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Show Friday. March 26, 1937 THE Settling District Between P.G.,Provo (Continued from page one) School: Clinton Smith, Superintendent; Brown Haiti and Donna Willett, Primary: Zora llan-epre:diiit; Lydia Smith and Ro-- e Harris,, counselors, M C. E. M'ilberg, a merchant, is also a Town Board Member. VVndsor is also the home of Mr. J. Wr. Gdlman who is and has been for some time a u uuinent County and State personality, and Mrs. Minnie Ditmore, fauus the State for her beautiful flower gardens and her work in that field in County and State fairs. Mr. Ed mund Cragun of Windsor is i member of the Timpanogos Stake Presidency. Mrs. Harris, wife of Bishop Harris, says they raise beet large and small fruits and a lot of children. The ward has 125 families and aproximately 550 memb- ers. Dairying is a prominint industry, the milk being shipped, into Salt Lake, n, About the year I860 the district north of Provo was a treeles sagebrush country except for a part of Grand View where the Provo River and a spring furnished water for trees and other wild vegetation. No homes dotted the no stream of water wasteland, flow d over it except at the places mentioned, and only a pioneer trail ran across it. But there was a type of life there the type that come with sagebrush .and a semi-ari- d country. Jack rabbits, coyotes, and rattlesnakes were the undisputed owners of a locality fertile enough to support thousands of people comfortably. The pioneers traveling from the southern Utah settlements to Salt Lake or Salt Lake to southern Utah recognized the potential value of the district if water could be had with which to irrigate it. The government had surveyed it and offered it to homesteaders and several people applied themselves to the task of finding a means of irrigation. In the belief that it would be only a matter of a very short time until water was available, several homesteads were taken up. Thb homsteaders were required to live on their land for five years, not being away froi i it for more than six months at any one time, and to build houses which could be proven to withstand the elements. Land could be bought for a dollar and twenty-fiv- e cents an acre ers to hasten the building of the first canal for water could only be secured bv going to Utah Lake, Provo River or to the spring at the foot of the second dugway going into Provo. Wells were dug hut no one was ever able to reach water there was none there. It is no problem to understand not of tetter than Saturday night- - took suth firm hold on the residents. The homesteaders worked with other interested people from surin making the rounding first canal. It conveyed water from Provo River out over two thou-an- d acres of thirsty ground. The fir-- t canal company was formed n 186.1 The canal itself was a small affair being but two and a half feet deep and about six feet wide, but it- advent brought what to the homesteaders must have seemed to be a rush of settlers. The first settlVrs were descend ants of pioneers and were preeminently qualified to play the part of our later pioneers. They came from Provo, Pleasant Grove, American Folk, arid Lehi full of faith in the new locality and with a stock of hopes that sought tq sow themselves like winged seeds with the crops .that were planted. High hopes and optimism were needed for the struggle the land and its denizens was greater even than had at first appeared and would have been insurmountable to any but a people who had heard the lark within the songless egg. Logs were cut in Provo Canyon and sledded down to become a part of the rough cabins of hopeful homesteaders. Frequent dugouts offered homes to some of the settlers who probably had neither horses nor oxen to use in obtaining logs. The logs used in building the cabins were untrimmed but split in two and the chinks plastered up. No covering was used on the. inside walls. Originality was seen chiefly in roofs which might be of dirt placed on top of logs or of thatch made from rushes gathered around Utah Lake. For those who could afford the luxury, unbleached muslin was stretched across the ceiling inside the cabin; otherwise the peaked roof of rough logs formed the overhead view. Windows were exceedingly few and small and there was seldom more than one door. Both fireplaces and small cast-iro- n stoves were used. Light for the dark hours was obtained from home-mad- e fallow candles. Everything was of the simplest and crudest and the most necessaty. (To be continued) Mr. Jolley was guest of the Senior High School Assembly and right. And so the sagebrush waste told of his trip to the High School New Oilcans and to the Concame to have several dots (tor the His talk log huts which were built could not vention held there. reasonably be called anything else) was very interesting and educational. Mr. Rhodes Jepeson, a upon its face. former Lincoln Student High Struggle To Obtain Water Pe naps the laborous means of sang, and the orchestra played two the necessary securing culinary numbers at the opening and closwater lead those early homestead- - ing of the assembly. nt Orem I, Ian large coops filled with noi-- y hens to see. Mr. Antone Bunker docs most of the caring for them himself. His brother, Carlyle, takes care of the feed ,busmc'. which isnt a smill one even for their own use for they feed 830 pounds of this and that every day. It is estimated that the entire district feeds about 1,660 sacks a week. The Bunker farm is owned by the two brothers mentioned and their mother, Mrs. G. S. Tainker. It is equipped with modern facilities for good hen care and egg production. It is interesting to remember that this large business began in 1922 as a school project by Carljle. Handicap Met by District The chief handicaps the Orem and vicinity district poultrymen suffer are those common to all over the nation. Just now they are high feed prices and an of eggs. There are other handicaps which belong only to the state or the community. The distance to our markets had handicapped us by making it impossible to furnish eggs as fresh as could the nearer producers. It has also necessitated heavy freight rates. If the Pettengill Bill now before Congress is passed, it will make it harder for our poultry-me- n to compete with producers in other states. It will allow Pacific Coast eggs to be sent through Utah to the eastern markets at a lower rate of freight than our own eggs can be sent although we are a thousand miles closer. Advantage offered Orem Poultry-me- Challenge is a sl Hard Timas With Chickens from page one) to the tune they were four months old had lo- -t only 35 of them which is a very unu-urecord. They have kept as high as 2.200 hens at a time but now are keeping, 1.500. And they are paying all their own exiwsi-e-,- " Mrs. Johnson says, whiih i.-- al-- o something of a recot d for this day of bad returns on chickens. Utah Now Ship Egg Out of In. Early in the 1920s it was impossible for the farmers in Utah to for conproduce enough egg sumption in the state because of the low prices during the high producing months and inadequate facilities to get production from hens during cold weather. Eggs were being shipped in. This year over two thousand refrigerator cars eacB containing 600 thirty-doze- n were shipped out of Utah to eastern and Pacific Coast markthat about ets, It is estimated 1,050 cases come out of the Orem and vicinity district every week. Although the return to growers is not nearly what it was in the e a good years of 1928-2many more people are affected by the industry today and the business it creates is wide and large. The facilities and products are much more improved but low egg prices and soaring feed prices almost eliminate the profit. And don't ever think a chicken is a dainty bird in the amount she eats or the things she will eat either, for that matter. It an army marches on its stomach, a chicken certainly lays on hers. The studies made about chicken diet almost rival in thoroughness those made about people. Any good can reel off to you the dozen or so necessities to a bal ccd ration for chickens, from cod liver oil to sheat middlings, and all in the most exact proportions and carefully prepared conditions. Bunker East Feed Problem The Bunker poultry farm in Vineyard has cased its feed problem by also going into the feed business. They buy, as much as possible, products grown close to home and prepare them for use in their own plant. The Bunkers now own 2,500 chickens. Their largest jiumber was 5,000. Their t eight (Continued al poul-trynte- n In-ste- ad ca-e- s, n. peak-pric- poul-tryma- n VOICE OF SHARON There are advantages in going into the poultry business in. the Orem district, some of which are common to the State and some to the locality. Most poultry raisers are also farmers with diversified crops. Consequently, if the year is Lati lur chickens, the farmer can still keep from going bankrupt with the profit he makes on something else. The danger here is that he will scatter his efforts over too wide a field, the chickens will not get the care they should and consequently tie returns will not be as good as they could be. According to Commissioner of Agriculture, David H. Smith, the farms in LTtah d are 7 percent which means that the state as a whole is using three men to produce agricultural crops that will support but two. The poultry business could be an excellent supplement for this sort of farming condition. Utahs situation geographical has its effect on the quality of eggs produced here. Our eggs are of an exceptionally high quality. Utahs climate makes wintei producion a little difficult, especially ii the Pa cp Five adeis laid it rolls out of the nest and equipment is not entirely quate. In modern coups eggs pro- into a trough and so does not get duction does nut fall off much even broken or dirty. Mr. Jack Larsen of in the coldest weather. Being high Vineyard put a continuous belt unand div is a wonderful advantage der his roosts so that all he has in length ng the life span of a hen lo do to clear out the droppings is as well as giving her eggs a good to revolve the belt with a few flavor. Most of the Orem district twirls of a wheel at one end of poultry raisers are situated so that the roosts. Mr. Grant Wentz says their coups can have running water he can cure a hen from wanting and electric power. to set by caging her in an outside One of the big advantages the slat pen arranged so that the cool Orem district has is space. When air can get up under her. If she her maternal yearntoo many chickens are grown in persists in the same locality the danger of ings so that she has to be slatted three times, shes disposed of. disease is heavy and the possibility of eradicating it is lessened. Eggs are gathered four times a Good roads and railroad service day to keep them clean. Hands are facilitate . the marketing problem. scrubbed before handling eggs or Two big poultry Associations, The hens. Disinfectants are generously Utah Poultry Association and the used. Dogs, cats, rats and people Draper Poultry Association, serve are recognized germ carriers and their members in the territory with chickens are protected from all of delivery service, laboratories and them. Many coops bear the sign professional poultry advisors, all Stay Out and a visitor will, if he is considerate, observe it for chickfree of charge. Excellent hatcheries are located ens catch any sickness that people in the state so that chicks are do. If the close business of being; more easily obtained and in better a constant attendant to several . condition than formerly. The work hundred, .or thousand raucous bens! that is being done through the does not wear down the grower's Utah Hatchers and Breeders Asso- resistance, he is a natural born ciation, supervised by the poultry producer and finds much to give him satisfaction. We heard one of department of the Utah Agricultural College has been influential them talking to his hens as he in the standard of worked among them and the hens improving actually seemed to be talking back. chicks produced in the state. The producer picked one up in his Good Poultryman A Tet for arms and began singing Uyit a' l The Orein district has some of hen lifted her rasping voice and the the States outstanding poultry-mealong with him until he gave sang both from the standpoint of out. He said his chickens know him agressiveness and long experience. and never mind his coming into Thats what the bulletins say, but their coops unless he changes his to an outsider looking on, it seems clothes for some they do not recthat their outstanding quality is This producer is one of the ognize. They are unusual- fussiest and most successful in the ly careful in their attention to small district and places a good deal of details such as keeping coop tememphasis keeping his hens upon and feeding contented'-an- d peratures just so clean. Several of right on the dot and, as one of the have carried their them said, doing everything pos- close producers attention to their charges so sible to keep the chickens content- far that when baby chicks arrive this partly in ed. They accomplish the spring; they move their beds by giving the chickens plenty of into the hen house and go home space, plenty of food and penty only long enough for their meals. of sleep. Some coops are equipped The wife of a producer has her with time clocks which switch elec- trials too, one of them being the tric lights on and off at the same smell of hens and hen food which time the year round so that the is a strong attachment to her hus-- 1 poor hens do not find themselves band's working clothes. in sumthe wakened at five A. M. Looking into the Near Future. mer and seven in the winter. According to W. D. Termohlen, There are many little engenious devices invented by different pro- chief of the Poultry Division A. A. ducers. Mr. and Mrs. William A., Washington D. C., prospects Johnson made a wire fence a foot for the next year or two are good Indications with burlap for the poultryman. high and covered sacking which they place around are that next year will see them their brooders at a distance of three with fewer birds as a result of this feet. This contrivance keeps the years high feed costs. 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