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Show THE UINTAH BASIN FARMER Once the idea was popprevails. ular that only muscular strength was necessary on the farm the strength to guide a plow, to weild an ax, a hoe or a scythe me .endurance to go through with the sweltering tasks of summer or the exposing duties of winter. These important re quisites given, a booby might fill the place as well as any one else. So some folks used to think, but what say you, working farmer boys? Do you: not place a higher estimate up-- n your services? Look up, then, and vindiacte yourselves. You are getting health and strength from the wholesome exercise of the fields; and that you may have the necessary intelligence to combine with the strength for the proper prosecution of your calling, apply yourself diligently to acquiring knowledge whenever the respite from labor shafll give you the opportunity. IffiSBrFARMERI Established 1924 Published 1st of Each Month at Vernal, Utah Entered as second-clas- s matter at 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 50c .Editor George II. Harrison Violet Harrison. Business Manager . FARM LAND DEPRECIATION 3 Into a pan large enough for It to make When answering advertisements, a layer about one-haInch thick. Add mention THE UINTAH BASone pound of cranberries, one pound please IN FARMER. of sugar and enough water to start the cooking. Put through a colander, add two tablespoonfuls of soaked gelatin and put a layer of this on top of the bananas and cream. When well set d cut Into pieces to serve. Halibut 8teaka. Have two steaks cut about an inch thick. Mix a cupful of fine bread crumbs from the center d of the loaf, with of a cupful of melted butter, a dash of paprika, a teaspoonful of salt and poultry dressing. Lay one slice of the fish In an earthen baking dish, brush generously with butter, over this arrange the bread mixture, add a few drops of hot water If needed to hold the dressing Press the other slice of together. fish on the dressing and dredge lightlj with salt, spread bits of butter over the fish, and bake In a moderate oven until the fish separates easily from the Any flavor or any colbones. or the best and the d of a Fig Pudding. Put daintiest parties pound of suet through the meat grindone-haer, work until creamy, then add and clubs. pound of finely chopped figs. Soak d One gallon will serve 20 two and cupfuls of bread one-haIn of add crumbs milk, cupfnl large dishes. The price n two eggs, one capful ol $2.50 per gallon. Order s of a teaspoon-- : sugar and ful of salt Combine mixtures, turn the day before wanted. Into a buttered mold and steam three hours. Serve with an egg sauce. lf heart-shape- one-thir- Ice Cream Brick Careful estimates based on reports from reliable persons, collected by the Farm Mortgage Bankers Association of America, discloses as without foundation in fact a statement attributed to the United States 1925, Western Newspaper Union.) department of agriculture, that farm lands had depreciated 19 billion dolia It not what we read, but what lars. The department claims to have we remember, that makes ua been misquoted. learned. It ia net what we intend, but what we do, that makea us The fact has been established that usefuL It is not a few faint wishes, the drop in farm land values is not but a lifelong: struggle, that makes the States United general throughout us valiant H. W. Beecher. and. that the actual conditions have been greatly exaggerated. SEASONABLE GOOD THINGS There is none to question that farm land does not bring the prices Canned peaches and pears make a it once did, but the most severe and dainty dessert which one may quickly Nowadays when a man puts his pronounced depreciations has been in serve In times of hand in his its hard to tell sections where inflated values preemergency. A whether its apocket threat or a promise. vailed in 1918 and 1919. In the maef spoonfulcream jor part of the country, the reducwhipped tion in farm land prices has been placed on half of very moderate. a peach or pear, Correcting the idea that farm benewith sprinkled lands are dirt cheap will be nuts or not, as it is ficial to the farmer because one wishes. certain to impro,Te agricultural creAttractive Jelly. One cupful of sift dit and encourage farm owners as of a well as owners of farm securities. ed banana, juice of one-haone-thir- for lf one-thir- (. lf well-beate- -- three-fourth- ! CALDER BROTHERS CREAMERY TVWirttC. ALFALFA SEED lf lemon, one-hal- f cupful of orange juice, Alfalfa Alf says: If I only had one-hacupful of sugar, two tabled brcod sows, ten ten good cows, about cupful spoonfuls of gelatin, a flock of hens, a few acres of pas- of cold water and one cupful of cream. ture and alfalfa, t wouldnt care Soak the gelatin in cold water, heat what the price of wheat was. Now, the bananas and sugar in a double isnt that a real modest longing? Alf boiler, add gelatin; when almost cool just as well included several nation- add the fruit juice, then cream. Pour al banks and a deed to Paradise, but he would have had no use of them, 0.1 MU il 111 il or rather would have them all, if W he could realize on his above modest wish. P lf one-thir- 1 A WORD TO Mr. Farmer NOTICE This! THE FARMER BOYS. Farmer boys, you need not envy the young men who stand behind the You M counters of the city shops. men who need not envy the young are making ready to take the places 1 of the great army of lawyers and 1 petifoggers who are subsisting by the litigation of quarrelsome and And certain- 1 contentious clients the boys 1 to not envy you ly ought who have no employment at all to give those who are growing up to man- 1 We guarantee hood without acquirirg industrious habits upon which to rely in times 1 not less than $1.00 per of great need and pressing emergm bushel for first class encies, whosfe idleness invites temptations which so often lure to mental Your clothes may and bodily ruin. marketable wheat at not be so finely spun and made as he raiment of the city boys; but threshing time this fall. with ,'ou are the peers of them all, your bronzed faces and thorny hands, however pretentious their Your business is one employment. which antedates every other voca- tun The farmer was tion in the world. plowing and sowing, and reaping his harvest long before a merchant, doctor or lawyer was ever known; and he stills stands foremost among the worlds Worker. Several generations ago the bright- pj est hoys of the farmers family were The p assigned to the professions. field. to the dull fellows were sent Nowadays a different order of things I Vernal n n Mill & Light u Company ! Vernal, Utah go 4 1 i IF YOU own suitable land and would like to grow an ESPECIALLY FINE VARIETY of ALFALFA SEED LET US KNOW RIGHT AWAY. We expect to have a good proposition to offer you in time to plant this spring. gii gn 1 go SPRING IS GETTING NEARER, TOO. M g go M HAVE YOU go fence rows, Cleaned off your fields, ditch-bankand weed patches and burned the rubbish? go Cleaned out your ditches? go go go M go s, Built the new ditches you may need to save water in a dry season? Got poison for your Prairie Dogs? IMH J.Gr. IPeppard Seed Co. Duchesne Roosevelt Vernal |