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Show Devoted VOL 5, m to tfeelVogress so. &PeveWaeTtfc t Agriculture in fie Qro&t Uintah Basin ilfc'TY CENTS PEE YEAE EOOSEVELT, UTAH, 1IAECH 15, 1929. Outlines Way to Increase The Demand For Dairy Products Early Planting Gives The Flowers A Better Chance Bowing Seeds Too ( Deep Prevents H club work is service extension of the to which aims: encourage boys and girls through proper ownership and cooperation in a stronger belief ta the de reloping of rural life and the business of agriculture; to teach them the beet farm and borne methods by enrolling them as demonstrators on some phase of the community program of worlc; to give them an opportunity to be of service hy demonstrating these methods to others; to develop In boys and girls, leadership, community cooperation, proper ideals of citizenship, and to give them social and recreational advantages. Both parents and prospective club members should have an underof what is expected of standing' members before they are enrolled. This can best be done at a joint Boys and girls 4-- a part Growth; Tiny Pods Die Easily. (By MAUD CHEGW1DDEN) By starting flower seeds indoors sow they will he ready to trans-fclainto the garden by May, and so will flower much earlier than those sown outdoors at the same lime. Some plants, however, do not endure transplanting and so can only be sown outdoors where they are to bloom. The poppy is an example of this. Asters, cosmos, petunias, larkspurs, verbemas, snapdragons, phlox irummondii, marigolds and alnnias are all suitable for starting indoors. All of these have seeds of different sixes and so need planting at different depths. Deep planting is one of the most serious faults of the amateur gardener and has actually murdered whole armies of seeds. People often bury seeds under an inch of more of hard dirt and then blame the seed because it turned up its toes in total discouragement and expired. These minute seeds need only the thinnest possible covering. You may even sprinkle them on the surface and then lightly press them into the soil with a flat board. . Larger seeds, such as those of the zinna, may be planted about a quarter of an inch deep, preferably A in rows and not too thickly. wooden meat skewer makes an. ideal tool for gardening in pans and with it you can. make rows and holes to receive the seed, and cover them up, and later when the plants have germinated you will find it useful for keeping the surface of the soil stirred up to admit air to the seedlings. ni COUHTY GAME OFFICIALS VISIT AT EOOSEVELT County Fish and Game Commissioner, John Madsen, and Game Warden, D. J. Thompson were Roosevelt visitors Thursday morning. Mr. Madsen in company vjith mayor C. I. Johnson, Craig Harmston and D. J. Thompson; made an inspection trip to the Whiterocks fish hatchery for the purpose of laying out rearing ponds to take care of a million or more , trout coming from the state hatchery. meeting of parents and prospective club members, club committee, local leaders and county extension agents. The local leader should be selected as soon as it has been decided to organize a club. The leader trill then give some valuable assistance in helping to select the demonstrators. Boys and girls between the ages of 10 and 21 years are eligible to Members should be membership. encouraged to enroll in the same project for a period of years. A new phase of the project may he demonstrated each year. The member should save clearly in mind the ob-jeof the demonstration. Five members and not more than twelve working on the same pro-ct (Ocm Meetings Called. . Duchesne county farm economic conferences will be. held in the county beginning March 19th at Duchesae at 10 o'clock. Two sessions will be held that day and all farmers of that vicinity should plan to attend. On March 20th and 21st, the conferences will continue at Roosevelt. One session" will he held each day beginning at 1:30 oclock. These sessions will cover the same material as will be taken up the day before at Duchesne and arranged for the convenience of the farmers. On March 22th, the conferences will continue at Boneta. Here two, sessions will be held beginning at 10 oclock. The sessions at Boneta will cover the same material as at the previous conferences. There is likewise arrangements for !the conferences of the farmers cl that senon. At each conference sections will be held on "farm sheep with wtih Professor Esplin from the college in attendance; on "crops Professor Hogenson from the college in attendance; on "poultry with Professor Madsen and Peterson from the extension service in attendance; bn "dairying with county agent Funk in attendance; on farm managemet with either W. P. Thomas or W. W. Owens in attendance. It will be the purpose of each section to study the problems of Duchesne county agriculture connected with our department, and to bring in recommendations to aid the particular phase of agriculture. The advise of fanners is sought at these meetings, and a farmer in each section is elected chairman. In this way it is hoped to get at the very bottom of our farm economic practices, and thus work out a program intimately associated with our own problems, and thus make it practical in every way. We believe these will be the most Important farm meetings held in Duchesne county in the past decade, and we believe it will be to the advantage of farmers to attend. Professor J. C. Hogenson of the Extension Division of the Utah Agricultural college will addressi the farmers of Duchesne on March 14 at 8 P. M.;. the .farmers of Myton, Saturday, March 16th at 2 P. M.; and the fanners of Neola, March 18th, at 2 P. M.The subject of these meetings will be crops and seed treatment. - The Old Fasliidned ftlasrfn of Dorns as we Wo uld i tinned on page four) . - Dairymen in the United States have In recent years been producing practically 99 per cent of the amount of dairy products consumed In this country, according to O. B. Reed, chief of the Bureau of Dairy Industry of the United States Department of Agriculture. While the dairy business at the present is apparently on a sound fccomomie basis, Mr. Reed warns the producers ana manufacturers that even a moderate inerease in production might easily upset the entire industry. This is true, he says, not only because we are producing within 1 per cent of our domestic requirements, but because prospective foreign supplies limit the level to which domestic prices can raise There is need for both the producer and the manufacturer to give Jmore attention to the problem Off increasing the demand for dairy7 products, Mr. Reed says. The demand can be influenced to a large extent by twb main factors improvement in quality and a better understanding of the food yalue of milk and its products by the public. There is a direct , relation between the quality, and consumption of dairy products. A milk of low quality is always difficult to dispose of to advantage, whereas miiir of good flavor and odor always influences the consumer to use this food commodity in great amounts. "No other food known to mankind today, sayu Mr. Reed, "has a more direct relation to the health of man than milk. Recent Investigations have proved this beyond a doubt. Since It Is rich in both calcium and phosphorus, milk is a very effective food for supplementing dhe deficiencies of other sub stance, such as cereals, grains, tubers, and fleshy roots, which are relatively poor in these elements. Milk also contains several of th? vitamins substances that are essential for the proper foundationing of the animal body. On the whole, according to Mr. Reed, dairymen Jiave not taken ad- vantage of their opportunity to increase consumption. It is well with- -' in the province of both the prodnc- er and the manufacturer, he says, to advertise the value of dairy pro- ducts to the health and welfare of the public. Duchesne County Agent. 1 LeROT fee don fey is one that cannot a FUNK,' fee, improved |