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Show THE RICH COUNTY NEWS, RANDOLPH, UTAH ui UTAH BUDGET FSffflS at Mount Fire of unknown Pleasant caused a loss of $30,000; Christmas caro.fi will he sung in the city hall park at Ogden on Christmas eve.' Farmers and dairymen of Utah produced 30 per cent more silage this rear than last year. The Utah irrigation and drainage convention will meet in Salt Lake January 13 and 14.' to discuss irrigation problems. ' Myra Green has been appointed postmistress at ' Modena, and Wiliam D. Harris has been named postmaster at Portage. Orders are expected daily at Fort bougias calling for the sale of the (umber used in construction of the war prison barracks. In order to provide sufficient homes tor the constant stream of newcomers g to Delta, plans for a campaign are being arranged. The total assessed valuation of the Union Pacific railroad in the state, including its rolling stock and its fran chise. is placed by the state board at Or POTATOES or cacm month ro united state T IfTrm nit ESTIMATES MODUOTISNS AMO STOCKS OK JANUARY I $SM -- Yellow Fever Has Seen Its Best Days He discloses that it is more than likely that a means of identifying j el low fever has been found through Remarkable within the last year In the world war ygainst disease wtfged by the Rockefeller Foundation give definite assurance that yellow ever will be wiped from the globe and the southern part of the United States freed from malaria and hookworm, reports Dr. George E. Vincent, head of the foundation. The greatest brains In medical science are being mobilized by the foundation In every section of the globe in preparation for next years campaign, which, according to plans disclosed by Doctor Vincent, will be the most aggressive yet waged in the movement to make the world safe from disease. So great has been the progress of the fight against yellow fever that the disease is now restricted to a few seed beds, Doctor Vincent announces, WASHINGTON. the inventions and experiments of Doctor Idyeo NaguehL This distinguished bacteriologist, who is connected with the Rockefeller Institute, has discovered a vaccine which has proved effective in protecting nonlmmunes from infection. Experiments in 40 southern towns have demonstrated that the control of hookworm is a simple matter of sanitation. Eradication of that disease and malaria depends chiefly upon the of the public with the authorities, Doctor Vincent states. That the 1921 campaign will be necessary is apparent. Yellow fever was prevalent at all the principal ports on the coast of Mexico this fall, and to prevent its possible spread to the United States the public health service placed quarantine restrictions against all travelers from these ports. Epidemics of the disease have been reported from Tuxpam and Vera Cruz, and some deaths have occurred at Progreso, In Yucatan, further to the south. The malady made Its appearance In Oil companies in the TamTampico. pico field were apprehensive of an exodus of the foreign employees that would materially reduce the oil production of the worlds greatest field. Latest Solution of the Cyclops Mystery of the loss of AntheEXPLANATION naval collier Cyclops appears in the columns of a Washington publication called the Pathfinder. The account purports to come from a reader of the paper who does not reveal the source of his information. The Cyclops, with 293 men and a cargo of manganese ore on board, steamed out of Bridgetown, British Barbados, on March 4, 1918, bound for New York.. The account states that off the Barbados at that time, cumbersome vessel, created such disheaded toward the coast of the United turbance on the surface as she sank States, was the German yacht-cruisthat she listed the Waiblingen to her Waiblingen, camouflaged as a merAn explosion occurred beam ends. chantman flying the American flag and on the Waiblingen and the cargo of dlsplaj Ing the name State of Maine. gas shells blew up, releasing dense This vessel was loaded with gas shells clouds of poison which spread over and had come from Pola, Austria, to the Caribbean sea. act as mother ship off the Atlantic Another ship ran into the gas cloud coast to a fleet of German subma- and all on board perished. This unrines. The gas shells were to, have named ship, it is stated, was picked up been distributed to the submarines, later. and these craft were to have thrown The first officer of the German ship, the shells into American coast cities. Herbert Wichman, is said to have At midnight on March 4 the captain made his way to the coast of Texas of the Waiblingen made out the lights and died in Houston, Tex., on March of the Cyclops and managed to learn 20. her Identity. 'The Waiblingen sank No responsible official of tbe navy the Cyclops with a mine at daybreak will comment on the Pathfinders tale on March 5. The Cyclops, a great. of the loss of the Cyclops. , Program of Farmers National Council rates at which member banks receive money and the rates at which they loan it, to one per cent. Payment of the wars cost by taxes on estates, incomes, excess profits, the value of land and other natural resources held for speculation and a rapidly progressixe tax on all property with an exemption of 825,000. Repeal of the Jones shipping law, retention of American ships by the people and their operation directly organizations of the by lease or charter with government ALL farmw hich heretofore have not regulation at ocean freights. Government indorsed legislative plans of the Farmownership of natural ers itional council have been resources still in public ownership and asked by the council to approve the development thereof for service and not for profit. following legislative program: Appeal for support of this program Packing house control by the govwas made by George P. Hampton, ernment. Restoration of the railroads to govmanaging director of the Farmers Naernment operation and for govern- tional council to the following: J. R. Howard, president American ment ownership with a majority of the board of directors to be appointed Farm Bureau federation ; S. J. Lowell, by the government representing the master National Grange ; C. S. Barrett, public. president of National Farmers union ; credit sys- Milo D. Campbell, president National Creation of a short-tim- e tem for farmers, extending and Milk producers association ; W. L. strengthening the farm land bank sys- Drummond, chairman Board Internatem and amending the federal reserve tional Farm congress, and O. G. Smith, act by limiting , the spread between president Farmers National congress, r r Benefactor Halo for King Charles II? returned from western cheering news to the thirsty souls who have been depressed by the recent press dispatches from that part of the neighboring dominion to the effect that the American drought was in danger of spreading to that area. These press dispatches told of various forms of prohibition measures being voted on in the Northwest. . , According to these travelers, western Canada, from Hudson bay to Van- ers declare, while being interviewed The question, as a result of the recouver, will remain wet for a long time to come, 88 years and 10 months, cent prohibition elections in several of the provinces of western Canada, to be exact. This situation is due to a charter will be fought out In the highest granted the Hudsons Bay company by courts of the Dominion and then taken Charles II in 1670. This charter not to London for action by the law lords of the British empire, with the lord only gave to tbe gentlemen adventurers securing it the right to barter high chancellor presiding. The returned travelers, .have got for furs and skins in the wilderness, In 1870, Hit also bestowed on them the, power at least one thing wrong. to distill and dispense strong waters just 200 years after the granting of on the premises of their trading posts the charter, Canada took over the for all the years the charter ran. This vested rights of the H. B. C. and charter was recently extended some it became a simple trading company The company years by the king of England, and can- by Imperial decree. not be canceled, annulled or even cur- now does a real estate and mall tailed until 2018, the returned travel- - oer business. TRAVELERS 3Oo5oo" 50 2a i 55d i i 5b 5oa"3oo3Oot3ook3oot30 IMO .5 bwu i 5b5 3oo"4 3oot;4 St4 PKODUCTIONI T06a I N O 1017 lft 1019 IO 1a MILLIONS Of SU8HCL 7 S60 44 IN HAMM or MOWCfll AND OCALCN 167 162 150 124 ON eIANUAHVI 206 2 w 101a ! 3SV 44 41 VCAft OT FOLLOWING 24 76 home-buildin- Diagram Showing Range of Farm Prices of Potatoes by Months for Ten Years. Whether to dispose of his potato crop direct from the fields or to hold It for possible later increase in prices Is a problem which confronts the farmer every fall. On the one hand is the buyer offering figures based on the quantity and other conditions of the market, the tightness of money, and a number of related conditions which may depress the price. On the other he Is confronted with the, expense of storing, the shrinkage in volume, possibility of rot and the uncertainty of the number of bushels of potatoes which will be carried over by farmers throughout the United States to be thrown into the market during the winter. ing carried out jf the country. Neither are potatoes carried over trom one season to another; as is the case with some crops. That is, the potato crop is practically all consumed in this country and each seasons crop is a separate problem in itself. This is one of the large potato crop years, and the way in which the question of time of marketing is settled by the Individual farmer means an immense sum of money In the gross returns from one of the nations leading crops. The wise grower will study every phase of conditions, and will utilize the aids which ere furnished by the crop and market reports of th United States Department of Agriculture. 16,656,419. Ludvig Petersen, aged 67, an em jloyee of the street department at Salt Lakf, was fatally injured when ae was Struck by an automobile de ivery car. It has been learned that the dog which bit Florence Andrews, 4 years of age, at Ogden, was affected with rabies. The child will he given the Pasteur treatment. One" million additional nenny Christ-na- s seals have been ordered by the to Utah Public Health association neet the increasing demand made by . die county organizations. , , The administration building for the Ogden arsenal will be virtually co this week, while seven of tne sixty buildings now under construction will be completed, within the next . to be decided, because the crop is there. It is a problem that the farmer must decide It is a problem that has for himself. Lowest in October. Prices naturally are lowest in October, when the crop is just out of the ground. A study recently made by the bnreau of markets of the United States Department of Agriculture, covering the last ten years, shows that the average price rises very slightly until the 1st of January, and then more rapidly until the 1st of March, another sharp advance taking place between April planting season and June. These are only averages, however, and may be varied by many conditions which the farmer has to study largely for himself. Reasoning about future prices Is unusually difficult at the pres' ent time. y A study of the general tendencies of the market, whether up or ddwn, must be based on facts pertaining to the country as a whole. The supply may be less than usual in a certain county, but if the total crop is large the size of this total crop will have a tendency to lower prices even iij this country of short prodnetion. Prices in that county may be high, but they will not be so high as they would have been If the total production of the country had not been so large. That is, the conclusions drawn from the broad and general information may be modified by local conditions in each section, but it remains true that each of these sections will be influenced by the up and down tendencies which move over the country as a whole. A grower should know the general situation in order to make proper allowances for local conditions, and he should not only study the potato market but should consider the siz of the sweet potato and other food crops w hich may influence the demand and consumption of white potatoes. He must watch, too, the trend of general prices, especially food prices. If general prices should fall decidedly then the price of potatoes might be carried lower than the years production would warrant. The accompanying chart shows the farm prices of potatoes, averaged for all sections of the country on the first of each month from October, 1910, to n September, 1920. In this table a of fhe December and the following March prices show that In 1917 and 1918 the March prices were lower lhan the December prices, and in 1912 and 1914 they were slightly higher, although, aRowIng for shrinkage and other losses of storage, they really yielded a smaller return. That is, in all years having a production of more than 400.000.000 bushels, the March price was either lower than the December price, or the increase was negligible. When the production has been less than 375,000,000 bushels, the price has tended to increase as the season advances. The farmer may Judge for himself whether the same factors will apply to the present years crop, which is estimated at 413,000,000 bushels by the bureau of crop estimates, and he may apply his own conclusions in deciding when to sell his potatoes. In comparing the prices of one year with those of another, allowance must be made for the rapid decrease during the last few years In the purchasing For Instance, power of the dollar. $1.61 per bushel in 1919 and 80 cents per bushel In 1911 does not mean that potatoes were twice as valuable at the later date. The Increase In price may have had npthing to do with the potato business' It may have come from the genera! rise which increased the price of wheat, clothing and machinery as well as potatoes. The effects of the general increase in prices must be eliminated from the calculation. Potato Exports Small. Before attempting to analyze the relations between the figures of production and stocks on the one hand and prices on the other, it should be mentioned that potatoes are not ex- o ted to any greaf extent, seldom in i per cent of the crop be -- eom-pqriso- MARKET INSPECTION PROTECTS SHIPPERS week. Now Available m Petition has been made to the Utah 25 Important :ounty commissioners for the Shipping Centers... Well-Train- ed Market inspection of fruits and vegetables by representatives of the bureau of markets, of the United States Department of Agriculture is now available in 25 Important market cen ters, and in addition about 150 smallet markets tributary to these have been designated as Inspection points. The purpose of this service is to pro and neutral inspect vide a or who will certify the quality and condition of various perishables upon their arrival in the market. Such cep tificates are received in the federal courts as prima facie evidence of qual ity and condition at the time of arrival in the market ' The value of the sovice has been to bring about a settlement of claims against railroads and as a basis of arbitration where dissatisfaction arises between shipper and receiver. It protects the shipper who is trading rat from unscrupulous dealers, and it also furnishes a protection to honest dealers against the possibility of being considered unscrupulous. These inspections are made on request and there is a nominal charge oi $4 a car for the service. well-train- long-distan- TRACTOR ESSENTIALS : of a nature adapted to the use of a tractor. 2. A sufficient number of days of work in a year to reduce the cost of overhead charges per day. 3. Proper lubrication at all times. 4. Skill on the part of the operator to detect trouble at all times. 5. Knowledge of how to inspect the tractor. 6. Ability to make the necessary adjustments. 7. Provision of the proper farm implements to go with the tractor. 1. Work in Members of the public utilities com- missions of Utah, Nevada, Montana and Idaho concluded their conference at Salt Lake November, 30, with a general discussion of problems common to all. Josiah Barnett, for nearly forty & ears cashier ef McCornick Co., Bankers, and pioneer banker of the intermountain west, died at a Salt Lake hospital November 30, after a brief illness. Utah has 25,662 farms, containing 5,050,410 acres, and valued at $31,274,-72the census bureau has announced. The value of land and buildings shows an increase of 107.4 per cent, as compared with 1910. Fred Whitaker, who is alleged to have admitted his desertion from the United States army last May, has heen imprisoned at the guardhouse at Fort Douglas, while military authorities are endeavoring to trace his army 8, ' record. A petition for the creation of a drainage district as a means of relief from flood waters in the north and northwestern, part of Salt Lake has been filed with the county commissioners by property owners in that E PRODUCTS OF FARMS OF THE STATE TRIPLED 1N THE" ' PAST DECADE. Census Report Shows Great Growth in 'Agriculture and Increase in Number of Farms Within the Borders of Our State. Utahs farm lands, produced crops in the year 1919 aggregating a value of $57,980,827, an increase of 218 per cent over the total crop value of the year 1909, according to figures Just given out from the bureau of census, department of commerce, Washington, D. C. The report, issued by Sam L. Rogers, director of the bureau, shows a valuation increase of ali farm property of the state In the last decade from $150,795,201 to $311,274,728. In the value of land and bunuings a percentage increase of 107.4 per cent is shown, of Implements and machinery 202.5 per cent ahd of livestock 87.6 per cent. The number of farms in the state, according to the census, is 25,662. These farms contain 5,050,410 acres of which 1,715,380 acres are improved land. Since 1910 the number of frftms has increased 18.4 per cent, thertotal acreage 48.6 per Mnt and the improved acreage 25.4er cent. Of all farms operated by owners 47.6 per cent are .mortgaged, as compared to 22.9 pet cent ten years ago, according to the .report. Of women farmers, Utah has 627, of whom 609 are owners, one is a manager and seventeen are tenants, says the bulletin. Of the total area of the state. 9.6 per cent is in farms and 34 per cent , of the farm land is improved. The acreage size of the U.Th farm has increased from 156.7 acres to 196.8 and of this acreage the improved land has Increased from 63.1 acres to 66.8 acres per farm. The report shows a decrease in the production of wool, oats, barley, potatoes and strawberries Increase is shown in the number of horses from 11,135 to 125,471, of mules from 2139 to 2793, of cattle from 379,292 to 505,-57- 8, of sheep from 1,670,890 to of chickens from 673,662 to 954,695 and of stands of bees a decrease from 26,185 to 25,061. The total number of cattle Is 505,-57including 397,563 beef cattle and 1088,015 dairy cattle. Beef 5wa alo number 175,128 and dairy The value reported for all ca: $22,627,870; for beef cattle, $ 429, and for dairy eattle, $5,8 The number of cattle In 1910 ( ing spring calves) was 379,292. Of the 1,691,795 Sheep in thi 407,622 are Iambs under one ye 1,231,341 ewes onq year old am and 52,832 rams find .wethers. tal value reported for, sheep-T- e 881,529, an average of $11.16 per The number of sheep in 1910 (excluding spring lambs) was 1,670,890. The 29,512 goats Include 7510 kids, C under one year raised for fleeces, goats kept for - fleeces and 4406 other goats. The walue reported for goats is $253,100, an average of $8.58 ' per head. , ' The total production of milk in 1919 was 29,339,512 gallons, as compared with 26,306,070 gallons in 1909. The production of wool in 1919 was 11,690,303 pounds, as against 12,102,-22- 0 pounds in 1909 ; of honey, 1,232c 239 pounds ; of eggs, 5,709,076 dozen, ' raised, and the number of chickens ' N 8, 17,-59- . Forty pieces of registered mail from Salt Lake were on the Burlington fast mail train which was robbed of bonds 1,107,446. The value of all dairy products, exand money estimated to be worth on November, 13 at Council cluding home use of milk and cream, Bluffs, Iowa, postal officials have an- was $4,809,087; of eggs, $2,112,358; of chickens raised in 1919, $775,212. nounced. , The value of the 8086 farms for W. J. Murphy of Thistle has presented a claim to the state road com- which complete mortgage reports were mission totaling more than $500 for secured is $84,578,191, and the amount injuries to his son, William Murphy, of the mortgage debt is $24,334,636, or 3 years of age, who was run over by 28.8 per cent of the value. The avera truck doing road work at Thistle age rate of interest paid is 7.1 per cent. Forty-seve- n and per September, 28. cent of all Quadruplets were born to Mrs. Zina owners are farms operated by their mortgaged, as compared Taylor Knight, 30 years or age, wife of William Knight, a farmer of Plain with 22.9 per cent ln,191Q. In 1919, 549,967 acres were in hay City, on December 1. There were three boys and a girl. Two of the and forage, including 365,190 acres in Each of the babies alfalfa, 74,744 acres in tame grasses boys died. and clover, 80,942 acres In wild weighed 4 pounds. grasses, 15,589 acres in small grains The state of Utah closed its fiscal cut for hay; 6638 acres in corn cut for on 30 November a balance with year and '3890' aCreS In silage crops. forage, in the treasury in all funds of SLThe total production of hay arid forOf this amount $840,908.14 OW, 187.03. In 1919- - was 1,031,609 tons, of was in the general fund and available age Which 748,949. tons. were alfalfa and for the meeting of the state's ex31,380 tons silage. In 1908 the total penses and accounts against the com- acreage in hsty and forage' (not includmonwealth. corn cut, for forage),, wa& 405,428 ing During the eleven months ' just acres, and the total production 1,016,-07- 5 s . passed in 1920, a total of 12,274 . tons. , registered at the Automobile asThere were 12,047 acres In potatoes sociation headquarters in Salt Lake. in 1919, ns compared with 14,210 acres Multiply this number by four and ii in ,1909, representing a decrease of gives 49098 tourists residing outside of 15.2 per cent The average' yield In the state who visited Utah dying these 1919 was 136.8 bushels per acre, as eleven months. against 169.5 bushels in 1909. All conscientious objectors have now been released from the war prisBalakovitch Soldiers Escape. Warsaw. Two thousand men who on at Fort Douglas. Seven were freed November 30. The number of con- are members of the irregular forces scientious objectors reached a high commanded by Genera Balakoyitch mark of 175 before the war depart- have escaped from 'the Bolshevik! and ment began authorizing their retease. have found -- efuge ir Poland, where . An experiment conducted by Marvin they have been interned. Lee, aged 11, of Salt Lake, with a Miner1; Will Fight to Finish. bottle of carbide and several ounces The United Mine Indianapolis. of water resulted disastrously. Gas Workers of America plan to carry on a forming In the tightly corked bottle struggle with the local operators of caused au explosion and the Lee boj Alabama and Mingo county, W, Va., recehel a deep laceration cu his to a finish, said a statement ls?ied upper lip. ' Sunday by the union officials. ' By Destroying Hibernating Places of Winter Fight Is Easier, congress. IU1 six-tent- DECREASE NUMBER OF PESTS In The spending of $20,000 in Zion National park for roads, trails and ather physical improvements and for administration,! protection and maintenance purposes will be asked of section. If a farm tractor is to be profitable, the farmer who owns and operates it must provide the following conditions for suc- Insects n 350,000. and Neutral Inspector Quality and Condition of Various Per- ishable Products. Provided to Certify cess organi-iatio- of a drainage district for the reclamation of 12,000 acres of land it Payson. , The project will cost OF F origin-- , FANM PRICK at A Y WHEN TO SELL HIS POTATO CROP IS FARMERS GREATEST PROBLEM AVIMW mioc v Spring I per-sbu- The winter hibernating stage of most Insects Is a critical one, especially where their winter shelter has heen removed. By destroying such hibernating places one simply Increases the mortality of the pest and hence has a smaller number of insects to fight In the spring. IMPLEMENT SHED IS NEEDED Depreciation on Machinery Exposed ' to Veather Would Pay for Shelter in Short Time. There is enough machinery on every farm to justify a good implement shed. If the depreciation - on machinery caused by exposure to weather could be saved It would pay for an Implement shed in one or two years. , e V |