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Show 2 THE UINTAH BASIN FARMER FarmBiireauNoter a SAVE FEED way not only increases the water content of the soil but also improves the physical condition of the land. Wherever possible ditches and canals should be cleaned be- By E. PETERSON, Uintali County Farm Agent, M the present pressions of feed , time we hear ex- shortage. On every hand people are predictirg that if we have a hard winter there will not be nearly enough feed to sup- ply the needs of our hvestork, yet. in spite of this apparently invariable feed shortage we see valuable feeds going to waste every day. In many of the great alfalfa seed producing sections livestock t all kinds are being turned iGo-sinto the pumnev stacks and the waste is appalling. I? th's were pronerlv stacker and fed out f-- ed fore spring, because the ditches are ia better shape to handle the water, but are also ready for it much earlier in the spring, than they are where all of the work is jef to be done in the spring, The practice of cleaning the ditches in the fall has the added advantage of destroying numerous insect pests which often destroy a large part of the crops. Where it is possible land should he plowed in; the fall. These few simple practices if adopted by the farmers would iT,rw've the irrigation prob-Tcnot; 0I1iy ms Wonderfully. r "hoid be a of our anticipated INTERESTING REPORT OF trouble c uld be averted. BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS great deal Then, too, there are the From the annual report of Counwhich could bo trip'ed to use were ty if as Agent E. Peterson to extension a used good they part of the ration given to live-f- it dVsion of the Utah Agricultural os k. college these interesting figures are concerning boys' and girls' It appears to the writer that these things should be grven ser- club work in Uintah county. ious consideration, because a little There were 23 hoys clubs and effort now along these links may be girls clubs this year, comprising 1 the means of saving a gr&at many oys and 253 girls entering and livestock later in the winder when 74 boys and 149 girls completing the snow is deep. and handing in record books. There Of course we want to our was 1 boy and 3 girls in the club work more than four years. There 4airy cows and mrnltry ri.-- , yr-rcan. beaue wa? o? demonstration teams trained.l best feed we roc:s-'bTwe depend unon their production One club encampment was held for cur profits and they wUl no with 13 boys and 28 girls attendeproduce unless they are rroerlv e-. EojV leaders numbered 22, fed. but the poultry and dairv girls 34. The county agent spent stock constitute but a verv small 7S days in club work. Raising alportion of the total livestock in falfa seed there were two clubs of the Basin, Our hordes and dry 12 boys. On account of the drouth stock under conditions which we only one completed and he raised are now facing can ge- along very lSOO rounds cf seed. Two clubs well on the rough feed referred to raising mangle beets comprising 11 in this article. boys ttnd 6 girls, 7 boys completing an I one girl who raised 10 acres of mangles yielding 243 tons. UINTAH COUNTY FARM Three garden clubs had 15 boys BUREAU TO HOLD enrolled, with 6 completing. This ESSAY CONTEST was owing to drouth. v Tcp row, reading left to right Roy Oaks, Dr. Horace G. Merrill of Provo, Bottom row A. JI. William H. Oaks, Dr. Weston Oaks of Provo. Harris of Pay son, Lloyd Oaks, Sergeant James Jensen of Provo, member of Utah Battery. The DAIRY' AND FARM 43,496 pounds a year ago. number of cases of eggs in cold PRODUCTS STORED IN 3. last month was UTAH INCREASE storage plants For October of last year there were 15,807 cases. The amount of The quantity of dairy products poultry is given as 20,824 pounds, le and poultry in storage in Utah it was 14,588 pounds in Ocing the last month showed a mate-2- 1 tober, 1923. rial increase over October, 1923, ac-1Other figures for last month folcording to a report completed by the low: Fresh meat, 305,685 pounds; state dairy and food division, salted, smoked and pickled meat, A total of 151,245 pounds of 40,508 pounds; oleomargerine, 910 ter was in storage last month, while pounds; greem fruits, 15,944 pack- for the same period Yast year there agesTriedTruUsYYo pounds; 'nuts, were 90,355 pounds. There was 196,-- 1 132,524 pounds; green vegetables. 007 pounds of cheese, as against 283 packages. 18,-66- dur-lwhi- 79 , j i 'mmsmm - At the regular meeting of the Uintah county farm bureau it was BASIN TURKEY BUYERS LOSES MONEY ON SHIPMENT decided thev would hold an essay TO CALIFORNIA MARKET contest in the schools of the coun- ty. There are two subjects on which the students mar write. Why Mv Father is a Farm Bureau Member Why My Father Should be a Farm Bureau Member. The rules and the amount and kind of prizes to be given have hem. left with a committee to decide af- ter consulting with Uintah ccunty school officials and principals. The contest s to be in three divisions. The Senior hmh school students, the Junior high schools. 7th, 8th and 9th grades, and hQ department. Tim grammar gnd committee will make it-report within the next few days. CONSERVATION OF MOISTURE rsd 9 We wish our friends especially the Seed Growers of the Uintah Basin Striking a glutted turkey market on their shipment of turkeys to California. Larsen and Son of Roos-an- d evelt. reported they lost in the neighborhood of $709 on their Thanksgiving turkeys, They paid the local growers 22 cents pound for first grade and 15 cents pound for second grade, f. o b. their receiving stations in Vernal and Roosevelt. Trucked the fer.-eywhich were in crates to Price where packed they wre p!acd aboard the cars and sent to their destination, A Merry Christmas and p-- r p-- r a s. Happy and Prosperous New Year . NOW IS TIME TO DO NEEDED ROAD WORK the js ideal work slacks on the farm weather still prevails. tbera is a splendid opportunity to spend a faw days repairing reads The experience of the past year and building new ones near the should have taught the farmer a farm home or on the farm, It will be years before we can great many things about the proper of Irrigation water, hone to get away from the fact management The Irrigation season as is greril!y that we must work public roads understood is new past, riiil there without remuneration, or at leist are a great many thng? that can be only in part cr else do without the done to increase the crop produc-- , roads. In this day and age of the tlon in spite of the water shoring?. a utomob'Ie it is necessary we have Probably one of the things that the roads. The better they are the should be considered most is thattks our repair bills, if- - there is any ameunt of roads of winter irrigation. In sveml sc- tions where the water is row- rn- - to ba built cooperate with your nlng to waste it could be kt out ne'g thois u.ad betta- - and more of on the land ard stored in th soil them for the same energy expended, and thereby save several irrigations An especially bad piece of road pejt spring. The water used this 'could oe a community Job. . that will be the forerunner of am? many more to come J. G. PEPPARD j - Duchesne l.i l - ' , - Roosevelt uni i.a lrmq.it IJI. Iln - Vernal |
