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Show rs . 6 THE UINTAH BASIN FARMER SIX INSTRUCTORS WILL DEMONSTRATE IX THE LADIES DEPARTMENT strations will be supervised by Kozina Skidmore and Afton Odell. Food and nutrition will be handled by Christine B. Clayton and Sadie O. Morris. Among their subjects treated will be Planning for Last year over 800 women received instruction which was given in the 6 Family,old. Feeding the Child 2 the ladies department. This year to years Mrs. Rena B. Maycock and Effie many more will be on hand for the AGE AND SIZE OP COCKERELS six instructors which will be ready Barrows will spend their time on A SPLENDID WAY TO the important subject of Hom'e CAPONIZING knowledge. TISE UINTAH BASIN TURKEYS to impart their demon and Management. millinery Clothing Within the last few years the The supremacy of the Uintah Bas-grobusiness of producing ce&ons has in this and in rapidly country, tuikey has been established and increasing numbers of capons are hi3 fame h(,raIded from Pacific to t being raised m the Middle Western lhe Atlantic coast. For two years m States. During the winter months capon is reglilarly quoted in the the Uintah basin turkey has topped markets of the large eastern cities, the market in both markets. t Massachusetts and New Jersey are is this supremacy of the Basin It the great centers for the growing of capons, while Boston, New York, turkey we want to keep and still and Philidelphia are the important spread its fame into all sections markets. of the United States, and do so in The time of year when caponiz- - such a way that when one speaks of Downright sincerity of ing should be performed, so far as the King of the Thanksgiving feast the effects of the operation and the he thinks of Uintah basin, purpose, coupled with a rapidity and ease of healing are Advertising is the only way this concerned, is of little importance, can be done and in the following sympathetic understandThe capons seem to recover and do way. Within the next few years well at any time. Certain (other every section of the United States ing of your problems. considerations, however, do influ- - can hear of the Uintah basin turkey ence the time, says the United and people made to long for one to States Department of Agriculture, grace their festival table, although The age and size of the cockerel are they may have to be content with very important. As soon as the one from some other section, cockerels weigh 1 2 to 2 pounds. Every Basin home and business or when 2 to 4 months old, they home must become a medium of be operated upon. The low- - vertising the Uintah basin turkey, er age and weight limits apply par- - especially when writing letters to ticularly to the American bree3, those outside of the Basin and state, while the higher apply to the Asia- think how easy this will be to tics. If smaller than this, their just reach every section, bodies do not give room enough to Special printed envelopes featur-wor- k handily. On the other hand jug the turkey could be used by every they should never be over 6 months home and business house, old, as by this time the testicles WENDELL, Idaho, July 3. C. A. have developed to a considerable ex- - Samuelson has inaugurataed a move tent, the spermatic arteries oarry to popularize the Wendell country greater amounts of blood and the turkey throughout the United States danger s of pricking these Arteries hy Vernal the picture of a turkey Utah and causing the fowl to bleed to 0n having and every envelopes asking death is greatly increased. one in the country to use them in The fact that capons are in great . writing letters to friends and busiest demand and bring the best pric- - ness houses. es from the Christmas season un- Mr. Samuelson last season sent til the end of March, and that it his turkeys to a firm in Chicago, takes about 10 months to grow and wrhich was overjoyed with the them properily, makes it im- - pearance of dressed birds. This portant to hatch the chicks in early firm expects to send a representative spring so that they will be of the here this summer to look over the proper size for caponizing in June, turkey crop. Mr. Samuelson also July, and August. These are by far visited a number of big turkey mar-th- e most popular months for the ket men in Chicago and found them operation, though in some cases it all greatly interested in the turkey is performed still later. production here. U. B. I. C. INSTRUCTOR NOW IS THE TIME TO DESTROY ADVER-DETER3II- wn n ii ad-sho- uld Uintah State Bank ap-fini- sh RADIO BEGAN EXTENSION WORK WITH TRIP TO BASIN NOXIOUS WEEDS ON FARM Every year Uintah basin farmers lose many thousands of dollars in their returns from wool which is filled with burdock and cockle burs. This would not occur was every farmer willing to clean his farm of the common obnoxious weeds, which are getting a stronghold in various sections of the Basin. The five principal noxious weeds here and which are getting a stronghold in every section of the Basin are burdock, wild morning glories, cockle burs, Canadian thistle and white top. Naturally the burdock and cockle burs are doing the most damage and probably are the most widely distributed. These are the weeds that should be given attention on every farm. Special methods of control, especially that of the wild morning glory, can be secured from your county farm agent, who is not only willing to help in these matters but to organize campaigns for the eradica- The Extension News, U. A. C., July, had the following to say: John T. Caine, III, is one of the best known livestock men in Utah and the entire West. He began his extension work with the Agricultural college in 1907 when he made a trip into the Uintah Basin during the winter when the snow was three feet deep and the temperature 30 degrees below zero. Since that time Professor Caine has been connected with the Extension Service in one capacity or another, as general extension worker, director, and livestock specialist, up to June He has been with the 30, 1924. livestock industry of the state so long that one can almost see a III brand on every head of livestock In the state. Professor Caine has seen the extension work grow from the beginning, and has been the means of doing an inestimable amount of tion. good to the livestock industry of the Do state. The Extension service staff ber to not allow August and Septemgo by without a special effort and all of the people of the state to get rid of all weeds on the farm. will miss him greatly. It pays dividends for every day In our July issue of THE UIN- Put in bigat the work. Should the TAH BASIN FARMER, Professor seed pods be at all ripened the weeds Caine published the best article that should be placed in piles and has ever been written on the Uintah Basin livestock situation. Prof. Caine has judged at many of the 1924, besides the many herds he Basin fairs the last being the Live- has visited at various trips to the stock Show at Vernal, May Day, Basin. The modem marvel of science is the greatest factor in education since the invention of the printing press. Agriculture, economics, English and foreign languages may be learned through its use. The Presidential campaign will be on the air. The worlds best music is broadcast every evening from the large cities. The possession of a RADIO SET is a box seat to theatres, conventions, musicals, concerts, class rooms and universities. With sets selling as low as $35.00 their possession is not a matter of finance but simply of determination. W. L. Woolf Dealer in HIGH GRADE RADIO GOODS ROOSEVELT, UTAH |