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Show THE bask farmer TTTVTAH 3i DUCHESNE COUNTY FARM BUREAU F. L. E. POTTER, Pres. VV. J. MEYERS; Vke-Prcs- ' The Uintah Basin Should Raise and Market More Hogs ss f 71 ' f, th gro-un- Sec.-Trc- as. porkers and Btofs convenient creeks, trans- Thoa,and, 0f hogs were thus with practistations the d lo f were made Haul . ' was the practice, in .he to many of the hogs a big crate built on the sleds m the winter foad an average cf eleven s led, and bra? hogs to the wagon or and trins any them in over roads miles seventy to where from ten entaildistances The longer long. ed one or two night camping otk, On but that was all in the game. seen ha many occasions the writer droves of hundreds of hogs taken to the station on the hoof. This was of the during the cooler months was when the or fall, spring four-hora bare of snow. On such trips feed wagon carried the pro- - i flung: domain to bring about profit-Th- p (By Special Correspondent.) fable raising and shipping of fat results of the June. 1925, not by the hundreds but by togs, of agpig surrey of the department and tens of thousands, thousands for foundation a as taken riculture, item in the method was The first a forecast on the pork prooucdoa, j and the second item farsows of cooperation, number j indicates the rowed last spring in the eleven-- , was system. ith-leTo start at the beginning. states was 23.6 per cent the confines of Wallowa cotmfy. than In the spring of 1924,-- and - Oregon, is found every possible sort 30.4 per cent less than t ago, it i3 reported from the office of terrain and nearly every varia- fr tion in altitude possible for human of the district livesto s sf teudurp. I'" the bom George A. Scott. In the number of bpin-Snake the and Wallowa rivers cf 5 IS. is scared decrease the per pi?! the altitude is comparatively low, cent less than last year. gradually increasing .until it reachcomments "These figures, in the timbered mounes its "indicate even lighter tains. peak statisticion. There are a few paces in the supplies of hogs in the west than rpTjjtv weh are 3f)o( m;trr" -in other regions, and that wes -- J cal, and there are others which will contribute a s. pi small- - n, tjje winter, months are nearly! er percentage of the to.al hogs I arcjc There are level and consumed in "these j ;n2 lards. sfeep hillside lands, lands, and states than they have for the last i jjeaTy timbered lands but on all Tuese conditions sug- j these lands hoes are raised for ship-- 1 two years. gest that hog prices will likely be ment to market. higher in local and west coast marterritory embraced in kets than in the large markets of thePart of the is county subject to unseasonnow. case is the the middle west, as able and thus caused the frosts, and hog producers in the west wUl farmers to seek of getother profit accordinglv. Farmers of thp ting return from their ways lands. saw who the states wpstem present discovered that certain kinds ofThey t as indicated hog shortage, and oats could be successfully pie surveys a year ago and last De- crown without sustaining damasks so were who and situa cember, from these frosts, and that alfalfa to did continue could and they yield two good cuttings and nigs, shoud now be able to profit i late into the fall. Then Pastnre goo1 thereby were informed by men who they The general outlook is thn hog KnPW wfapreof they spoke that they are jnst at the peak oi the price j jja(j for raising COnntry j,ea cycle. Sort supplies for .p. larket One bv one the far- few months point to continued price mers tried out the scheme, and it advance through the late summer, is not on record that any of the riuring the next twelve months mar. farmers ouit the scheme. Ot proved ket receipts will be smaller than brought money to the anv time since 1921, with prices successful, tillers of the soil, and the industry n'bably higher than during the expanded so quickly that in 1913 it last twelve months. A Kane? was customary to gauge the activwrites, Judging from pre- ities of the Wallowa county farmer vious experience, these high prices by asking How many cars of hogs plus a large supply of corn this year do you ship? and not ask about probably will stimulate a consider- anything else. able expansion in hog production Right here is where systematic during 1926. which would start the price cycle swinging downward cnce procedure and community spirit enmore. ter this tale. First of all. the farfrom mers listened to the advice of exThe excerpts above, taken the report of the department of ag- perts not to raise too many different breeds of hogs. By 1913 two riculture. should be r every farmer in the Uintah Basin. breeds and their crosses constitut- 90 per cent of all Any person reading the daily mar- - ted more-thaket reports from the various wps-th- e raised in the county. These hogs ern stock yards v ill find that prices breeds were the Duroc-Jerse- y (the for market hogs ranging in weight red hog) and the Poland China (the from 200 to 220 nnnnd 9 gJvu black hog with white points.) The at from $12 to $13. SO per hundred. writer remembers being on the ranch It seems to the writer that at these of the man who introduced the !n evrv hog into that county and his income noticing row after row of feeding increase should territory hv raising and shipping hogs to the troughs, with apparently not a at least twice a year. ter inch difference in their height. And thereby hangs a tail: a tale The same holds good of large droves as old as the history of griculture f Poland China hogs on other It s well to state that the in the Uintah Basin, or as old as shipment of uniform size and near-tio- n that of any other agricultural of the intermountain region. To lx uniform weight is very likely to best illustrate the merits of the sto- - capture a substantial premium when ry the writer harks bacv to the dav-- j delivered to market; it is a point before the war, and the scene of well worth watching. So is the poin watching that two breeds and the narrative is the northeast coun- ty of Oregon. Wallowa county. Or- - their crosses are better for a com-egois a domain of nearlv .5001 niunity than five or six different breeds. souare miles, and the ma:n As to the method of shipping: of its prosperity at the time (1913) came from the frequqent trairleod The distances to the railway in that shipment of hogs to the Portland, itounty are great. A branch line. miles long, runs into the county It was the privi-;S- 4 Oregon market. ob-- ! from to the of the main line, and the hog writer Personally lege serve the working of the method cars loaded at the various stations practiced by the farmers of this far- - of this branch are taken direct to f C. F. VVAHLQUIST, . at no loss. The farmers adopted the method droves by comthe of assembling neigh-hnearest the with municating or to learn how many Cat nogs lie Perhaps or fifteen oi was ten, the number number it this n fr and twenty even might run as high zs thirty or a hundred from the Jens of other neighbors. The farmer would thei drive to his nearest neigh- allotment his had ready for shipment. farthest-from-the-railw- ay se ( Continued on page 5.) - s -' '- -n we are prodn When you are in need of a new Bull, remember that the disAnimal Beef of thick fWiing type ing the smooth, before over buying them criminating beef buyers demand. Look & SONS Breeders of E. S. 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