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Show On Utah County Farms With The Extension Agent rope, such us sash cord, or heavy wire shackle for holding birds should be suspended from a substantial sub-stantial support far enough from the side walls or posts so that the birds cannot strike any solid object ob-ject in the struggle after the stick is made. The feathers can be rapidly removed, re-moved, but extreme care should be taken to prevent scurfing, burning, or tearing tne skin while aoing so. Pinning is a slow tedious job, but must be carefuiiy and thoroughly done. Remember the specifications on this point, "with breast practically prac-tically free of pin feathers and only a few scattered pin feathers over the remainder of the carcass." car-cass." A small pinning knife with i a blade about l"i inches long with no sharp edges or points ground or sharpened like an ice skale will help greatly in this work. Such a knife can readily be made from a small vegetable knife and each pinner should have one. The wings, legs and neck should be picked clean. A careful rigid in-i in-i spection of each bird for killing, ! roughing and pinning defects is usually necessary before passing the carcass on to the next group of workers. Their work should be to firmly press the abdomen of each bird ) with a thumb on each side, fingers I on back to force out all undigested food left in the large intestines. Then the feet should be washei I thoroughly and dried before the carcass is hung up. Any soiled l spot of blood or dirt on the flesh I should be cleaned with a clean damp cloth. A tear in the skin should be carefully sewn with No. 10 white thread while the skil is still warm. If by any chance considerable con-siderable feed is in the crop it should be removed by cutting along the side near the thick heavy skin on the back of the neck, removing the entire crop, then sewing up the skin. The carcasses should then be hung up not touching each other or any other object in a cool clean place until thoroughly chilled but not frozen. Frozen birds cannot 1 be graded or packed. The internal temperature of the carcass must, however, be below 3li degrees Fahrenheit before they are packed. FA KM LOANS MOUNT AS FC'A ItKl-KASKS MONEV IN WEST New loans by the four lending I agencies under the Farm Credit f administration amounted to $72,-500,000 $72,-500,000 in September, or a 9 per cent increase over the $66,600,000 loaned in August, according to the statement received at the Utah State Agricultural college from Washington by W. D. Ellis, general agent of the Farm Credit administration's admin-istration's eleventh district. Long term mortgage loans b; the federal land hanks and the land hank commissioner amounted to S2,.ri00.000 during September so the Washington statement says. In August this figure was $.11.-900,000 $.11.-900,000 and in July, $24,900,000. Indicative of-the shrinkage in the farm mortgage business of the federal land banks due to the passing pass-ing of the depression emergency is cited the fact that in September 193-1 a total volume of land bank and commissioner loans reached $87,550,664. The present business busi-ness of the land banks represents a return to more normal financing financ-ing of pre-depression days, according ac-cording to General Agent Kllis. By states in the eleventh district, dis-trict, the total number and amounts of loans of both types , made by the land bank in Oakland ' during September were as fol- lows: Utah, &2, $210,900; California, Cali-fornia, 2IS. $873,500: Nevada. 2, $2,600; Arizona, 22, $85,700. The total of $1,172,700 stands against a total of $5,022,500 for September, Septem-ber, 1934. According to the Washington financial report, new loans to farmers' marketing and purchasing purchas-ing cooperatives made by the twelve regional banks for cooperatives coop-eratives and the central bank for cooperatives m Washington totalled $16,700,000 in September, I compared with S6. 300,000 in the i same month last year. prices were high, Mr. Slott saidT Tins land should be brought hack under a policy of wise usage to its original condition as a pro-tit pro-tit able grazing region with relative rela-tive rapidity, officials point out. The plan is to include some water development, limiting of grazing privileges, reseeding certain portions por-tions to grasses, and control of the erosion problem by small dams at the headwaters of streams and restoration of the watershed cover growth. I'- sKm-KM NT ACT IMiOVIPKS FINDS TO IU V STATU LANDS Approval of plans to purchase 30000 acres of land in Garfield county t S.0Oa acres In Tooele una j""1' counties has been announced an-nounced by Walter K, Faekard, regional director of the Resettlement Resettle-ment administration tor the states Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, California and Nevada, through ,1,0 office of C. O. Stotl, state director di-rector at (he Utah State Agricultural Agri-cultural college. The Garfield purchase will amount to $69,000 and the Tooele and Juab purchase has received allocation of $80,000, Mr. Stott saiJ. The Garfield county area has about 44 families living within with-in Die project boundaries, 2S of which will have to be resettled on more productive farms and it will be the function of the Resettle-i Resettle-i meat administration to carry out the details of this resettling process. pro-cess. In the Tooele and Juab areas under increasing homesteading and resettlement of the past two or ', three generations the pasture , lands were grazed off, tillable , areas were plowed up during- the war years and the succeeding period when farm commodity The purpose of the resettlement program is to put land to its best use; to inaugurate a program of soil conservation in connection with the use of that land; to give assistance as-sistance to the people now living on the land who are in difficulty because they are attempting to use the land for a purpose for which it is not adapted. rOl'LTKYMAN TKIXS HOW TO KI1X-DKKSS Tl'KKKYS I'OK SALE Turkey raisers who have used hundreds of tons of feed and several sev-eral months of time to develop fine flocks should not now lose an opportunity for the best possible returns from their flock by using poor equipment, or careless or in-1 in-1 efficient methods of killing and dressing in a srreat rush tn mt these birds off to market in a day or two. Professor Byron Alder of the Utah State Agricultural college col-lege warns. Growers should take enough time to do this work well. Any dressing defects that puts one of these fine' birds down to the lower grades means a loss to you of 2 to 12 cents a pound or from 30 cents to $1.75 on each fifteen-pound fifteen-pound bird, he points out. Some of the most common dressing defects de-fects are: Feed in the crop, poor bleeding, carcass covered with pin feathers, torn or scurfed skin, flesh or skin bruises, broken legs or wings, dirty feet or soiled skin, and the carcass not properly chilled. Most of these can very easily be avoided. Much time and expense can be saved in killing and dressing the flock by careful planning and preparation before the killing date arrives. Provide convenient runs for holding birds during starving period and shoots or small pens for catching birds; suitable racks and room for cooling after they are killed; plenty of ropes or shackles and good pinning knives for the pinners; tubs and towels for cleaning and drying the feet and any soiled spots on the car-I car-I cass. 'Each bird should be carefully selected for fleshing condition and to be sure they are well covered with fat, then starved 14 to 20 hours before killing. Water should be available to the birds in the holding pens during at least the first part of the starving period. The birds should be kept as quiet as possible to avoid bruises. I Thorough bleeding cannot be assured as-sured without a good killing knife I and someone who knows how to j use it. The knife should have a strong blade 3 inches long and about three-eighths of an inch wide. The cutting edge should be straight out to the point with the back rounding or tapering to the the cutting edge. A strong |