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Show THE UINTAH BASIN PARMER Ui ESIN AlWelaj ftigtHftMi FARMER, Established 1924 Published 1st of Each Month at Vernal, Utah matter at Entered as second-clas- s the post office at Vernal, Utah, under the act of Congress of March 3, 1879. Office: Utah. Vernal Express, Vernal, Telephone 24. Subscription Price, one year George H. Harrison Violet Harrison. ...Business LARGEST Editor Manager CIRCULATION I tb f UINTAH BASIN FARMER is unique, because of its reaching every community in the Great Inland EmIt will be our constant enpire. deavor to ever increase its value to help in the growth and prosperity of the Basin. it FARMERS SHOULD USE PROGRESSIVE AND SAFE METHODS f t The time has come when every farmer, and most of our tenant farmers as well, should have bank accounts and pay practically all their bills by check. The man who does this, putting his entire business on a cash basis usually has a feeling of independence that is worth much As we see it, to him in his work. there are at least three excellent reasons why every farmer should be a farmer. First, when all surplus cash is deposited in the bank we have the banks receipt Cor it, and when we check against this account to pay bills, the cancelled check itself is a receipt for any payment made. In other words, the bank virtually keeps our cash account for us, and thus we have made the first step toward farm bookkeeping or account keeping. In the second place a good bank is by far the saftest place to keep any surplus funds. The farmer who keeps any considerable amounty of money at home is running risks from losses by theft or fire that are needless and that should be avoided. By keeping the money in the bank, it is not only safe, but exact chantre may be made every time, a check is issued, thus doing away practically entirely with any peed of keeping change about the house. In the third place the local banker is one of the best men in the community for the average farmer to know. It will pay wel to cultivate his acquaintance, and the surest and best way to do this is to start an account with his bank. Even if the farmer may not ever expect to need to borrow money, it is well for the local banker to know him' and know his reputation for meeting his At some time or other obligations. almost every farmer has need of credit, and at such times the good opinion of the local banker may be of great value indeed. land-owni- 1 1 ng bank-patronizi- i 4 $ f i ng BREAKERS AHEAD. of Plot No. 2 for a number ol' years, but No. 1 was made more productive from the beginning, due to the depth of plowing and not bringing subsoil to the surface. (By W. E. TAYLOR I observed a farmer plowing Director of The John Deere Soil Culture Department twelve inches deep, who was promptr. ed to do so by an enthusiastic The surface soil was dark half inches deep, making a flat tight fairly rich loam w ith a clay subsoil (Continued from last issue) fitting furrow, and subsequently nine inches below the surface. The Plowing Sandy Soil. rolled with a heavy iron roller, the plowed field was very yellow, indiThe usual advice is to plow a crops were fairly good. In the first eating that a considerable quantity sandy soil shallow. As a matter of two instances I bored a three inch of clay was brought to the surface, is needless to say his oat crop was fact, it is immaterial whether it is hole five feet in depth, finding no plowed shallow, deep or not plowed miosture, but on the rolled ground a failure and the farmer unjustly at all. Such a soil is unproductive I found moisture under the strip of condemned deep plowing. I am In plowing there is but one safe because it does not contain decayed sod to a considerable depth. organic matter (humus, sufficient convinced that packing the strip of plan to follow, and that is: Deepen to make it fertile. Sandy soil can sod prevented the escape of mois- - ' the seed bed gradually and add be made productive to any reasonable during the months of July and ganic matter in some form with each plowing. I feel that a seed bed nine depth by mixing with it a liberal August The matter. inches of deep, rightly made, is deep organic quantity Plowing Heavy Loam. inland for most crops, and if thu of sandy enough converting process In 1913 I made the following dem soil is below that depth is a hard pan to a rich loam involves a free use onstrations on a heavy loam cf barnyard manure or straw, or the i clay subsoil twelve inches having compact, the right type of below or of preunder crops, green turning the surface. Five acres were plowJlt,US( depth ed seventeen inches deep with a it is advisable to vary ferably legumes. Much cut-ovThis plow just a little every year or two, thus sandy pine land of specially designed plow. northern Wisconsin and Michigan had a broad share eand a moldboard ?H,etlng . an mPe1rvils Plow sole has been made very productive very narrow at the point where It the 't at the and tearaffof through the free use of barnyard joined the share, becoming very 6ameplw yearyear depth at broad the As the and from manure the share top dairy herds, lifted the dirt, the bottom soil (To be continued next month) practice of green manuring. If sandy soils are too deficient in which .was the clay subsoil dropped some of the inorganic elements, the to the bottom of the furrow because Cole Batteries Ghtes Tires lacking elements should be supplied had a broad share and a moldboard The Often lime where it joined the share. in a commercial form. broad part of the moldboard turned is needed. RED FRONT GARAGE I visited a sandy farm in northern the top or black soil just as an ordinary plow would do running seven Wisconsin and learned from the own- or Authorized DODGE Dealer inches deep. The subsoil er that he had paid $3.00 per acre waseight broken on botand left the up for the land ten years before. His tom and the loam remained above. A good line of Good Used Cars first move toward building up the Another was plowed seventeen plot soil was to sepure a few dairy cows, Call or Phono 1G0 g for he knew that he had a good inches deep with a It was moldboard plow which brought connearby market for cream. subsoil to the first six or Vernal, Utah necessary to purchase most of the siderable inches conof top eight soil, placing feed for his cows during the first To build up his land, siderable on top. two years. C. F. TUCKER Owner The third plot was plowed eight the first year he sowed buckwheat inches an un.-ddeep with and Tye and plowed the growths ordinary sulky The entire field was planted He also used plow. before ripening. all the manure from the livestock to corn, and all plots received the to the best advantage. Later he same treatment. VERNAL CLEANING & clovers Plot No. 1 made a yield of 85 and plowed the secplanted He also used bushels per acre. ond growth under. Canadian peas and wild sweet clover TAILORING CO. Plot No. 2 made 55 bushels per In five years acre. for green manuring. he was able to produce remarkable Earl J. Freeman, Mgr. Plot No. 3 made 70 bushels per At the time I was there he acre. crops. was harvesting 300 bushels of fine the succeeding four years PLUSH COATS, VELVETS potatoes per acre, and had a very all During of the land was plowed about and good crop of ninety day corn. By eight inches deep and cropped. Plot PLEATED SKIRTS knowing what to do and by doing No. 1 continued to make a marked it, this farmer in five years convertin production over the other OUR SPECIALTY ed as apparently worthless piece of increase two. To 2 No. Plot to back sandy land into a rich deep loam. its normal bring production required three Parcel Post paid one way Plowing Virgin Sod. years of liberal manuring. The fifth The pioneers who tamed our great year the tract was planted to alfalfa prairie areas advised that virgin sod and the growth was much ranker When answering advertisements, should not be plowed deep. Whether on Plots No. 1 and No. 2 than on to turn a flat or lap furrow depends N,o. 3. It is very evident that the please mention THE UINTAH BASupon the time the land is plowed. clay weakened the producing ability IN FARMER. If the sod is plowed during the fall, turn a lap furrow. That leaves the surface in condition to catch rain It is quite necessary and snows. to disk very thoroughly in the spring to insure a compact contact between the turned slice" of sod and the bottom of the furrow If the virgin sod is plowed in the spring, a flat furrow should be turned and immediately rolled with a heavy rolThere are now indications of better times for the The rolling is for the purpose ler of making a close contact at the Farmer, and many farms will be sold during bottom of the furrow, or, In other 1925. Now is a good time to buy, and I have a words to close all air spaces as far Farming Methods j j I deep-plowe- ; or-tu- re j i er ; .dl ?! - deep-tillin- er FARMS as possible. During the fall of the very dry season cf 1919 in Montana, I carefully examined a number of fields of wheat, flax and corn. Some fields were good in spots, nut most of them were barren of everything except I found Russian thistles. that where the ground was plowed during the previous fall and left in a roughened condition until spring and was then disked and planted, the crops made a little growth, but perished during the hot months for the want of moisture. Very little water from snow and rain was stored dur- ing the winter and early spring. We must get a nurse for Where the ground was plowed in the spring and then disked and planted, there were crops. Where the soa A we want nurse? What Father was plowed about three and one- is a night watchman. Mother the baby. Why and How i ; 50c It is with a great deal of satisfaction and pardonable pride that we are able to announce that as we go to press for February the circulation of THE UINTAH BASIN FARMER is the largest of any paper published in the Uintah Basin. The loyal support of the farmers and business men of the Basin is i acknowledged in helping us gain this distinction in just a short time over f one year since the first issue of the local farm paper was published. s As an advertising medium THE b i; 3 number of splendid places listed. - Come in and look, them over. Or if you want to sell either land or livestock, list it with me. If the price is right I can sell it. Do it now so that it can be advertised before spring. E. A. MANKER Phone 198. Vernal, Utah |