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Show the UINTAH BASIN FAKJIER 7 SALVATION Frank Evans, Attorney Utah State Farm Bureau. Fj- Hon. - There are three ESSIN FARMER! propositions which are supported by an abundance of evidence: 1. Successful agriculture is vital to the life and permanence of Established 1924 Published 1st of Each Month at Vernal, Utah the American commonwealth. 2. Agriculture has been for some years past and is at the present experiencing a serious depres- Subscription Price, one year George H. Harrison Violet Harrison. ...Business sion. 3. There are remedies for this condition and they rest very largely in the hands of the farmers themslves. Washington Introduces Vetch And Millet America is an agricultural country. In the time of Washington 97 out of every hundred of our people were farmers. Washington often referred to agriculture as the basis of our commonwealth. In a letter to Jefferson he made reference to some important matters of state, and coupled with this inquired anxiously as to the result of experiments with certain crop plants, including vetch and millet, the seed for which had been obtained from Europe. It is clear from his writings that he regarded successful agriculture as the first requisite for the building of a permanent nation. Lincoln Regarded Farming Most Important Art Lincoln referred to agriculture as the most important of all arts. During his administration the Morrill Bill was passed and it was described as a measure donating public lands to those states and territories which should avail themselves of the provisions of the act by establishing colleges for the teaching of agricultural and the mechanic arts. This has been described as the most important piece of legislation ever enacted. Both Roosevelt and Wilson Approve In 1908 President Roosevelt directed the attention of Congress to the condition of agriculture and urged immediate legislation on its behalf. He appointed a commission to survey and report upon agricultural conditions, and he declared on several occasions that unless agriculture could be stabilized, the stability of the government itself would be in danger. President Wilson assumed a like attitude in 1924 as a result of the report of the Roosevelt commission, Congress passed and President Wilson approved the Smith-LevAct, which extended the provisions of the Morrill law as well as other laws for the relief of agriculture. Relief is Coming Through Organization Since 1916 agriculture has experienced profound depression, and for the first time in our history great agricultural organizations, both civic and economic, have become nation-widand through these organizations relief is coming to be realized. In our own state the farmers in every locality have seen definite advances accruing from organization. It is no longer a matter of theory, but from actual practice and experience the individual farmer has realized the benefit of increased prices, of better transportation rates, of more reliable markets, of lower costs of handling, of decreased taxes, of beneficial legislation, and of many other things which could come only from united efforts on the part of the producers. Badness Methods to Equal Production Methods The farmer is beginning to tike his own business into his own hands and he is developing skill In bis business that will equal his skill in Successful cooperaton, production. of course, means confidence in one another. It means that farmers must not yield to the persuasion of thoe who have profited by our luck of cooperation, t requires patience Editor Manager 9 power, displaying silent lectures on various health subjects. The lec- ture entitled, ... Progress and Peace. I. C., July, 1924. n uanners representing rJaucatn t aken of float, Indian Parade, U. Photograph BENMOX SPEAKS ON RURAL NEEDS Dean Milton Bennion of the school of education, director of the 1924 summer schol, was President George Thomaf 'representative at the Uintah Basin Industrial Convention held at Fort Duchesne. He addressed the assembled bod? on the first day of the convention, on the Needs of a Rural Population. He stressed the point of better sanitation with respect to culinary water supply, disposal of sewage, control of flies, quarantine, and better health service. Economy of providing better health service was suggested, since taxation must be considered in relation to the service rendered. In regard to the proposed child labor amendment to the Federal constitution, he said that since the opportunity of agricultural tomniu-nitie- s for using agricultural and domestic service for child training is good, they must recognize that work suitable to the age and condition of the child should not he interfered with. RESTROl THE USELESS Get rid of the loafing hen, the lazy cow, the scrub pig. They will never do you any good, and it does not pay to be charitable with animals or men that will not work. because it takes time to develop It rethese great organizations. on the part quires active interest of everyone who joins his orgauiba-tioBut in the light of successes which have already been achieved, farmers generally are inspired by a zeal which gives promise of a that we brighter future. I believe believe I us. of see success ahead n. that agriculture can by a conserva-be tive and constructive process firmly established. Using Sun Not Setting Sun. ,m reminded of the occasionn Franklin arose in the v asn- -t and addressing who stood by the side at--ofn lair, called the presidents to the fact that on he back chair was emblazoned a sun was half above he horizon, Mr. President, dur- e said: ie long hours of this vhen it seemed at times that dissen-- I auld be broken up by was that if have wondered Now, sun. ne or a setting resident, that the constitution een agreed upon. I have is a rising and not a jt discourage-amon- g re has been much the producers of our better, but things are looking whether to as doubt in were rising or gricultural sun was I feel confi-thfriends. Jiv r a it is a rising and not j sun. Fcder-iventio- de-th- at at HEALTH EXHIBIT AND LECTURES APPRECIATED distinctive features of the Uintah Basin Industrial Convention held at Fort Duchesne last mouth Was the health exhibit of the Utah Public Health association on display in the schoolhouse, and the clinic held at the hospital. There were possibly 100 illustrated charts and posters on exhibit dealing with all phases of health, sanitation and nutrition. One of the Mother Nature, M. was especially interesting. W. L. Woolf, president of the U. B. I. C., and E. Peterson, chairman of the program committee, both expressed to Mr. Wallis their appreciation of the program put on by the Utah Public Health Association, and we feel sure the people of the Basin will show their appreciation when the Christmas Seal Sale is put on this fall. The activities of this organization are financed tfolely by the funds raised in this manner. D. er e, 50c THE VITAL IMPORTANCE OF OUR AGRICULTURE (Continued from page 5) ingenuity of man is still working and that the efficiency of the farmer will through labor-savin- g devices be greatly increased during the next few years. Soil, Seeds and Feeds Again, the farmer can meet and The large panels of Mr. Anyman defeat the most formidable competiand Tuberculosis, and those illus- tion by increasing the efficiency of soil, his seed and his feeds. trating the daily health habits of hisThere inhas been no marked the modern Health Crusade taught crease in the per average production the school children of Utah, were acre during the past hundred years. especially interesting. Several thou- We have a soil with potential power sand pieces of health literature were to produce equal to the best in the distributed during the convention world. Farmers in manv countries, while the crusade souveniers were a less fertile soil than with distributed to the boys and girls. startingare far ours, greater yields securing This exhibit was in charge of M. S. acre. Many of our farmers have per field of the Utah demonstrataed Parker, agent that intensive and Public Health association. will increase the scientific methods The clinic at the hospital was in to a remarkable yield degree. of Alfred Dr. charge Bloomberg and proper Dr. C. R. Jones, both of Salt .Lake Thorough tillage methods, a and of rotation free application e, city, assisted by Miss Florence with manures, supplemented R. N., of Ogden, and Mrs. yard commercial will play a Ruth Ward Mumford, R. N., of wonderful fertilizers, in keeping the Unipart Provo, public health nurses in the ted States to the front in all busiemploy of the Utah Public Health ness activities. Miss Bernice Association. Selly The quality and variety of seed is was registrar of the clinic. There It has been demonstraimportant. were 62 chest examinations given ted seed selection, keepcareful that while the clinic was in operation. mind in the importance of adapTwo illustrated health lectures by ing is a wonderful factor in intability, James H. Wallis, executive secretary the yield. were on the creasing of the association, Efficiency Feeding livestock Tuesday and Thursday evening prois no feature of farming There grams. It is to be regretted, how- which will admit of greater improveever, that the electric power inter- ment in efficiency than feeding live fered with the showing of some of stock. The growth of an animal is the films. Among the films brought in keeping with the feed it to Fort Duchesne were the follow- strictly A maximum consumes. developThe ment is secured only when the esing. How Disease is Spread; Reward of Courage, dealing with sential digestible nutrients are givcancer; Out of the Shadow, show- en in sufficient quantities in the ing the danger of drinking raw milk right combination. If corn, oats, and the barley, legumes, cottoh seed, linfrom tuberculosis cows, value of sanatorium treatment for seed, and the of wheat thoe suffering with tuberculosis; are marketed in a balanced ration and The Tournament of Youth the dairy cow, beef animal, both through The Kid Comes Through, swine, sheep and poultry, the farmdealing with the daily health habits er will receive much more than the of the Modern Health Crusade; The market price for them. On the Value of Sound Teeth, a film con- other hand, if the value of a balantributed to the Utah Public Health ced ration is disregarded, at least Association by the state Dental So- one-ha- lf of the feeding value of the Fighting for Dear Life, feeds is throwrn away. ciety; Laws Are Unalterable dealing with the necessity of annual health examinations, and contributIn conclusion, permit me to again ed by the Metropolitan Life Insur- state that farming is. has been, and ance company; King Lactus, a will continue to be the basic indusbeautiful story, showing the value of try. During the Dast clean milk and the harmful effects years, which mark the great prosof tea and coffee. Besides these, perity period of our nations existhere were a number of movies on tence, the farmer, has not attempted other subjects. It is the intention to annul or radically change naof Mr. Wallis to bring a number of tures ways. To bim. air. rain and these films into the Basin this fall sunshine have been he dominating and forces in plant growth. He has acwhen he organizes Duchesne the law of Uintah counties for the Christmas cepted as unalterable Seal Sale. gravitation, act on and rectien. s.ul Another Interesting exhibit which he has recognized that ti e law of rov, rrs the was brought to the convention by supply and demand the Association was the Attract-o-scopprice of hi? products, and 'hat comwhich was shown on the lawn petition in al tram he s o1' business materiof V. T. Rice. This is an automatic prevents proUts from of the electrical than money. price by ally greater machine, propelled anti-tuberculo- Gill-mor- e, h'-n- |
