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Show THE UINTAH BASIN FARMER The Best Books for Farmers er, the buyers would come to him. The greatest and most difficult problem facing the farmers of the United States today is the production of standard merchandise in such attractive quantities as to bring the buyer to him with the question, What will you take for it? instead of the farmer having to o begging the buyer to take an undesirable article with the ouestion, What will you give me for it? We have been surfeited with the assertions that overproduction has been the foundation of the farmers financial woes the past few years. It is a rare thing that prices are knocked down by high class merchandise being over produced. The market drops from being flooded with inferior products in unstable quantities. When the poultryment of the Uintah Basin organize for orderly production and are able to produce in marketable quantities the buyers will come to them. Until that time the poultrymen will have to go to the buyer always an unprofitable proceeding. In Poultry Land IIow the Helpful Hen May Have Her Energies Directed Towards More Profitable Returns Poultry Money Could Be Multiplied Many Times Over Its Present Volume in Uintah Basin. By EDWARD T. BARBER The hen is the greatest and most original advertiser known to man. Whenever she lays an egg she tells the world about it in no uncertain manner. Contrast her with the goose who just waddles off after layinjg an egg as though ashamed of it. Hence, when we talk of eggs we always talk in terms of hen eggs. No one ever goes to market and ask for goose eggs, although goose eggs are more than twice the size of hen eggs. The hen sets an example to every She produces the business man. goods and then proceeds to advertise the fact so that people may know. The poultry business in Utah, and especially in the Uintah Basin, has many advantages which should contribute to its success and many handicaps which cripple it. j This article is written in the hopes that it may point cut methods by which the favorable factors may be made to increase their power, and the handicaps discussed with a view to their removal or amelioration. In all of my former articles I have tried toi emphasize the fact that orderly production must precede orderly marketing. We have here all of the elements essential to orderly production if we but take advantage of them Orderly production consists in definding out what the market mands and then producing the article in sufficient quantity to meet the demand. The egg market, outside the local market, demands eggs of uniform size, shape and color. The standard egg, as established by the authorities in the great poultry centers, weighs 22 ounces to the dozen, must be of uniform shape and color. The white eggs predominate in the big market demands and that is one of the reasons the White Leghorns are almost universally used by commercial poultrymen. At Winlock, Washington, there is a poultry association of a thousand about persons who make main occupatheir poultry growing tion. Mr. Lawrence, the manager, sends an agent east once a year t0' conTheir greatest tract their output. handicap is their inability to supply a sufficient quantity. They ship an average of three cars a week and get a premium of 3 cents a Mr. dozen over market prices. Lawrence states that if they could supply a sufficient quantity they could get a premium of 5 cents a dozen. But, he adds, if we shipped 300 cars a day it would only be a half an egg apiece for each man, woman and child in the United States. Among the members of this association no hen is retained unless she can produce not less than 180 eggs a year. Many flocks there are composed of 250 to 275 egg hens. The business is largely divided The cominto three departments. mercial poultry man produces eggs The breeder produces for market. eggs, usually certified eggs, for the The hatcher operates hatcher. mammoth incubators and hatches n the chicks for the commercial poul-trma- The best flocks are under the of an official from the State Agricultural college and he certifies to the purity of the stock These are called and the strain. The hatchers certified flocks. also have the same official certify A shipment of their hatcheries. rtav-ol- d of thee chicks ery guarantees the purchaser that he is getting what he pays for. Uintah Basin poultry growers should, get together and select the breed best adapted to conditions here, considering markets, etc., and work then to build up certified flocks of sufficient size to make the output of the Basin large enough to attract buyers from abroad. The barnyard hen, the scrub cow, the scrub hog and scrub methods The sooner they are are doomed. superceded by pure bred stock and modern methods the sooner will the bank account of the farmers begin to row to satisfactory proportions. A word about transportation and its relation to the poultry business. A recent issue of the "Salt Lake Tribune gave an account of a meeting in Salt Lake City in which the Gooding Bill was discussed and measures taken to line up Utah members of congress to support it. What does it mean? Here is the best explanation. Under the present interpretation of the long and short rate haul clause of the Interstate Commerce law a case of eggs is hauled from Portland, Oregon, to New York City for 24 cents. Utah poultrymen must meet that rate as a part of their competition. It is a handicap which the Gooding bill ss y o , corn-pile- - f, 3 Encourage Home patron- izing the ones you already have. U. S. Ahead Europe In Power Development Europe is far behind the United States in the development and use of electric service both in the domestic and industrial fields, says Robert J. Graf, first vice president of H. M. Byllesby and company, recently returned from England, France, Germany and Switzerland. UINTAH CREAMERY COMPANY C. J. Nelson, Mgr. UTAH XEOLA t Something New in Radio is designed to remove. The same handicap exists on every product of the entire intermount-tai- n country, both on incoming and outgoing freight. Transportation is our greatest handicap in the Uintah Basin aside from our own inertia in using our opportunities to their best advantage. The products of our farms should, indeed must be, reduced to the most concentrated form which means meat, fat, or animal products such as eggs and milk. Poultry is one of the most readily produced of these concentrated forms. It represents largely waste products scratched out of the straw stack or the fence .corner. It is utilized at present only to supply the farm tables with local sale for what small surplus may exist. Most flocks are common barnA varieties. few yard pure bred flocks are found but none of them of commercial size and each flock represents the owners choice and fancy rather than an effort to meet a fixed market demand. The Uintah Basin will support a thousand poultrymen as easily a3 will the country about Winlock, Washington. We have the soil and climatic conditions admirably adapted to the business. A few men in Utah have taken an active interest in building up Utah poultry to its proper position. An egg laying contest has been recently completed at Logan and another is under way, so I am informed. This contest is a step in the right direction but until it leads up to a state-wid- e quantity production sufficient to establish a stable market for Utah eggs and poultry it will fall short of its real object. The turkey business illustrates the very points I have tried to make in this article. Uintah turkeys are produced in sufficient quantities and of such quality that representatives of the great Armour Packing company are in our markets for them. If chickens and eggs were produced in sufficient quantities and of the quality in size, shape and color that would appeal to the demands of the high-clamarkets outside there would be permanent headquarters established here by the big packing The poultryraan wouM companies. . c r A list of ten of the best books on by agriculture has been C. S. Hean, librarian, Wisconsin college of Agriculture, as an aid to those who desire a few general books covering a wide range of subjects. These books should be found in every farmer's library, urges Mr. Hean, as they deal with the fundamentals of agriculture, and the basic knowledge is necessary. Here is the list: Craigs Common Diseases of Farm Animals; Hood, Farm Horticulture; Henry, and Morrison, Feeds and FeedLewis, Productive Poultry ing; Montgomery, "ProHusbandry; ductive Farm Crops; Plumb, "Beginnings in Animal Husbandry; Ramsower, Equipment for the Farm;" Weir, Productive Soils; Warren, Farm Management; and Woll, Handbook for Farmers and Dairymen. Call on ALLAN CHEVROLET COMPANY for demonstration. You will be surprised and more than pleased. Agenl for SPLITDORF AND GREBE RADIOS .Rudy-Patric- k Seed Co ! Myton - Utah of Buyers Clover and Alfalfa Se 1 A truly open market. Call and see us before selling. IC. R. DEVENPORT Agent |