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Show THE UINTAH BASIN FARMER DUCHESNE FARM pay big. BUREAU MEETING Cultivate land intended for corn veek from now until planted. every Trrr.n UFALCO There should be from 1 to 10 acres ' of corn on every Basin farm this Saturday, February 9, nearly 50 year. Conserve every bit of mois- people gathered at Upalco to attend tore possible, you will need it all the monthly meeting of the Du- - befor 4b season is done. Read the chesne county tann bureau, presld-- record of the mountains surrounding Vigorous Campaign Being Planned Against Bark iieetles m Kaibab Forest at eta olaimfl fTfia b E ft-zxa4- - eA. JZSZ PJJni arainst the bark ed over by Chester H. Hartman. UmaMn0 nnrfim 6 1 help neighbor. th norv1rn it, But two of the twelve locals were Organize community round robins f 7 Hrs,R not represented. Neola and Mount- - for 4bia work hxit Plow and culti- then cultivate some more. tYI tt Forester R ?, The minutes of the vate, ain Home. With the proper organizatlon in n during, the ,1?s.t .I1ca55le.d annual meeting were read and ap- - each community eveu the younger zi. n two which after school' and on Saturdays ,ta3 7roven proved, and also the annual report, to entire inadequate can do a of by the uccretary The SSSumS ? lart beeUa thT for In the voting for secretary, S. K ieaTier work though It has proven very effective 4he. epr?a?. J the beetle Daniels of Mt. Emmons received 4 if the weather stays onen ' co- - Jn.imiting SUCh ucn xutu oiauua ui (, votes, and J. P. May of Roosevelt, operation with the schools may be haH-wa- y measures, however, are 5 votes. advantag of 4b dangerous, as beetles may assume a nfpTnprZ0 tke A Teuk 81111 more gorons offensive at any 7 lPrnf- A. nW Theodore Johnship drive with chool a? Zt Jital atime might- made to beat them with a ?eing son, state representative, to take ior both pu- counter offensive as early this spring Pd charge, each community to use him p pafent 7 as long as necessary to make the ume buf cultivate I4,,13,.11.0!? tbat 4bls will eliminate all danger of a dis- dewhen to and canvass, through astrous outbreak of bark beetles in liver him to the next place of work. this for many years to come. region Mr. Johnson told in detail the plan In 1922, crews working on the of work and what would be necescontrol of these beetles cut down a sary to make the drive. season comes on. Certain busy total of 5,680 large pine trees badly George H. Harrison, editor of and branches of the orchard infested with beetles, peeled the THE UINTAH BASIN FARMER, twigs trees, when heavily infested with bark off, and undoubtedly succeed- told of the plans of the new farm or Injured by insects frequently ed in killing millions if not billions journal for the betterment of the can be removed m the course of of these The destructive insects. farmers of the Uintah Basin. In the work work, however, merely served ito pruning operations. Frank P. Wellman of Vernal, out- - f pruning, should always check their advance, and so in 1923, lined plans for boys , and girls club be given to thought the further control measures were con- maintaining work and urged the early appointing of the trees to facilitate the shape - tinued and a total of 6,250 more appliof club leaders in every communi- - cation of sprays. In trees were felled and peeled. How To Prune Trees. ty so that the various projects could the two ypars, approximately flve Also the be gotten under way. In cases of severe insect injury million board feet of timber has need of a county fair in the fall and large trees should be severely cut been cut down, apparently sacri- the hope of a Basin fair where Uin- back or dehorned in order to pro- ficed to beetle control. If it had tah and Duchesne countys club duce new healthy wood and in or- - not been cut, however, the beetles work would come in competition and der that all parts of the trees may would have killed it so the loss is With old trees more apparent than real. the best from both counties be tak- - be better sprayed. The en to the state fair this fall. cost approximately however, too much wood should not control work County Agent E. Peterson ex- - he removed at one time, and the $10,000 a year in 1922 and 1923. plained the great help a county agent dehorning process should be extend-fo- r Duchesne county would be, not eI over two or three years. Small only to the county but to the entire limbs and twigs incrusted with He also told how to go scales, insects, or punctured by the uni Basin. about to secure the services of an periodical cicada, or agent from the extension depart- etc., usually may be removed to ad- mi vantage. ment. Ml Pruning should he done before F. O. Lundberg of Fort Duchesne Ml told of the unsuccessful attempts of 4be aPPlicaiin of the dormant spray mause to waste 3 t spray counsiQpe division of Western Uintah the terials n hmbs and brancbes, 4h3t Ml ty last fall to maintain wheat at are 40 b be Ml removed They $1.00 per bushel as had been agreed as Ml to 4ran aa tbe clsely Eljjunwwnn1 sawe.J, earlier in the season. comand to insure rapid H. T. Hall of the Upalco mill read PsslbJ Ml tie contract they were Pttio? out . ?' . aa'Scse'Sy! i'Si Neighbor should 11?. estnt be eliminated at one blow, a consid- erable larger expenditure of money will be needed. Expert opinion seems to feel that thls is the cheapest way out of the matter nevertheless, as small appro- - mere priatIon3 rom year t0 ye serves to prevent the beetles spread- lug to new areas, and do not stop tha destruction In the areas where it is already well established. Here the destruction of trees and timber continues at an alarming rate. At any time ithe beetles may become more active and break through the sce methods and escape into parts of the pine timber which are still free from these beetles and do a tre-of damage. Under the1 circumstances that the 1 vLotous offensive best are no4 being made for such Plans . camnaifm on a scale approximate- ly flve times larger than that em- barked upon in either 1922 and 1923. It is hoped that funds will be made available for this work as tbat is now the only point standing jn tbe way 0f a successful prosecu-t?n nf ranmaijm aeainst the ark beetles which threaten to des- t the also7 of Rs fuSe but asTforesVof pine lumber for all (this Intermountain region. ,, pLS ImB S3) Us Good Paper When You Write? We Can Print Anything yrrf Do It. RiHt. PlHIllHlilHlIHIiilillillHEiEiDll tree-hopp- lateatr sliding price U.OOnpHaShlad the in Perniailny fnr thp Th,e matter ot seeing cer- - tilled seed wheat was also gone in to. Hylas C. Smith of Fort Duchesne read the preamble to the U. B. I C. The booklet that he had written. matter of a county agent was taken up also and various methods were proposed to secure an agent for Du It was also decid- chesne county. ed to have the tuberculin test for the dairy cattle of the county. A motion was passed that the sec retaries of every farm bureau local he instructed to subscribe for THE UINTAH BASIN FARMER and that the matter of making the farm paper the official organ of the county farm bureau be passed on in every local that the general opinion of all injuries er, 'ttree'' and Ml 1141,18 In cutting large limbs special care should be taken to prevent strip- m ping of the bark from the trunk. Ml A large limb is best removed from the under, side at a distance of 6 or Ml 8 inches from the trunk until the Ml The second cut saw is pinched. should be made on the upper side Ml limb an ich or two farther Ml from the base of the limb than the Ml first one, and continue until the It is then easy to saw Ml limb falls. 0ff the limb close to the tree trunk Ml and in iine with the woody surface. Ml Treatment of Tree Wounds, Tree wounds due to removal of Ml iarge limbs or to injury from anyo Ml cause, should be properly disinfect-sed and treated with waterproof cov- As soon as the limb is cut ering. the off, edge of the bark and the Ml cambium should be coated at once Ml with shellac, and unles this is done while the cut surface is still moist Ml the value of the shellac is practicalwound is then ready to be treated with disinfectant, such as and cre0sote, which will penetratecresot-preachAfter sterilize the wood. jng the wood should be protected from moisture by means of a heavy coat of coal tar. Instead of using the materials in' separately, they ma be combined d a mixture containing about coal tar. A creosote and oil is linseed and lead white pure satis--" as not while often employed, coal as the paint factory it 13 a good deal better than noth- - n n ffij M i! lost. ' ly The If ever there was a time since the settlement of the Uintah Basin when the gospel' of cultivation should be to its inhabitants, that time is now. Every Basin farmer should know all about cultivation and not only know but already been on some of his land and just culti- On many Basin farms vated it. fall "wheat and alfalfa could already have had one cultivation. But dont stop with one make two and even three. Newly plowed land laying a for just ,fevr days before seeding would respond wonderfully to a It will pay and harrow cultivation. m Ml Have- - you started cultivating your alfalfa fields! M You Cultivation will conserve moisture. know we liave liad very little snow this winter. Save all the moisture you can by cultivating early and often. Cultivation will destroy grasshopper eggs and other pests. Grasshoppers are hatching now and you remember how they kept on hatching throughout last season. Fight by Cultivating Let's talk cultivation with .our neighbors to in Farm Bureau meetings and all raise the biggest and best seed crop in the U. S. A. this year. co-oper- ate ed Ml Ml Ml Ml one-thir- two-thir- ds tar-creoso- te Ing. E. M. OAKS, County Inspector. Ml Ml J. G. PEPPARD SEED CO. II II m M ii |