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Show THE UINTAH BASIN FARMER PAGE EIGHT Great Preventable Loss in Using Common Sires Garden to Kill Insects Clean-U- p Saves Much Time and Money Next Year in Spraying and Dusting. A few hoars spent in giving the garden a fall clean-n- p will save much time and expense next year in spraying and dusting to control insect pests according to gardeners and entomologists at the college of agriculture, University of Illinois. A general clean-u- p of the garden in the fall, preferably late fall, will do a great deal to reduce the available hibernating quarters of many of the most troublesome and destructive Insects. The benefits from this practice will be multiplied. If anyone will and thus make the clean-u- p general. Forget Insect Troubles. After the seasons crop has been harvested, the average gardener forgets his Insect troubles for a while. However, at this time of the year certain steps may be taken which will greatly reduce the possibility of serious insect Injury the coming vegetable season. This consists of taking active steps In the fall to clean up the garden. Many crops have a large amount of foliage which Is left in the field or garden after the edible part of the crop has been harvested. Such trash and rubbish affords hibernating quarters for many of our most troublesome and destructive Insects. Piles of cucumber, melon and squash vines left In the field offer excellent shelter for the striped cucumber beetle and squash bug during the winter. The potato stalk borer, which has been very destructive to eggplants in some sections, winters over in the stalk of the eggplant, potato and tomato. Cabbage stumps and leaves left in the field offer protection for the various species of cabbage worms. Serious Cabbage Pest. In areas where the harlequin cabbage bug Is a serious pest, the practice of cleaning up the fields in the fall will greatly reduce the possibility of injury the following season. Where possible, the cabbage stumps should The tarbe pulled and destroyed. nished plant bug, which feeds on a large variety of vegetables, hibernates In all sorts of rubbish about the field. Boards scattered loosely about the field offer shelter for many insects. They should be collected, the old, useless boards destroyed, and the good pieces piled compactly. Where onion sets are grown, it has been found advisable to clean up the field after the sets have been harvested and screened. The piles of onion refuse that accumulate where onions have been milled and screened should be burned, as they contain large numbers of the puparia, or resting stage of the onion maggot Immediately after the onions have been milled and screened, the resulting refuse will bum quite readily. It Is Important to go one step farther than cleaning up the garden proper. Clean up the weeds and grasses along fence rows and field margins. All weeds and grasses should be cut and destroyed, and where possible the ground should be plowed. Smut and rye and Hessian fly, will of wheat until they die. enemies te - After clover Is grown for two years, crop yields on average lands are practically doubled. great preventable loss In American animal production Is in the low quality of the sires used, says the United States Department of AgriIn no other phase of aniculture. A to make mal husbandry Is It possible of U. S. in their proclamation issued. such marked, and such the government irrigation district of Armistice Day, November 11th, snch direct, snch slight the reservation, who resides in My-to- was observed in Myton in a fitting profitable improvement at pureuse In of as the cost superior at spent a week recently manner, when the Ladies Auxiliary bred sires. He called was Idaho. Blackfoot, of the American Legion of Myton, breeding Records of the beef-cattlthere to consult with Charles Engle gave an Armistice Day party in the n Jackson business farms. at work engineer, supervising old town hall. Mrs. Rolland Krebs, matters relative to the work under president of the Auxiliary, presid- county. Mo., furnish examples of the Basin. ed. The program consisted of com- value of a good bull. Common cows his supervision in Mrs. Gwyn accompanied him on the munity singing familiar patriotic in calf to common bulls were purtrip. songs. Mrs. Rolland Krebs sang two chased as foundation stock for the Morris Keating of Salt Lake City, solos. Rev. S. A. Parker and Bish- demonstration farm. These cows were beef bulls. The president of the Western seed Mar- op Harold Eldredge gave patriotic later bred to pure-bre- d resome and time cake addresses. Coffee, spent keting edmpany, s steers brought 12 a hunwere served. A small charge cently in Myton on busines in dredweight mow than the common with the alfalfa seed busi- was madfr for those to defray ex- steers. ness. Fred J. Burger has been as- penses. Some of the time was spent Since the dams of the two lots were in playing games. sisting him for a few weeks. W. W. Boyd, who lives in the essentially the same and the methods L. C. Shaw and Glenn Shaw who Midview district, is quite well Satis- of feeding and marketing were identirecently sold their ranches near fied his alfalfa seed crop this cal, the difference of $2 a hundredwith Myton, have gone to Tampa, Florida, He had 226 sacks of seed weight In their value may be fairly year. where they expect to nake their 70. acres of ground, attributed to the superiority of the from d produced accomm-paniewere home. future They an is which average of over three pure-bre- d sires used foe the first cross by their families and exacre. to sacks the as compared to those used on the pected to make the trip by auto. farm from which the foundation cows Stephen H. Lowe, president of the assocCause Lack of Potash United Sugar Manufacturing were purchased. iation recently made an interesting of 1,000 pounds live of Poor Clover Crops At theforaverage address in the Opera house of Myan increase the animals, weight ton. He explained the beet sugar Investigations In Wisconsin have of $2 a hundredweight In the value at industry and its importance, also shown that one of the causes for the time of tljp offspring of a emphasized the necessity of a good decline in various clover crops Is lack marketing bull brings an increased pure-bre- d highway across the state east and of sufficient potash. Alfalfa and all of value of $240 a year on a crop of west.- - He said Uintah Basin needs the clovers use large quantities of 12 calves if It Is assumed that the it and Salt Lake City wants it. and cannot do their best when heifers with the W. H. Koehler of Myton who is potash,Is of this element. steers. Improved equally a there proprietor of the Myton stores com- One of theshortage indications of potash returned from a pany, recently In alfalfa Is tiny white starvation Mo. Mrs. months vacation at Joplin, size small pin heads apof Koehler accompanied him on this spots the on the leaves, while the same pearing trip. Is indicated by similar in clover Miss Rosa Camfield who is in the thing brown and spots. service of the Episcopal church as a yellow The Wisconsin College of Agriculmissionary among the Indians, returned to her home in Myton not ture, pointing out that It takes four long ago from a three months va- tons of farm manure to supply the Most of the potash needed by one ton of alfalfa cation in California. time was spent at Riverside. Her or clover, says that it Is more Ecoadopted son, Johnie Reed has enter- nomical to use a potash fertilizer than ed the Sherman Institution for Into depend upon farm manure to keep dians near that city. up the supply of this element. From The regular Parent-Teache- rs one hundred to two hundred pounds meeting of Myton for November was per acre of a potash fertilizer Is sufheld Tuesday evening the 9 th. It ficient for clover ; alfalfa requires was well attended. The president to five hundred pounds hundred three Claire Preece, presided. Several per acre. This may be applied as a item3 were disposed of. The following program was presented. Actions top dressing in the spring or fall after A Christmas Greeting means a lot; songs by the first and second the crop Is started. Miss Henderson Laura read grades; So don't withhold this simple Seer, a paper on story telling; Miss.H. Just tell your friends they're not forgot Hanson read a Thanksgiving story; Manure Allowed to Pile Robert G. Porter of Duchesne gave At this glad season of the year. Up Loses Its Fertility an interesting address upon the poThere is always a loss when manure Our cardswill cheer them through sition of the teacher in moulding Is were character. permitted to pile up be It summer Refreshments and through. or winter. The . loss In the warm served. And bring them happy thoughts of you. to be heavier than In Thursday, November 4th, an im- months is apt manure exportant meeting of alfalfa seed the ;ase of winter-score- d Is with no O. where O. the held I. was latter held in the F. cept growers hall in Myton. The large per cent protection from the weather. But In Sm Samples of those who attended were mem- summer, whether manure Is kept un- at this Offics bers of the Uintah Basin Cooperat- der cover or not. It is certain to lose! ed seed growers association. N..L. considerable of Its fertility through! Peterson, president, presided and heating. This is a purely bacterial and presented a program as outlined by chemical change. The most effective the board of directors. A plan for to check it is to keep the waste perfecting an organization whereby way the growers could pool in one until slightly moistened. But better than the crop of several members. A this Is to g,et it to the fields if possible. canvass of the years crop as esti- It Is no failure In economy to fermated by Wmi, Zowe indicated that tilize grass plots which one plans to the members controlled 600,000 lbs. plow in the fall or following spring. of seed. Several persons addressed If manure be applied directly to the Call the meeting. I. R. Tuttle, George grasses In small amounts and thinly N. L. William Philipps, Gentry, spread no loss of fertility elements Peterson, Wm. Zowe, L. C. Potter will occur. Distribution Is always betand others. ter than allowing the waste to pile up, Samples On Thanksgiving day, Nov. 24th, although If properly protected It can in the Presbyterian church at My- be held for short periods without seriton, a Thanksgiving service will be ous loss. held. The pastor. Rev, S. A. ParkFollow the price movements when er will deliver an address upon the The Roosevelt to Remember. The buying feed, fertilizers, and other arsubject. Things singing and the special music and ticles that are large Items of grpemm all of the service will be in har- on the farm If you want to make each ADVERTISE IT IN THE UINmony with the desire of the Govern- dollar do the most that It can, TAH BASIN! FARMER. or of Utah and the President of the F. C. Gwyn, project engineer n, e Sni-a-B- the-Uinta- ar h san-wich- es first-clas- cons-necti- on CHRISTMAS -- -- StS and see our Standard |