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Show THE UINTAH BASIN FARMER Wealth does not provide the spirit of home science. Pay Check During Winter of Eight dairy cows and a flockMrs. White Wyandotte hens gave George Pack a $100 check per POULTRY month during January February Will Add Strawberries The Benson, home in Ioka will add a strawberry tract to its many beau- tiful and hospitable attractions. Strawberries are easily raised where the environment is so ideal as Ioka. Let other Ioka homes take notice. Ideal Ioka Home. A visit at the Hagelund home in Ioka puts this thriving community on the map. Here one sees a young apple orchard, perfectly trimmed, thrifty and all of the delicious variety; a strawberry and raspberry patch; a fine sample of blueberries; a beautiful lawn surrounded by tall poplar trees affording 'shade and comfort for garden parties, and all that goes to make an ideal country home. It sure pays to add comforts to your home and make it Homes are the fundapleasant. mentals of our civilization. Gets View of Entire Basin. The home of E. J. Mitchell of Mountain Home is one of the most attractively located homes of the Basin. It is located on a hill, just back of the village of Mountain Home and from this high elevation one can see miles and miles and You can sit on the south miles. porch on a spring morning and glimpse the Basin in its entirety. With a field glass one might view even Split Mountain on Greeji river, and the benches and villages of Basin lie below you, a panorama of One must beauty and interest. visit this home to get the inspiration therefrom. Big Yield Yellow Clover Roy Thacker took 1000 pounds of yellow clover seed from one acre of Mt. Emmons land last fall and sold the same to the Peppard Seed company for 9 cents per pound. He will seed 10 acres this fall. Heres hoping he will succeed as well this Yellow clover infall financially. dustry has its advantages. When you and March of this year. go out to hunt the eggs here you with from ten to fifteen Warm weather will make the lice come back time: A POULTRY TESTING If you cannot be a at dozen Now is a EXPERIMENT STATION and mites hatch out. do not blame with successful poultry good time to use sodium fluoride our Inland for your failEmpire on all hens and a coal tar product this from wisdom but glean The Experiment station of the sprayed thoroly into the cracks of ure, builder. Ioka makis Utah Agricultural college the house. A Modern Napoleon ing preparation to conduct an With heavier breeds care must be contest to begin November taken to prevent their becoming ovLeslie Mecham, a young farmer 1, 1924, and to continue for one er fat from now on. Cut down of Upalco, is lining up a summers For a number of years the on the corn to 20 per cent of the campaign on his fathers ranch sufyear. poultry industry in Utah, has been grain and avoid feeding over two ficient for a modern Napoleon. He undergoing a steady development, quarts of grain per 100 birds in the will run a dairy herd of twenty-fiv- e until at the present time it is one morning. or more cows and attempt to raise of the important farm adjuncts of It is a wise practice to remove the seed on a hundred and sixty acres. The value of the poul- males from the breeding flock as With a milk check each week of fifthe state. the and Not on- ty dollars, a position in a bank looks eggs produced in Utah soon as hatching is over. try in 1923, according to the report of ly does this produce infertile eggs like thirty cents, especially to one Get there, the Utah Experiment station, exceed- which keep better, but it gives the who knows hard work. This is a 25 per male a chahce to recuperate. They fellows, the nation is calling Uintah ed $3,500,000. cent increase in production as given should be hopper fed grain only and Basin. Cultivator in Grassy Stubble. in the U. S .Census report for 1920. given as much range as possible to Wilson of Mt. Emmon rebeen based has Wilford This industry prevent fighting. a new alfalfa culapchicks, upon the is purchased It imported largely rearing period cently during imwill put sixty acres in being that a true poultryman shows his tivator and proximately 1,000,000 a seed crop at for is excellent sucIt shape thought ability and incidentally spells ported this year. that many of the Utah flocks are cess or failure for the coming year. once. This cultivator sure does the work in grassy stubble. now of good quality and the purpose Many who think they are good Basin Distance Vanish. of the official contest is to determine will be passing around the the standard of excellence by ac- alibi, next winter that they didnt Clyde Fullmer, one of Mt. Emtual test. have very good luck in rearing their mons successful fknners, has purThe disIt is planned for the first year pullets this spring and summer. chased him a new auto. to handle 50 pens of ten pullets Plenty of range on clean ground, tances of the basin will now seem young each, with two extra or alternate with green food, shade, fresh wat- short to this enterprising The housing er and good feeds, properly fed, are man. pullets in each pen. Big Check From Six Sheep. conditions will he made as nearly not luck. The incubation and What do you know about this: ideal as possible and the birds will brooding season is a hard one on Elmer Gale of Bluebell got a wool be fed so as to get the highest pos- man or woman. Dont weaken. check last year for $48 from six All pens will sible egg production. sheep. Every farm should have be given the same care, so that all EGG DRESS UP THE makenough sheep to keep the weeds will have an equal chance for Small farm flocks give down. a record. ing high It does not require any special large wool incomes. the different It is hoped or marketing skill to sell breeds of fowls will be entered in knowledge a standardized product, but not evthis contest in order that informa- en an expert can market, in a sattion may he had with regard to the way, an ungraded product. isfactory unbest breeds for egg production and egg producers should der the conditions prevailing in this Farmers in close touch with the movekeep state. Utah is an ideal poultry ment now under way looking toward state and there is every facility here The following merchants are creating the and grading standardizing of o exa for the production of stock of cellent quality and for making the eggs on(a basis that will lessen the a market for your farm products by losses incident to the marketing of M poultry industry one of the prosper- that If a good, standardproduct. ous and profitable industries of the Stocking and selling ized quality of eggs is put on the M state. To the uninitiated in the poultry market it will tend to increase the j products: business a year may appear to be a consumption of eggs and therefore 1 'demand the and long time to carry on this contest strengthen result in better prices and In but to be profitable the hen must It is tie more profit to the producers. keep steadily on the job. ASHTON & SONS, Roosevelt number of eggs that the hen prom duces in a year that fixes her value. FIRST FEED FOR POULTS CALVERT & WAUGH, Myton ei egg-layi- ng en poul-trym- tat UPALCO conses-quent- ly u FOR WEAK CHICKS Frequent instances are seen in which earlier hatched chickens show tendency to leg weakness and do not continue to grow as they should. The sour milk or buttermilk, succulent green feed, exercise and ample direct sunlight are important the difficulty may be remedied or avoided by including in the feed cod liver oil, say Nebraska Agricultural college poultrymen. The practice of feeding cod liver oil should be followed especially if because of weather conditions one is obliged to keep the chicks confined and in that way restrict the amount of direct sunlight which is so es- In order to prevent heavy losses among young turkeys, great care i3 necessary, especially during the first four weeks. Poults should not be fed for forty-eigto sixty hours, then should be they given some fine grit or finely, chopped Care should be exercised that an ampie supply of sour milk, milk curd or cottage cheese is available. For feeding the first few days, much the same feeds and methods as are used for baby chicks may be followed, the only difference being that in feeding little turkeys even greater , care should be exercised not to overfeed. Oatmeal, hard boiled eggs crumbled, shell and all, and johnuy cake have been found satisfactory. The poults may be gradually changed to a good grade chic scratch, sifted finely cracked corn, cracked wheat and ht egg-she- ll. E W In n 2In TAKE GOOD CARE OF LAYERS Do not neglect the layers now simply because the price of eggs is low. After several months of heavy laying a hen is very sensitive and many are thrown into an earlier molt through neglect. If you expect to cull this summer, you will accomplish little if ydur heaviest winter layers have been thrown out of condition, says O. C. Krum of the Colorado Agricultural college. (Continued from Page Three) R. L .MARIMON, Whiterocks PHILLIPS MERC, CO., Myton M R. M. POWELL, Cedarview jj H gn M M El! Beats Castle on Hudson. Clarence Killian, whose farm lies El over on this side of Rock Creek, west of Mountain Home, is a suc- El cessful cattleman and has a thrifty El WTe believe there is looking farm. more science of home building on the Killian ranch than there is in a castle on the Hudson. A million dollar home with its luxuries, can be as lonesome as a graveyard. aJ El El E Hi D Ml El El El El, EgSS El El ROOSE ELT MERC. CO., Roosevelt J. P. RUDY, Fort Duchesne n W. L. WHITLOCK, Leeton E WONG SING, Fort Duchesne. E tf El E n ei El ill E. L. MURPHY, Upalco MYTON STORES CO., Myton H U sential for normal growth. gn Cod liver oil should be fed at the ill rate of three pints to 100 pounds pinhead oats with a mash mixture of mash. The oil should be thoroly such as used for little chicks. rubbed into the mash and only quaniMn tities such as can be used within GETTING THE MOST OUT OF ten days should be mixed. El FARMING IN THE BASIN CASH MEAT MARKET, Roosevelt t Upalco Floor Mi Operated by WOOLF & HALL E ij 2 2 E |