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Show Devoted VOL. 5. HO. to tfcelVogress 27., Development o ROOSEVELT, UTAH, Agriculture intfie (jre&i Uinkah Basin FEBRUARY FIFTY CENTS PER YEAR 1. 1929. Progress Slow in Dairying If Money Distributed to Various Inferior Stock Is Used Counties for Roads-Schoo- ls My visit among the farmers of the Uintah basin, brings vividly to my mind some of my childhood experiences. I can well remember when I used to milt old Whitie, TRoany and Boss, in a straw ehed. How in the spring time the water would drip through the Itraw onto the back of the cow and from there perhaps into the milk bucket. If we were unfortunate enough to have the cow standing Just right, the water might even drip down our own back. On the home dairy farm, we started the art of dairying with common cows then the old straw shed, soon, but not too soon, gave way to a dairy barn. The type of bam being built those days had a hay barn in the center with a lean-t- o on each side. I remember we had room for some twelve cows on each side of the barm About this time, father made a trip away and brought back with him eight head of purebred milking Shorthorns; which we added to the dairy herd. Soon after this however, the purchase was made of a pure bred Holstein bull. (I have learned since that the same results might have been obtained with a good bull of any of the other dairy breeds.) About the time the first offspring of this bull began to freshen, we joined a cow testing association. The purpose of a cow testing association is to determine by weight, the milk produced each month and by testing a sample of same, the amount of butter fat is also determined. A feed record is also obtained by weighing the feed given each cow for one day. This is done each month. At the end of a year the profits made or the loss sustained may be determined. Interesting to us was the fact that our best cows proved to be, (and thir wot not a matter or guess, but actual record) the grade cows, the grade offspring of the pure bred bull and the common cows. Actually what happened was the replacement of the common cows and of the Shorthorns with the grade offspring as fast as they came into the milking herd. The next step in the dairy evolution was the purchase of three pure bred heifers, followed soon after by the purchase of a fourth. Unfortunately three of these heifers died, two from blackleg and one from Wood poisoning, but from the other was obtained a heifer calf which later became the highest record Junior Club Year Old in the state of Utah. Further additions were made to the purebred herd from time to time. Later the tarn was remodeled' and an addition built so that it -- . Poultry Raisers Receive $11,000 Stockholders of Utah Poultry Producers association Cooperative received $11,000 in dividends TuesC. C. Edmonds, day, announced manager. The dividend last year amounted to $7,000 be said. About 2977 producers shared in the dividend, which whs in addition to others that have been paid for eggs and poultry, said Mr. Distribution has-be- en made of the 25 per cent of National Forest receipts to the states and counties for school and road purposes for fiscal year 1928 in accordance with the provisions of the law by which Forests wre created. This division is made by counties accordto the acreage of national forest lands contained therein. The fund' ing created from the 25 per ce'nt receipts of the Ashley National Forest has; been distributed by the state of Utah and Wyoming to the counties as the-Nationa- l FREAK EGG Mrs. L. E. Potter of the north Mytoa bench reports having an egg which was laid by one of her Barred Plymouth Rock hens, which Is nine inches in diameter and seven and a half inches hr circumference; this egg had a soft shell and when broken was found to contain another fully developed egg. now stables thirty two cows, four horses and has four large box stalls. Such matters as ventilation, sunlight through large windows, etc., were carefully looked after in the remodeling. Of course, the bare has been painted, silos added, a cea milking mament milk bouse, chine installed, drinking cups for each cow; these are all details of a modern dairy plant. Of course, we went through the period in our dairy evolution when we used to turn the cows outside every day in the winter time, no matter what kind of day, but I never remember the time when the cows were outside during the night, or even in an opn shed. On this particular farm the dairy barn was built before a new house was added to the farm plant. However, the farm house did not await all of the improvements made to the dairy barn, but that farm house is strictly modern. It has furbathroom, electric nace, water, modlights, telephone and also a has farm The radio. em (electric as the Is known and named, been Pure bred Holstein breeding establishment. This is the kind of a dairy evol-tio- n which we hope will now take perplace 1n the Uintah basin and rate more rapid haps at a little (than the dairy evolution described above. With much of the pioneerin ing on dairying already done of we state, the of other sections the Uintah basin should be in a position' to go forward at a rapid irate keeping in and conservatively; the are dairy busin we mind that of dairy sake the not for iness, cows, but for the sake of the dairy farmer and his family. Septic Tank is Answer To Sewage Problem By F. H. Ernt Assistant Farm Advisor, Los Angeles County The problem of sewage disposal the country i3 ordinarily a simple one. It becomes more important, however, as rural districts develop farms became smaller and smaller, and more and more peopte aro ciowded together. Such areas have a sewage problem which req.H 'es good judgment on the part of home owners who would avoid exoassive costs from expensive sewer lines. Rural sewage disposal is unmon-l- y effected by means of the vault, the cesspool, or the septic tank. In the first of Los Angeles county these must be ruled out, but the other two are in common use. In addition, some rural areas are included In sanitation or sewage districts, the purpose of whicn is to sol vo the sewage problem lor the urban or email town areas around In Los Angeles city and for new subdivisions. Thus is a very expensive method of sewage disposal fo- - the farmer who has no present need tor such a system. Good sense demands that sewage disposal be accomplished in such a way as to safeguard public health mi avoid contamination of underground waters. The cost should be and the ins cull at I in reasonable, ' fairly permanent. Metropolitan sew-- 3r systems fulfill all of thesa except that they ane expensive. Furthermore because the waste water goes into the ocean, there is an economic loss from a standpoint. What then is the situation, with reference to both cesspools and septic tanks, what their limitations and what their advantages? The cesspool has but one advantage and that Is the limited area Into which it may be placed. It is used in city backyards where sewer connections are not available. It has several serious disadvantages. It is seldom a permanent method c? sewage disposal; in fact, it is ueual-l-y the source of constant grief water-conservati- on (Continued on page four) The Old Fashioned Max im of Doing a we Would be done by is one that cannot be improved ! |