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Show Deyotea VOL. to the Progress IL & Development oj Apiculture iutfie Qveai UinfcaBBasin VERNAL, UINTAH COUNTY, UTAH, NOVEMBER, 1925. UljTAfl CAPTURES CUNY RIBBONS At UTAH STATE FAIR AGRICULTURE, LIVESTOCK AND BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB EXHIBITS TAKE MANY PRIZES NO. 11. Dry Gulch Irrigation S. L. Commercial Club UINTAH Company Retains Interest to Aid Utah Alfalfa In Moon Lake Reservoir Seed Exhibit at Chicago BASIN FARMER ENLARGED At a stockholders meeting of the Dry Gulch Irrigation company held in Roosevelt October 28, it was decided 'on motion of J. Austin Pack, that the interest in Moon Lake dam be retained by the company. It was also moved to make investigations to see if if more than 3500 acre feet of water could not' be brought from Moon Lake to the Uintah side for irrigation. W. L. W'oolf, engineer for the company, made a report on the survey of a canal from Yellowstone creek to Cottonwood creek. This canal to carry 60 cubic feet per second cf water. It was estimated that such a canal .would cost $3.28 Uintah county was well represented at the State fair this year in both agricultural, livestock and boys and girls club work displays. The committee consisting of County Agent E. Peterson, Mrs. Rose Johnson, George Slaugh, Frank P. Wellman and Mrs. Ethel Christensen, who had charge of the display per share. Financial support for and cooperation .with the state board of agriculture and the Utah Agricultural college in preparing and presenting Utahs exhibit in the national seed show to be held at Chicago starting Nov. 28, was pledged by the board of governors of the chamber of commerce of Salt Lake city at a recent meeting. The placing of Utah alfalfa seed on exhibit at ihe National Seed show at Chicago next month, will mean much for the establishing of Utah grown seed among the seed buyers of the nation. At a meeting 'held on the 21st of Oct., at Roosevelt, it was decided that the basin would take part in this exhibit and committees (were ap pointed for each central city in the basin. There was a hearty response from all parts of the basin in regards to this seed exhibit. The producers, buyers and others interested in alfalfa seed have shown unusual enthusiasm and realize that there will be reaped untold benefits from this exhibition. There will be seed exhibited at this show from all parts of the United States and other countries of the world. Canada and Idaho, with their exhibits, took everything in the nature of awards offered at the shew last year. The real purpose of the show is to encourage the improvement of production of hath seed and forage crops. Although much interest is takei in the show by the big buyers of eeed b ) Ii in this country and Canada. The varities of seed which will he taken from the. Uintah basin to the exhibition are the Cossack, Grimm, Hardinger and common alfalfa. The Cossack, Grimm and Hardinger are It is hoped that the hardy types. the production of the hardier types will be encouraged in the basin, although it is just a matter of a few years until there will be a bigg? These production of these seeds. seeds always have a ready market at fromi 30 to 40 cents per pcuud as compared with 14 and 16 cents for the best grades of the common alfalfa seed. deserve much credit for the interest Further investigations will be and care taken. made before any definite plan can In agriculture the county exhibits be formulated in regard to increastook second place in the class and ing the water supply. first place in the number of blue Awards were ribbons in the class. made for Pearl pop corn, 1st; rye Utah Pure Bred Sheep Sell for $G0 per Head popcorn, 2nd; iwhite dent popcorn, 1st; barley, 2nd; cabbage, 1st; honey. 1st; Angeleno water melon, 1st; A sale of 1039 blooded Ramboui-le- t Rocky Ford cantaloup, 1st. sheep at Mt. Pleasant recently Awards were made in boys and to Soviet Russia brought to the girls club work as ifiollows: owners $60,000 cash. First Year Sewing Naomi Col lier, Vernal, 2nd on serving apron and 2nd on patch; Pearl Pace, 3rd Smaller Apple Crop This Year on blouse; Jennie Simpers, Naples, 3rd on dress; Gladys Richens, NapThe 'total crop this year will reach les, 1st on blouse; Zora Ellingford, 164.000.- 000 bushels compared with 1st on darn; Margaret Dudley, Mae-se- r, 179.000.- 000 bushels last year. The 3rd on bungalow apron; Ruth decrease in total production, howCalder, Vernal, 1st on bloomers; El-v- a ever, is partially offset by the fact Case, Jensen, 1st on patch and that' the crop is of unusually fine 1st on holder; Leota David, Jensen, quality, and less than the usual pro2nd cn bolder; Mamie Nelson, Jen- portion will go to waste or be used sen, 3rd on night gown; Zora Stew- for manufacturing purposes. The art, Jensen, 1st on kitchen apron; portion known as the commercial Lola Allred, Wilson, 3rd on holder crop will reach 30,134,000 barrels and second bn darn; Emma Burns, compared with 28,587,000 barrels Randlett, 1st on night gown. last year. Second Year Sewing Hazel Kitchen, Tridell, 3rd on bungalow apron 2nd on pillow slip; Sarah and 3rd on patch; Mary Hartle, 1st patch and 2nd on darn and 2nd Maeser, Oaks, on princess slip; Helena Ocoper, Wilda Reid, Glines, 2nd on 'cn gift; Vernal, 1st on skirt; Theo Car- dress; Davis, 3rd on Ethel Williams, penter, Vernal, 2nd on darn; Louise breakfast apron;; Laura Oaks, MaeBingham, Vernal, 3rd on darn; Elda ser, 1st on darn and 1st 'on dress; Merkley, Tridell, 1st on bungalow Lela Goodrich, Naples, 3rd on hat; apron; Edna Ashby, Maeser, 2nd on Miss Vonda Spiers of Vernal, winpYincess slip; Donna Lyman, Tridell, Ethel ning second place in darning in club 2nd on bungalow apron; work, also Naomi Collier, Davis, secStringham, Maeser, 1st on patch; ond on serving apron and secDaggett is the smallest and Elna Hunting, Vernal, 2nd on skirt ond pkize Davis, Pearl Pace, on youngest school district' in Utah. It and 1st on darn; LaRue .Hunting, third cn patch; DaJennie Simper, blouse; came into existence in 1918 and last Glines, 3rd on blouse; Ada Olsen, on vis, third on dress; Gladys Richens, year employed fouir teachers. 3rd and on 2nd patch Naples, Ver- Davis, 1st cn blouse. princess slip; .Flora Hammaker, Second Year Canning Ruth Calnal, 3rd on dress scarf. Elizabeth der, 1st on fruit, 1st on meat, 1st Third Year Stewing ap. on vegetables and 1st on pickles. Colton, Maeser, 2nd on breakfast Garden Display Patsy Shavsme. Bt'hel Jarrell, Glines, 2nd on TO SIXTEEN PAGES Beginning with this issue cf the Uintah Basin Farmer its size will be increased to 16 pages. This increase in size brought nbou't be cause of so much material whiteh had to be left out of our euition hereto for .want of space. With the larger paper we will give to our readers a collection of the best agricultural news procurable. The added feature of the paper will be atftidles from the United States Department of Agriculture several columns of fashion notes for the housewife, recipes and 'many short, spicy and highly flavored articles of intrinsic value to producers in the Uintah basin. Tribune Suggests Flat Cars Fur Basin Eggs Even the hens of the Uintah Basin are doing tlieir best to boost and attract attention tr it heir home land. From Vernal comes the report of three pullet eggs that are The expression covers many loop holes, but since the pullets were so sincere the dimensions of It he eggs will be listed. The heaviest weighed ten and a quaner ounces and measures six and inches by eight and inches. Mere apparent is the need for railroad service in the Uintah. Flat-car- s soon may be necessary to move such eggs. Tribune. record-beater- s. reccrd-beater- s three-quarte- ! rs one-quart- er No More Adulterated Honey Only 16 cases of misbranded or adulterated honey have been found by Federal inspectors since the, passage of! the Federal food and drugs act in 1906, and no cases whatever have been reported sir.ee 1920. Previous to th.e passage cf this act adulteration of extracted honey with cheap syrups was a common practice, and it was sometimes difficult to purchase pure honey except directly from the man who produced it. Tono adulterday there is practical! ated 'honey on the market. Honey is sometimes used to. flavor and sweeten cheap sirups, but such instances the mixture must not bo sold as honey. i COUPON ron; on aux, 1st. hat; Mary Redmond Wilson, 1st and Stock Judging slip, on princess kimono, 1st 3rd on dress; Elva Rasmussen, slip; Neda Naples, 3rd on princess, breakfast on 1st Walker, Vernal, on barn 3rd on 1st patch, apron, and 2nd on pajammas; Mina Vernal, 1st on centeronpiece, hat; Emma Gardner, Naples, .st Rotwena Stringham, Maeser, 3rd on Nornight gown and 3rd n patch; on npi,Uo ma Allen, Vernal, 2nd on (Case; CJata Vernon, Mauser, Sbo-walt- ' . U f er, Maeser iteam, under the direction of LeRoy Carroll, won 1st place. Roy Oaks won 1st place in the individual contest in hog judging. John Fuller, 1st Agriculture 2nd place on and cn kayle place and 1st place on string beans; Eld'on Cook, 1st on banana Lynn squash and 1st on cucumbers;Harlan Dudley, 1st on trebi barley; Hodgklnson, 1st on mangles. 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