Show I Around the County with I f The County Agent By y Russell Hussell Keetch County Agent Acen Agents Busy The following is a clipping from froman froman froman an article written by W V W Owens assistant director of the Utah Ag- Ag Agricultural Ag Agricultural ul cOllege collete extension service ser ser- service ser service vice County Agents are busy bus men these da days s clearing the ne necessary essary papers In federal benefit payments under the AAA and Agricultural Conservation programs Benefit payments 1 will bring more than 1 to Utah farmers within the next Ie lea few months and is s taking considerable portion of the agents agent s time This means that through willbe their offices from 50 to 60 W will f I be paid to each farmer fanner In the state In pending grants Here Is how the coming pay pay- payments pay payments ments are divided For the 2500 heat a heat growers rower who complied with the former AAA program and have not J received all of ot their pay for the me 7 sugar beet grow grow- growers growers growers I ers ho have not received re elved settlement settle settle- settlement ment for those who hav have signed agricultural to cooperate in the tural conservation program 41 1 Sl In Uintah county the County Agent Is with ith DUchesne I I and Da Daggett counties in clearing up old AAA wheat program and andAM I AM AAA Agricultural Hog Corn program the Ag- Ag Ag Conservation program and the Range Ranee Improvement pros program pro pro- program pro j s I gramI gram News Briefs It Is estimated by the farm cred- cred credit credit cred credit it administration that 45 per cent of the farms in the state of Utah are mortgaged This is slightly e above e the average avera e In the country but at the same time is one halt andone-halt and one half per cent below that or of orthe the state of California The annual carrying charge of this volume of mortgaged real es- es estate estate es estate tate is about It Is said Utah financing thru a Utah company v which discounts I with the Intermediate credit bank of Berkley marketed 20 head of lambs as of October 1 for bankI a aI I I total return of This rep rep- represents represents rep represents resents an average a erace of 5 71 per and an approximate six to eight I and a e half halt cents per pound It is estimated these same sheep I I men have a marketable lamb crop crap crapof i of leaving more than I to go so to market They expect to realize an additional 1000 00 from such sales I From these same flocks pounds of wool have already been sold on the open market at about 30 cents a pound while from the first of the year leal to October 1 2850 2 2 50 pounds of wool are on con con- consIgnment consignment con consignment Saving the he Late Fall Vegetables Vc Some of the garden farden vegetables will keep many weeks into the th winter if It properly stored in a special special special cial storage cellar basement or ora ora ora a covered pit or bank depending on their kind certain vege- vege ege- ege ables the dry atmosphere he of th the attic Is the best storage place The root crops ClOpS particularly car car- rots carrots turnips parsnips beets cal I and andi oyster oster plant or will vm store stor i I perfectly Potatoes for and use sweet for many potatoes months are are ar some of the valuable vegetables vegetable I that may be stored until late in inthe the he winter vinter Caves and cellars built separate II from rom the house hous p possess s most of the ad 1 advantages of a storage room in the basement and are superior I In m some respects They are easier eMier I o fill rul and a uniform tempera tempera- ture temperature can be maintained tempera tempera-j over a longer period They must be sum sum- sumI I insulated so o that the vege vege- I I vegetables tables tabes will ill not freeze Ventilation I is necessary Sometimes banks or pits in a drained well v place will answer er all needs Natural earth makes a better floor than con con- concrete concrete con concrete crete or brick for storage as a certain amount of moisture is de- de desirable desirable de desirable I Some Borne vegetables can be stored I II In ventilated en Wa red barrels barre Is loose boxes I or crat crates s in the cellar Or they can be pitted and put In n a pile pUe pUeI covered with ith leaves or straw and I then with a covering of 2 or 3 Inches of soil soli a which hick Is d dI das as the cold becomes more severe I I Pal Parsnips snips are not injured by the frost so they may be left In the th ground or stored like beets or rote car car car- carrots carrots rots Onions need a cool dry at- at atmosphere atmosphere at atmosphere and ventilation so 0 put them in baskets crates or large large- mesh large mesh bags and keep them in the attic or garage Predatory Animal Control Conkol C nr l The following was waa clipped from froma a publication of the U S Biological Biological ical teal Survey entitled the Utah Trail Much better weather cather favored trappers during the month of Aug Aug- August Aug- Aug August August although we did have rain about every other day in some areas Along about the close of July trapper John W Willis of Uintah county sent in an SOS for half a ton of traps to the Bio Bio- Biological Biological Biological logical Survey Suney Sun ry John had not had any of these new toys to play with I for sometime His record at the top of the list shows what he want want- wanted wanted want led forI ed all this hard hardware are for During the month of August John W Willis trapped 64 M coyotes AugustI I The list also shows hows records of other trappers in Uintah county Eldorus I S Jorgensen caught 12 co coyotes otas and 1 bobcat Roy Massey caught 4 coyotes and 10 bobcats These men are making good catches and can be grateful for th these records John JohnW JohnW JohnW W Willis topped the record of the state In the number of coy coy- coyotes coyotes coy coyotes otes caught during the month of August by bagging 64 4 Bert Allen of Morgan county came second with 45 coyotes and 4 bobcats The total number of predatory animals ani- ani animals ani animals mals taken by Utah trapp trappers rs in inA n A gust is 1005 IOOS This number in- in includes includes in includes co coyotes otes bobcats and moun moun- moun-I moun mountain mountain tain lions i |