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Show Devoted to t fee Progress VOL. L &. Development of Agriculture in tfie Qre&i Uintali Basin VERNAL, UINTAH COUNTY, UTAH, APRIL, 1924. SECURING COUNTY AGENT BIG THEME AT FARM MEETING On March 8th, the Duchesne county farm bureau discussed the possibility of having a county farm agent which is so necessary. From all indications we shall have a regular county agent within thirty days and then much of the work we are doing will have better leadership, insuring much more Within ten by the farmers. a man out send days the state trill here to investigate the matter and decide whether or not a county agent will be given us. Following are the names of the chairmen of several important committees who were appointed at the last board meeting: Roads, L. E. Potter, Highland; marketing, Henry Mitchell, Upalco; program and social, Walter Baird; crop pests, Lee Anderton, Cedar-vielivestock and dairying, J. B. Murray, Altonah; crop improveand ment, drainage irrigation, Leslie B. Goodrich, Bluebell; poultry, George W. Larson, Roosevelt; Boys and Girls club work, C. F. Walquist, Myton. Under the rules some member of the board, who must be president of a bureau local, must act a3 chairman of one of the principal comHe may select his assismittees. bureau members, makfarm tants, hiB as large as he becommittee ing At each monthly lieves necessary. board meeting a report from each chairman is expected. Only by dicomseveral viding the work among mittees may intensive work be done. Each chairman will find that the experiment Btation at Logan, in charge of Dr. Evans, is ready to advise and furnish literature printed by our state A. C. as well as by The board feels the government. that we must better standarize our wheat, for instance. We have many varieties, and in the same field may be found a mixture of two to four kinds of wheat. Our chickens should be one or two of the best standard We are too grades for shipping. secure top to railroad the far from the long because for eggs, prices auto ride reduces top grade eggs to We must second or third grade. therefore raise chickens for the market and regard this as first and eggs as second in importance. Our great need for better grade of dairy cows is Although one of our chief sources of cash is the faithful cow, yet we are doing little or nothing to improve the grade. The cow which is a good beef animal is no good for the manufacjust turing of food into butter fat, as a good egg producing chicken is about third or fourth grade in the butcher shop. Each one of the chairmen will be expected to have his work lined up, and his assistants selected by April 5, when the next meeting of the board takes place, at 11 oclock a. m. At that time it is hoped that we shall have secured a county farm agent. w; self-evide- nt. . Governor Mahey Shaking Hands With Chief Duncan At U. B. L C . NO. 4. UINTAH COUNTY FARM BUREAU WORK AND PLANS Bought from the Agricultural experiment station 200 bushels of certified Dicklow wheat, recommended by the department as the best variety for Utah spring wheat. The seed is 99.8 per cent pure. from Colorado 2000 Shipped of No. Minnesota pounds 13, certified seed corn. Between 85 per cent and 95 per cent germination test. A !&' fn: 1 shipment of dairy stock is under way. All who are interested must apply immediately. Recommended the seeding of pastures to grasses and tb.e planting of beets for dairy and poultry feedThese projects are being ing. stressed as their development will mean much to Basin dairymen. The Farmers wool pool is under way and will be sold soon. Governor Charles R. Mabey and Chief John Duncan of the Ute Indians at the recepiton at the U. B. I. C., August 17, 1923, when Governor Mabey shook hands with nearly 1000 Indians, men women and children, who were in attendance. Through an interprter, a beautiful and modest young Indian maiden in reply to the Governors greeting, Chief Duncan said in part: This work of your coming into our midst and trying to help us is touching us. Whenever we feel that your people and our Government are interested in our welfare, then it makes. us happy, and it makes us feel more that we want your flag to be our flag and your government to be our government. July 29, 30 and 31 Dates Chosen For Second Annual Convention Again residents of the Great Uin-a- h Basin will meet at Fort Duchesne n the second Uintah Basin Indus-:riConvention, better known as .he U. B. I. C. ' Last year 5000 of the 18,000 or !0,000 people of the Uintah Basin This year tttended the meetings. here will be many more thousands resent to partake of the inspiration-i- l talks given by the emminent men The inf the state and nation. ductions from our various colleges vill be even more than last year and al he department work enlarged. An added feature is the womens They lepartment fully officered. vill function far better than last Mrs. Mary Orser is chair-narear. n. W. L. Woolf of Roosevelt was dected president; Bud Gipson; Ver-la- l, vice president; J. H. Crleken-erge- r, Fort Duchesne, secretary-reasure- r; E. Peterson, Vernal, chair-na- n Bart-et- t, program committee; Ross adver-isinRoosevelt, finance and LeRoy Taylor, Fort grounds; Mrs. Mary Orser, g; Du-:hes- loosevelt, C. Womens Smith, Fort department; Duchesne, )ooklet committee. Supt. F. A. Gross of the Indian who was secretary-treas-irlast year, heartily endorsed the J. B. I. C. and at the last general neeting offered every assistance to lake this year's convention a great lylas nt, er er success than last year. With the early start of this year, the experience of last year, the U. B. I. C. for 1924 should be far more helpful to all. The time has come when we must solve our own problems in our own way and the U. B. I. C. is the place, where all can get together for three days and absorb the things for our good, given especially to fit the conditions at home. The date of the convention this year is set for Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, July 29, 30 and 31, which will follow immediately the national summer school held at the U. A. C. at Logan. These dates were chosen so as to give instructors from this school, men of national reputation, to be in attendance and it is thought one or more will be present. The great success of the U. B. I. C. last year and the general eagerness by the people for its continuation, shows that the real growth of the Basin depends largely upon the inspiration received from these conventions. The term U. B. I. C., standing as it does for our intellectual, financial and moral growth, should permeate the spirit of the Uintah Basin, and be the growth of a vision with a meaning of present and future. Yet, who has ever been able to define the meaning and the inspiration of the Uintah Basin? The effort the Through tax valuation on all improved real estate wil be reduced 40 per cent in 1924. The Dairy association in the Western division is well under way. All that is lacking for a Dairy association in the Eastern division is some one who has time to lead the project. We all talk Boys and Girls club work; capons, calves, garden, bees, etc. Club work is the common conversation in every farm home today. The Uintah county fair, which will be under the management of the Uintah county farm bureau, is developing wonderfully. Suggestions by the wholesale is being offered by every farmer. We are behind the second annual U. B. I. C. 100 per cent strong. Stockmen and farmers are busy planning for the display for the third annual May Day Livestock Show and May Day Festival at Vernal. LAPOINT TO HAVE COUNTY MEETING In the past, monthly meetings of the Uintah County farm bureau have been held at Vernal. Starting with the first of April, alternate meetings will be held in the western part of the county, the first meeting to be held at Lapoint. The business meeting will be held at 11 oclock Saturday, April 5, a luncheon will be served to those present, and in the afternoon there will be a general farm bureau rally. Let the farm bureau members of the western portion of the county make an effort to get out to this meeting. mountain locked basin of untold millions of dollars of natural wealth, which is but a tithe of her undreamed wealth. But her greatest wealth is not that which may be turned into money. It is the indefinable something of a country which has a past story (Continued on Last Page) |