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Show 4 THE UINTAH BASIN FARMER iPen of Barred Rock Chickens Won By Eastern Division wi bgin farmer, r4 t Prizes Awarded Boys & tklUtm. Established 1924 Published 1st of Each Month at Vernal, Utah Girls Clubs By UINTAH STATE BANK Entered as second-clas- s matter at the post office at Vernal, Utah, under the act of Congress of March VERNAL, UTAH 3,, 1879. : Office; Utah. Vernal Express, Vernal, Telephone 24. Subscription Price, one year BABY BEEF PROJECT 50c Editor George H. Harrison. Violet Harrison....Business Manager TO THE ADVERTISERS O iThe placing of advertising where will do the most good is someWe wish times a difficult problem. to submit the following reasons why we think our paper is an excellent advertising medium for those who especially have something to sell to farmers. VI. We have the largest circulation of any paper going directly into Uintah Basin farm homes, and we sincerely believe it is being read f with keener interest than any other publication circulated in the Basin. 2. The paper is the only one of its kind in this territory dealing exclusively with and for the farmers. 'Z. Your advertisement will be read by subscribers who are poteD.-tipurchasers interested in what you offer. Your advertisement, no matr 4. howi ter. large or how small it may be, will receive the same attention; will always be given good position and set neatly and attractively. it The winners of the cockerels were Alfred Owens, 'Randlett, 1st; Owen Goodrich, Tri-- (i Tridell Glenn Morrill, oil, 2nd; 3rd. Eastern division, John Olsen, Naples, 1st; Wanda Johnson, Vernal, 2nd; Ivan Bascom, Naples, 3rd.. The cockerels are valued at $6 apiece. THE FARMERS INTEREST IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS The man who goes through life hunting for a soft thing can find it right under his hat. BETTER TIMES ; passerby: Whats the matter, 'Autoist (with self control): Im. just changing the air in No, the tires. PARMERS AND IMMIGRATION The complaint has been made that restricted immigration makes farm labor scarce and thus tends to increase the cost of labor on the farm. Authorities on the subject assert that the contrary is true that placed on immigration has maintain at a higher level to helped the economic condition of farm labor and to give the farmers a better - home market. for't. The chickens purchased in Salt iLake city cost more than they first anticipated, hut the finest strain in was distributed among tbe Utah club members. The clubs o the Eastern division won the $40 pVrz6 of Barred Rock consisting of one cockerel . and 4 pullets. The chickens are being taken care of by E. J. Young, Jr'., land the eggs will be distributed to the club members rext spring for Western division, al tiavd a puncture? their efforts and the boys and girls deserve much praise for their ef- -' setting. I rs rs t I It is pleasant for all of us to see The farm products up in price. increased value in July alone, according to statistics, added millions of dollars to the wealth of the producers of the country. But the best of.it is that future prospects are exThere mky be in exception cellent. here and there, but irj the long run farming business is going to be We know that a lot of better. men are of the belief Basin Uintah that this is largely political talk, but it isnt for it is not due to the that politicians or stump-speakebetter. are gradually getting prices It vis due to the fact that the acreage was not as large this year as last and the harvest far below norAdd to this the fact that mal. there are 1,500,000 more mouths to feed in the U. S. than there were in 1923 and you will see what is making farm products higher. Dont let politician, regardless of any jack-le- g he what party belongs to, tell you Just go on being thankdifferently. ful that it is true, and that the outlook for still better times is better than it has been this year. The Vernal Drug company last spring in order to promote the poul- try and capon clubs of the Boys and girls clubs offered a pen' of pure bred Barred Rock chickens and also a number of pure bred cocker els to individual club mem-jbeof the Uintah county clubs. One cf the very finest poultry shows by the various poultry cLubs J.of Uintah county was the result of Call at the UINTAH STATE BANK For SAVINGS PASS BOOK NOTE: Additional list of those completing project and en titled to $1.00 Savings Accounts: George Erickson Glines Vonda Johnsoni Vernal Grant Larson Vernal Of the many reasons for the in terest of farmers and farm comma-Initie- s in school consolidation none has perhaps had more weight than that it offers a meanis of bringing secondary education to farm children while they live at home on the farm under the guidance and with the companionship of their-- , That rural people are inparents. and tensely earnestly interested in going to high school when they can, i. e., when high schools are accessible and efficient, and that county-- I wide consolidation does offer an acceptable solution for the problem of educating farm youth is indicated by returns just received in the Bureau of Education from the county superintendent of Randolph county, Indiana. This is a county in which one room schools have been entirely replaced by consolidated schools. Last spring 370 children enrolled in the schools of this county comThis year pleted the eighth grade. 329 of them, or approximately 89 per cent, entered the freshman year of high school. In a number of schools in the county, 100 per cent of the eighth grade graduates of June, 1924,, are enrolled in high school this fall. That this is not an exceptional record in the county is shown by the fact that the total enrollment the rural schools of the county in September, 1924, was Of this number, 1,144, approximately 26 per cent, are in 4,-30- 1. high school. This exceptional record is not due throe years as it was previously, and while the farmer has been compelled to pay more for labor than formerly, it requires a wide stretch of the imagination to see how immigration has had any effect. Farm labor costs naturally went up after he war on account of higher livirg expenses and the high wages which were paid in industrial centers. Manufacturing interests increased wages as the demand for labor increased and in the due course of time drew men from the farm. Consequently, farmers had to meet the offers of other business or lose their help. The view that immigration has afRefected the farmer is stricted immigration has been in effect two years, but farm wages far-fetche- d. were mounting before that time. It is largely propoganda of a few While farm labor has not been as or two wbo clamor selfish manufacturers plentiful during the past for a protected market in which ti sell, but want the barriers let dowi so that they may employ the chea labor of Europe and thus accumu late 'large profits. to consolidation alone; other fac- tors ci.yer in, no doubt. The efficiency of the school system itself, of the high schools in particular, the fact that they offer practical courses which appeal to farm boys and girls are probably important among the various factors involved. The recAGRICULTURAL CENSUS ord speaks wrell for the people of BLANKS NOW READY the county, their school .system, and Blanks for the taking of the agricultural census in Utah were received from the bureau of - census October 29th, by Frabjk Andrews, agriculural satistician, Salt Lake city, who has been appointed to take Four charge of a district here. large boxes and two full sacks comprised the letter from the bureau, for it was registered mail, Mr. Andrews said. The bureau of census, it is said, is the only bureau which can send such a big letter. the administrative and teaching SPRINGVTLLE ONIONS REST SHIPPED FROM 1JTAU IN 1021 The most perfect car of oniors shipped from UtaJi this year went out to Springville recently according to C. J. Sorenson, divisional crop inspector, who marked the car U. S. No. 1 grade. The carload of onions measured not less than three inches In diameter. They were of the sweet (Spanish variety and "were grown ih the southwest part of town. |