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Show THE UINTAH BASIN FAEMEB 1 LIVESTOCK UTAH FARMS MAINTAIN STOCK OF SOWS, REPORT $50,000 MILCH COW KILLED BY OFFICIALS; VICTIM FOOT-MOUT- Utah, farms are maintaining their stock of breeding sows nearly up to the high, figure established last year despite the national decline amounting to more than 10 per cent. The United States bureau of markets and crop estimates places the number of breeding sows on Utah, farms at about 18,000 thi3 year or about 98 In per cent of last year's stock. keeping up the stocks the state appears to be following generally in line with, other intermountain states. BLOODED SHEEP PURCHASED FOR JAPANESE GOVERNMENT H Tillie Arcarta, famous milch cow, owned by A. W. Morris & Son, ol Yolo county, Calif., was shot and killed in Los Angeles after It was learned she wa3 infected with the foot and mouth disease, the latter part of April. Tillie had been in Los Angeles for the last eighteen months for breeding purposes and was among the Hartstock herds there which were ordered killed after the foot and mouth disease 'Was discovered among them. The famous cow has had attentions showered upon her. She has been guest of honor at several banquets, one of them being in the hotel Multnomah at Portland, Ore., some years ago. Her owners recently were offered 50,000 for the cow, but refused the offer. One of her calves sold for $61,000 when The calf only three months old. was bought by a St. Paul, Minn., O. Hada of Nosawa & Co. of New York, and H. Komatsu, sheep commissioner of the Japanese government made their third purchase of hign class Rambouillet stud rams and ewes from John K. Madsen of Mt. Pleasant, Utah. They state that the Madsen sheep they have purchased before are giving great satisfaction on the Japan- concern. ese government farms. Thi3 shipment of sheep will leave PUT PIGS IN PASTURE about June 15 via. Seattle for Natures tonics for young growing pigs are exercise, sunshine, plenty of ONE BREED IN A COMMUNITY green succulent feed, and clean surThe man who will be roundings. It is highly advantageous for all, most successful in weaning a high or most of the farms in a neighbor- average number of pigs for each sow hood to keep the same breed of kept on his farm Is the man who After a decision has been will plan to take advantage of these sheep. A large part of the success made as to a suitable breed the aim tonics. should be to obtain ewes that are With the litter, therefore, will deindividually good and that have pend on getting the sow and pigs as many crosses as possible of the on pasture when the pigs are ten With such a foun- days to two weeks old, or as soon breed selected. It is dation and the continuous use of after that age as possible. rams of the same just as important to the health and good pure-bre- d breeds, the flock will make steady hrift of the litter for the mother to get exercise as for the pigs. Improvement. Prize sheep on display at the Second Annual Livestock Show held at Vernal, May 1, 1924. Standing at head of sheep reading from left to H. William Siddoway, O. E. Calder, John N. Davis, John T. right. Caine HI, bureau of animal husbandry of the Utah Agricultural College, The first two sheep took first and second place, and the third judging. one third place. is thoroughly mixed until it is of a nice, even texture. The poison should be scattered as soon after mixing as possible because if it becomes too dry it is not so readily eaten and it is liable to blow away. The best success is usually obtained by scattering the poison in the morIt should not be scattered ning. on a cloudy day because the insects eat very little when it is cloudy. home gardener in saving seed where it is grown, both for marketing to his neighbors and for his own use, is generally recognized. These advantages, says the department of agriculture, are twofold: The selec-thwhich the seed grower gives his seed plants, while not greater than that which the sed grower gives his seed stock, is often bett?r than can be given to seed that is placed on HOME GROWN SEED the market; and the plants selected will be the ones Which succeed best That there are advantages to the under local environment. at Alfalfa Seed. IF someone turned his cattle into YOUR fields and they destroyed your crops, YOU WOULD BE READY TO FIGHT, wouldnt Reports are coming from all sections of the Basin that grasshoppers nre hatching out in alarming numbers, and unless something is done to check their movements unusually heavy loses will be sustained by do the work while they are young. Also by acting promptly, the pests will be controlled before they begin eating, and thereby, all the damage they are capable of doing is prevented. Thoroughly organized campaigns should be started at once in every in the Uintah Basin community where these pests are known to exWhen the grasshoppers and ist. crickets first hatch they are very small and very seldom noticed except by close observation therefore a scouting party should be sent out to locate the infested areas. When they are found a flag should be set up to serve as a guide for another party which scatters the poiAll of the poison should son bait. be mixed under the supervision of one man who understands this phase of the work thoroughly, for unless the poison is properly mixed, all of the work may be ineffective. One of the chief advantages of the method is the fact that the work will be done thoroughly. All infested fields wil be treated regardless of who they belong to. A formula which has proven very effective and which i3 recommended by our best authorities is the following: Wt at bran, 20 pounds; Sodium h pint; arsenite, 3 ounces or ounc4 oil) Anylacetate (banana Crickets the farmers this year. increasin likewise are coming forth ed numbers. They have reached the Green River on the east and south, and are down as far as Little So, in Brush creek on the north. spite of predictions of many of our these optimistic prophets, we have nothus and with apparently pests work ing but systematic, is going to control them. It is known that much less poison, labor and other expense is required to kill the young grasshoppers and crickets than is th3 case Our when they are fully grown. best authorities claim that it reas much poiquires just one-hathe when son to kill grasshoppers and crickets are from three weeks to one month old as it does when they are two months old. Besides the advantage of requiring less poison to do the control work early, there is more important advantages in the fact that the young stay on the breeding grounds until they are about three weeks old. At this age they start to mi3 un- es; Salt, I pound; water, about grate and it is but a short time til they are scattered over a much nt full grown crickets the larger area. All of the is doubled. We can readily see if we study and mixed thoroughly i are is the habits of these pests that it thi3 then and I bran over the much easier and less expensive to lf one-fift- 3-- poi-aou- you? YET only last season Grasshoppers destroyed about $75,000.00 worth of UINTAH BASIN ALFALFA SEED but SOME FARMERS GAVE UP and NEVER TURNED A HAND! PERHAPS they did not know they were raising Hoppers to eat your crops. IN SPITE OF THIS, some of YOU FOUGHT the Hoppers with POISON and CATCHERS and RAISED A CROP that the UINTAH BASIN CAN WELL BE PROUD OF. WHICH kind of a farmer axe you? Are you LICKED or WILL YOU FIGHT? YOULL FIGHT, of course. THEN WHY NOT every neighborhood organize to make ia A REAL FIGHT and RAISE $1,000,000.00 WORTH OF SEED this year? LET US HELP YOU J. G. 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