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Show gacgiaEig PAGE POCP. bssinrfot Established 1924 Published 1st and 15th of Each Month at Roosevelt,. Utah. matter at Entered as second-clas- s the post office at Roosevelt, Utah, under the act of Congress of March 1879, Official organ of the . Uintah County Farm Bureau Office: Roosevelt Standard, RoosTelephone 30, evelt, Utah, 50c Subscription Price, one year Whiterocks, upMyton, Ouray and this on three different weeks. When to dive., occurs it has a tendency of duties the from their attention But the worry of the farm. work, shouldering responsibility of muc'h. very them trouble does not Let tbe Other tbeir motto is White the do worrying, Fellow from lesson this people can learn them. The last night before the barbeand cue, they dance all night long is supposed to at sunrise the bear come out as an indication of the not spring. This year they did went Only a few thistles, survived and gpecimens of their kind, this course after attempted to grow under. are you a minutes work with ed treatment and the hoe completely put the patch out of business. We havent been troubled with this patch of Canada thistles a reader of since. Too Little Pruning Done on Bearing Apple Trees The Uintah Basin Farms Because of the low prices received for fruit, many growers will be Inclined to do little or no pruning This la unfortunate, says the college of agriculture of Rutgers university, for afteruntil Sunday while lt is good policy to cut corners' dancing quit noon, a short time before the big in times of depression, lt Is not a savfeed- Gates Tires Cole Batteries 1 ing to slight pruning. The college continues In part: 1 Many growers have done too little such pruning on bearing apple trees 1 as Wealthy, Stayman,. Rome, and others. This has resulted In too many small green apples that are not worth jj Authorized DODGE Dealer! picking and has helped only to glut g A good line of Good Used Cars Interesting Experience the market,, thus bringing down the ! I Call or Phone 160 Montana Farmer. prices received for good fruit. After giving the tree a good thinI 5 United States Department ning, the long leaders should be head(Prepared by the o Agriculture.) ed back on varieties that tend to fruit U C. F. TUCKER Owner I In conducting the better sires on spurs. If the tree Is beyond 2D or e nation-widbetter stock campaign,, a 23 feet high,, lt should be cut back. crusade promoting the use of pure- -' More small cuts and fewer large bred sires, the bureau of animal in- ones would be a good slogan for i!i:iii!iii!niniiiiiiiR2n!!uiui3:Kiii!ii!nnni!!iini!i:iii:!ii:iii!:i!!!!!iil! dustry of the United States Departgrowers to follow. If detailed ment of Agriculture receives many ac- many TINGLEY & SONS of small limbs Is practiced I pruning counts of interesting 'experiences from be less need for there will this k owners who are gradually handwinter, 1 of fruit next summer BUYERS OF thinning anilearning the merits of well-bre- d Withwhen labor is scarce and costly. mals. out this detailed pruning or thinning On each enrollment blank, which Seedy Wool, Honey, Pelts 1 of good size and color must be signed by anyone wishing to of fruit, apples 1 and all lawfully f are hard to obtain. become a member, a space Is provided 1 f k in which a owner may mencaught furs. Will tion any inferior sires recently dis- Clean Wheat Seed posed of, giving reason for so doing. UTAH j MYTON, Greatly Increase Yield An enrollment blank received from a P. O. Box 54. Field tests have demonstrated that 1 Montana farmer contained a brief acuse of clean seed grain may mean !iililll!ll!EI!lllI!!!!w!!!!Ii!:!IimZ the count of his experience with a grade an increased yield of from one to six boar. bushels per acre over the yield obe I disposed of a boar tained from uncleaned seed, says A. about two months ago,' be wrote. of Purdue. In one test lt Hanson A. rcandle I Secured a younger pure bred for the Wcag same money. I have noticed that was estimated that the time spent In seed wheat twice through a The store with a complete grades (Duroc) even after several running mill at the rate of $33 paid fanning line of of generations pure crossings fade per hour. in color as they grow older and d Groceries and Provisions, Dry Weed seeds, dirt and chaff In wheat not flee hen so readily nor look so Goods, Notions, Ladies and a economic waste huge represent Gents Furnishings, Boots and welL mean reduced yields, Insince they Shoes, Furniture, Hardware, Though the fading In color possibly cost of harvesting and threshcreased Sto Tee, Ranges, Harness, and requires further explanation than the needless and for Saddles. expense ing storage reasons given, officials in the bureau of and since It space charges, You will profit by trading I freight animal industry remarked, when not1 niueh costs to as Just seeds weed here. ship ing the experience of the farmer, that as UTAH to DUCHESNE, recFT. the pure grain. According in view of the increasing number of ords of the federal seed Inspection farmers using only pure-bre- d sires three Middle Western states service, grade boars are fading away In a about 3,000,000 bushels of for- Pl!ll!!ll!lllllil!llllll!!!l!Illlil!!l!l"!!li!HHil!l!!i!llB produce broader sense. In a few decades, or even a few years, one may see many eign material in tbeir annual wheat Home crop. communities Insisting on pure-bre- d ENCOUEAGE The surest way to reduce the heavy patrea- - J sires In all breeding operations. loss caused by weeds in wheat fields izingr the ones you Is to carefully dean the seed wheat Getting-Riof Canada with a farm fanning mill, and right already have. now 1, a good time to do the Job. Thistles if not RED FRONT GARAGE Grade Sires Surely Fading Away Fast BEAR DANCE, ITS HISTORY The Bear Dance of the Indians on the Ouray and Uintah reservation held this year in Myton from March 23 to the 27th inclusive, is an event looted forward to by the Indians with a great deal of pleasure. It is a accasion for them and for months they are thinking of it and talking about Lt. The history of the Bear dance indicates that it is principally a tribal dance of the Ute Indians, It celeoriginating with them. brates the coming of spring. Duchesne George, an Indian who lives in Myto.i acted this year as Supt. of affairs during the festivity of the Bear dance. The squaws, who are eligible fo be married tbe last days of tbe.oance wear white shawls as symbol cf that fact. It is also their p"ivilege to select tbe man they desire to have as a companion get-toget- of-On- Vernal, Utah live-stoc- live-stoc- high-grad- for life. The festivity continues for five days and closes with a hi? feed or barbecue. When the Bear Dance was first started, the white people were excluded and not allowed to participate. In later years it has become commercialized to a greater extent and sometimes white, people take part in it. They are admitted to the enclosure and for the price of a small admission fee are allowed to dance. The squaw, when she desires to select a partner to dance with her, touches the Indian upon the shoulder or arm this is considered as an invitation. One of the older men always has charge of the dance, acting as the superintendent of affairs. With a whip in his hand supervises the festivity in an official manner. He also sees to It that the partner selected responds. Indian musicians insruments erude furnish the using by Smothering music. A great deal of pleasure is Smothering out a patch of Canada derived by tbe Indians out of the thistles by the use of straw piled The over them to the of the custom. observance depth of three or younger people take part In the four feet is the most successful methdance to- a greater extent, while od we have found in fighting this stubthe older Indians act in the caoa-Tt- y born weed, says a writer In the Ohio of spectators, yet seem to derive Farmer. a great deal cf pleasure from it. Previous to the use of the straw Some have advanced the theory method, we had tried various means that when the Bear dance was first to kill the thistles. But In spite of started, it was a sort of peace cer- such methods as cutting them off emony among tribes. Top him if above the ground, at the surface of Is an occasion of great importance, the ground, and even out srr great that they will travel many part of tbe undergroundgrubbing stems, the mile? with horses and wagons. In patch persisted In spreading A 'year ago last that they may attend, having we were r rj,,rt in it. or watch ohers who confronted with the August problem of, doing do take part. something with an old straw-pile- . In a peaceful, quiet manner they After some consideration we decided tnnd to their own affairs, enjov-i- n to haul It out onto this patch of their own wav the occasion thistles. Here it lay all winter and w ' -- h brings them together. Some until plowing time In the spring when y they hold the Bear dance .iLjras scattered arashi and plowed during the spring time season at Sng Hi I d er WHY? I 1 The supply of good seed corn for this spring apparently will be small. Cabbage Is rich In the green material needed by laying hens. About six pounds of cabbage may be fed per hundred birds per day. Unbulled sweet clover seed can be seeded In the winter time but If it has a germination , of more than 50 per cent it Is usually unsafe to seed until springs FUR SALE Theme paper and typeROCSEYELT writing paper. STANDARD. J- -tf UINTAH CREAMERY COMPANY i NEOLAC. I. Nelson, Mgr UTAH WSSEZi TF you want i what you want when you want it in the printing line WF HAVE IT! |