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Show Notes Of Interest For Utah County Farmers more attractive. Rural youth i.s clamoring for a chance to .study agriculture and keep up with its policies. With the arrival of warm weather greater care of milk and dairy products on the farm must be emphasized. Clean, cool, and covered is a fine slogan for milk and its products. If you have not cold well water or a refrigerator, build an iceless refrigerator at home, specifications for which can be secured at the agricultural office. gram are coming in very slowly. Up to date, 12 applications have been filed comprising 54,000 acres. The arrival of warm, weather will bring large numbers of mites and liee and parasites of poultry. Travel throughout the county shows that many carcasses of poultry are thrown in lanes and about the farms. These should he buried or burned to prevent further infestation. The recent fat stock show at Spanish Fork was a fine demonstration demon-stration of the value of livestock live-stock in a county. An animal has great power to transform coarse feeds from the soil into fine foods and filler for human consumption. 1 for human hands to apply science and skill to -agriculture and make of it an art rather than a mere It also offers a fine opportunity monotonous trade. Every exhibitor exhibi-tor at the show made something and also learned more. In speaking speak-ing at the exhibitors banquet, Dr. E. G. Peterson, president of U. S. A. C, said that purebred and well j groomed livestock were the products prod-ucts of an enlightened and progressive pro-gressive civilization. High schools and colleges will, during the next 30 days, turn out from their halls of learning thousands thou-sands of young people who will be looking for jobs. Many of them will be disappointed. Utah must develop more of its natural resources re-sources and intensify its agriculture agricul-ture more to provide labor and income for more young people. We need to emphasize and dignify agriculture more and make it ( COl'NTY 1'I.ASMXi; If you have not applied for your weed control permit in connection with the Soil Conservation program pro-gram you should do so at once. The dangers of noxious weed infestation in-festation from shipments of hay into this country was emphasized this week when a car loail of baled alfalfa hay infested with Morning Glory was quarantined in Provo. Tlie same was shipped here from a southern county and i, was caught by H. V. Swenson, district agricultural inspector. Potato planting time is here and no one should attempt to plant without first treating the seed for destruction of tuber bourne diseases. dis-eases. Reports are reaching this office daily that wharf rats are doing damage to young chicks and poults. Give them a dose of red squill. Applications for participation ill the Range Conservation pro- |
