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Show THE UINTAH BASIN FARMER 2 STOP! LIVESTOCK MARKET AT JUNIOR LIVESTOCK OGDEN AND SALT LAKE CLUB BEST WAY TO TEACH STOCIt MANAGEMENT For the week ending June 24, More than $3,991,600 worth of 1921. the Ogden livestock market relivestock were fed and cared for in ported in the Market News Service, 1923 by farm boys and girls who a3 hogs averaging 165 to 200 pounds members of 4 H club3 conducted at $6.75 and $3.85 per cwt.; lights by agricultural extension workers at Sj;40 and $3.60 and packing sows were demonstrating the best known at vj.CO and $5.75. Best fed offerings in steers brought methods of livestock management and $7.85 own their neighobrs per hundred pounds; common, for their These young farmers, ac- $6.25 to $7.00; butcher cows. $3.25 benefit. cording to roforls to the United to $4.75: desirable heifers, $4.00 to States Department of Agriculture, $5.25; others $3.00 to $3.75; veal lacked but one per cent of carrying calves, $6.00 to $7.25. The sheep sales were confined to as many demonstrations of improved comto work two car loads of lambs weighing 71 livestock in methods farmers at $12.50 per hundred completed as senior pounds pletion pounds and 20 out at $11.50. during the year. The Salt Lake market was light; 200 pound butcher hogs went at TUBERCULOSIS IN SWINE DUE TO POULTRY IN SOME PLACES $7.00 and load cf shert fed steers A load of ewes brought $7.75. In some localities poultry is large- averaging 113 pounds brought $4.50 ly responsible for tuberculosis infec- and a few vearling ewe? brought Although scien- $3.00. tion among swine. tific and laboratory studies of the COW RAISED ON ROOF different types of tuberculosis have thus far not yielded definite inforAnimals are kept on the roofs of mation as to the degree in which the various types of tubercle bacilli af- the houses in Lima, Peru, and itfect animals of different species, frequently happens that a cow pasfield reports show clearly that swine es her whole life on a roof, being are susceptible to infection from taken there as a calf and brought The down finally as fresh beef. poultry and bovine sources. infection in a given locality may be from either one or the other source FOR SALE A piano owned by an or from both. od lady with mahognay legs. HAS GRANARY BUILT ENTIRELY of OF SLABis i improvement donated by the Before you buy life insurance you had better eon-su- it some local firm, whom Many a you can trust. gets person stung by transient agents. Come in when in town. James H. Wallis, Executive Secretary Utah Public Health Association, who will give health lectures at the U. B. I. C. on three evenings. Reservoirs help in flood control, but better still they help in the steady flow of irrigation water at a time when vitally needed for the growing At present the Uintah Bacrops. sin has no flood control nor extra fetonnift I i j BILLER & THOMAS LICENSED REAL ESTATE BROKERS Vernal , Utah m case the threatened shortage Liups materialises " com- - munity. sees also better kept farm lawns and many beds of flowers. In some places there is still a lack of trees being planted, for shade and beauty. Another year will see still other and probably better improvements on the farms and new conveniences added fer the comfort of the homes. These are the best signs of a contented and prosperous people. One Dumont Arbuckle, president of the Neola farm bureau local, has built an inexpensive granary constructed The appearance entirely of slabs. of the building Is far better than some of the more expensive ones. When in the Neola section stop and get acquainted with Mr. Arbuckle and have him explain his method of construction, it will be well worth your time, besides you will be acquainted with your neighbors. Do you know just what it would cost per acre to build a storage reservoir for each irrigation system in You do not, the Uintah Basin? but you do know that the loss of one years crops would doubly pay for one. Why not build reservoirs? Good crop It can be done. The Lord must have liked the common people because he made so many of them. Abraham Lincoln. The Question Is Do You Want To Trade Something? Mt. Emmons, Utah. Picture tak- en before completion. Cost $12,000. MANY FARM IMPROVE- Duchesne stake quarterly conference MENT8 OVER BASIN convened here June 14th and 15th. As one travels In the various sections of the Uintah Basin, they cannot help but notice the many permanent improvements being built on the farms. In many instances beautiful new homes are being constructed to replace the earlier lass pretentious resNew barns and enlarged idence. sheds are showing the trend of the dairy Industry In the Basin. Another notable Improvement is the good roads being built in many instances by donation work by those living in the communities. Some on 0 a $lans others purely a work 50-5- R Production records of 17,405 pure bred, grade and scrub cows showed that in milk production the pure breds and grades excelled the scrubs by 12.42 per cent, ahd in butterfat production by 17.86 per cent. Dentist "Am I hurting you? Smart Patient "Oh, no; I make it a rule to groan twenty minutes every day for my health. To every man there comes a time when he wonders how he could have been such a fool. Sell Something? Buy Something? Try a WANT AD In the UINTAH BASIN FARMER |