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Show On Utah County Farms With County Extension Agent single group, but instead, those attending will plan to meet at Hayden on the evening of July S ami will either stay at the hotel or make use of their camping equipment. It is expected that the meeting will start at about 10:30 a. m. on the morning of July 9 at the ranch, which is situated just east of Hayden. Cattlemen will return on the tenth. Dean E. J. Maynard of the Utah State Agricultural Agri-cultural college is in charge of iges to offer a farm family. Chickens help to supply food the year round for the family, offering offer-ing a good source of fresh meat in addition to the eggs. The farmer with a flock of chickens has a cash crop every week in the year. A case of eggs a week is helping many a farmer to make his crop this spring without going into debt, says Mr. Frischknecht. The flock also gives winter employment when other farm work can not be done. Chickens can be run on land that is growing other crops, which is a distinct advantage to the small farmer who has not much land at his disposal, he points out. Poultry manure can be used to good advantage in fertilizing field crops, although it is not good practice to use it for the poultry range. Starting into the poultry business busi-ness is generally a gradual undertaking. under-taking. Most successful poultry raisers grow into it rather than go into it, says Mr. Frischknecht. pointing out that this requires very little cash outlay, as a good sized flock can be built up in only a few years from a small beginning. be-ginning. UTAH CATTLEMEN' TO TAKE TRIP Utah cattlemen traveling to Hayden, Colorado, on July 8 and gathering at the Dawson ranch just east of Hayden will see on i Tuesday, J-uly fl. one of the most unique examples of control breeding breed-ing in the country. There, Farring-ton Farring-ton R. Carpenter's purebred herd consisting of several hundred head of registered beef cattle will be held in pasture near the home I ranch. One of tne principal expense items to the western cattle grower has been the cost of good purebred pure-bred bulls, while, in addition, adverse ad-verse range conditions require the use of a proportionately large number of bulls. Any practical scheme or adaptation of a scheme for control breeding that will cut the number of bulls needed to a third or less of present numbers should be of interest to western range cattle growers. High per centage calf crops and uniform age and size of calves are also important economy moves. Carpenter, present director of grazing for the Taylor bill, formerly former-ly district attorney for Routt county and prominent western cattle cat-tle grower, has worked out iust such a scheme and has extended a cordial invitation to all Utah cattlemen or others interested in the cattle business to gather with him at his ranch on July 9 to observe the program in operation. opera-tion. While county delegations will be led by county agricultural agents, the invitation is extended to all others who desire to make the trip. On account of the distance there will be no effort made to go in one , . lets. Through the adjustment payments farmers are protected! against lower prices if these result re-sult as from larger crops. "During the last year wheat farmers have had a concrete demonstration dem-onstration of the advantage of the wheat program in protecting them against price disparities between what they have to buy and what they get for what they sell. Even though the country has been on a domestic basis for wheat for the last year, wheat prices have not reached parity, and it' has only been through the adjustment payments pay-ments that farmers were able to receive a parity return on their domestic allotments. "If it required the provisions of the wheat program to give farmers this protection during the years when the two shortest wheat crops in 40 years were harvested, it seems likely that the provisions will be even more necessary neces-sary with normal wheat crops," Mr. Farrell said. CHIC KENS A FORM OF WEATHER INSURANCE Biddy will lay just about the same number of eggs whether it rains or shines, and her immunity to the whims of the weather man is just one ofr the many reasons why Utah farmers will find it profitable to keep a few chickens as a side line, says Carl Frischknecht, Frisch-knecht, Utah extension poultry-man, poultry-man, i Besides acting as a form of .' crop insurancve for drought and rain stricken farmers, a well-managed well-managed flock has other advant- WHKA'I' OUTLOOK STRESSES NEED FOli ADJUSTMENT With an indicated wheat crop or 1935 of 671 million bushels, based on the June crop report of winter wheat of 411 million bushels, bush-els, Agricultural Adjustment Administration Ad-ministration officials foresee an adequate amount of wheat from the 1935 crop that could be used tor any available export outlet, William Peterson, state director og extension service, says. Last year the wheat crop was 496 million bushels, the lowest in 41 years, and in 1933 it was 529 million bushels. The carry-over on July 1 this year is expected to be between 150 million and 170 million bushels. Although even when the drought was at its worst, there was no danger of a shortage of wheat, the rainfall of the spring has so "improved "im-proved conditions that a surplus of wheat is likely to result, unless severe conditions affect the spring wheat crop between now and harvest har-vest time. "The implication of the crop report re-port for wheat farmers Is that they must once more face the problem of what to do with wheat for which there is no home market mar-ket and for which foreign outlets are limited," George E. Farrell, director of the Division of Grains of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, says. "Througl. the wheat program of the. Agricultural Adjustment Administration, Ad-ministration, farmers have the means to meet this problem through cooperation to adjust their production to market out- |