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Show TEE CTSTAH BASDf FARMS! Tu u . jimfunnnrwwinr UINTAH COUNTY FARM BUREAU F0' A. THEODORE JHNOTN, j. A. CHENEY, Treaturcr Harold LundeU, Secretary RADIOED FROM TJSDA Last year farmers and poultrymen in this country bought at least 500, 000,000 chicks from commercial hatcheries alone. According ta postal regulations, desbaby chicks must reach their tination within 72 hours after they are hatched. Early hatched chicks are usually more profitable than late hatched ones. Leghorns should be hatched most by the fore part of May in parts of the country that is, if you want them to be in good laying condition by the middle of October or the fore part of November. Heavier breeds such as Plymouth Rocks, Rhode Island Reds, and Wyandottes, should be hatched not later than the middle o' April if you are going to have them laying at the most profitable season of the year. . : The veto of the Haugen-McNar- y bill was undoubtedly a setback for agriculture, but not such a terrible blow. Evidence in favor of similar legislation will accumulate before the next session of congress, and there is every reason to believe it will become so convincing, that no chief executive can evade the Surplus Skim Milk and Whey Valuable Of Much Importance in Control of Chicken Ills. (Prepared by ment the United States Departo t Axrlcultvre.) Concentrated poultry feed now being made in many milk plants where there is a surplus f skim milk can be improved as a feed for poultry by the addition of whey, conthus increasing the tent, says the bureau of dairy industry, United States Department of Agriculture. Experiments in feeding have dearly established the fact that milk sugar has a definite function in controlling digestive disturbances due to Infections of the lower intestines. Several Investigators have proved the beneficial effects of milk sugar In combating white bacillary diarrhea and in chickens. Experiments also indicate that feeding chicks a dry mash containing 20 parts of milk sugar, or of sklm-mll- k powder which Is 50 per cent milk sugar, materially reduced the losses among chickens heavily Infected with coccidiosls. The concentrated product now being made contains about 9 per cent milk sugar when made of skim milk only. Whey contains about 5 per cent milk sugar. The bureau of dairy industry has described a method of utilizing whey in conjunction with skim milk when both are available to make a product that contains more than 18 per cent milk sugar. In this way the feed value of whey may be utilized and the value of the product as a poultry feed considerably increased. sour-sklm-ml- lk milk-suga- Dairymen should provide sprayers and traps to keep the flies In control. If you will write the U. S. Department of Agriculture they will send you a bulletin on fly traps and their operation. Peonies may be planted now or during the early fall. They want a rich soil. Some authorities claim that manure should not be placed in direct contact with their roots, but that the ground should be heavily manured in advance of the planting, and the manure mixed with the soil very thoroughly. Yellow corn and white corn are generally thought of as equal in feeding value. Yellow corn, howmore fat ever, contains much soluble vitamin than white corn. When this vitamin is not, supplied by pasture grass or green leaved roughage or good quality hay, which probably contains an abundance of this substance, yellow corn should be fed. The color of corn has no effect on the color of milk. A. BLOW TO AGRICULTURE W. H. Settle, president of the Indiana Farm Bureau and a leader in the fight for passage of the Haugen-McNar- y farm relief bill in congress, says the veto of the meas ure by President Coolidge was the greatest blow dealt to agriculture during my lifetime. He charged the veto was an evas ton of the issue on the other hand, those opposed to the bill look upon the presidents act as a very courageous one, in view of the widespread sentiment in favor of the legislation. The president has been told that his veto created a very favorable reaction, and a writer of national reputation very aptly calls attention to the fact that the people who opposed the Haguen-McNar- y bill the Wall Street bankers and eastern capitalists can create more favorable newspaper reaction in a minute than 30,000,000 farmers in the nation can in any length of time. F Inoculation of Various Legumes Can Take Nitrogen From Air If Proper Bacteria Are Present (Prepared by the United State Department of Agriculture.) Legumes, generally speaking, are those cultivated crops such as peas, beans, vetches, clovers and alfalfa which can take nitrogen from the air. This fixation of atmospheric nitrogen, however, can take place only If the proper bacteria are present In the root nodules. When not naturally present these bacteria can be added artificialNon-legume- The time to Inoculate sweet clover seed Is Just before sowing it in the spring. Obviously, the dirt for this purpose will have to be taken from around a plant that grew last year since there will be no new green plants at that time. The easiest, quickest and perhaps best practice In n s, teria. Itfun Can't Inoeiiiate Nan Speculative investigators hare tried repeatedly to Inoculate the roots of with the various kinds of and bacteria, positive results have been announced. Careful tests, however, says the United State Department of Agriculture, have Dot confirmed these claims, and It Is highly Improbable that the original nature of the plants could be changed experimentally to such a degree that they would be able to take nitrogen from the air. To give every farmer an opportunity to gain a clearer understanding of the most Important facts relating to the Inoculation of legumes and nonlegumes with nitrogen fixing and other bacteria. Farmers Bulletin 140G-- has been prepared. If the bulletin does not answer all the questions that arise further Information can be secured from the agricultural experiment station of the state in which the farmer lives or by writing to the bureau of plant Industry, United States Department of Agriculture, Washington. D. C. Nodule Bacteria Neceeeary. To get the full benefit from their growth, legumes must either find the nodule bacteria in the soil or must be supplied with them. The plants usually find bacteria of the right kind in Quack Grass Is Serious the soil if the same kind of legume Menace Farm has been successfully grown on the is most a troublesome same soil previously. On the other Quack grass weed and a great pest in cultivated hand, if, for the first time, legumes fields. With its thick mat of root are grown which have never been stocks and drought-defyin- g qualities, planted in that locality and whose it is h serious menace on any farm, bacteria are different from those still it has some interesting qualities. occurring naturally in the soil, Analysis shows it to be a very nu- inoculation is urgently needed. Soy tritious grass and live stock are fond beans, hairy vetch, and alfalfa, for of it. The writer has seen sheep Instance, have frequently failed in standing in clover back-higreaching first trials merely because they were through the fence and feeding on planted without being inoculated. But quack grass, nibbling it to the ground. even where the same legumes have It does not winterkill or summerklll. been grown before, inoculation pmy It is more than a success everywhere. sometimes be advisable. The bulletin gives complete direcQuick growing and aggressive all the time. Its nutritive ratio shows it to tions for several methods of inoculatbe a. balanced ration, superior to tim- ing legumes. Copies may be obtained, othy or red top and equal to the blue as long as the supply lasts, by writing grass. It gets onto the Job early in wuj-ciltod.. for THE UINTAH the season and is there late in the fall A valuable pass with very bad BASIN FARMER, It will keep you habits. informed on the Basins farming sour-sklm-ml- Inoculate Sweet Clover Before Sowing in Spring inoculating is to take a few handfuls of dirt from around sweet clover or alfalfa roots and make a thin mud of It. Then pour a little of It on half a bushel or so of the sed-ia tub. Then work It over with the hands, and In a short time every seed will hare a smear of the mud on It Care must be taken that direct sunlight does not on the other hand ly. such as small grains, potatoes, and the touch the inoculated seed. Some pelike cannot take' nitrogen from the ople add glue to the water in making air even though Inoculated with bac- the mud. r coo-cidlosi- to the United Slates Department of Agriculture, Washington, i). C, non-legum- es non-legu- s lk F e lOlk or cream should be cooled to not lee than 50 degrees F. within a few minutes after It is drawn or skimmed. This temperature should be maintained. i Four parts of corn chop, two parts of bran, and one part of linseed or cottonseed meal makes a balanced grain ration for a dairy cow. Scarification of alfalfa or sweet ckJ ver seed allows moisture to enter the hard seed coat and tnake germination possible. When answering advertisements in this paper, please mention UINTAH BASIN FARMER. TRAPPERS! FRIEND of Denver Will pay you the most money for your furs. Try FRIEND with your next O shipment and be convinced. Liberal grading, retop prices, quickest turns. 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