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Show THE UINTAH BASIN FARMER farm- - BSSnfFARffll THE UINTAH BASIN FARMER Established 1924 Published 1st of Each Month at Vernal, Utah Application made to be entered as second class matter in the post-offiat Vernal, Utah. Offices: Vernal Express, Vernal, Utah. Telephone ce 24 Subscnption Price, one year 50c tion, is a very hazardous business, Some of the most earnest and best informed people of the northwestern wheat sections of th country are now advising farmers to find some way to diversify their products. They are encouraging dairying, as you are here, they are encouraging a I number of other things need not enumerate The particular idea they are centering on is diver- sification. This does not apply alone to the gram farmer but applies as well to any other kind of agncul- ture. It is just as true of raisin growing, which we indulge in in California, as it is of anything else. The day laborer, the skilled laborer, the professional man, and to less extent, the merchant, are at the mercy, almost without any quali- The farm- fication, of the times. A farmer with a prop-er is not. erly diversified farm, is in an measurably better position in lean years than the skilled laborer, who when out of employment, has no reserve of things other than money on which he and his dependents can live, as the farmer has, or should have. The wage earner is cut off unless he has a savings and sharp; laid up, he is in a very unhappy The plight cf thousands of ers in this country, some of them in the Basin, is one that can be solved only by the farmer himself, according to the findings of the national council of marketing associa- In a resolu- tions at Washington. was declared to tion the problem be cne calling for the wise applies- tion of economic remedies by the farmers themselves, and the princi- pal difficulty was said to be lack of an efficient system of marketing farm products. Those in the conference declared price-fixin- g by the government would in the end bring ruin to the farmers and endanger the government. The remedy needed, they believed, marketis a system of inft and the department of agricul- ture was asked to aid by issuing timely reports on supply and demand of farm Product3 and extending the serrice to the production of poul- try and eggs in the country. Planswere made to carry on a nationwide campaign in which an attempt will be made to get every farmer to join the marketing associations. The time seems to have ccme wjjen rural residents are working up to the benefits to be derived from EVOLUTION OF PLOW Growers, stock men organization. and poultry men have seen the wisThe first plow was a forked stick, as practiced by dom of two prongs of which acted as an the of the nation. the of the soil when manipulatagitator They are commencing to get their ed the the man. Thru the - plow has been pulled by MEAN MORE AND CIRCLES BETTER EGGS Why not make the Uintah Basin a retail egg producing country? Why not market inore and better eggs and at the same time get a higher price per dozen than at the present time? All this can be done. An egg circle would mean an association of producers for the co It operative marketing of eggs. may have few members or many. The eggs that bear the circles stamp, are guaranteed, and they would command better prices than eggs which have been improperly handled. As poultry on the average farm is under the care of the farmers wife, we would suggest that they organize such egg circles. The circle should adopt certain rules, some of which we would like All eggs should be to mention. gathered once or twice daily. They should be stamped with name and address of circle with individuals number on each egg, so that if a bad egg is found it would be an easy matter to locate the member send- . lnxt Besides . increasing their own in- comes the members of an egg cir-cle put a better class of eggs on the market. Remember, gest dividends. pays big JUST A MERE FARM Following the custom now in vogue of naming farms, one farmer located beside the Lincoln highway near Clinton, Iowa, has injected a bit of humor and sarcasm in giving his homestead a name. Standing on a prominent knoll by the roadside are two handsome concrete dwellings, while to the rear are numerous well constructed and newly To one painted farm buildings. side, and in arch effect, is located a beautiful sign bearthe information the that highly ing gcld-letter- improved ed place is Just a Mere Farm. Tourists passing this point on the famous highway read the sign and wonder if it is a small farm or a vast estate, while son no doubt consider the wording of the sign as a mild Tebuke to those who would belittle the farmer or his farm. with two Just a mere farm, homes that either of which would shame the average city residence, farm buildings costing several thousands of dollars, broad acres representing the value of many city blocks and a sign that The sign bespeaks prosperity. could have read, Just a mere farmer, a mere individual who lives gold-letter- ed close to nature, and by some narrow- minded people thought to be Inferior to those at the great city the majority of whom are small peoHere and evple in a big town. on are faras erywhere big people, even though they are not of the city or its ways. They live and are independent on Just a mere farm. fruit-growe- rs ages by er er P KL 0. with j was very much interested this morning in Mr. Candlands report of ike Agricultural committee and the recommendations he read, because tbat bit another 'hobby of mine. I believe that in this kind of a com- munity, and I will spread it over the rest of the world if necessary, there has been and can be no such thing as continued real prosperity in agriculture without diversification. I We know say, real prosperity. We have what the other kind is. p seen that quite recently. farmers are just as much gamblers as people who play the stock marThis is hardly a way to state it, because they do not intentionally I did not mean to charge gamble. them with being reckless, or anything of that sort, but the history of agriculture throughout the world p will show that farming is an extremely hazardous and precarious occupation. The grain farmer in the country devoted to grain farming has been fortunate through a But even in the period of years. section of country devoted almost to the cultivation of exclusively small grain, there is coming home at this moment realization of the fact that the cultivation of one crop year after year, without diversifica- one-cro- a-- n-n-n lumping process al- clumps. ?d forms a seed bS which and air increases the crop yield. An Excellent Opportunity to visit SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH Account of , SEVENTH ANNUAL INTERMOUNTAIN LTVE- STOCK SHOW I and ANNUAL SPRING CONFER-ENCE OF MORMON CHURCH ! f I ! I t 1924. April Tickets will be on sale daily, March 31 to April 6, inclusive, 1924, to Salt Lake City and return. Final return limit, April 12. Via 1-- 6, & C. n UlI II-u PHHHHlI H II H I! ill U I! II II Mil i! 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II II u II II II II One-cro- ket. slice the to tbe son WESTERN RAILROAD At rate of $9.73 from Helper Call on local agent for tickets and sleeping car reservations. DIVERSIFIED FARMING The following extract Is taken from an address delivered to the Fifteenth Annual Bankers conven- tion held at gan. utah iast June, by John u calkins, (Governor, Fed- eraj Reserve Bank of San Francisco, not which .. does d earth but DENVER U. B. r. with and machine-powberesults more or ies3 successful 0j he comparative shallowinThe recently flirrrw rented subsoiler is the last word horse-pow- im-Geo- rge H. Harrison Editor Violet Harrison....Bnsiness Manager - man-powe- Id ,irrv-- 5 .iSj1 .! ITe ate iffii |