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Show -Si ' PAGE & THE AMERICAN FORK CITIZEN THURSDAY, MARCH 3i( !. . . v.-'. ' . r t-- .r tv-;v' J- FARM NEWS 1' IKS v-a "'H AGENCY DETAILS BEET WORK SALARY SCALES Wage rates to be paid for work on the 1949 sugar beet crop by producers who apply for payments pay-ments under the sugar act of 1948 as set up by the U. 8. Department De-partment of Agriculture were an nounced Wednesday by O. Frank Nelson, Spanish Fork, state committeeman, com-mitteeman, U. S. Production and Marketing administration. The rates agreed upon by both producers and laborers provides for not less than, 60c per hour for the thinning, hoeing or weeding weed-ing and 65c an hour for all harvesting har-vesting work. Reductions not to exceed one-third of these rates may be made for workers between be-tween 14 and 16 years of age. With Machine Blocking Utah county hoe and finger thinning in fields planted with segmented seed without machine blocking. $12 per acre. -Hoe and finger thinning with machine blocking, $9; blocking and thinning in fields planted with whole seed, $2 more than Other rates; first hoelngafter hoe and finger thinning, $4 per acre; hoe thinning, no finger thinning, $7; first hoeing after hoe thinning, $5; each subsequent hoeing or weeding, $3. Where rates are not specified the producer may pay the laborer the rate agreed upon. Pest Control Guide, Ready for Distribution Utah farmers will curtail planting crops which require employments hired labor, It was disclosed in the annual "Inten tion to Plant" report issued this week by Edward C. Paxton, agri cultural statistician for Utah. y i: 1 USED CARS 1 947 Ford 2 Ton Stake, low mileage 1935 Chevrolet Sedan 1936 Plymouth Coupe 1939 Pontine Sedan Good Farm Trucks 1937 D30lnternationol 1941 K5 International , All cars and trucks reconditioned and in top : , condition. See These Buys! ifl A handy pest control guide book has been prepared for dis trlbutionby the Sherwin-Williams Company and Is available to everyone Interested. The Illustrated handbook will make it possible for the reader to recognize pests of the farm, garden, and household, and how to control them. The lnforma tlon in this booklet is designed for the small grower, to give practical control with the least effort. N The handbook is divided Into sections for quick reference veg tables, fruit, ornamentals, live stock, and household. The In formation is arranged in table form, listing the pests, the chem lcals to control them, and amounts to use. s v ; The information contained in the book Is compiled from pub lished reports and articles by state and federal agencies and from tests conducted by and for the paint company. The guide may be obtained by writing to The Sherwin-Williams Co., Chemicals Division, 101 Pros pect Avenue, N. W., Cleveland 1, Ohio, and enclosing two dimes to cover cost and handling. SAGE OBSERVATIONS FROM HERE AND THERE The broiler industry has grown so rapidly that now over three million commercial broilers- and fryers are raised annually, ac cording to Walter Steffens man ager of the local division of the Utah Poultry Cooperative. In spite of this figure, however, only about 21 of the frying chickens consumed are produced com merclally;'the rest are cockerels, as by-products from pullet flocks. The Poultry industry has be come Utah's leading agricultural pursuit and it's getting bigger all the time. The 6,000 members of the Utah Poultry last year produced pro-duced more than eight million dollars worth of eggs and more than six million dollars worth of poultry. Including turkeys. Indi cations are that the figures will be topped again In 1949. County Agents met last week and considered proposals for keeping alive the- Agricultural Extension service, established In Utah for 35 years. An effort Is being made through the cooper a tlon of the USAC and the state department of agriculture to keep the service active. The $400,000 appropriation to support the service for the next two years was vetoed by the governor. gov-ernor. The federal government matches In money 46 per cent of the state's appropriation. This also is lost. . Utah's turkey, business brings approximately $14,900,000 to the state annually. Indications are that Utah turkey raisers win market 1,500,000 birds this year. The national picture is for a tur key crop that will exceed the 1948 crop by 25. There should be a total of 39,460,000 birds com pared with 31,653,000 last year, That will be an increase of 11 per cent over the 1941-1945 aver age and will be close to the 1945 record production of 44,221,000 turkeys. IS - 4-. i f . iMWk f i . " ' -J: 1 1 CB mffffletD svore than 12 million times a dayrthe "people served bylhis Company reachr. for their teler phones to make or answer calls. . That's a lot of big or little jobs accomplished ac-complished by telephone a useful use-ful service of great value. To a businessman, telephone tails mean time and money saved; -for a housewife calls save count- less trips. In emergency the value " of the service can't be measured. The telephone's cost is small in . - proportion to the job it doe3. -"; . -- TH M0UNJW STATES TtUPHOHE & TMCWH COMPANY Clyde C. Edmunds To Address Poultrymen Clyde C. Edmunds, Salt Lake City, general manager of the Utah Poultry association, will be the. guest speaker at the social for the members and their part-nears part-nears of the local comprised of members from American Fork, Pleasant Orove and Lehi. The party will be held April , 7th In the stake tabernacle amusement hall beginning at 7:30 p. m. A program will be given followed fol-lowed by refreshments. , The Committee In charge consists of the officers of the local: Elderi J. Miller, president; Elmer Chip-man, Chip-man, vicepresldenti; Jesse Spaf-ford, Spaf-ford, secretary-treasurer; George BinchrteGrande Adamson, Calvert Cal-vert Beck, It, C. Pectol, and Bert Durrant, directors. Theixulll-ary Theixulll-ary will serve "the refreshments. Mrs. Melvin Frandsen is president. presi-dent. ... I John W; Gerber Visiting Growing Areas John W. Gerber, executive secretary of the Utah Cooperative Growers left Monday for an extended ex-tended tour of the celery plant growing areas. " Monday night Mr. Gerber met With the carrot growers at Cedar City and discussed acreage and labor problems.. He also toured the Beryl area which has come to the front as a tmtato growing FFA mm Jess Bromley and James Hind-ley Hind-ley have been named delegates to the state convention of the Future Farmers of America to be held in Salt Lake City, Friday and Saturday. Local chapter members Floyd Vest, James Hindley and Lynn Harris will be candidates at the convention for state farmer de grees. Awards will be made to the successful candidates at the final session of the convention. Each candidate for a degree will make a one minute report of his activities and one of the delegates dele-gates will give a one minute report re-port of the activities of the local chapter. " A. B. Allen, vocational agricultural agricul-tural instructor at the high school will accompany the delegates dele-gates to the convention. Registration for the convention will take place Friday morning at the Newhouse hotel and the meeting will be concluded with the election and installation of officers Saturday afternoon! district and conferred with the farmers on marketing problems. Mr. Gerber planned to visit Logandale, Nev and Indlo, Calif., over the week-end to Inspect the celery plants being, grown for local farmers. . . ' .... - .Mi "PLAY IT SAFE!" That's the advice of Chief Mercer to all the children of this city. "We don't want to spoil anybody's any-body's fun," he said. "In fact we want to see our youngsters have all the fun there Is. But , we want them to be safe,; too." Three-fourths of the boys and girls five u to 14 years of jage-who were killed or Injured In traffic in 1947 were doing one of three dangerous things at the time, according ac-cording Jo the . National Safety Council. They were either crossing cross-ing the street between Intersections, Intersec-tions, coming from behind parked cars cr playing in the roadway. J.& uio ui vuur ntti. . has been killed or cnJ that ha mh agauv-welL I guess I tLi to remind you to K.T. ' Chief Mercer said. "Bun you kids should play it J you can keep on playing "So, please play on tb grounds or In yards wen from traffic. And ne near the streets. Stav alleys, driveways and maZ! You kids are mighty quk? know, and a driver Just you ueaiuc ur Demna hlj, truck. So keep well awaj cars,' driveways and alleys It safe.'!- i Is "Early History or Am( Fork" (Shelley) on your shelve? The day is when this edition will m Publishing company. 3X1 say "I love You'' with a Diamom I Give her flawlessly beautiful Circtf of Light diamonds . . . as precious' and long-lasting as your love!! Choose them here in her favorite! jewel setting. 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