Show CACHE COUNTY AND THE F FARM AR f BUREAU Problems of Agriculture Demand Best Brains of the Country The agricultural situation in Cache I county is the best in ten years ears viewed view view- viewed viewed ed from the standpoint of prospective production Crop conditions all in all aJl probably never were better at this season of the year in the history of the county Returns from those crops already harvested are arc very satisfactory satisfactory satisfactory tory Alfalfa cuttings cutting's over practical practical- practically ly all the count county are heavy and the pea crop now well along in the har har- harvest harvest harvest vest is taxing to capacity the facilities facilities ties tics for handling handling- the same so large is the yield The harvesting of our very ery promising grain crops is about to begin with indications from all i cc of the count county for bumper crops The condition of the sugar beet crop rop on July 1st is reported as percent was wa of with other years To recognize the beneficial results of the farm bureau activities upon the county's agriculture one needs only view the conditions in Cache valley alley during the past decade It is isnow isnow now about ten years ears since the farm bureau was organized in the county While its life history is short its ac- ac accomplishments accomplishments ac accomplishments arc are reflected in a aI I greatly improved agricultural situa situa- situation situation situation tion in Cache count county It is to be noted that need of a farmers organization in the state tate and nation has long been felt by leading individuals but not until the federal government began a n serious attempt in 1910 1310 to improve rural conditions in America did the organization ot of fann farn- far n ers become an absolute necessity With the coming cominb of the Agricultural Extension service through the cooperation coop coop- cooperation cooperation of the U S department of ag- ag agriculture agriculture ag agriculture and the Agricultural col- col colleges colleges col colleges leges it was readily discovered that the task of the county agricultural agents was helpless without some or organization or- or organization organization through which they could work This need of an agricultural organization then through which the he newly created Extension service could function accounts for the immediate cause of the rapid development of farm bureau Cache count county along with other counties of our state and other states has participated and greatly benefited by the organized effort on the part of farmers to improve rural living con con- conditions con con- conditions conditions and at the same time develop better farming fanning methods The result is that today every community except one in Cache county has its farm bureau bu- bu bureau bu bureau reau organization looking after the welfare and best interests of its mem mem- members t r bers rs locally The community problems problems lems and community programs of ag agricultural ag- ag agricultural tural improvement or the right right- righting righting ing of local conditions are handled through farm bureau committees The slogan of better farms better homes and better living is the job of farm bureau in each local unit These local farm bureau units of the county are arc federated together to form the Cache County Farm Bureau Dureau whose function it is to decide upon and work out a county agricultural program upon which all local farm bureaus can cooperate co- co cooperate operate co-operate operate To review in detail the thc accomplish accomplish- accomplishments accomplishments accomplishments ments of this organized effort on the part of the farmers of Cache county and point out the activities of the farm bureau in the promotion of a bigger and better agriculture for the count county would be an interesting study For the purpose of this article we can only relate some of the more import import- important important important ant developments Considering on first the principal grain i crops of the count county wheat t oats and b barley the agricultural statistics show that during the past decade there has been a consistent improvement in the quality uniformity and crop yields ields of these grains Through the persistent per per- persistent persistent efforts and the careful cooper cooper- cooperation cooperation cooperation of the farm bureau organizations organizations I ti ns with the Extension service of the Utah Agricultural college the wheat growers of the county have come to realize the importance of confining con con- confining con confining fining their efforts to a few standard varieties of high quality wheat For winter varieties two two standard grains are arc planted almost alm St wholly in the count county These arc are the hard Turkey Red and Gold Coin a soft winter winte r wheat Both of these varieties arc ar e known to be grains of a high milling millin g gs quality The spring wheat grower s have almost universally concentrated their efforts on two other standard d varieties namely Early Baart for dry dryland dryland dryL y land spring planting and Dicklow on n L the irrigated lands planted to wheat The value of barley as a dairy and an d ds poultry poultry- feed comparable to corn ha bas bascome s come to be recognized as a very necessary necessary necessary sary crop in the thc county Here again agai n this information has been acquired acquire d nd through careful investigations by the th e Experiment station and its dissemination dissemination tion tion to the farmers has been brought I about through the farm bureau 01 organization or organization in cooperation with the Ex- Ex Extension Extension Ex Extension tension service A new kind of bar bar- barley bar barley ley Icy known as or six-rowed six bar bar- barley bar barley ley has been brought in into o the count county with the result that this new grain grai n is yielding wonderfully wherever it i ihas t has been tried Farm bureau cooperators cooper cooper- cooperators cooper in all sections of the county this thi s year are arc growing rowing small tracts of this thi s for certification and next year will wil 1 probably find our county well sup sup- supplied supplied supplied plied with certified barley baric fo for r Esti Esti- Estimates Estimates all our seeding requirements mates indicate that Cache county nil 11 1 produce bushels of barIc barley this thi s year which will be hardly sufficient t for our dairy and poultry needs Sugar Beets Heels Th The farm bureaus bureau's s relation to the permanent develop develop- development development ment meat and amid st stabilizing of the sugar beet bee t industry in Cache county is wet well 1 known Out of a long period of or organized or- or organized organized effort and finally the lecog recognition niton of the tine fact that for any manu mane manufacturing factoring enterprise depending on ag- ag agricultural ag agricultural products for its raw ma- ma material materials ma material to be successful there must be ben b ba bea e n a genuine spirit of cooperation be- be between between be between tween th the tha producer and the manufacturer manufacturer much mutual good has come Sugar beet growing has come to be fixed as a desirable and profitable I crop in our agriculture The I experience ence once of twenty years ears has I demonstrated ed however that Cache valley lands will not go o on indefinitely producing on a single crop Iro program program ram Through careful and collective study and dem dem- demonstration demonstration demonstration we have learned that re- re results results re results in sugar beet growing commensurate commensurate commensurate with the effort required to suc- suc successfully successfully suc successfully produce this crop can be obtained only when a proper s system stem of crop rotation is practiced IThe The prospects for the sugar beet crop in Cache valley never were bet bet- better better better ter than this year To date the crop condition is per cent as compared with other years ears and over o the whole county the stand is 80 per cent per per- perfect perfect feet on the basis of one beet ever every twelve inches in the row This means menns that on the average in Cache county there are arc better than beet plants per acre this year ear to date Tak Tak- Taking Taking Taking ing into account nil all the favorable con con- conditions conditions con conditions these plants should be made to weigh b by harvesting time about one and one-half one pounds per beet or orn ora ora n a per acre yield estimate for the county count of fourteen tons On this ba- ba basis basis ba basis sis Cache count county will produce upwards of tons of sugar beets this I i I I season Peas Tho The growing of oC peas in Cache county has become a substantial substantial substantial project in our agricultural pro pro- program program program gram This year ear the growers arc are en- en enjoying enjoying en enjoying an exceptionally favorable a sea sea- season seaon season s son on for this crop The harvesting is isnow isnow isnow now on and is being bein done do e in record time with practically lIy all peas being handled of a high quality This industry in- in industry in industry is relatively new in the count county and farmers are just beginning to learn well the business of growing p peas as This crop seems particularly well adapted to the conditions in Cache valley and the ind industry stry gives every promise of taking a permanent place among Cache county's counts profitable and leading crops Returns from har har- harvesting harvesting harvesting vesting to date of the pea crop seem to warrant the conclusion that the av- av average av average average yield in the county this season will approximate 2500 pounds of shelled peas per pel acre With close co- co cooperation cooperation operation co-operation operation between the field representatives of ol the manufacturer of this crop and the grower in the preparation preparation tion of or seed see bed bcd planting caring forand for forand forand and harvesting a high yield will be bethe bethe bethe the reward of the growers of this crop in the counts count for climatic condi condi- conditions t ions are arc particularly favorable Dair Dairying Dairing ing In the whole field of farm bureau activities the results of group effort arc are perhaps more apparent apparent apparent ent and outstanding in the dairy in- in industry in industry of the count county than most other farm programs Through the farm bureau cooperating with the Exten Exten- Extension Extension Extension sion service a real program of dairy improvement is is- is under way For a number of years ears in the county the importance of good breeding for milk production had been stressed As a result the past decade has witnessed a very marked improvement in the dairy herds of the count county Not a few hes herd have been converted wholly into pure purebred ted animals Much more im- im important important im important however is is the ver very general in practically all the herds of the county as evidenced by increased milk production Through concerted action on the part of oC the farmers within the past few years four our cow testing associations have been formed in the county country They are of great value in stimulating keen interest in better production and indi indi- indirectly indirectly indirectly in better feeding methods These cow testing associations are arc sponsored by the farm bureau and I their officers and members are arc loyal i farm Carm bureau members Another development of the Cache county dairy industry during the past few years ears through the efforts of the farm Carm bureau and the county agent has been the formation of bull asso asso- associations associations A numb number r of oC these organizations organizations organizations are going concerns in the county and arc are sure to be the economical eco eco- economical eco economical means of further furtner greatly im- im improving im improving proving the grade of dairy cattle im-I im of the count county Better Detter breeding better I feeding and better care of our dairy animals is the farm bureau slogan for lor this phase of our agricultural pro pro- program program igram gram Of great interest and satisfaction to the dairy and livestock producers of the county is the placing of Cache county on the accredited tuber free tuber of area of the United States Dy By Bythe Bythe the combined effort of oC the state and government Cache county the farm bureau and the Extension service servi e through the county agent together with the splendid cooperation of the livestock owners themselves this re- re result re result sult suit was accomplished for Cache county coun coun- county county ty the past three months through a thorough tuberculosis test of all the th cattle in the county by state and gov- gov gov gov- government government veterinarians All these activities indicate the pro pro- program proof program gram of farm bureau relative e to the betterment of the agricultural situa situa- situation situation tion lion in Cache count county Aside from the production phase of farm life the term farm bureau is greatly concerned asto as asto asto to the welfare of its members and farmers generally in other particulars If its slogan for better farms better homes and better living is to be re- re realized re realized the organization must interest re-I re itself in the educational educational social and recreational welfare of its members I In this direction the farm bureau has done much and at all times is ready to sponsor helpful educational and recreational programs among its members To date the effect of oC this educational feature e of farm bureau is widely helpful Quoting from an editorial of recent date Education and Farming the writer has this to say It It augurs well for a agriculture re in the west to find that there are arc a constantly in- in increasing increasing in increasing creasing number norther of men and women of hi higher her education returning to the farm for their life work vork Today there is no farmin farming district in the state of Utah in which there is not notto notto to be found graduates of our Agri Agri- Agri- Agri Agricultural cultural college and universities Some also hold degrees from other institutions institutions l ons We Ye find these men nten and women operating poultry plants engaged in in fruit industry market gardening ar ening dairying ng and even eyen in general farming fanning The value of higher education in any field of human endeavor cannot be gainsaid It is encouraging tv note tu-note note that agriculture holds induce induce- indu inducements inducements e- e ments for educated men and women of the best types It is also good forthe forthe for I the he science of agriculture to have The Brigham Young college constituting constituting as it docs does the only Mormon school in northern Utah or southern population Idaho serves a considerable population population tion of oC Latter Day Saints Living in infertile infertile infertile fertile valleys s 's the people arc are on the whole prosperous and enlightened and arc rural rather than urban minded urban urban- minded The Fire evils of great trade centers cen- cen centers cen centers arc are absent Abject poverty is almost unknown The average man finds it necessary to work industrious industrious- industriously ly but the fertility of the soil insures him substantial returns With a sat sat- satisfactory sat satisfactory economic basis it is possible to maintain well organized public schools Two colleges one sustained by the state and the other by the Mormon 1 chur church h give unrivaled op- op opportunities opportunities op opportunities to the young people in educational lines Ideal conditions for forthe forthe forthe the development of an enlightened citizenship are arc therefore present |