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Show THE SAUNA SUN, SAUNA, UTAH News Notesin Its a Privilege to Live Utah I Weevil Harmful Mexican Catholics in Meeting of Protest to Clover Crop J 1 Effective Control Afforded by Fungous Disease Which Attacks It. A Provo. Landslides In Provo canyon during the cloudburst there early property Sunday' morning damaged belonging to the state, the Utah Power and Light company and the Denver & Rio Grande Western .Railroad company to approximately $10,000. Graham Banner Mary srwfjTfitnncwjf A DEER ADVENTURE (Prepared by tha United States Department of Agriculture.) Parowan. The fifth anual show and sale of southern Utah Rambouillet breeders has been announced for Par- owan, September 14, 15, and 16. This section of Utah is one of the leading breeders of Rambouillet sheep in the United States and this event brings out exceptional individuals in all classes. . j urnc cctvKKST The clover leaf weevil sometimes does considerable damage to the clover crop, but seldom causes total crop failure because of the rather effective control afforded by a fungous disease which attacks it in the larval or grub stage, says the United States Department of Agriculture. The damage ts most severe in backward seasons. d Dear Mother Deer, said Robby Deer, please tell me a story." "What will I tell you about, my litd tle beauty?" said Mother Deer. "Oh, tell me a story of the days when you lived In India," said Robby d Deer. I have heard how we got our name, because our little wee antlers come out from bones covered with skin, and we have these funny-lookin- g bonea also on either side of our nose which deer. give us the name of And, too, 1 know we are also called the Muntjac deer. Well, said Mother Deer, I will tell you a story of one time In India. My home was In the dark forest, where lived the tigers and the leop- Rib-Face- ltib-Face- d Rib-Face- ltib-Face- j Indication of Pest. Tiie presence of the pest is indicated by a ragged appearance of clover and alfalfa plants, when the dirty greenish worriilike or larval stage of the inHelper. The Denver & Rio Grande sect may be found around the base of Western Railroad company is winding the plants, according to Farmers Bulup its gravel and ballasting work on letin 14S4-F- , The Clover Leaf Weevil this division this week and when comand Its Control. pleted the line will be newly ballasted The principal food plants of the from Colton to Grand Junction, Colo clover leaf weevil seem to be red The double track section between clover, alfalfa, and white clover. All here and Colton is already finished the other varieties of clover are also Hundreds of men have been working eaten, including alsike and occasionalon the stretch to Green River, where ly sweefclover, and some varieties of the new work joins that finiished a beans. The beetles have been refew years ago between Green River corded as feeding also on timothy, and Grand Junction. green wheat leaves, burdock, soy Ephraim. The swamp lands of the beans, various ilowers, and even leaves water control district of corn. Effective Control. of Sanpete county are proving to be In view of the effective control over more valuable than the most optimistic had supposed, observed C. S. Scott, tills pest given by the fungous disor pracSanpete county agricultural agent. Ex- ease, it is seldom necessary tical to measures control direct apply ceptional results" have been obtained against this Insect alone. However, on a small area devoted to demonstraby spraying the crop with a mixture tion purposes, the agent reports. of an acre of canhing peas or arsenate of lead at the strength of two of the powder to 50 galyielded ninety boxes of shelled peas lons pounds of water, including one pound of is of a test and trebi barley expected a sticker, the mixas laundry soap to yield an average of seventy bushels ture at the rate of 100 being applied to the acre. gallons to the acre, a kill of 95 per cent of the larvae has been obtained Fort Duchesne. When Harden Ben-niostate commissioner of agricul- under the usual seasonal rainy weather ture, and President E. G. Peterson of condition. The bulletin contains considerable the Utah Agricultural college, leaders information relative to the pest, lta of the two forces which are combindistribution, injury to crops, and coning in a fight against the noxious weeds on Utah farms visited the trol. A copy of the publication may be obtained free, as long US the supUintah basin at this years convention, held last week, they found the weeds ply lasts, from the United States Department of Agriculture, Washington, . and other impurities werebeing chopD. C. burned basin from and and pulled ped fields at a .fast pace. Salt Lake City. The numbers of Secretary Jardine Has livestock grazed on national forests Arranged Wool Grades continue to decrease, it is shown in Secretary Jardine of the Departthe annual report of the United States ment of Agriculture has signed an forest service." During the calendar official order establishing standards year 1925 there were a total of 1,696,-84- of the United States for grades of cattle and horses and 6,178,104 wool and wool top to become effective . sheep and goats grazed on the nation-- July 1, 192C. al forests of the United States. This The standards, replace those for compared with 1,78J,272 cattle and grades of wool which were estab-- . horves and 6,330,376 sheep and goats lished by the secretary May 18, 1923, the. year previous, making the de- as effective. July 1, 1923, the changes one in crease year amount to 85,426 being a subdivision of several of the cattle and horses dnd 152,272 sheep ' grades to increase the number in the series from seven to twelve, and the and goats. addition of numerals with the AmeriSalt Lake City. Although showers can terminology in designating the with a precipitation of .52 of an inch grades. fell in Salt Lake City and near vicinThe official standards of the United ity Saturday afternoon and evening, States for grades of wool are based was.not general through- on diameter of fiber, ranging from out the state, and Ogden in the north 36s to 80s.- - The superseded standand Provo to the south reported noth- ards were also based on diameter of drizzle. Howfiber. In the practical forms of the ing more than ever, reports from Provo indicated present standards and the superseded that a heavy downpour fell late Friday standards, the corresponding samples are: 64s, Fine; 58s, y2 Blood; 56s, night and early Saturday morning. Blood ; 48s, M Blood ; 46s, Low 14 Salt Lake City. Despite general 44s, Conmion; 3Gs, Braid. Blood; of drought, precipitation complaints during the month of July in the Salt Lake valley was .67 inch above. the Orchard Requires Qare " normal, according to the monthly me- to Return Good Profit teorological summary of the weather .Environment and man must bureau. The mean for the month was to produce fruit, says Prof. R. 1.21 inches, wlple the normal for July of the horticulture departBarnett J. .54 inches. is given in the report as ment of the Kansas State Agricultural college, and many men would fail Salt. Lake City. Road disbursements during the month of July as fruit growers even if placed in the amounted to a total of $174,716.79 ac- Garden of Eden as once befell one of . cording to announcement from the of-- our eminent ancestors. The home orchard of Kansas has, fice of John E. Holden, state auditor. Of the total amount $44,353.43 went between the years 1910 and 1920, pracfor general maintenance, $12,159.37 for tically disappeared. Professor Barequipment, and $53"45.03 for adminis- nett attributes this to diminishing soil fertility, drought, failure to conserve tration. The report shows' also spent for special maintenance such moisture asi was available, and attacks of pests. Kansas, once a state wrk. producing a surplus of apples, must Salt Lake City. Nearly 79,000 acres now depend- on other states for a porof alfalfa are expected to be harvested tion of its supply. The question is, in Utah during the year of 1926, indi-- could the home orchard be brought eating an increase of 10,000 acres over back, and would it be profitable? Pro-- ' fessor Barnett answers "yes, but he the crop of the previous year, according to the report of Frank Andrews, accompanies his answer with a great agricultural statistician for the United many ifs." : States department of agriculture, issued on August 5. .The actual acreage harvested during the year is subject however, to climatic conditions during .'the next two months. rib-face- d Rib-Face- d Manti-Ephrai- Tourist Camp Made of Discarded Street Cars One-sevent- h 6 . Salt Lake City. A substantial increase in production of alfalfa for seed in Utah over last year was forecast for the season by the United States department of agriculture Thursday. It is estimated that the acreage this -- year will be 79,000-- , or aproximately 10,000 more than last year.. . For the purpose of stimulating interest among cattle breeders of ths state to insure the entrance of a Utah state herd m the Pacific international livestock exhibition in Portland this fall, Earl J. Cooper, director of the extension service of the Logan. ' Association. of America, and R. E. Everley, field man of the association for the northwest met Tuesday afternoon with members of the Utah State Holstein Breeder's at the Logan chi tuber of commerce. Holstein-Friesia- Start clipping the pasture with the mowing machine this month. Eggs can be preserved' for a period ' . of from eight to ten months. Time may mean nothing to fly time means a lot but a hog, The Muntjac Deer. ards, as well as other deer families, but we were the cleverest of the lot Ah, yes, we used to bark with delight (for we make sounds .very much like barking, as you know, for you can make them) as we ran through the forests. But one day a terrible leopard thought he would catch me, and he went for me Oh, what a time I had! I ran so quickly that even he with all his quickness could not catch up A. tourist camp has been opened, which la believed to be the only one of its kind In the United States, oa with me, and I ducked my- head as 1 the outskirts of Lawrence, Kan. It is composed of six old type street cars set In a quadrangle and each one la ran through the thick underbrush, so with cots, kitchenette, electric lights, shower bath with hot and cold water, etc. The camp baa a equipped that he could not see me half the time. too. library, And then, when I was safe from him, I made sure of not being seen by ! .... hiding back of an enormous log. That was often a trick of mine hiding behind logs. But, oh, I was a proud and happy, d deer that time when I escaped from the leopard who wanted to catch me ! But now my days of danger are over, and all I think of Is my happy home in the zoo and the beautiful children I have here." And Robbie drew close to his beaud tiful little mother and said : -But oh, I love-t-he glories of the dangerous adventures with the safe endings ! Two to three pounds of grain per day will keep the yearling heifers growing. fawn-colore- A legume in the rotation Increases yield and protein content The extra marxln Is nrofit 5 ' Wy '' J Each in His Own Way . (By ALICE CROWELL HOFFMAN.) Each glad bird sings Its "lay me down"' When roses tint the sky. Each cricket chirps its evening prayer When stars shine out on high. The bees all seem to think It best ' To buzz their evening pray'r; The bull-frocroak their thankfulness Eor Gods great loving care. little folks by snowy beds Kneel down at close of day. While in a hushed and reverent voice Their ev'ning prayers say. And And Godi our- - Father, understands His creatures one and all, Although In dlffrent languages Upon His name they call. Ice Cream Was Lacking Don was invited to a party, and he had 'visions of heaping dishes of Ice cream being passed to the guests, but when it came time to eat the hostess served a little hot luncheon with sugar cookies as dessert. When' it came time to go she said to Don, Well, Don, I hope you have enjoyed the iTarty. I did after I Yes, he admitted, used myself to doing without any Ice cream. Father Francis J. lluruey of St. Patrick's church in Washington is an avowed candidate for national chaplain of the American Legion at the annual convention to be held in Philadelphia in October. Father Hurney was chaplain on the U. S. S. Charleston in the World war, making nine crossings when submarine warfare was at its worst Under present custom Catholics and Protestants are elected to the position in alternate years and an Episcopalian minister now holds the chaplainship. PARACHUTE PUPIL A nobly proportioned and beautifully executed monument to the memory of Iere Jacques Marquette, Jesuit missionary awl explorer, was unveiled at Mar- shall boulevard and Twenty-fourtstreet, Chicago. The monument was provided by a fund established by B. F. Ferguson, which is being administered by the Art Institute of Chicago. h Drink All Over Him Aunt Alma took her little niece and nephew out for a stroll in the park. As they were walking slowly along the bank of- the stream, Ernest playfully threw- some stones in the water. Aunt Alma cautioned him about getting too near the edge, for fear he might fall in.. Anna, hearing; the precaution, piped up and said, "Yes, and if he does fall In, he get a dwlnk all over ' . . himself. When Armored Tank Meets Tank - . No. Dust for Babiet Little Hazel had been told that bab.Ies were made from the dust of the earth. One day when the rain was falling In torrents she stood gazing sadly out of the window. Why, Hazel, what makes you look so sad? asked her mother. . n she replied, Ive been 'Cause, wanting a little brother to play with, and now there wont be any dust left to make one. . Sait, fresh water, and shade are all absolutely essential to live stock In hot weather. Unveiling Memorial to Marquette rib-face- . Weeds and grass utilize plant food and moisture badly needed by growing . crops. REV. F. J. HURNEY When Candle It Angry When Is a candle angry? When It flares up. At Lakehurst, N. J.. the government maintains the only parachute school in the United States. Above, Chief Instructor A. F. Starr is showing one of the pupils how to operate the release pins. Fort Wadsworth. Staten Island, was the scene of a battle which rugo-tbetween New Jersey's famous World war regiment, the Three llundretf Twelfth Infantry of the Seventy-eight- h division, and the "enemys armored tanks. Two tanks are shown above in close combat. , |