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Show the uihtah basih parher Early Spring Is Proper American Turkhen Found Time to Prune Orchard to Be Extremely Hardy Warm Mareh can be coal gas exOuray Valley Bp. Chaa Bingham back to the stove. The has moved on a ranch In the Colo- ploded, the fire burst out and caught He rado Park. Mr. Bingham has been Mr. Horrocks clothes on fire. he as a resident of Alterra on the Indian stripped them off as quickly could but was burned about the legs Bench many years. Dr. Mt. Home At the sale of the and on one hand and arm. Farnsworth Canal & Reservoir Co., Enochs dressed the burns. some of the delinquent stock was purchased by Carl Reynolds, Orson Irrig. Monson and Clyde Fulmer. Elects Myton Under the supervision of men and the Commercial Club, teams did some work the first part of the month hauling dirt and gradThe annual meeting of the Ouray ing part of the Main street. The was held Federal Aid has also put part of Valley Irrigation company the road through town in good at Vernal Monday last. The main purposes of the meeting were to shape. Roosevelt The Garage Gagon elect a new board of officers and of the the first year. hands changed directors for the coming year and W. II. Gagon selling his interest to to go oe: the report of the outgohis partner, Jess Bircher. Roosevelt Wade Krebs was down ing officers. The new board is made from liis saw mill in Indian Canyon up of Orson B. Calder, president; the 12th of the month cashing the B. 0. Colton, Ray E. check he received as first prize at Dillman of Roosevelt, Jesse S. Brough the alfalfa seed exhibit at Chicago. of Itandlett and E. J. Winder ci Ouray Valley Albert Moore is building a house on an Indian allot- Vernal as directors. ment across the Duchesne river. It was reported at the meeting Ouray Valley Every fourth Sat- that over forty families now reside The crops are urday is issue day at Ouray for the in Ouray valley. Indians. Five beeves were killed and encouraging and living conditions devided among the tribes January improving greatly. Ouray Valley New Company Board Monday vice-preside- 9th. Ioka Ray Durfee has leased an Feeds Favored Indian lease on Duchesne river and Poultry for the Coining Season will move his family there in the spring. Professor Card of the Michigan . Upalco John Harton is erecting State college uses the following fora new building for a garage and also mula for compounding the rations for a blacksmith shop. the college flock. Poultrymen will be Mt. Home Several of the men of Mt. Home, attended the meeting of the Lake Fork Stockgrowers associaA tion that convened at Boneta. were number of business matters brought before the meeting to be discussed. Forest ranger Harry Van Tassel of Uintah and Duchesne counties, Ranger Clyde Lambert and also Supt. Nord of Vernal were present at the meeting. The board of directors for the coming year are: Dewey Meriwether of Boneta, Paul S. Hanson of Talmage, Bert Birch, Dan Stevensen and Ralph Rowley of Mt. Home. Bluebell Messrs Hancock and Goodrich brought their sheep into feed on the Smith place on the Dry Gulch. Ouray Valley E. M. Chandler has filed upon 160 acres near the big pond. He has just completed a house upon his claim. Duchesne The new building, as an annex to the town hall, has been completed and will be occupied this week by seventh, eighth and ninth This building has grade pupils. been erected principally by donation and the citizens have been generous The ladies have done their hit by the furnishing the noon meal to workers. A heating plant has been installed, which will furnish interested In having this formula for preparing their feeds for the coming season. Corn meal The Mash, Finely ground oats Wheat bran Wheat middlings Alfalfa meal Meat scrap Dried buttermilk Calcium carbonate Fine salt 325 325 325 325 220 300 lb. lbs. lbs. lbs. lbs. lbs. 100 lbs. 60 lbs. 20 lbs. much-talked-- of World. Pullets Need Good Protein Feed Egg-Produci- ng For egg production pullets should have access to protein feed. The best method of supplying the protein feed Is by feeding dry mash from a self-feede- r. days during profitably spent In renovating the fruit trees. Moderate pruning every year encourages annual fruiting and is much better for the tree than heavy pruning every three or four years. The work should not be delayed until growths starts In the spring. Trees which have not been pruned regularly and have grown too bushy and dense should receive a rather thinning of medium-size- d heavy of the branches In the outer portU-n- s tree. If possible, avoid removing large limbs because this leaves the tree thin In places and too dense elseAll dead, diseased, broken. where. Injured, crossing and rubbing limbs should be removed as far as possible. When young trees have been properly pruned until they reach bearing age, only moderate pruning of small branches Is required to keep the tree properly thinned. Sunlight will then be admitted to the central portion of the tree. In the pruning of young trees keep the head low. Also avoid having two. branches leave the trunk at the same point Four or five main branches should be saved, and as far as possible so selected that they will be evenly distributed around the tree as well as up and down the main trunk. In all your pruning work use sharp, efficient pruning tools. Make all cuts clean and close and wax or paint all wounds that are over an Inch In dlam-- . The following dry mash Is recometer. mended for your attention : One part by weight of wheat bran. One part by weight of middlings. CHEAPER FARM CAPITAL One part by weight of ground corn or corn meal. Bankers organizations have been One part by weight tf heavy oats. studying ways to supply the farmers One part by weight of meat scrap. with cheaper capital for agriculturAnother dry mash used with success al purposes. Is: lot d Bankers become a Equal parts of ground wheat, oats, of business men in protecting decorn and meat scrap. The amount of positors' accounts but they are inmeat scrap used can be somewhat re- terested in the widest distribution duced If milk is fed. A good scratch of capital at the lowest possible rate n feeds and as good feed of of interest, making their profits on as can be had is: enormous volume of business. Five parts wheat, three parts corn, the They are anxious to see money and two part oats. safely loaned to farmer, for this hard-heade- home-grow- means agricultural development and Subscribe for THE UINTAH more business for both the farmers 50 cents per year. and the banks. FARMER. The 'ntritive ratio of this ration Is 1:42. Scratch Feed. Cracked corn ...1,000 lbs. Wheat 1,000 lbs. The nutritive ratio of this ration is 1:7. man Lice and mites cnt down winter egg production. Your county agent has directions for dipping and spraying. Growing as Uintah Basin Grows Every possible encouragement should be given to the production of homegrown feed3 so far as this means cheaper feeds. Pasture undoubtedly aids In furnishing some of the nutritive factors heat which make skim milk such a superlative feed for young pigs fed In dry to both buildings. Vernal Mrs. Joseph P. Hacking reports that her bed of violets is covored with blossoms. This is very unusual for January. Tridell Work is progressing very nicely on our ward house. Logs necesary to supply the lumber for the completion of the building have been secured by a crew of men. Ft. Duchesne The mine house at the Lucas Gilsonite mine caught on fire when the stove exploded. Louis Horrocks was standing with his turkhen t Have you ever heard of the new to is It It Is not a new bird butbred for cenbeen has It America. the fawas turies In Russia, where it the of royal bird vored and protected were birds these family. Three of P. George brought to California by H10 of Schaefer, proprietor Cal. do breeding farm, Menlo Park, with birds these crossed Mr. Schaefer isRhode Island Reds, the resultant the fowl, sue being the economical The turkhen. American value of the fowl Is said to be very considerable, it being the producer of a high average of large white eggs, while its abundant flesh is Juicy and white. The breed Is exiemely hardy and the chicks mature quickly. The writer has personal knowledge of a 50 from per cent hatch of eggs shipped were chicks hardy The California. and strong and easily raised, the mortality being far below that of ordinary chicks. At present the supply is limbeited, but for the future this may Seed breed. come a widely-raise- d lot Every farmer plans to keep his engine busy as many days as possible throughout the year, because a working tractor is a dividend payer, while an Idle engine is a losing investment. Send in $1.00 for 2 years subscription to THE UINTAH BASIN FARMER and receive Star Combination Can Opener Free. Savings And Time Deposits January 8, 1922.. January 8, 1924 January 8, 1926 $ 81,558.49 $128,818.93- - $220,899.71 Uintah State Bankl Vernal, Utah |