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Show THE UINTAH BASIN FARMER Cattle Industry Now Recovering i Stimulus to Increased Pro-duction Seen in Increased Feed Crops. (Pnwnt Sr tbt m TTmlted States Department ifrtraltm.) A stimulus to increased production of hogs, cattle and dairy animals is seen by the bureau of agricultural economics, United States Department of Agriculture, In the increased feed crops this year. Live stock producers, including dairymen, cattlemen, hog and sheep raisers, says the bureau In a report on the agricultural situation, are in relatively good shape, with the presumption that live stock prices and the prospective feed situation may stimulate increased production of animals. Cattlemen already are beginning to enlarge their herds, the bureau reports, but some time is required to produce and raise steers, and to get heifer calves grown into milk cows. Meantime there is more or less widespread complaint among consumers over the increased prices of meat, particularly beef and veal. Meat Pries Situation. The current meat price situation Is Inevitable, says the bureau. For six years, beginning In 1920, the cattle Industry was flat on its back, with western cattlemen going bankrupt on all sides and their stock almost without market value. It is doubtful if this country ever witnessed a more acute case of distress in Its agricultural industries than this depression in cattle. Slowly and painfully the cattle Industry liquidated its surplus, reduced Its breeding herds, and is recovering from its financial wounds. The consuming community was told again nnd again that the outcome would surely ba period of cattle scarcity and high prices. Now we are up against that period. ; Abundant Feed Crops. Discussing the crop situation, the The germs are present in enormous - numbers in all part3 of the body of animals dying with the disease. All carcasses should be destroyed by burning or should ba burled deeply without cutting into them. Sudden deaths among live stock in anthrax districts always should prompt the suspicion that this disease was the cause. Vaccination usually is a successful means of prevention. in the season. In our opinion the grower of Early Ohios will! profit by changing over, gradually or otherwise, to the Cobblers, for the sake of getting as many potaor one-hatoes more than he has been getting from the Early Ohios. one-four- th Smuttox Wins in Control of Oats Smut in Testa Smuttox wins hands down over formaldehyde In controlling oats smut, The recent wheat harvest has well tests by farmers in several Ohio Illustrated the faet that lower costs of counties daring summer indicate. production are secured where higher D. T. Herrman, extension agent In On the yields are obtained. Investigational Auglaize county reports : data collected in many states over a two demonstrations where Mr. Pier-stornumber of years show conclusively treated the seed with smuttox that the most Important factor affect- we found only one smutted head. The ing the cost per bushel is the yield formaldehyde-treate- d plots showed per acre, and within reasonable limits, 0.6 at Infection cent Clyde Copeper the higher the yield per acre the lower cent at Edward L2 and lands per the cost per bushel. As a consequence, Knlerims. Untreated plots on the those practices are of outstanding sig- same farms showed 5.4 and 6 per cent nificance. respectively. At the William Glass farm the untreated plot showed 14 per cent infection; only one smutted head was found in the four acres treated with smuttox. In three demonstrations in Wayne county, according to County Agent G. A. Dustman, the dry smuttox treatBeat Early Ohios by From ment gave almost perfect control. ff Irish Cobblers Win in Tests Per Cent in Southern Ohio. In a series of ten demonstrations In southern Ohio Irish Cobbler potatoes have this year ontyielded the Early Ohio variety, from 25 to 50 per cent according to data collected and tabulated by E. R. Lancashire, extension specialist in vegetable gardening at the Ohio State university. Demonstration plots were managed this year Urban at Portsmouth, Dayton, Zanesville, Pomeroy, and other points. Irish Cobblers and Early Ohios la these plots were given precisely the same treatment in all regards. Cobbler Yield Highest. On a plot near Crbana belonging te M. Sturdevant and Edward Taylor, the Cobblers yielded 345 bushels te the acre as compared with 1S8- bushel from the Early Ohios. Near Portsmouth, on a fame belonging to W. J. Bo.vton, the Cobbler yield was 2S3; bureau says: to the acre as compared with bushels The feed crops are abundant, grain 202 bushels of Early Oil i os. a a combeing decidedly more so than last year. Moreover, In spite of Its late posite report on several fields aeax 'planting it made such rapid progress Pomeroy, in Meigs county, the Cobbler during the summer as to be fairly well yield ranged from 25 per cent to- 50 matured before the first frosts. The per cent greater than the- yield of eastern com belt, which had almost a Early Ohios, grown, under the same ' failure of the crop last season, has conditions. In spite of the fact that Cobblers ample corn this time, whereas the are to have equal. In all ways to Early Ohios, '.southern states are estimated are certain markets which dethere 14 com last less than about per cent mand the Early Ohios.1 says Lancar jyear. Oats are a decidedly heavier crop shire. Part of this may be doe to the this season than last, the September 1 fact that the Cobblers familiar to the estimate Indicating nearly 300,000,000 buyers may have been shipped In from bushels more. This abundance of feed northern state. Such shlpped-l-a pograins, coupled with a hay crop of tatoes have not readied maturity when about average size, will tend to they are harvested, and therefore are n strengthen the position of the live not of at good quality at the potatoes. However, Cobblers stock. Industries during the coming which are grown in Ohio and do reach year? Sosa recession la purchasing power maturity before they are harvested, of farm products la terms of other are the equals, ta all respects, of the commodities Is reported by the bureau, Early Ohios. It is true that the the index for August being placed at Early Ohios will mature a few days B9 as compared with 83 In June and before the Cobblers, in Ohio, and the man who grows them will be able to beperiod, 1909-14- , July, the five-yecatch the market a few days earlier ing used as a base of 100. than he can catch It with Cobblers. But the advantage of that few days doesnt make up for the loss In yield. ; Animals SusceptiBIe Make Change Gradually. to Anthrax Disease is It quite possible for the grower A farm animals, with the excepwho has customers demanding the tion of poultry, are susceptible to Early Ohios, to change gradually, anthrax and man himself Is not ex- growing only enough of them to fill empt. There are districts where the his demands. If he is anxious to germ Is In the soil, and there always make the early market, he can grow a Is danger. For reasons unknown, an- few Early Ohios for that purppse, and thrax may be more prevalent one year have the bulk of his fields in Cobblers than another. which will yield heavily a little later station. lf Increased Production 25 to 50 formaldehyde treatment. These tests were arranged by Mr. Dustman in with Mr. Pierstorff and C. H. Dr. Young of the experiment Farmers preferred that ta tha Agricultural Hints Neither scrub live stock nor machines are profitable, low-gra- de At present the most active subject of agricultural research la the Unite! States Is that of vitamlnea. To make your poultry house more comfortable for winter put In a straw loft overhead. Kill the corn borers by putting the corn In the silo. If the Insect escapes the knives of the cutter. It will die of suffocation. Two important ways farmers are lowering the cost of production are by securing high yields and by keeping operating costs at a low figure. Machinery left standing outdoors increases the farmers expenses. One way to get practical farm relief is to carefully clean, store, and protect all implements when not in use. Time Saving Recipes 1 i : - - - Ohio-grow- ar hurry home and get dinner." How often have Jpj you heard someone break up a pleasant party with those words? Of course, there has to be a dinner to satisfy hungry appetites, but there are, meals which can be prepared in a minimum of time and they are the ones to plan when you expect to be out the whole afternoon. One of the secrets of time saving as to use canned meats or fish. Vienna sausage, roast beef, corned beef, veal loaf, salmon, tuna fish and others come ?h cans. Canned vegetables and fruits, too, will save many minutes of laborious peeling and cooking. Their use means that the main ingredients of your menu art already prepared. A ISaSMfour Lima The following menu can be prepared easily in half an hour and is filling enough for even the hungriest little boy: Tuna Fish au Gratin, Buttered Peas. Boiled Potatoes, Hot Biscuits and Jelly, Tomato and Let 1 tuce Salad, Fruit Compote, Cookie-.- . The peas are heated in the juice from the can, and then seasoned with butter, pepper and salt. By slicing the potatoes thin and boiling them in a tighly covered vessel they will cook in ten or fifteen minutes. And biscuits, of coarse, take only a few minutes to prepare. To prepare the fish, shred contents of a large can of tuna. Melt two tablespoons butter, stir in twe teatablespoons flour, th teaspoon spoon paprika, pepper ar.d one-ha- lf teaspoon salt Ada one cup of milk gradually and atir until thick; add one cup grated cheese and stir until melted. Combine withthe fish, pour into a buttered baking dish, cover with cup buttered crumbs and brown a few minutes U a very hot oven. A can of fruits for salad can be left to chill in the ice box daring the day and will make a delicious compote for dessert. Or you might use a pudding or pie that had been made in the morning. pne-eigh- th oce-eigb- one-four- th Pick a LUSTY BULL For Profit They are builders of Beef R. S. LUSTY & SONS, Eraefiara of Ptoro Dzcfc Ere3 Hereford flgfcfo |