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Show Devoted to tfeelVogr ess &.Pevelopinei& $ Agriculture in t(ie Qreat Uinkalt Basin VOL. 5, NO. 8. FIFTY CENTS PEB YEAE BOOSEVELT, UTAH, APBH 15, 1928. - Suggestions To Our Local Farm Men T. Caine Advices Dairymen To Create Dairy Commtanities. Qeorsre Professor Geo. T. Caine of the Agricultural college was the speak- at the noon-da- y luncheon of tanners and business men at the club rooms in this city Saturday. er complimented the people here for putting over Dairy Day activities and toLd of the possibilities in the dairy industry when given the proper support. George A.' Anderson, president of the chamber of the speaker commerce, introduced He A v i after telling the story about the bloated cow. He said that a green farmer asked what to do for a cow when bloated on alfalfa hay. He was told to stick the cow on thj left side and insert a tin whistle. When the whistle blows it is time to take the whistle out and the cow will get well. Professor Caine advised community breeding as much as possible as building up dairy herds As an to a section example, he referred like Mantua, a group of people engaged in "Nie dairy industiy and it is important that they all select s, same the type of dairy cow, is or whatever Jerseys thought best in that community. The community then can purchase purebred animals and build up valuable dairy stock. Good bulls, he said, are scarce and they cost mon- 1 non-produce- I I J I This will mark the 8th The data secured from experi- ments in irrigation practices related to alfalfa seed production on the Uintah Basin Alfalfa Seed Experiment Farm, during the season of 1927, appear to indicate that when the plants were clipped while in the bud stage and irrigated either immediately or before after clipping, the yield of seed was gratly reduced. This is especially true of the case where the water was applied immediately after clipping. Water and clipping are both stimulants to vegative growth and result in the production of a good hay crop rather than seed. - plied. of American observance Week as proclaimed this year by President Coolidge for April 22 fa apany 28j President Harding, in 1921, issued the first proclamation which When irrigation water was plied the previous fall or time during the growing season. the average yield of seed produced was somewhat less than when no water had tee'n applied. The time of applying the water or the amount of water used did not to influence greatly the yield f fee., xcept when ir was applied i.i connection wv.i clipping of the olantr. Id the latter case the yield as reduced, greatly. The application of irrigation wator at the time the flowers were in full bloom, or when the pods wue forming did not cause strip-pi- -. g to a very marked degree It uir.;- have prevented the formation of new flowers or pads to some degree, as is shown by a lower average yield obtained from these plats as compared, with those receiving no fwat&r. The flowers and pods, already formed at the time the water was applied, appeared to continue their development the same as if. no water was applied. The only conspicious changes produced by the water on these plats was 'the growth of weeds and. a second crop of alfalfa which continued green until harvest time. ap-p-ar The general opinion prevails among growers of alfalfa seed that the growth of the alfalfa plant be retarded, if it is to produce seed abundantly. Unusually .lis suppression of growth obtained by withholding the irrigation waters from the fields or by --uniting the amount applied to one or two very light applications during the season. The highest average yields were secured from the plats receiving no irrigation. The seed from these plats had a high purity test, toe shrinkage in recleaning was low, and the amount of vegetative growth of the plants Chocolate that appears white on In proportion to the seed produced was only moderately heavy. In gen- the outside has been kept in. an i ey. eral, the crop obtained from the overwarm place, so that some of was the fat has melted and come to the He warned the farmers about plats receiving no irrigation to obtained from any surface.1 It is not injured in any that going to the extreme too, in pure- superior had ap-- way for use. water where those bpen of bred cows. The consistent thing, he said, is to build up good herds from grade cows, retaining those that produce the milk. When farmers Uintah Basin Farmer get all purebred heifers and cows to cull the fail they and keep Borne cows that are not , 1928 Roosevelt, Utah, T profitable. . I own .......... ...... acres of land la ...... The speaker encouraged cow testing associations and explained how head community and am at the present time milking these organizations improved the cows, and would like to pur- of dairy industry in Cache valley. He r 6aid too, that he had talked with Lorenzo Hansen of Logan, (who (Number and kind of cowb wanted) stated that the Borden company is still thinking or erecting a milk Part Payment Q Monthly Payments Q Can pay cash oondenaery in Box Elder county; Q cross that the company had elected new in payment plan desired Put officers who were investigating this and other matters of interest to The this section ol the country. to the dry speaker also referred milk powder Industry and its possibilities. He urged the farmers to -- Please send me stickers on dairy campaign support the Dairy Day shows, the county and Btate fairs and to study the dairy Industry from all angles. Hol-Btein- I American Forest RePractices as Irrigation Week, April 22 to 28 annual lated to Seed Production Forest rs brought the Federal Government behind the movement. .The week this year, as it has for the last two years, will assume an international scope through the fact that Canada will observe its Save the Forests week at the same time. The week in the United States be directed by an American Forest Week committee of which Theodora Roosevelt of New York is chairman, A. large number of organizations, representing a wide variety of interests, are cooperating; among them associations representing outdoor, wild' life, and recreational interests, foresters and forestry associations, the lumber industry, consumers of forest products, labor, scientific, civic, agricultural, press, church and womens organizations, as well as the state and Federal Governments. Local Forest Week committeemen are being organized-ievery state. Mark Andersoa of Provo has been appointed state chairman for Utah. The local committeemen are R. L. Pixton for Ashley Valley, J. P. May for Roosevelt, Rev. S. A. Parker for the town, of Myton, C. B. Bartlett for Tridell, Lott Powell for Altonah, and E. for Daggett County. The schools and various other local organization will plan appropriate programs during the week under the direction, of the committeemen. n EGGS BY PAECEL POST Eggs can be marketed by parcel post, within the first and. second, zones (sometimes within the third zone) twitb profit to the producer, who usually secures a larger profit, obtain fresher eggs and often at lower shipprices.. Parcel-poment is useful for the poultry-mawith a flock too small to allow making shipments by the case. Ta st market eggs successfully by parcel select only first-claeggs produced under sanitary conditions. A. strong, light container should be used and one that meets the postal requirements Each egg should he wrapped separately in. soft paper, taking care, it possible, not to send d, defective eggs that are In any way, or fertile, as fertile eggs spoil more rapidly. Do not send solid eggs by parcel post and also avoid shipping washed eggs. It each egg Is candled, this of course avoids any possibility of shipping defective ones; i , poBt, ss thin-shelle- |