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Show THE UINTAH BASIN FARMER Devoted to the Livestock Industry of the Great Uintah Basin When finding stray stock refer to THE UINTAH BASIN FARMER Brand Page and notify owners of their critters. You will be doing them a service. Devises Color Grader for Honey In the marketing of honey the flavor and color must be described to the purchaser in terms which shall conform to the standards set up by the Bureau of Agricultural Economics with regard to honey The flavor is commonly grades. indicated by naming the plant White Orange honey source, as or Light Amber Clover honey. There has been considerable difficulty, however, in establishing standard grades corresponding to the trade color names for honey, but work on this problem by the bee culture laboratory of the United States Department of Agriculture has led to the perfection of a grader by means of which different persons readily assign a given sample to the This grade overcomes same grade. many of the objections to other types of graders heretofore used and, while more expensive, is considered better. The five standard grades of color are as follows: Water w'hite, white, light amber, amber, and dark. These are the terms at present commonly In reused in the sale of honey. western sponse to the demand from beekeepers fcr further subdivisions of the lighter grades, two additional grades are established as subdivis- - TINGLEY & SONS BUYERS OF Loss to Vernal, Utah JOHN N. DAVIS AND SONS Cattlemen Caused by On left riba. Crop upper bit, right. and slit in left. Crop Upper slope, Steers Sidebranding under slit in right. Crop off left. Million-Dolla- r packing plants, all and all lawfully caught furs. UTAH P. O. Box 54. Uintah Meadows Dairy Assn V05csk G. H. SOUTHAM & SONS R. F. D. No. 2, Vernal, Utah Neola, Utah GEORGE DUDLEY, Underbit right ear. Randlett, Utah On left ribs and thigh. No earmarks. EATON BROS. m Vernal, Utah Under right hip or right ribs. R. F. D No. 1, Vernal, Utah. half crop in each ear. On left side." HUGH BARNES W. H. BOWDEN Neola, Utah Ear Hill Creek, Ouray, Utah On left hips and left ribs. Ear Mark: Upper and under ha Mark: Split in each ear. in left and upper and under bitin R. M. CLARK right. Cedarview, Utah RORT. H. C. MARCHANT On left hind quarter, hip or thigh. Ioka, Utah Tag in left ear. on left ribs HYRUM RASMUSSEN Upper and under slit in right and under half crop In left. Vernal, Utah On right ribs. Crop off right,' silt C. A. ERICKSON and underslope in left. Boneta, Utah ALBERT STEPHENSON on right ribs. Duchesne, Utah half left under crop Square crop, Underbit in right, swallow fork and and under slope in right ear. ifnderbit in left. F. H. SMITH LOUIS FREESTONE R. F. D. No. 1, Vernal, Utah R. F. D. No. 1, Vernal, Utah Slit in left; swallow fork in right Waddle on right jaw. GEORGE A. SLAUGH IRVIN EATON Vernal, Utah. Vernal, Utah Phone Red 495 On right ribs. Under half crop in each ear. DAVID KARREN & SONS ... Vernal, Utah Youghal, Colo. L. McNAUGHTON on either side. Ear Marks: Vernal, Utah Underslope in both ears, Ear (Lightning rod) on left side. ears. off both Mark: Crops FLOYD E. IAMB Myton, Utah L. E. POTTER 0n left side. Earmarks, tip off left CJ3 Myton, Utah ear; under half cropped, upper half OnJJgleft side. Under 7 (Seven.) tipped on right, On P. B. COLLINS ed mutilated by branding, two things happen its use is restricted to material needing only relatively small pieces, and the part actually damag- on y at a great sa count. n 'flCJj Leather made from sidebranded hides can only be used for the man- ufacture of soles. Without the brand on the side, the same leather would find a broader market as belting, harness and upper leather. 'Even used as sole leather, these hides fro, in range steers, because of their P3 fSf Three underbits left. On left ribs. Vernal, Utah in Hole right. On left shoulder left hip. Ear Mark: Swallow fork in each B. A. KIMBALL ear. sidebranded butt-brand- W. S. PERRY Lapoint, Utah On both shoulders. On hides are piled together and offered for sale as a special grade and at a price about a dollar a hide below the quotation on hides. They are further handicapped in the trade because of the difficulty In taking them off without excessive scoring and cutting. The reason for the low value of sidebranded hides is to be found in the damage done to the leather of the by the deep impression brand. Even on the flesh side of the hide the brand is as conspicuous as it is on the live animal as seen from the saddle of a cow pony. The side is the most valuable part cf the hide. From It is ordinarily secured the largest pieces of quality leather. If the side, however, i3 Seed, Wool, Honey, Pelts MYTON, J. P. CHAPMAN Each sidebranded steer shipped to market would have been worth an extra dollar if the most valuable part of the hide had net boon badly mutilated but a moderate sized brand had been placed low on the thigh or on the shoulder instead. Every year packers buy over a million sidebranded steers from the western range, and the loss tc producers, from thoughtless mcrhod3 of branding, therefore, easily surpasses the million dollar mark. After the skinning process in the 03 Ff! . yjj ae j W. H. OAKS R. F. D. No. 1, Box 63, Vernal, CHRIS JENSEN Neola, Utah On entire right side. Utah 'plumpness would outsell brand-fre- e Underbit In both ears. native steer hides ,if the brand were On left ribs. JOSEPH ENGBERSON placed discreetly on the thigh or GARDNER RAY Vernal, Utah the shoulder. On Utah ribs. Hayden, Crop off right ear. right The parts on the leather on which the brand is visible can be sold only Under bit in right ear. IVEN G. ROSS at a nominal figure. Soles injured I iff Tridell, Utah by the brand move with difficulty IftHi ribs. On left Crop upper and at 8 cents a pair, while otherwise In left. hole right, they would bring 65 cents, d soles, carrying WILLIAM ZOWE scars, the buyer may get nothing A 1 IV Myton, Utah but a heel cr a baby shoe sole, and, eft On-lSlit ih right ear. ribs. acof course, must adjust his bid so hides are Many cordingly. W. S. NICHOLSON thoroughly ruined by brands stretchPhone Crescent, Roosevelt, Utah ih best lag on ing all over the side, that hardly a The ttockmin. ribs. tndoned On bp prominent releft Large bit in upper market, single piece of prime leather With our DOUBLE ACTION PLIERS right and left. sults. Sidebranding cattle is a wasteful 50 per cent more Tags can be atREX L. GARDNER and costly procedure. Furthermore, tached, with one half the Exertion Neola, Utah JJ it is unnecessary, as witnessed by as other Pliers on the market. One On No ear marks. hip. right the fact that many of the very best squeeze attaches Tag Instantly. cattlemen in the range country have Write for FREE Samples W. L. FLETCHER given it up and brand their calves INTER-MTMACHINE & STAMP fOI R. F. D. No. 1, Vernal, Utah low down on the thigh or on the WORKS, Inc. Unin Slit On right. hip. in right shoulder. The million dollar loss Salt Lake, Utah. derbit 242 East 2nd So. in left. caused by improper hide values, branding, is carried entirely by the When answering advertisements, H. L. ALLRED range cattle industry, to which it is mention THE U I N TA II please Roosevelt, Utah lower the reflected through prices BASIN FARMER. ribs. On Tag in right car. western right for markets the at offered The cattle with mutilated hides. Great Divide. When you are In need of a new Bull, remember we are producamber! that the disand white of the light ions ing the smooth, thick fleshing type of Beef Animalbefore over buying grades, these to be designated as criminating beef buyers demand. Look them extra white and extra light amber. elsewhere. Further information about the Duchesne, Utah R. S. LUSTY & SONS coor grader will be furnished by: Breeders of Pure Bred Hereford Cattle of the UnUnd State Paivrtment j Neola, Utah un-der- bit tOR FREE BREEDER'S mp CHART .wzmm full-size- UVll OR The Original Lock Tag. Its Doable Hole makes it superior to all imitutions. Clamped on in one operation. It'Uaysput. SALT LAKE STAMP COf FREE Samplti ft tfciri Pri. ol PERI ECT EAR TAGS . j - SAVE THE MIDDLE- MANS PROFIT buying SADDIjES direct from the manufacturer. Send for our free illustrated catalog The Western Saddle by Mfg. Co. 1711 Larimer St. Colorado Denver, When answering advertisements,... TMh UINTAH PASIN FARMER. i j ) 1 I t'". i.1 |