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Show DevoteA VOi; 17, Ufa to t fee Pi ogress &. Development oj Agriculture in t(ie Qreat Uinkal? Basin NO. 34. ield Swine Company Is Planning On Farming In The Uintah Basin The Three Well Marked Epochs Locating In The Uintah Basin the raid Lean s of . ialfa m M-- '' light s ii-- Hl job - Agriculture in the Basin for a long time, properly speaking, was ranching rather than farming because livestock that might be driven or herded to market wasted the only cash crop. This ranching Is still a large factor and until the drouth of 1919, followed by the hard winter of 1919-192it was the business of the land owner. But this first epoch was nearly terminated when one third of our sheep and cattle died and nearly all the beef cattle that lived were taken out to markets and to other rang by our creditors. At the end of this lirst period, most of our farmers, or ranchers were insolvent, and they could not ran away. They had to make a living, the livestock were gone, hay would find no market and everyone thought it would not pay to raise grain. But the dairy cows, email lands of sheep and clover and alfalfa seed came to the rescue slowly but surely. Of course the cattle man has not entirely quit, likewise the large sheep man, but the number of big herds has been reduced and the average ranch herd of ' farmer days is almost eliminat0, and e the t or Ifalfa e out I drag xy up to est go is SSLO j FIFTY CENTS PER YEAR ROOSEVELT, UTAH, JULY 15, 1927. the seeds n the ing to ed.. TLe second epoch is a time of "trarjiiion, a period of change. Farming,- not ranching, i3 becoming the desideratum. Making the same acre produce more cash crops, and moling a business of farming, are the problems. Our farmers are graduillg becoming students of the The idea subject cf agriculture. that anyone may operate a farm is slowly jessing into the discard. The farm demands business ability as v, ,11 r i common sense and gumption. Cur study reveals many phases cf the subject, a few of which are nctcd below: Firti: Altitude is very relavent. Every Z ? ? ft. makes a big difference f lora rain j fall on the higher lands, tut tla c ason3 are shorter and : t be grown according to crc4 tha l:- - . f Z: Types of soil are very rs. The loose. Bandy soil rlizl f : 11 and ;;dy loam, the kinds that 'prof :r. 1 mu, are quite similar, yet no two farms are exactly the same In till xirpect. Gravel beo t. mtares, like the heavy are the exception, but dlri, dry gool f:run contend with these - - - -- 3 Mr. Jones and Mr. Howard, types and success is sure if methods are adopted that handle the con- sales agents of the central U. S. dition. Gravel lands demand most Swine company with headquarters water, and lands below must suf- at Salt Lake City, have been lookfer because of rapid drainage. ing the Basin over with a view to Heavy clay soil is hard to break placing some of breeding stock up, and clover and alfalfa will and introducing their companys make it develop into good-pa- y dirt, proposition here. and clover is especially sure and They are impressed with the quick. Uintah Basins possbilities in the Third: Water tables are import- way of high class breedant. In places where water was ing stockproducing and on alfalfa pasture, forty feet below the surface before skimmed milk with a moderate irrigation we may now find it S amount of grain. This ration, it to 15 feet. Two kinds of tables seems, produces plenty of bone and carry the water, viz: sandstone, all muscle and not too much fat. The dipping to the north on the strata company has been in the hog busilines until we come to the Uintah ness for sixteen years, during the uplift on the north, and gravel last four of which they have done in silicates and calcium mix- considerable business in Utah, they tures, making water tight tables, also operate in ten other states and these gravel tables may be cheaply have branc-offices in Spokane, shot, broken up. The sandstone Washington and Los Angeles, Calitables must be studied, because fornia. some are quite thiu seams of watThe company handles Chester er tight strata under which are White hogs exclusively because they loose formations for many feet, have found that this breed produces while some are thick and wont pay a of is in demand at that type hog to shoot. Where the sandstone is the because markets and they mathick drainage is our only method. ture have good dispositions early, Alkali is exceptional and yet Imand litters and raise produce large portant enough to require atten- '.them. belive from their exThey tion. On nearly 300,000 acres we is an excption-all- y Utah have reclaimed In our two counties perience that field for the production of good alkali will soon have disappeared stock, breeding presumably because forever, hut we may save time and of the climate and the alfalfa and deliver it to Green river much milk. faster than Natures slow but sure Their plan of operation is to sell way. young pedigreed gilts, bred or of Fourth: The business of farming to age people who are breeding is equal to all else now. Unless to take care of and able Willing the debit column is properly kept and studied the credit column wont them, and this company furnishes make the right total. If some land their own males in the neighborhoods where the females are sold. I3 weak because of improper drainThe life of these females is guara-tee- n age the business man will figure the cost of its idleness against the causesagainst death from natural for one year and they must cost of better drainage. Even fair sized litters of pigs. produce though this alkali problem is rela- Otherwise the company will replace tively of little importance it has them. received the least attention alThe company stands ready to It still demands study and though back the females from the buy cash. We know of no drainage and at a stipulated price per breeders no fehooting. Our farmers must keep at least two litters, head for books. The home is a separate Inn their own trucks stitution. Each farm has several they pick up a market at the breeders making departments which should have farm. The breeder is not bound pages for them 60 that details may to sell back to them and can take be studied. of the market. Fifth: Our farm homes are grad- advantage Mr. Jones and Mr. Howard state ually becoming better institutions, that their company welcomes inbut the Improvement Is merely into their financial started. But this home Is Hot a vestigation and standing they give numerous references. Their desire at the, (Continued from page five) Paper Has 2200 Subscribers im-bed- present time is to put only enough hogs into the basin to give the breeding business a fair start 'and to make it worth while to follow They up with their field service. believe that most breeders should with a small number, grow into the business as they gain experience and increase their facilities for handling the stock. These gentlemen plan to be in the Basin for some time working up their proposition. What about More and and Better Hogs bor . ihe Uintah Basin ed Three-fourth- s Indications are that the Uintah Basin farming industry must make some changes if it is to grow and prosper as it should. A few years ago Uintah Basin farmers plunged whole heartedly in to alfalfa seed growing. Since then the seed crop has been multiplied several times and the Basin has become one of the most important alfalfa seed districts in the United States both for quantity and quality of seed. Now some of the fields are becoming weedy and the seed from them is not so good. The Basin (Continued on page four) ! THE UINTAH BASIN FAVORABLY REPORTED CRA'lG COLORADO, July 9 th The Uintah Basin Farmer, Roosevelt, Utah, Gentlemen: The writer recently made a trip through the Uintah Basin and was very favorably impressed with the farming, stock growing, and fruit rais- ing possibilities of the local- . ity. On my return trip home I happened to see a copy of the Basin Farmer and recognized the opportunity it offered to acquaint one with the real- activity of the community, I am therefore, enclosing stamps in the amount of fifty cents. for a years subscription. Yours Very Truly, M. E. DAVIS of Which are in the Basin I J n u |