and eowa lower Lata ealee mixed lota fully BOc US 1 3 and 3 barrow and gilta 00 lbe 17 aarly bulk grade and weight 15 00-comparable 18 50 few selected 1 and 3 grade 18 50 and one lot 1 grade II 00 Sowe 0 50 around lbe 14 aome 15 00 early bulk 330450 lbe 13 100-34- 0 35-1- 5 350-30- n H L Forest Washington DC director of Dairy Division Agricultural Marketing Service and R E Hodgson Beltsvllle Md chief of Dairy Husbandry Research branch US Department of Agriculture Co Very few choice vealen were offered and Improved competition for stocken diverted a number of calves to country accounts Comoared with the cloae of laat week vealers and stock calves wan fully ateady 50-2-Choice vealers aold fre00 good and choice quent! at 22 00 utility and standard vealen J9 00-2- 2 25-Sand alaughter calves 14 00 18 00 a few head cull and utility 11 00-1- 2 00 Small lota of choire stock steer calves aold at 19 50-1- 9 70 while the bulk good and choice brought 18 50 19 00 medium and 1600-100: aome common and good 13 00 15 50 A few choice medium stock heifer calves brought 17 00 17 30 25-1- 8 one lot of good 18 50 50-1- 8 BOOS: Estimated salable five daya 00- thla week 655 compand with 480 Mat Compared Holateina at 15 25-150 small lota of week and 660 laat year of last week butcher utility and atandard 13 75-1-4 50 Includ- with Thuraday 75c sows lower hois mostly fully 25c ing a part load 960 lb Holstaina at 13 60 Early bulk mixed US 3 and Averaga to high choire fed hetfen 160 lower 3 and barrows 955 lbs aold at 19 25-1-9 90 and Included gilts avaraglng 190-23- 0 one carload Of Angus offerings from Iba 17 75-1- 8 50 with closely sorted 1 and 75-1Nebraska and ona carload whttefaced 2 grade 15 8 95 with comparable Utaha the bulk of low to average choice lota Tuesday 18 50 1875 and the bulk 2 75-1ranged from It 00-1- 75 75-1-part loads of and 3 grade 17 3 35 75 atandaverage to high good 18 ard to low good 14 50-1-8 50 utility and standard 11 00-1- 00 Utility and commercial cows sold largely at 11 00-125 a few atandard 13 50-1-4 50 cannen and cutten 9 00-1- 00 with very few under 9 00 late In the week Commercial bulls aold at 14 50-1-5 00 Utility 12 3 Factory-to-Far- m 75 Stockers and feeden: Thera was active competition for the good and choice feeder stecn requiring ahort finish and near Stockers A pert load of choice 540 lb yearling Mf CO Sulphur Superphosphate atock steers sold up to 19 00 part loads of 700-87- 5 lb feeder steen 18 00-1- 5 80 far wastara alkaliaa sails moat of tha good Stockers and feedan MFCO Ammenleted Sulphur 18 00-175 medium 13 0 Good and choice feeder helfen ranged from far Supurphusphuta pasturut 1375-118 00-1- 7 10 8 medium and good and plow Jaw 75 Medium and good etocker and feeder cows aold at 10 00-1- 3 00 and a cow with calf at slda aold at 123 50 Mineral Fertilizer Co Inc for tha pair 155 tutor If Midvula Utah CALVES Estimated salable five daya thla waek 330 compand with actuals Skene AM of 345 laat waek and 400 laat year March Advice: Commercial Fertilizer Men Called to Gem State Scries Buy Eggs! Poultry and egg leaders from Utah with the of the group for the find meet- Gov George D By Stan Farnsworth Clyde plan an Dealers who sell commercial ing Tuesday observance of March Egg Month fertilizer to farmers horticuThe other three meetings will during which attention of the lturists and gardneners can pro- be at Twin Falls Wednesday public will be directed to the Pocatello Thursday and Rex-bur- g vide better servnutritional values In poultry and Friday ice to patrons eggs- 1 they are qualified to advise regarding the proper fertilizer to use how and when to apply it Idaho dealers vAy will have a chance to learn Mr more about this important serv-- - Farnsworth-icnext week in a series of four meetings to acquaint them with the latest fertilizer facts The meetings are sponsored by the Pacific Northwest Plant Foods Assn and the Idaho ExSuch well tension Service known specialists as G O Baker - Roger Harter Charles Painter and others will talk over problems with dealers and others attending Information regarding the time and meeting place can be obtained from county agricultural agents in each area Had a letter the other day from GeneRoblnson secretary of the Intermountain Quarter Horse Assn He said dates have been set for the group’s 1957 shows - The - spring show is' t scheduled for May 24 25 at The fall show will be staged at Ogden during the Golden Spike National Livestock show Nov IN PLANNING the program Utahns were aided by having national leaders in Salt Lake City for a conference last week plus two national leaders as residents of Utah Among those was Trevor L Jones Springfield 111' president of the National'Turkey Federation Herbert Beyers president of the Poultry and Egg National Board thi year is a Utahn David W Evans advertising counselor for the National Turt The Hereford Federation is helping guide key Assn will hold it’s annual the both program locally and S sale at the spring April nationally Bonneville Fair County Grounds in Idaho Falls tension Service will judge the Offerings this year will con- bulls Judge Dahmen and two sist of horned and polled bulls commercial breeders will look consigned by leading Idaho the bulls over carefully and will breeders cull all bulla that do not meet Caldwell will play host to Joe Dahmen of the Idaho Ex-- standards of good range bulls W‘-- vis-ltin- -- Pay-sor- 15-1- Six-Poin- 00-1- 4 IHEEPi Salable 1050 Virtually the entire aupply lamb delivered at the for weighing after being atockyarda Few email lota purchaaed eleewhen trucked-ialaughtar lam be fully 35c higher than cloae of laat week One lot good to moetly choice 15 40 n LATE FRIDAY AUCTION: Cattle: Slaughter ataen and helfen making up around 40 per cant of aupply eowa around 40 nor cent atockan and feeden tha bulk of tha nmalnder Main aupply ataen and helfen grading good and below Market ateady on fed ataen and helfen: aome aalea eowa atrong to 35c higher other claaaee about Few head atandard and low ateady 00 Including odd Rood ataen 18 Holetelna at 18 35 bulk utilSO aome ity and atandard 13 cutten 1150-1- 35 Sirable atandard and good fed helfen 15 50 only odd head to atandard at 1300 14 75 Utility utility and com marc 11 eowa 11 00 Including aome hlih yielding utility eowa at 13 00 13 35 cannen and cutten I 00 odd head FARM AUCTION SALE Beginning promptly at 10 aan March 12 1957 at the place known as the Hartley Farm 17 miles west of Burley Idaho an US 30 and V mile north or one mile south of Murtaugh and 3 and st miles east on US 30 and V miles north Watch for sale markers on US 30 00-1- 7 1 eup-pl- In- 1 60-1- 50-1- 00-1- 00-1- a live-floc- ) laat week and 2360 laat year Fed ateera and helfen made up at laaat 50 of the salable supply with eowa not more than 25 and atockan and feeden the nmalnder Good shipper demand waa found Monday for all claaaea while during tha nmalnder of tha week hydraulic control Caterpillar Allis-Chalme- rs 16-F- 1 00-1- D4 Caterpillar with dozer double valve pump I 10-cover crop disc Graham-Hoem1 t plow (bill tongues and sweeps) 50-1- 3 UT A HlBYlRRODUCTSlCO Over the Fence Post Savings 00-1- 7 and MnSy Na hm aa koriwr coM aaoraat just plant ceUectl The governor proclaimed March m egg month 35-1- 4 3 j fer on plans for March Fgf Month program Spread at 00-1- 8 iMi f Rrodmh wM alUkala yeua dead aek priViw quMriy David W Evans Trevor L Jones Gov Georg D Clyde and Herbert Beyers from left con Fertilizer Bulk 00-1- 5 Service N 00 and lambs higher Prices for lambs at some markets were highest In six weeks Receipts of cattle and sheep at 12 markets were lighter than a week ago Supplies of hogs were much larger than a week ago but lighter than a year ago Prime steers at Chicago reached $2550 per hundred pounds commercial bulla 14 35 14 50 with head cuttera at 11 50 the highest in three weeks Choice fed steers sold at most mar- dividual Several good fleahy Hnletetn feeder 14 75 teen Odd bead medium kets from $1850 to $21 with good and choice steers from $17 to feeder eowa 80 CalvesVaalcra and atock calvee $1950 Heifers sold up to $22 paid at Chicago about Odd head and ateady Hog prices dropped around 75 cents during the week after good vealen 17 50 20 00 atandard with utility Holateina 12 down 50 to Several head being up the previous week medium to good atock eteer eklvet 00 One sizable lot of good Estimated livestock receipts at 12 markets Including Chi- 18 atock heifer calvca 1700 with few medium at 14 cago were: 50 INele: Carloada of ahlppad-lCattle Sheep Hogs bought for n ahlpment on the 354500 89600 212000 North Balt Lake and Ogden market For week In carry variable freight benefit 284000 94000 214000 Week ago amount except when otherwiae noted 432000 105000 234000 Year ago OGDEN (Utah and US Department Soybeans and rye futures closed higher for the week on the of Agriculture) Week ended Friday— CATTLE Estimated ealable five days Chicago Board of Trade Oats were lower wheat was Irregular thla week 3100 'compand with 2220 Pick-u- p Report -- Feature op ( - A total of 29 speakers including 15 from out of state are scheduled Some of the out of state speakers include: H E Behlmer Cedar Rapids Iowa Cherry-Burrel- l Corp Dr Madison Harold E Calbert Wis Department of Dairy and Food Industries University of Wisconsin Ara O Call Apple-toWis Western Condensing Livestock Market long-standin- Quotations-Cr- 20 than 300 dairy plant technicians from throughout the intermountain area are expected to attend said Prof A J Morris USAC dairy Industry department head ? Market plants throughout the state to obtala samples f lege More Farm Topics hand-plante- Farm and Livestock News e 7G Killefer chisel Together With 1 International 12 Ft combine (bean attachment) 4 A- - to International trucks 5 One eact Model M MD 300 Utility 300 Super C International tractors 1 Ford tractor 8N Model Yes Men d Over 100 pieces of other equipment everytljlng needed for farming beets potatoes beans grain or hay This machinery Is in excellent shape and difficult to distinguish from new and may be seen on March and 11 BTitpogen It takes ‘Ni’ Men arranged lor bafora tha aala upon tha basis of personal and bankable notes supported by adequate credit reference Kami ovar $500 M For further information write or call George R Hartley 1644 Addion Ave East Twin Falla Jdahor phone 2416 J AVAILABLE USS fer- tilizers for western farmers It takes “Ni’ Men and United States Steel has a form for every fanner: - Wati GENEVA PLANT Nitrogen fertilizers for m USS WlTROGEN FERTILIZERS USS AMMONIUM NITRATE AMMONIA USS ANHYDROUS MTI0MII fata IgUflt Utm i‘ P 1 AUCTIONEERS JIM MESSERSMITH— JOE DEFFEZ Jerome CLYDE HOLDEN Burley Idaho FERTILIZERS frem western farms are now being produced at the new United States Steel Nitrogep plant at Geneva Utah See your dealer "how for USS Nitrogen - and United States Steel is producing great new nitrogen USS AMMONIUM Tam will be available on USS NITROGEN for farm profits ' Also 8 9 (S) it takes I Ov Me C V I Idaho 4S2ba''a A A Y A 4 g