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Show )n Utah County Farms' j With The Extension Agent doing- so, the mother grasshopper conceals hundreds of eggs in capsules cap-sules and hides them about an inch beneath the surface of the soil. The higher ana drier elevations ele-vations on the farm, unmolested canal banks, roadsides, fence rows, boundary lines and un tilled spots and all such places are the areas selected for the depositing and concealing of the egg capsules. cap-sules. The farmer may have a little difficulty in recognizing the capsules cap-sules because they are so skillfully skill-fully concealed. They look very much like small irregular, elongated elong-ated clods of earth, as big around as a pencil and an inch or so in length. If these clods are broken they will quickly be recognized. Having found the egg-laying centers, it is only necessary to i hitch the team to the disc-har-I row, spring luum, or even the j spike-tooth, and tear up the countless egg capsules concealec j just under the surface. If the egg capsules are broken, exposed to the surface, or burried deep in the ground, the eggs will never hatch and the next great army of grasshoppers is destroyed before be-fore it ever appears. From an hour or so to a half day of this kind of warfare will be more effective than many days spent the next summer in campaigns of other kinds. FKKD INFORMATION SERVICE TO BE ESTABLISHED IN COUNTIES The county drouth directors of every county in the state have received re-ceived information that there is to be set up immediately in each county a Feed Information Service Bureau, according to William Peterson, Pet-erson, director of Extension Service Serv-ice at the Utah State Agricultural college. The chief function of tiiis new egency will be to furnish the buyers buy-ers and sellers of feed, lists of available feed supplies and lists of stock men desiring feed. The office will not buy or sell feed or make feed loah" It merely acts as a clearing house where requests re-quests may be registered either for the sale or purchase of feed. The county organization will consist of three men nominated by the livestock people in the county at a meeting to be called to discuss the feed and livestock situation. The office headquarters ' I will be in the county agent's of- ' i fice, where clerical help will be I provided. The office will be open ' j for free information and registra- J tion of all feed problems, and will -work in connection with the government gov-ernment office at Kansas City. Utah has received an additional allotment for the purchase of 1 goats that has been allocated to j the counties as follows: Wash-1 ington, 5,000; Kane, 2,500; Carbon, Car-bon, 700; Iron, 500; Garfield, 300; j San Juan, 300; Grand, 150; and Duchesne, 150. There are still 400 head to be allocated to the lesser goat counties of the state, states William Peterson, state director. di-rector. I The purchases which have al-1 ready begun are confined to females fe-males one year old and over. The price to be paid is SI. 40 per heil The goats must be pelted and the pelts cured and delivered to the county FSRC agent. Those go-it fit for food will be processed in local plants, with no out-of-state shipments. "It is hoped that this purchase will eliminate the old female goats and that this number will relieve the goat situation in the state," Director Peterson said. UTAH'S SMUT TAKES MILLION DOLLAR TOLL Utah grain farmers are losing i over one million dollars annually j on account of discounts and reductions re-ductions in yield of wheat because 1 of smut, says J. C. Hogenson, ex tension agronomist of the Utah ! State Agricultural college. The average production of wheat in Utah during the years 1929 to 1932 was 5,456,237 bushels. bush-els. At the government's grain checking station at Ogden, 33 7 per cent of this wheat graded smutty, causing a loss of $25,742 and a similar loss due to washing wash-ing charge. Smut took a toll o:" 20 per cent of the possible production pro-duction yield, with a loss of $954,-842 $954,-842 to Utah farmers. This brings the total preventable loss due to smut to over $1,000,000. Sowing clean seed on clean ground and thoroughly treating seed according to approved methods meth-ods will save most of this loss to the grain farmers of Utah, says Mr. Hogenson. TlTrsA ia' )K TilK FARMER'S EARNED INCOME f,,l and benefit payments to ' . wiio tti'O cooperating in j rantf of agricultural ad- J are just as much a part ; ' ir earned income as the j ; price thoir receive, says j q Davis, administrator j y ugricultunil adjustment rt of what the consumer KtT bread, meat, cotton allli tobacco goes to pay !,nier lor the raw materials he furnishes from his " The market price for a ; 0f wheat or a load of 'nd Uw processing tax on -"and hugs combine to make farmer's returns. V.et prices which are in-Lj in-Lj as a result of production ;.,,ent efforts go alike to J'ting and non-cooperating ..s but the proceeds from .;;ing taxes go only to the atiiig farmers who have to do their part toward ! r.ent of production for the of all producers. These are distributed by the ment in the form of what :f! itself calls, benefit pay- ; I "These payments are not gifts or subsidies." says Administrator Davis. "The consumer has paid fur them in the cost of goods he buys. They are definitely a part of the farmer's price, but he receives re-ceives them only if he adjusts his ; productive effort to the level that is best for his industry." (ilVUS AUVUK ON CANNING MKAT I Now is the time to lake steps toward canning- the winter's supply sup-ply of meat, according to Miss Klna Miller, food specialist of the Utah State Agricultural college extension service. ' Any type of meat that is good to use fresh may be canned, but the pressure cooker method is the only safe method of processing. If the pressure cooker is not used in these higher elevations, so much longer periods for processing process-ing are needed that the canned product is very much overcooked, unpalatable and probably unsafe. Chemical preservatives in the form of canning powders should never be used to shorten the processing time for meat, says Miss Miller. Such chemicals preserve pre-serve the food by making it indigestible in-digestible to bacteria, but substances sub-stances poisonous to bacteria are usually poisonous to man. Select meat from healthy animals ani-mals which have been killed long-enough long-enough in advance and cooled to removed all animal heat. Better j quality will result if the meat has - been kept long enough to start i ripening processes, preferably ten days to two weeks if the weather is cool. Remove all surplus fat and connecting con-necting tissue and cut meat into serving portions. Pre-cook in a hot trying pan, kettle, or in the oven until surfaces are browned. ; The meat may be packed raw " if preferred, but should be packed into hot sterilized containers, being be-ing careful to make a loose pack. A dry pack gives a better quality and flavor, but if a wet pack is preferred, hot water or meat stock may be added to within one inch of the top. Wipe the top of the jar with a clean soft paper or cloth; adjust ring and lid or can .and band, and screw or clamp partly tight. Put into cooker and process quart jars at 15 pounds pressure for 70 minutes and pints for 60 minutes, advises Miss Miller. MAKE FALL WAR ON GRASSHOPPERS Untold millions of grasshoppers have been destroyed in the state of Utah this summer by the use of 300 tons of poisoned bait which was distributed to the farmers of the state by the United States Department De-partment of Agriculture, states W. W. Henderson, entomologist of the Utah Agricultural college. Though we have met with success' suc-cess' in saving much of our crops from the pleague .this summer, it would be a serious mistake to oe-' oe-' lieve that our troubles with them are over. Had we succeeded in destroying 50 per cent of them, there are still millions left to provide a good population of grasshoppers for next year, says Mr. Henderson. Anticipating such an event now is the time to prepare for it. This late fall season is an oppor- tune time to deal this enemy a terrible blow before the. ground freezes up and tillage is impossible. impos-sible. Nearly all the old grass- hoppers die in tbe fall, but before |