Show uintah state bank co operates on livestock feeding project conducted hen here for a long ions time efforts have been made to induce livestock owners to feed and fatten their livestock live stock here so to that they could ga go on the market in a finished condition condIt lon very littie littia progress has been made however though the project has been in the minds of several enterprising people A real climax was vas cached this fall when the officers of the farm bureau met with kith the I 1 officer cr or stat state bank and ant agreed alpon a plan for carrying out this important project the me object of this test Is to learn the gains tn in weight thai that may be expected from our homegrown home brown grown feedstuffs feed stuffs what the costs are and what the shrink in transportation por tation amounts to etc with these object objects in view the bunk bank agreed to furnish tr it t finances if it ane farm bureau and ag AS club id did the work and ind keeping of records record so lambs and 30 head of steers were pur put chased and started on feed november at first lint a very light rain grain ration was given this has ras been gradually increased until mv now the steers are receiving ceiling eight pounds per head per day and the lambs about 34 3 4 ibs its per head per day this Is almost a lill grain ration it will be increase d a little until when the stock are finished the steers will be getting from eight to tea ten pounds while the lambs are getting from three quarters to a I pound and a quarter per head per day the lambs and steers were weighed hi in the day they were started on feed this work was done by the ag club boys and bec on the weight are being kept by them they have weighed the live stocal since the feeding started it Is planned to weigh every two weeks 11 II M lundell instructor of the ag AS club boys has his had each student pick th the e steer which he figures will arike th the e best gams gains ii in order to keep track trick of this each steer has been weighed separately and given a Is number this number has his been clipped in the hair halt of the animal so that it is convenient to keep track of these individual gains the ag AS club boys are getting a great deal out of this project because they have been brought in clase contact with it and are playing a prominent part the boys built all equipment such as Is feed racks grain troughs wel watering ering troughs and repairing sheds the lire live stock are located on the A Tho theodore odore johnson farm on the main st stati highway in the southwest nw of 0 f amal V ema i city the are there for inspection and everybody I 1 is invited to call end see rice what is acing on there lj 14 certain ly something for ev everyone eryon to lesin and also it is hoped that since I 1 hit project Is purely for the rd d irelon of the public that people will take advantage of it certainly nothing bs 13 of more value to the people of the county than to utilize their grain aid ai d hay hi fattening some kind of I 1 ve 1 stock if 11 people can bi converted to the advantages of this ahas of ag aff 1 culture through this experiment and ind demonstration dc the uintah state balic and the other cooperating itgen cles will have rendered a arvice that un can not be estimated ir dollars and cents at the presen tami in referring to this nar nal r county agen E pt ferwn says he well kemem sen bers v afien lien the feeding industry started tn in sevier county some twenty years ago at that time just a few I 1 oad ed ot of cattle and lambs were fattened at the present time thy are being fattened by the thousands and each year trainload alter after train load of fat are being shipped out of that valley 1 I 1 ere the advantages are no better than they are here and the reasons for or fatten ning are not so urgent when live stock feeding becomes a common practice in this country thee will be job jobs for many times the of 1 ito to pie e have here now the pathfinder Is orie one of the best weekly papers tn in the country pay for a year a subscription to the vernal express and get it tree free for a year 52 issues A large egg was brought to this office by 11 II L oreen green measuring 8 inches in circum circumference ferance the long way round and 2 inches in diameter the egg was from a rhode island red hen |