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Show THE UINTAH BASIN PASHES year to year. This is tEe point" where the farmer can take advantage of price conditions. The man who has a Making Success of Whole Farm well diversified farm system, Includcrop combinaing a good tion and productive live stock, has more flexibility In his farming plan than the man who plans to sell only certain live stock products. The farmer In the com belt has more latitude in choosing his farm plan than farmers in most sections of the country. The man who follows a well diversified farming system may feed more or less of his crops to live stock, depending upon whether crop products or live stock products are in best demand on the market. No section of the country offers a better opportunity of studying the most profitable system of farming and of choosing those systems and adjusting production from year to year In a way which will prove profitable through a period of years. high-prof- Balanced Farming Is Secret of Continuous High Crop Profits.-- - Success with one particular phase of the farm business counts little toward the success of the whole farm if profits are lost on some other enterprise, EL C. M. Case, In charge of the farm organization and management department, college of agriculture, University of Illinois, points out. If the greatest continuous profit is to be secured from the farm, many things must be well done and a system of balanced farming based on good farm management must be followed, he added. A farm requires that first there be a good plan of the farm business, or in other words, that the farm be well organized. In the second place, the farm must be operated successfully from day to day. The study of individual farms convinces one that many men are so planning and operating their farms that they are uniformly more profitable than otljer farms in the same community. Our question then Is, What principles are followed on these ' farms which make for profitable farming? Success of Any System. In the first place, the success of any system of farming depends upon the crops which the land will grow, whether the products are sold directly or fed to live stock. The object to be sought in the cropping system Is first to select those crops which will maintain or improve the soil and produce good yields of profitable crop and then secure a combination of crops which will provide for the efficient use of man labor, horse labor and equipment. The value of any crop or combination of crops Is determined not by the value of the total producLon but by the net value above the cost of production. Our Investigations indicate that after a man has once selected a good cropping system little Is to be gained from changing that crop rotation as prices change. The adjustment of tho farming system to price conditions can best be obtained at another point. One of the first essentials, of a gqod farming system, then, is a field system which makes it easy to follow . a definite rotation and provide about the same distribution of crop labor each year in order to use both man labor, horse labor and equipment to the best advantage. There Is a wide latitude as to the system which may be emplowd However, usually the cropping plan will rotation. provide for a four to Some thought should 'be given to a selection of the rotation which will give as high a percentage of high profit crops as possible. We have, then, In planning the rotation, these : a well depoints to keep in veloped field system, productive soil, a selection of high profit crops and good distribution of labor, power and use of equipment throughout the growing season. Live Stock Plan Important. The planning of the live stock to be handled on the farm is equally Important and should be considered especially In planning for the use of available labor and equipment. Live stock freouently fits in with tho crops to distribute the productive labor throughout the entire season. Cost ;t!ons Indicate that there Is more ltItmlo In choosing the itmotin of Ihe stock ty be produced from wTell-balanc- slx-yi- ?r . PAGE FIVE Killing Lice on Cattle I Rarely do lice live on cattle when the hair is short in the hot summer months. But In winter and spring, when the hair or coat is long. lice may be found on cattle. Dipping the cattle g arsenical in the standard tick-killin- dip once every fourteen days for two or three dippings will get rid of lice on the cattle. It Is also best to change the cattle to new, clean pens, barns, sheds or pastures. If the weather Is hot one application of crude petroleum will kill the lice. Salt Not Poisonous Salt is not nearly so poisonous to chickens as has teen generally believed, according to recent researches at the University of Illinois. Chickens nine weeks old were fed on a ration containing four pounds of salt to euch one hundred pounds of feed, and no 111 effects were noticed. Even where twice that amount of salt was fed. no actual poisonous effect was noted except that the appetite of the chickens was not up to normal Poison From Bulbs Quite Efficient Red-Squi- ll According to results of experiments conducted jointly by the bureaus of biological survey and chemistry of the United States Department of Agricul-- ! ture. a powder can be made from bulbs which has an dried efficient and uniform toxicity for rats. hut at the sanie time apparently does not unduly endanger human beings or domestic uninmls. The use of powdered red squfll for the destruction of rats is comparatively recent in tills country, although the poison has been In limited use in Europe for centuries. It has never come Into popular use. however, even there, because of Its tendency to vary greatly In potency. Several of the factors Influencing Its toxicity have been developed induring the course of the present vestigation. Officials of the Department of Agriculture anticipate that these experiments will be of materia! assistance in the production of a and stable squill product. This poison should greatly benefit poultry-meand farmers generally who hesitate to use some of the commercial rat poisons on account of the attending danger to live stock. red-squi- cTWYTON ITEMS it ll uni-fort- p n Kenneth Draper of MytOn who the pastor, gars a short talk. The has held the position of draftsman committee who had it in charge in the employ of the government on wire Mrs. Mrs. W. Wheeler, Floyd the Ouray. and Uintah irrigation Harris and Mrs. S. A. Parker. An to offering was taken for Foreign Misproject has been transferred Blackfoot, Idaho. The new position sions. which ig in the nature of a promoDuring the past two weeks a tion to Mr. Draper is under the di- force of men a'nd trucks have been rection of Charles Engle, supervis- putting the Main street of Myton ing engineer of both projects. His in first class shape. Dirt and gravfamily are still residing in Myton el was hauled from the river, unand expect to join him in a few der the supervision of H. H. Blaine, weeks. Marshal the improvement was made. Wednesday afternoon, December The Commercial club stood behind 29th, at the commercial club rooms the movement in a financial manhere, a group of Bee growers held ner furnishing $50.00 of the exa meeting to discuss the feasibility panse. of perfecting an organization for Uintah and Duchesne counties. It was finally decided to do so and it Feeding Tesf Results will be known as the Uintah Honey Studied at U Farm Producers Association. Among Six lots of Hereford baby beeves, those who attended were W. J. Steten animals to the lot, were on exhiwart, W. Paul, Lionel Babcock, Zer-kfeeding Bros, and others. Another bition at the end of a300 before cattle experiment nearly be called will 8th. meeting January feeders and other persons interested o be held in Roosevelt when will be elected and further In caftle feeding at University farm, St. Paul, Minn., recently. plans made. The prospects for plenty of water All of the calves were purchased in in this part of the basin for 1927. October, 1925. from the Schermerhorn is very optimistic. The widening of farms in Mahnomen county. The exthe Taylor ditch and also the excompared the . value of tension into Pleasant Valley and periment shelled corn and meal, the strengthening of the ditch as- -' full fed and ralimited slightly grain sures the people on the South Myand made of the tions, comparisons ton bench plenty of water this feeding, finishing, selling and killing ir " year. qualities of steer calves, heifer calves The community Christmas tree i and a mixed lot of steers and heifers. was held Myton Wednesday 'ever Ten steers which were fed a daily Ing, Dec. 22nd. It was put up c ration eacli of 10.33 pounds of shelled Main street. 150 sacks of cand and presents were distributed t corn. 1.70 pounds of linseed meal, the children. The program corals 13.00 pounds of corn silage and 2.21 ed of orchestra music and pounds of alfalfa hay a ration which selections. Mr. and, Mrs. Lynn so1- -' cost 8S.74 for every 100 pounds of Mrs. S. A. Parker and Frances D" made the b.est record. Includgain walder sang Christmas carol-le- d the pork credit, the market .per ing the community singing. The tr. calf was $14.81, or a retutm per bushel was beautifully decorated with rollear corn of 97 cents. ed lights. It, cost $100.00 tr da forA full report of the different rations, fray the expense and the come-ria- l of feeding, costs, selling methods club gave fiftv dollars, can be obtained by writing etc., raised Urn fialnneo prices Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Beo,s r"' the animal husbandry division at UniMrs. Dorothy Palmer aecomT'nr,iad versity farm. by J. H. CrcVnk all of M,,n. r'''""1 lv her for Venice. Calif., Ducks Lay Early will snend the they Ducks should he kept in their house and Mrs Begs or..n tpp T' remain tnere until 9 a. m., fie and in at basin li'ght apple orchard consists of a 4 'cr" tract located When they will be through laying for a t the eda-t he day. of Mvton. At this time the real fun Such a beautiful sight to see begins. P7P Wr fVq the N"rtb Mvton h O"''' so many eggs lying around on the nlf30 wn floor. What a pleasura to help pick 'nup those nice eggs. The eggs are Q rf the larger than hens eggs and they comFShp'W crr'pt5tg r mand more per dozen than hens eggs 1 () 0 flMchrd a commercial market. The demand in truct.inn of a shed 390 fee lon fresh duck eggs is never oversup-pilefor 'O ll3n Siirlrmthe Tnonh l1 ! - r fn- o .oti-- n of ho rnreh.ig an ideal one for the sheep lndufrv. Rt. Johns Day. Monday T')ep.n'v her ?7th w"f rb'rved he Pndn lodge No. 20 P. f A The installation of officers w- - hed Fo Slovenly-mad- e the vear 1927, Wm Cent--bundles add to the l Master; V. L. Neae loss of grain at harvest. senior Warden; J. Moyioh. JuHor warden: Fred Burger. TreasurerThe safe way is usually the cheapV,H H 0. X,TariL cwrntnrv. est r",-way treat for smut this fall. wy f p v cr - 217-da- y corn-and-eo- b i lft - rt d. - m- " Wo-shipf"- - 1 1 1 s rvn banquet wh.cn fhr Better put the harvester In the maof the shed now rather than next winThVnlchine wre lnv!pd, the su" ter. it. Members roundina towns attended. Vhe Christmas tree and tr.mt o' The study of veterinary medicine school Burning fence rows tills fall may the proRhvtarion Pr'd In France In 17G2, for the purstarted 2 evening. huve many dollars' worth of crops pose of training men to save horses from the ravages of chinch bugs uwxt at the church. It cors!sej of dlalo"-UPesdos. d 'ts, injured in battle. . amauier. trios and congregation sin gin" Mi"' When a show or a hook is hall Mrrgurlte No perfect. loom nas yet been In- Marv Tingiev. way good. It goes big. Too much u and Nellie Marin vented that wlll tie the oriental knot Geo"gla PhlHpPnwere heme for Hr not expected of authors or readers. students who mechanlcully. S. 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