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Show THE UINTAH BASIN FARMER 4 a ADVERTISE, DQGGQNIT! By G. P. BARBER say the Basin is in a slump, The cows wont milk and the pigs wont grunt; The hens are off of layin fer life, The farmers broke and sos his wife? And you aint sold yer last years You h$y. railroads too derned far away? Youre mad and sad and feelin blue And you dont know what in heck to do. The You cant see silver behind the cloud, Yer spirits are hog tied shroud; Youve got the heaves and in a rheuma-ti- z. kids? And the ducks all died with a tack of the roup. And the bay mares down) with contagious croup. Ill be swoggled, you Tell the world youve got a quarry, And shes a pippin, too, by gorry; Painted desert, mountain) retreat, Scenery par excellence, cant be beat! Hunting! Immense! the sage hens flock And Mariahs sick and sos the Well, Hitch yer trousers, and shift yer quid. And do prezactly as you are bid. Youre feelin down in the mouth, and glum, Youre ready to say, Mariah, Im done. The pill you need, a sure cure brand, Is Advertize to Beat the Band! sol- emnly say, Im gonna move out this very day! Now, listen, Steve, to a word of cheer, Lend your ears to me dye hear; At least a dozen on every block. Ard fishin? Ill swan, youll get the gout, If you eat all you ketch of our mountain trout. Lucern seed the pride of the state, And weve set the nation a dizzy gait; Honey sweet as the mountain dew! Come and purchase a gallon or two! Boost like sin for our fruitful dell, Hoot and yipe and holler and yell Shout her praise to the lofty skies And can your doleful moans and sighs. Turkeys huge as a young giraffe. Drumstick big as a yearlin calf; And fruit and berries, milk and cheese, Where, outside, can you get all these? Newspaper, magazine, poster and bill, Placards and sign boards and pennants to kill. to advertize, picture and em Use paint This vertiable Paradise. if she aint! Derned Heinz sold his pickles by dint of the pen, The world buys the product thats advertized, when It passes unnoticed the unlabelled brand, A lessor) momentous for our lovely land. Get out on the housetops with clarion cry And laud our resources clean to the sky! Result: Bank the shekels that gallop your way And spend your old age on your back in the hay. Rhymes of a Pedagogue. y ALFALFA SEED PRODUCTION so that young hoppers can be des- PESTS AND DISEASES troyed on the hatching grouuds inAND THEIR CONTROL stead of waiting until they are scattered all through the crops. The By H. J. Webb, State Crop Pest following formula is provided for the control of hoppers: Inspector. Bran, one hundred pounds; so(Contluued from September Issue) dium arsenate, one to two pints or white arsenic five pounds; sugar Grasshoppers. The statement was recently made, beet syrup, twd gallons; amylace-tat- e, three ounces; salt, five pounds; by the Chief Entomologist of the Deof Agriculture water nine to eleven gallons. U. S. Department having charge of forage plant in- pending upon the age of the hopper sects, that grasshoppers are the the sodium of arsenate should be most damaging insect pests affect- increased or decreased. One pint will be enough for young hoppers ing forage crops. We no longer have the regular while old hoppers will require two mountain locust which did so much pints. Amylacetate should never damage in the early days of Utah be increased more than herein desand in the year 70s in the great ignated. Salt can be omitted on alplains area that flew by in such kali grounds. Sawdust that is not numbers that they darkened the too resinous can replace one half sun and cleaned off big strips of the bran by measure rather than crops in one day. This species is by weight, with equal results in dessupposed to be completely exterm- troying the hoppers. inated. since the killing off of the This mixture should be spread buffalo; as its eggs were layed in wihile moist just at the time the buffalo' trails and tramped down hoppers begin feeding. This is the usso hard that enemies could not get in mornsometime the early in and destroy them and on the uallyor forenoon. This is depending buffalo this of the disaptpearance ent, of course, upon the warmth of grasshopper or locust also disap- the day. This mixture should be peared, but We do have its near just moist enough so that when relative, the red legged locust and taken in the hand and sown broadother species. cast, it will spread freely and not Again community efforts should in lumps so that and birds be put forth to control these pests. will not be able poultry to up suffipick Scouting Bhould be done in an ef- cient to destroy them. Five to ten fort to determine where eggs are pounds of the dry brand should be being deposited most numerously sufficient to cover one acre. Children could very well accomplish The Hopper Dozers or other. balthis. These places should be disced loon type have been used or plowed in the and do a machines or spring-toothe- d of lot in catching good late fall or early spring to destroy grasshoppers. Each feall eggs. Some natural enemies of the grass male usually lays two cases of eggs are flesh flies, mites, blishoppers which contain anywhere from twen- ter beetles, birds and hawks. Blisty to sixty eggs in each caso. They ter beetles sometimes do quite sera are all sealed over with water ious to crops when they are damage proof protection and unless exposed adults if not too serious they to the elements, they will most all should but not be destroyed as their hatch in the spring. eggs are laid in the same sections Many of these eggs are deposit- with eggs and the young ed in the fields, a.ouai stack y.jrds. bliRtergrasshopper beetles burrow h The spring-tootharow, as advo- soil and feed on the through the grasshopper cated for the alfalfa weevil, will eggs. of the.ie. many destroy Scouting the birds to be protected should again be done in the spring as Among to the farmer and ene- friends to determine Where the young hoppers are hatching and an organiza(Continued on Page 5) tion should be in working order over-winteri- Are you taking every precaution to increase to the Maximum your acreage of FALL WHEAT The crop that matures in spite of drouth That is profitable under the WOOLF & HALL CONTRACT That makes that good UPALCO TURKEY FLOUR I ng Wo receive grists and deliver flour in Roosevelt. Receiving station one block West of Stake Office. Phone 46-- B. ROOSEVELT, UTAH |
