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Show TII2 UINTAH BASIN FARMER PAGE THREE ,ED1' J,V' V.V.VW.V.WVAVAVA'AVAV DUCHESNE COUNTY FARM BUREAU C. F. WAHLQUIST THOMAS ROBERTS Pres., Myton, Utah Encampment Pro- gram Completed (Continued from page one) Wid-tsoCornell University; Dr. J. A. U. S. Bureau of Reclamation; Miss Rose Jones, kindergarten e, spec- ialist, Volumbia University; Ephof Utah president raim Bergeson, S. M. Winder, State Farm Bureau; Farm State Bureau; secretary Utah Harden Bennion, state commissioner of Agriculture; A. W. Ivins, president U. A. C. Board of Trustees; Dr. E. G. Peterson, president of the college and Director William Peterson of the experiment station and extension service. During the encampment the Utah State Farm Bureau will conduct twice daily a special leadership training school in which officers oi both the national and state farm bureau organizations will participate. The regular quarterly directBureau ors meeting of the Farm of forenoon be held the will July 22. Representatives of the Utah Poultry Producers Cooperative Marketing association will be present throughout the encampment to at- tend the poultry demartment meetings, held twice daily, at which Dr. Davis of Petaluma, California, be the principal speaker. The Holstein-Friesia- will Utah will association thq col20th. n hold a special meeting on lege campus Tuesday, July The entertainment features of this years Encampment promises to be more attractive than those of efother a any year, since special fort is being made to provide games, other attractions sports, movies-an- d with an appeal to every member of the farm family. Unusual preparat- ions are being made for the great play hour which has been so successful in the past as to have at- tracted national attention. This to be event, every repeated evening, will have a prominent place in the moving pictures to be made of the encampment. The extension service is urging farmers to bring their own camping outfits, if possible. For those who have no camping outfits, tents will he provided at a nominal rental fee. There are only about one hun dred and fifty of these tents, however, and these cannot be expected to go far by way of meeting the de mand for accommodations. Women and children are also being urged to bring their own suits, bathing if they expect to enjoy the swimming Pool in the college gymnasium. Steady Increase in Pure Breds better Sires-Bett- er Stock Campaign Shows Increase in Members. Tptr fer th U&IU4 BtStM of Dprtinnt Arrloultor) One hundred and fifty new member a month la the average number of live stock owners Joining the Better Sires-fitttJur Stock camnalen er Vice-Pres- ., ARTHUR WISCOMBE Cedarview, Utah the bureau of animal industry, United States Department of Agriculture. The members have adopted the use of pure-bre- d sires for all kinds of live stock on their farms, including poultry. This increase in membership Is believed to be a good Index of progress in live stock improvement in this country. During the three months, January 1 to March 31, as shown by the report Just issued by the bureau of animal 450 owners signed enrollment blanks, thus affiliating themselves with the movement and bringing the total number of persons so enrolled to 10,560. Persons participating In this work receive from the department educational literature on animal breeding and feeding and also a lithographed sign, Pure-BreSires Exclusively Used on This Farm. Many other agencies, also, are at work striving toward the same goal, but in most cases their Influence is not so easy to measure. Leading Counties. In the report jnst Issued a list of 43 counties shows that each of these areas has more than 100 persons who Bires exclusively are using pure-bre- d for the Improvement of their herds and flocks. In each of the three leading counties the number of persons active in this work exceeds 500. The relative standing of these counties Sec.-Trea- s., Roosevelt, Utah .V.ViV.V.VAV.W;1 Cattle Situation First Part of 926 1 tali will be more ia accord with yearly production than for 4 years past, when they have greatly ex- ceeded this. Any material reduction in marketings during the next six months may be expected to result in a rather sharp advance in cattle prices, for the underlying position of the market seems strong. The extent of this advance will depend somewhat upon the coni situation in the feeding states. Another good corn crop and continued low prices of corn, with hog numbers as but little larger, should result in a big a little higher than during the first demand for unfinished cattle since half of 1925, and the highest since the heavy marketings of the past 6 1920. The average cost of all months have depleted the supplies slaughter cattle as reported by the of such cattle in the feeding states packers for the first five months of to the lowest point in 5 years. 1926 was $7.53, compared with $7.-4- 6 The indications are that the run for the same period last year, and of western cattle this fall will be $6.69 for 1922 the low year. This short of steers, especially beef steers higher cost was due to higher level but may include an unusual proporof prices for the cheaper kinds of tion of old cow's, especially if the cattle such as butcher cows and present prices of cutter cows are heifers, bologna bulls, common and maintained. Since feed conditions inferior steers, there being an in- are generally very good in the stant demand for kinds of beef suit- west and cattle wintered well, they able for the sausage trade. The should be in good condition at better grades of steers sold around marketing time. $1.00 per hundredweight lower than The supply of corn-fe- d cattle for last year, and the market for these the next 4 or 5 months will prob- kinds has been generally wreak dur- ably be considerable above that of ing most of the time. last year so that any increase in The results of cattle feeding op- cattle prices due to reduced supplies Pure-Bre- d County and erations during this period were of all cattle may be expected to afSire Users County Agent 592 generally unsatisfactory, in spite of fect prices of cheaper kinds of catPulaski, Va. E. C. Grigsby.. New Haven, Conn. Raymond the low price of corn. However, tle more than those of the better 552 K. Clapp 550 the demand for stocker and feeder grades. Prices of fed cattle, howUnion, Ky. R. O. Wilson cattle evidences a feeling of con- ever, should show considerable imimk Special activity in fidence in the future, since the price levels. provement during January, February of unfinished cattle has been ma- provement from present and March of this year centered In above last year. Shipments New Haven county, Connecticut, terially cattle into the leading-feedinof unfinished though participants were listed from states for the 6 months 13 counties in 8 states. below a were last year. little Development of Movement. In the s better-sireAgricultural outlook for The development of the Fertilizer saved is money saved. movement during the last six years February, it was indicated that an has been marked by a steady increase annual inspected slaughter of catAs a catch crop, feterita has proved In the number of participants, by ex- tle and calves much in excess of worth and place among Kansas its head would result in furthcellent support from the agricultural sorghums. and city press, and by direct efforts er depletion in cattle numbers. The k of organizations and exten- slaughter during the first 5 months Dry, unleached wood ashes furnish sion workers. County agricultural of this year was over 6,000,000 potash to the soil and benefit it in agents, representing the various states head and for the first half of the other ways. and the United States Department of year w'ill be well over 7,000,000 The rugged, stretchy, growthy, fastAgriculture, hare conducted most of head. This would mean a total the work in their respective counties. yearly slaughter for 1926 oi growing, heavy boned, deep bodied, e The Department of Agriculture keeps 15,000,000 head. If the slaughter hog is best for pork producrecords of progress and furnishes suit- during the first half bears the usual tion purposes. able educational literature and Infor- relation to the total. A combination of lime and sulphur mation. There are many indications, howthe in depart- ever, that there may be a rather dusted over cucumbers, nielofts and A recent development of lending coun- sharp falling off in the marketings squashes every ten days steers the ments service is that and It is easy try new, papers electrotype cuts matof both cattle and calves during the bugs elsewhere effectively. Use handle. text and to and hydrated prepare furnishing illustrations second half of this year. The situ ter for special editions devoted to live- ation in the producing areas of the lime. stock Improvement. West and Southwest both physically SAVE THE MIDDLEand financially is much better than man grumbling MANS PROFIT railroad a I heard a year ago. There is much evidence had road cement A by buying SADDLES the other day. con- of returning confidence in the busifrom the manudirect track railroad a beside built been is endforced and Send for onr liquidation facturer. the ness, On necting two populous towns. a line ed. Prices of breeding cattle show Illustrated free catalog completion of the cement road, Western over The Saddle last considerable improvement the and of automobiles was put on, Mtg, Co. there Is little indication railroad robbed of most of Its pass- year. While 1651 Larimer St. The railroad of a tendency to expand production, - Colorado enger business. . Denver, com- it is possible that marketings this man was grumbling because his to pay -- 4 pany had been compelled cement the of per cent of the expense When you are in need of a new Bull, remember we are producroad. type of Beef Animal that the ing the smooth, thick fleshing Look them over before buying demand. should beef we buyers Another of my notions Is, aswe have elsewhere. assert our civil rights as cause and rights, Dschssas, Utah our religious E. S. LUSTR& E01TS serted us as respecttreat to Cattle Hereford Fere Bred the politicians treat us. churchmen as the fully live-stoc- k better-live-stoc- k Cattle slaughter inspection 1926 was the second lar the period on record, bein ceeded in 1918. Calf slaughter was also the second largest, exceeded only in 1925. Combined cattle and calf slaughter was the largest for the period ever recorded. In spite of this heavy slaughter, prices of slaughter cattle averaged d live-stoc- 12,-000,0- 00 live-stoc- big-typ- |