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Show THE UINTAH RUSEr FARMER PACK POUR are you a reader of SOME OLD HENS O.X. BSSIN FARMER Established 1924 Published 1st and 15th of Each Month at Roosevelt, Utah, Entered as matter at second-clas- s the post office at Roosevelt, Utah, under the act of Congress of Marth 3, 1879. Official organ of the Uintah County Farm Bureau Office: Rocsevelt Standard, Roosevelt. Utah. Telephone 30, 50e Subscription Price, one year Violet Harrison Business Manager GOOD BUSINESS Experts- - have stated many times that the Uintah Basin is an ideal place for high class dairying, and in a few sections of the basin it has been proven such. We believe that any good, hardworking, industrious farmer can in a short time have a fairly good Because if he can dairy herd. show the banker and business men of his community he means business it is a 10 to 1 shot that he will receive a helping hand. Why? because the business men know the value of a steady pay roll, and too he realizes the Uintah Basin must have a steady payroll in order to grow and prosper. It is a known fact that two thirds of the business men in the famous dairy country of Cache Talley, Utah have made, a coityrtete study of the dairy business and have materially helped the industry with money and advertising and can tell a stranger all about the dairy business, who has the best herds and just how many there are in the valley. "Why? Because he mow realizes that his best risk with the farmer who has a weekly cream check. What should be done in the Bss-i- n is to have a meeting in some centrally located place inviting all fanners and business men, and let us see just what can be done in a way of organizing and financing the dairy business. Good cows, given proper care-wil- l whether they make farmers pay book profitg or not. There are so many gains that the books do not show ready cash coming in regularly. increased fertility of land, and less damage to the of manure on lots land where crops and so are plowed into it to increase its sponge-lik- e power of moisture. bolding Lets have more dairy cows of the better kind, and less mortgages in the Uintah Basin. dry-weath- er TRAPPERS ! FRIEND Heres an experiment I recently made: three-year-o-ld I. bought 109 White Leghorn hens.' I have beenll informed many times that old hens are not a good investment. From n$- older records I know that each hen cost me about 59 cents a year and must lay 99 eggs to pay for her board and keep. months the In four and one-ha- lf 100 old hens produced 8,909 eggs, or etaough eggs to keep them for a year. The rest of the year they will be pure profit and I can sell them at the end of that time for about as much as I paid for them or more. I bought them cheap because they were I now have 709 pullets and hens and my new hatchery. My chicken business is still considered a side line with me but it is providing to be a better payment business than sly real line, that of raising cattle in the flint hills of eastern Kansas. C. B. Wiley, Cambridge, Kansas, in a talk with Jnlia G. Hill. con-vinc- rock-botto- ed. m prices. Traps That Held J V Write todsy for our FUR 1 PRICE LIST, TRAP I CATALOG AND FUR TAGS, ALL FREE. ' CHARLES FRIEND ai:d CO., be. tl9VmteSL.Cmrar.Ofa. Inch Planks Made Use of to Exclude Light. - three-year-ol- ds. TABIONA P. T. A. HAVE BUSINESS MEETING At the regular business meeting of Tabiona P. T. A. held Wednesday of the week preceeding last, an accomplishment program for the The teachers, year was launched. by represented Principal C. F. Loveland presented a plan for converting the school grounds into a community center and adding to the playground equipment at the same time. The plan, if executed, will take several years fer completion. The square west of the school house s to be plowed and fertilized this fall, then seeded to grass in the spring, the lot is to be bounded by a good fence and a row of trees. Trees may also be planted about the lawn. Space has been reserved for the separate activities of the school children, such as ball park and field apparatus for the older boys, volley ball net for the older girls and teeters and swings for the smaller children. Saturday most of the plowing was done on the school lot and material was sent for to repair the fence. Another day will undoubtedly be set apart for the building of the fence and fertilizing the ground. Lunch was served those who worked. SUPT. CARLSON TO ATTEND SCHOOL FOB FEW WEEKS John W. Carlson, Supervisor of the Alfalfa Experiment Station at Fort Duchesne, left for Farmington, Friday, where he will meet Mrs. Carlscn and then go on to Logan where he will spend the next three months at the Utah Agricultural College In labratory work in connection with some of the experiments which he has been carrying The on during the past siynmer. will return to the basin early in the new year to carry on the work oi the station. of Denver And Will pay you the most money for yoor furs. Try FRIEND with year next ) ihipment end be Liberal grading, top prices, quickest returns. TRAPS st j; Out She Goes! Norah tried some gasoline to light the kitchen fire. ' It blew' her from this earthly scene; The hired otae went higher. As she went up they heard her say It was her day out anyway. B. A. The last green tomatoes have many uses. They make good pickles and chow chow, and also marme lade; they can be used for pie filling, for mock mince meat and be qerved fried. Method for Summer Blanching of Celery i Early planted' celery will be deveL The Uintah Basm oped to the point where it is ready to bleach by the middle to the latter part of August. Because it is proper to not-W- HY? bank up the plants, with soil in late mistake the make October many folks of trying to blanch the plants In the I!!:!I!!i!!!iI!E!!III!!l!!!!P& same way when the weather is warm. be can Early maturing celery Cole Batteries blanched by placing inch planks that m Gates Tires are 12 to 13 inches wide on edge on RED FRONT either side of the row. The boards Farmer if i GARAGE can be held In position by tacking a small strip across either end. The boards must be drawn as dose to- 1 Authorized DODGE Dealer gether as possible so as to exclude H A good line of Good Used Cars the light. This may leave from two H H Call or Phone 160 inches to one foot of the tops above the planks. Some growers use strips of on either on stood are that edge roofing Owner C. F. TUCKER side of the row and that are held to1111 gether at the top by pieces of No. 12 and 14 wire, that hare been fashioned somewhat like a hairpin. Folks that have only a few plants ASK YOUR MERCHANT for early blanching, and who have a diameter tile can few pieces of FOR do the job nicely by setting one section of the tile carefully on end over each plant. Extremely hot weather will FLOUR sometimes cook the plants within the tile, although this happens but seldom. It takes abqpt ten days or two weeks MILLED BY to blanch celery after the tile or boards are pnt in place. For home use with j Vernal, Utah 12-In- ch ch UINTAH GEM planks, ten feet tong, as soon as the celery Is used at one end of the row the planks may be moved along the 1 row so that a constant supply is avall-abl- e. Methods of Controlling Granary Weevil Given Roosevelt Millg. Co. Roosevelt, Utah TINGLEY & SONS The granary weevil, known for cen- 1 BUYERS OF turies as a pest of stored grain, may be killed when exposed for a few Seed, Wool, Honey, Pelts hours to a temperature of 153 deweevil the Fahrenheit. and all lawfully Although grees Is very resistant to low temperacaught furs. tures. if the infested grain is sufficiently chilled by running from one bin to another, it can be protected from 1 UTAH MYTOX, weevil attack, says the United States 3 P. O. Box 54. Department of Agriculture in a new The department Bulletin No. 1333-D- . Weevil. Granary The granary weevil Is sometimes es confused with the rice weevil, a muen Wong Sing Mercantile more destructive pest, but uulike the latter In that it possesses only rudiThe store with a complete mentary wings. It is thought to have line of originated either In Asia or the jj Groceries and Provisions, Dry Mediterranean region. This pest does Ladies and Goods, Notions, g not appear to thrive in tropical and Gents Furnishings, Boots and g climates. Because of its H Shoes, Furniture, Hardware, habit of breeding In grains of all Sto ves. Ranges, Harness, and kinds. It has been carried by comSaddles. merce to all parts of the civilized jj g Ton will profit by trading world. here. The weevil apparently is not well FT. DUCHESNE. UTAH methods equipped to meet present-da- y of handling and protecting grain, with the result that, in the United States i!!!ll!ilIl!!!lll!I!!l!l!!E!irat least, it U seemingly becoming of less Importance as a pest In grain and certain grain products. patron- Detailed Information relative to the granary weevil. Its economic history, mng the ones you origin and distribution, life history already have. and habits, nature of Injury, and control measures, along with other data Is given In the bulletin. A copy of the UINTAH CREAMERY publication may be obtained free, as COMPANY long as the supply lasts, by writing to the United States Department of C. J. Nelson, Mgr. Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 0 KEOLA UTAH semi-tropic- gs 1 FI 1 If 3 3 H al Encourage .1 Home f i- I |