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Show THE UINTAH BASIN FARMER, WHY NOT BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB WORK IN DUCHESNE NEW SUBSCRIPTIONS FAST In one day, subscriptions to The is any one thing that is Basin Farmer to the num- Uintah needed in the Uintah Basin now it 22 were received. Every day of ber is to get the younger generation to in still others. Our goal for get the vision of the great country brings 1st Is 500 subscribers. Help Feb. in which they live. That vision us to them by sending in your get is the most easily secured when you subscription. This state marketed 56 per cent are a builder of the resources of home country. of its production outside, while last y0!?J How proud one is when they have TWO FIRST SUBSCRIBERS year it marketed 45 pecent The FROM DUCHESNE COUNTY something worth while average yield of this state was the accomplished How the Plans greatest in the three years since 1921 after afyeafK8 work; year and to do shown on the comparative report. grow The two first subscribers to The In the The condition of colonies this year bigger and better things. from DuBasin Farmer Uintah in Utah was rated at 96 per cent. cfpinion of the writer there is no chesne were from W. L. county better way to get our young people T. H. Woolf and Hall, proprietors to begin to take up the burden of WHY MORE HONEY IS NEEDED. their parents vision of the great of the Upalco Electric Flour mills at Basin through their struggle of their at Upalco with headquarters Roosevelt. Honey produced in the United pioneering conditions, than the variStates, if divided, would be less than ous projects in Boys and Girls three pounds a person about 3 p4r clubs. Projects that just fit our cent of the sugar consumed annual- - Busin conditions, What would be better for your ly by the average individual. Not much of the crop goes to the boy or Sirl than to complete a table. It is consumed in mers work in one or more of the bakery products or ;used in drug following: Honey club, making our future apiarists; Lamb club, our compounds. The demand for honey can be easi- - future flock masters; capon and ly and tremendously increased. The turkey clubs, our future poultry-wa- r men; Calf clubs, our future dairy- proved that. The demand for honey is not con- - men; corn, mangles, garden, alfalfa stant because the supply is not con- - sed clubs, our future agriculturists; j stant. Few sirups are as satis- - sewing, cooking, canning clubs for our home and makers future factory or as palatable as honey. A girls, mothers. little advertising will sell it. Yes, Duchesne county would have Experiences during the period of sugar shortage prove that honey better and more contented boys and It production may be ryastly increased girls with club work for 1924. without fear of overproduction, can be done if you but think so. There was not enough honey then Leaders ar;e in every community, to supply a fractional part of the A start can be made now in every demand, and if the efforts of bee- - school for all teachers know club keepers at that time had suddenly boys and girls are their best pupils increased the crop to many times as they have a vision of their future And parents its usual volume there still would accomplishments. have been enough honey to sup- - member what the boy or girl pro-pl- y the demand. duces it belongs to them. Let them, through your guidance, determine what will be done with their products. The Uintah Basin Farmer feels sure Boys and Girls club work will function in Duchesne county this When you are tired or for some year and we stand ready to help in The Basins reason every thing has gone dead every way we can. y wrong, what is there that will more future prosperity rests on the we Are and our of ders boys girls. bring you back to normal Saddles, Harness and Cowthan the smiling face of a child or willing to help them? -7 the brightness displayed by a flow- jboy Boots a Specialty. If there UINTAH BASIN HONEY The Uintah Basin honey has long had the name of the best possibly iproduced and we are proud of the With the increased producfact. tion of alfalfa seed we will come back to some of our former high productions of pounds per colony. We invite beemen from every section of the Basin to write of their experiences and plans for the future. Rmember, the thing you may know may help your neighbor materially and what he knows may help you. So exchange your views through these columns. UTAH RANKS FIFTH IN HONEY YIELD FROM ITS BEE HIVES Utah stands fifth in average yield of honey per colony, according to a report issued last week by the crop and livestock estimating division of the national bureau of agricultural While Utahs yield for economics. 1923, as of December 1, is eighty-on- e pounds, the general average over the United States is only 39.1 The four states ahead of pounds. Utah are North and South Dakota, Montana and Wyoming. The Dakotas, Mr. Hillman said, lead on account of the abundance of sweet clover planted to renew fertility of the soil on dry farms. FARM OUTLOOK MORE HOPEFUL WASHINGTON, Jan. 8. The economic condition of the farmer has improved considerably, according to the committee on statistics of the chamber of commerce of the United States,, and his outlook for 1924 is even more hopeful. The committee in a review! of business conditions attributes the agricultural improvement chiefly to the diminished spread between prices for farm products and for manufactured articles. This has been brounght about to a large extent, it says, through marketing and better opportunities for financing, with the general liquidation of obligations wherever returns from the crops permit, and expected reductions in acreage, this spring with a consequent adjustment of supply and demand. Building and construction is described in the report as showing unusual activity for the season, and, since it is in progress almost entirely in the cities, the committee finds it "one of the many evidences of the "momentous and significant the country is losing jate at which population to the cities. Although the output of automobiles continues at an enormous rate, a slowing down in this and in the building industry is predicted as the year advances, due generally to a potential capacity of output which overtops any immediate likelihood of demand, especially at this season of the year, and the general conservatism in buying which pervades all classes. the report Upon the whole, states, "the situation seems healthy and sound, with conservatism strongly in evidence in all sections. semi-annu- al sum-fami- ly rtjfc-- re-n- ot shoul-quiekl- er? Both are bright and fresh and lovely and we again are glad to be alive. One cannot but help to be better around either and the child is better for being around flowers. Our Basin homes especially those situated in the farming section fre- quently lack the brightness of the flowers, while but lew lack the chil- so it is the flowers we will urge the planting of in 1924. It frequently happens that there is not time or the proper place yet made for flowers to be planted in a garden but that is no reason In your cannot you enjoy flowers garden you can plant several rows of Mention FARMER col-dre- Keep Promising Heifers. You cannot afford to buy Inferior cows when you can raise good ones at him. Farmers should keep promis- ing heifers milkers. and raise their own One Cow in Six a Loser. One cow of every six, on an loses money for her owner. NEWTON BROS gsvwvwwwvwvwwvvww n, Butter Wrapper Specials er Al-ma- Cow-testin- THE UINTAH BASIN when answering Bran and high protein feeds are so relatively expensive that the dairyman who mixes his own ration will do well to make full use of corn, cats and at barley, say the feeding specialists state York agricultural New the a good lege at Ithaca in suggesting season. dairy ration for the fall reasonable a mixture as can be made they say( wm consist of 500 nds of corn and oats ground ds of oll ra6al and 200 euiC 300 , . pounds of glut there ever was a value of alfalfa hay shows up It Is this fall, say the men at the college who are studying the situation. fajfa in the roughage will make it possibie to use 70 per cent of feeds llbe corn oatSi barley and wheat in the various annuals and enjoy a feast to the eyes many times each A row of asters, zinnas, day. marygold, Chinese pinks and so others respond wonderfully to Be sure to the garden cultivation. allow plenty of room in the row. Yes, every Basin home in 1924 h ra(don should have a flower garden and Many letters have come in on the encourage the children to raise them is very valRemember feeding of wheat. Wheat as much as they will. not used to are We a boquet on the table helps to bet- uable in feeding. corn and like Is It all. it, that is ter digest the food. corn. used like and should be ground as valuable, Is pound for It practically At the age of 45 a man wishes Popular Testing Associations. that he knew as much as his 20 year g associations are gradold son, chirps a brother editor. he ually becoming popular throughout And if he has no son he wishes he what him to tell ought the Middle West, had one to know. Bran and High Protein Feeds Quite Expensive 100 200 500 1000 $ .80 1.50 3.25 5.25 Butter wrappers will be printed each and every Saturday on best vegetable and specially parchment prepared ink. pound, as corn. Do not use so much as to make the mixture too sticky when wet. Fifteen per cent is usually the limit, though perhaps 20 may be used. Mail orders given prompt attention and postage paid. Mention this paper when sending in order. Never Gets mgfit Answer. Scrub stock multiples as fast as pure bred but it never gets the right answer, says the Washington State Extension Service News. The Uintah Basin Scrub Sire Is Undoing. A good sire maketh a good herd, but a scrub sire is the undoing of his owner. Vernal, Utah Farmer v.v.mvAv.v.v.v.v.v? |