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Show - THE UIUTAH BASES FARMER ;,v.v.v,,v.v,.w,v 4 UINTAH COUNTY FARM BUREAU A. THEODORE . F- -d- UJSt YE J A CHENEY, Treasurer J. N. LYBBERT, Secretary th Veit demand and Continued heavy proheavy domestic dairy products remainder the for seen OF SECTIONS are ALL duction WE READY FOR of the winter, with prices following the usual season course. Feed prices to RE WILL SPRING COUNTRY probably will continue favorable dairymen. Egg production during 1926 will (By E. PETERSON) VISITED RY HEADS probably be larger and prices lower, with the average price of producers Uintah County Agent that of for poultry products belowstatement. A few warm days will take the week be the Next week will big 1925, according to the frost out of the ground and the for the famrers of Uintah county. The department advises the desiraland will be teeming with life. The They will" be entertained and given bility of greater efficiency rather hens will become broody, the cows valuable instruction on better iarm-in- g than increased production. methods by state and county will wander away in search of green The major factors regarded as will dairy to affect the 192 feed, the sheep will become restless experts. The program mence with meetings at Vernal Mon- - likely are the fact that there are winter their and impatient with year day night; Glines Tuesday after in this councoats and the whole farmstead will noon and jlaeser at night; Naples fewer cows and heifers a were year ago; that than there appear to have awakened from a long Wednesday afternoon and Jensen at try increase if will foreign competition winter sleep. The farmers will won- - night. On Thursday a meeting will weather conditions are normal and held a der which phase of his domaia to bRoosevelt ,Trdep. m.ln and Fort Du- - that probably less favorable indust-ra- il conditions will offset usu.1 ingive first attention, or he will be- - chesne night. Meetings will be crease in demand. come bewildered in trying to pay held at Vernal Friday for the Market prices of poultry, at least attention to all at the same tire county at 10 a. m., 1 p. m., the first six months of the 8 m. during and p. time. are expected to be higher than A little timely preparation right Meetings are arranged to be held year, the same period last year. now will save time and tremendous in all the locals during the week during waste when the spring rush comes to review the big things that have on. Now is a good time to over- - been done and plan the even bigger haul all the machinery that is to things to be done during this year, UNITED MARKET be used this season, for it will be M. S. Winder, secretary of the very expensive to stop a team in Utah State Farm Bureau and State the field and go to town for some Commissioner of Agriculture Harden SYSTEM URGED little repair next spring, which may Bennion will be here, also a state be fixed at leisure right now. The j representative of the tax commit-harnecan be repaired and oiled tee. Cooperative marketing as the best and made ready for dress parade Friday the 19th will be the big method of the first day that the horses step day. putting agriculture on a A will be given at out for spring show. Hen houses may 10 a. m., programto handle tax probparity with industry was the theme be repaired, cleaned and fixed and lems. A mainly farmers convention in the of the first days program of the brooding pens fixed for thousands afternoon and a social and general annual convention of the of chicks which are coming this Free refresh- eighth good time at night. State Farm Bureau, which year. Arrangements should now be ments and dance will be given for made to procure good eggs for hatch- all. A huge crowd will be at the opened yesterday for a three-da- y ing, the incubator should be over- farmers roundup, program and so- session in the Newhouse hotel. Suchauled and made ready for business. cial. cess of the cooperative movement in A croping system should be planned At the meeting of the county farm doing more for agriculture than any so that there will be plenty of feed bureau February 6 a good other agency, was cited as the best produced to take care of the needs deal of Saturday, business was transacted. The reason for furthering and expanding of all of the livestock and poultry the work of cooperative marketing pest committee reported that on the farm. Preparations should were ready to enforce the workthey of associations, operating under the be made for good seed, and to have last year. Commissioner Bennion auspices of the farm bureau organit cleaned and treated before plant- will be here to give personal atten- ization. ing. tion and help on our weed problems. Attention was called to the necesso With many things to be done Thirty Junior members of the sity of the farmers working out their and spring so near at hand, surely county farm bureau have paid their own problems, and cooperative marthere is no excuse for unemployment fees and joined and others are ready. keting was agreed upon as the best at this time, especially among the was It that Mr. Brown method by which the farmers can farmers. Preparations now may of the statereported association had bes t serve themselves. The first day-o- f poultry mean the difference between profit the to use for the $50 given county the big convention was characterand loss at the end of the season. in the poultry project boys and ized by a genuine expression of optiThe saying that Haste makes girls club work. mism; the past year is generally rer waste, is true; so let us take time The county farm bureau shipped garded as entirely satisfactory; but, now to plan and make all preparain six very fine purebred Jersey tions so that we will not be lost heifers despite the satisfaction found in k ln a multitude of details when the them toduring the month and sold retrospection and the confident the farmers. Also a very held for the the tillers future, spring avalanche comes. fine young bull is being shipped in of the soil .are definitely prepared to for a number of farmers cooperativecapitalize advantages through the UTAH BREEDERS TO SHOW ly. and placing in continuous AT DES MOINES, EXHIBIT The full blood seed needs of evolving operation cooperative, orderly marthe farmers of the county are to be systems Des Moines, Iowa, Feb. 7. (By keting whereby greater proinvestigated and reported at a portionate return may be derived the Associated Press.) Western and special Saturday, February from the pursuit of agriculture. southern cattle breeders from twelve 13th, someeting that seed can be gotgood states will participate in a stock sale ten here in Agriculture is not out of trouble, ample time. and show of the American Polled The problem of importing so much but we are on the right road, PresiHereford Breeders association here outside flour with deplenty of wheat dent Ephraim Bergeson, Cornish, February 9 and 10. More than 100 in the county not marketed is also clared in the keynote address the anhead of Hereford cattle will be dis- being investigated. A committee nual presidental report, in which he posed of under the hammer. was appointed to help a stressed the importance to the farmJudging of cattle in the show will market for a carload shipment of er of the farmers staying with the be by Professor H. H. Kildee of Iowa alfalfa seed. We are cooperative movement. state college, Ames. here to help agriculture and to anThe states of Iowa, Virginia, In- FARMERS DUE swer, by ourselves and for ourselves, TO GET diana, Illinois, Missouri, South DaBETTER MARKET PRICE the question of what can be done kota, Nebraska, Texas, Utah, Nefor agriculture. vada, Kansas and Arizona will be Chicago, Feb. 10. (By the AssoBergrenson Cites Benefits represented. ciated Press.) Farmers of the UnitPresident Bergeson told of beneed States will get good prices for fits to the frmer through the work Once upon a time a popular maga- their dairy and poultry products dur- of the state farm bureau federation zine cover featured a homely freckled-fsaid a forecast issued to- in the nine years of its organization; 1926, ing aced, cross-eye- d girl with her day by the federal department of the success of the cooperative marhair done up in curlers. agriculture. keting movement, and the necessary ARE 6-- 27 en-prop- er ss U-t- ah out-,loo- ' himSelf tttj, is no time to quit, he continued We have the confidence and good will of all other businesses. We have the support of the Utah Agricultural college and extension services. solicit the cooperation of growers of products and ask all farmers to have staying qualities in the marketing association to which they belong, it is up to us to make a success of our business. -, M. P. Brown, -- gden, dent, related specific instances of the success of cooperative marketing and described the operation of the movement as so successful that its existance speaks for itself. He urged continued endeavor, and predicted that cooperative marketing will grow in power and usefulness, not only to the farmer, but to all people dependent upon producers of the soil. A more detailed report of the state farm bureaus services to agriculture was presented by M. S. Winder, Salt r. UP fjslc Turn la til tary In E the will office lag y i PWiU Buy Fat BEEF, g VEAL, PORKERS, LAMB, CHICK. EN, TURKEYS, and FRESH EGGS at the Highest Market Price Fhone Ol-- R P. O. Box 127 LOUIS LAEIS ROOSEVELT v:- - UTAH Ml serel comp: ia R ' WI for t! resen , cordli 115 . ' BsrI Hall, eat He reviewed the bureaus activity enactment of state and federal laws of advantage to agriculture and the representation of the grower at Mr. conventions and exhibitions. incent 100 a Winder expects per crease in the farm bureau membership during the year. Other features of the morning session included an address by Mrs. K A. Parson, Benson, member of the state executive committee, on Activities of the Home and Communand a review of the ity Section, work of the junior form bureau by Erastus Peterson, county agent of Uintah county. Dr. Thomas Talks Importance of agriculture, as the biggest industry in the world, the necessity for cooperation by the farmers among themselves, and the European debt settlement in their relation to the farmer, were discussed by Dr. George Thomas, president of the University of Utah, in the feature address of the afternoon meeting. He traced the economic history of business endeavor from that of house industry to large unit business, and asserted that farming must go through the same process. The farmers must get together," he said. Directors of business corporations may not like each other personally, but as directors they all work together for the good of their The farmer must put company. personal feelings aside. He may not like Bill Jones, but he must work with Bill Jones for the good of the organization. President Thomas declared that settlement of European debts is of very minor importance when compared with the importance to the American farmer, of a sound, stable European market in which he can sell his surplus products. 1 llrnd - Lake City, HI - vice-presi- secretary-treasure- in . o. UT s the P Febrt wmj e Wes. and 1 GU cf ' th- ree an Leroy pany and Mere and r , |