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Show 4 THE UINTAH BASIN FARMER DUCHESNE COUNTY FARM BUREAU L. E. POTTER, Pres. F. VV. J. MEYERS, Agriculture as a Business By G. P. BARBER. Not so many years ago it was thought that if a man could make a success at nothing else he could farm. Farming, then as now, was looked upon with some disdain by those who professed to have too many brains to farm. The average successful business or professional man has a poor opinion of the farmers intelligence, but he has a healthy respect for his dollars. It isi true that very few brains are needed merely to farm. The same is true of merely pulling teeth, or doctoring a case of mea A blacksmith can extract a sles. tooth, and almost any bricklayer can prescribe some sort of medicine for measles. There are grades and scales of efficiency in farming just as there are in dentistry and medicine. To really succeed in farming requires exceptional ability and mental equipment; more than in most other lines of work. The cake-eat-er who holds down a bookkeeping job fairly well can easily starve at farming. The farmer has to' deal with more variable elements than does the business or professional man. Nature is always an unknown quantity, and refuses to be programmed and cata logued as readily as do selling, manufacturing or advertising. Agriculture requires a finer sympathy a keener judgment, a more pronounced intuitive understanding than other industries. Few brain cells go to seed in the cranial cavity of a farmer. Agriculture is a business, since it is practiced with the object in view of earning a living. It isi the most varied, the most intricate industry known to man. The farmer, in order to be successful, must be a veterinarian of some skill, a blacksmith of no mean ability, an accountant and bookkeeper with a knowledge of modern business practice. He is something of a botanist, chemist, bacteriologist, entomologist, pathologist, and zooloist. It isi not only imperative that he be an agrono- mist, or an animal husbandman, or a horticulturist, or a poultryman he must be a combination of all of them. He is a landscape a beekeeper, a pomologist,gardener, marketing specialist, a salesman, a median, ic, a carpenter and a plumber. The fact that the farmer must possess a smattering of so many trades has When answering advertisements, please mention THE U I N TA H BASIN FARMER. QUALITY SERVICE STATION Vernal Utah Vulcanizing All Rubber Goods GAS, OIL, TIRES and TUBES Free Crank Case Service O. H. JOHNSTUN Owner given rise to the appelation of jack of all trades, with which he oftentimes has been dubbed. The jack-o- f all trades is a master of none. The successful farmer is master of his craft. He welds his knowledge of many occcpations into an efficient working machine. He is the master craftsman; the versatile peer of business men. Agriculture is at the very foundation of all industries. Mining, lumbercommerce, manuifacturing, ing are all dependent upon the products of the soil for their existence. The advance of civiliation is linked with the development of agriculture. Agriculture is not only the problem of those who till the soil, it is the problem of every man, woman, and child on the globe. All industries of man would cease if the farmer should lay down his tools and refuse to go on with his work. Mine3 would cease to operate, railroads would lay idle, factories would close and the nation would be at a standstill. The agriculturist is entrusted with a tremendous responsibility. He may well glow with a feeling of pride when he thinks of his occupation. And it is fitting that the scoffer, who deprecates the farmers lack of brains, take heed unto him- self and turn his thoughts inward. Vernal as a demonstration town for LANDSCAPE GARDNER FOR The variety of trees and the Basin. UTAH VISITS BASIN AND are best adapted to that shrubbery OFFERS ASSISTANCE this section will be set out and the program will gradually include othProfessor Emil Hansen, of the er towns and communities. the Mr. Hansen recommends Agricultural college of Logan and landscape gardner for Utah, made planting of the white and green ash, a trip into Uintah Basin with the northern maple, European and Caliidea of offering aid in landscape fornia Elm, Linden, Carolina popu-la- rs He says the gardening to the different communiand Box Elders. ties. American of the elm, cotplanting Mr. Hansen has attained national tonwood and Russian poplar should distinction in his work and his ideas and suggestions are used in the ma- be prohibited. jority of the states of the union. He is permitted to offer his assistance in organizing in communities to carry on the work as he Wong Sing Mercantile outlines it to beautify and add to the usefulness of the shrubbery, trees The store with a complete and lawns. His assistance includes line of ccm1-mitte-es surveys of the contemplated improvements and laying out the schemes by blue prints and other outlines. A meeting was held in Vernal to begin the program for the Basin and it was decided by Mr. Hansen to use When answering advertisements, please mention THE UINTAH IJIlHllHIllllliHflllllllHHIlHniinHHH M H M M gn gn gn You never have to wait for a car here. We have a complete stock on hand at all times. ASHLEY MOTOR CO., authorized agents. Vernal, Utah. 3-- tf. Confidence Behind Every Contract jgi 1 m ton inn ton. With the largest crop the Uintah Basin has ever produced we have on our blackboards the following alfalfa seed prices today: jjg gjj gn gn g go gn sc. m urn ton isn iffii No. 1 $14.00 No. 2 $12.50 No. 3 $10.00 No. 4 $ 6.75 go 11 isn isn isn isn go M HH 1 n isn um m fi g gji go Extra No. 1 5 per cent over No. 1 H 0g 1 (WJl is H When answering advertisements, in please mention THE UINTAH BASIN FARMER. Groceries and Provisions, Dry and Goods, Notions, Ladies Gents Furnishings, Boots and Shoes, Furniture, Hardware, Sto ves. Ranges, Harness, and Saddles. You will profit by trading here. FT. DUCHESNE, UTAH BASIN FARMER. UTAH POWER & LIGHT m TAKES OVER VERNAL m LIGHT PLANT. & SYSTEM go Negotiations have been in process for the past few months between the Utah Power and Light company of Salt Lake city and the Vernal Milling and Light company of Vernal for the purchase of the Vernal plant. A deal has finally been made and the new cdtnpany will take over the holdings of the local company the first of November. It is understood that the deal involves over $105,000. Representatives of the Salt Lake firm met with the Vernal city council the fore part of the present month and aplied for a franchise which would run for fifty At a special meeting held years. to consider this matter the council granted the request. An office and store house will be established in Vernal and an immense program of additions and improvements will be immediately inaugerated. The expenditures will run up into the hundreds of thousands of dollars. The Vernal Power company is the nearest system to the Split Mt. project at Green river and no doubt a line will be run from Vernal to this point when work is begun on the huge power sight by the Utah Power and Light company to furnish power for elementary C. F. WAHLQUIST, Sec -- Trees. Vice-Pre- s. !! Peppard Seed Co. |