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Show DcrotecL to tfeelVofress VOL, IL f tDesvalopaestk 3 Agriculture VERNAL,. UINTAH COUNTY, UTAH, JANUARY, 1923. TATE FARM BUREAU convention 1 to be held Runs Farm by Herself Eleven-Year-Ol- d JANUARY 21, 22 and 23 1 in t(ie Gjre&t UmkahBasmJ NO. 1. UTAH THIRD IX BUTTER AND CHEESE SCORING CONTEST Utah stood third out of ten states, including British Columbia in the Last butter scoring contest conducted by be western office of the bureau of dairying, it was announced at the bureau in Salt Lake city. The state sampLes, eleven in number, scored an average of 90.68 per cent, whale California led, with 91.61 and Oregon wag second with 91.19. The other states followed in this order: British Columbia, Washington, Nevada, Montana, Idaho, Colorado and Wyoming. The Utah score in cheese making was 86.90 per cent, also third, but of a smaller group. Idaho Led with 87.75, Washington followed with 87 25, and after Utah were California and Montana. The butter scoring will be now discontinued. Tie annual meeting: of tie Utah, flat farm bureau will be ield at 21, 22 and tie Hotel Utai Januarywere set at a 23. 1925, Tie dates committee executive of tie neeting cf tie fedratlom. Annual convention of tie Utai Poultry Producer' association, tie Utsai State Dairy association, tie Utai State Tugar Beet Growers' Cooperative association and tie Joint convention cf tie twelve cooperative marketing associations of Utai fruitgrowers aad vegetable growers will be ield fa conjunction wlti tie farm bureau convention. 5 Tie convention of farm women, representing tie iome and community section of tie state federation, g'Hao win be ield at tiis time, i Professor WiHians Peterson, director off tie extension division of tie Utai Agricultural college, is witi members of tie execuin arranging for tie committee tive program. Agricultural specialists cf tie Utai Agricultural college and t!se United States department off agriculture will attend tie various t ZZ )fcf xa xa s Xa UTAH MAKES GAIN OF THREE MILLION DOLLARS IN GRAIN VALUES Utah farmers realized 33,000,000 more on their corn, wheat and oats this year than in 1923, according to the Agricultural Foundation, which reports that the naticnaL increase in grain values amount to $550,000,000. Oats alone eeetfngs. Sears-Roebu- DECREASE Df FEED SHEEP FOB UTAH REPORTED S.XOOO ,i ite te $ ?a xa A great decrease in tie number cf sieep and Iambs on feed tiis y ar compared witi 1922 is noted tri tie annual report far sheep is-- & ,ed Friday by George A, Scott, L restock: statistician. jTMs year Utai ias I2T.00 sheep Eleven-year-olVivian Brown nas very little spare1 time,, since she underin farm close by Rye Beach. X EL. all by herself. of took to run a Dmbs. Taking in the bay, milking six cows,, doing all Die planting and harvesting and she is proving herself to be a most Idaho ias 15 ,90 aieep on feed ase aB Eft the day's work for her,, farmi pay. During the winter and early the farmer, and is mating tils year compared witi 299,08 Spring she X. EL. where she is in the eighth Portsmouth. In school attends 1 3t year. Tie condition is sanr to Be due grade tx tie aiortagfe of sugar beets by COUNTY FARM BUREAU SOIL CULTURE AND p oducts, and tie iigi price of iay. MODERN FARM METHODS MEETINGS ANNUAL ? Similar conditions prevail In all ' Soli Culture and Modern Farm jf eep districts off tie Uinted States. The annual meeting of the Duchesne county farm bureau will be- Methods is the title to the book of held at Upalca on Monday. Jan. 12. Dr. W. E. Taylor, director of John IKE BEST USE OF Deeres soil culture department, and 1925. at eleven o'clock a. m. f BRAND COLUMN AND now in its fifth edition. Dr. Taylor The annual meeting of the Uintah 13 f CLASSIFIED COLUMN tnowl to tlle people of the held be will bureau w!L,,r Basin because of his inter-Uintah on Friday. Jan. 9. 1925. at which he gave at the lectures esting m. Every farmer In tie Basin can at 10 oclock a. m. and 2 p. er B. I C r ike good use off tie brand column His most excellent work cf 651 . i d tie classified advertisements in SEES BEST RESULTS FROM MONEY FOR BOYS CLUB pages Is published by Deere and 1 IE UINTAH BASIN FARMER. Company Moline. I1L. and is for 4Tie advantages of having your sale by them for $2.00 the copy. of States United The Department -I I and constantly before tie public Many Uintah Basin farmers will be State the agricultural Agriculture, f apparent at once. A service colleges, and other agencies for the glad to know of this book by such 2 Mci can only be rendered through promotion off better farming are an eminent author, which through s ci advertising. soedin? considerable money in club Ibis well written articles and excellent illustrations will help them solve 'On every farm will be found work among boys. r mething wbici ias served its purDoes it pay? Here is the opinion their problems 6 se yet is off value to some otheir of Br. Thomas F. Hunt. Dean and of Agriculrson if tiey but knew yon bad Director of the College These clubs have been running Gr you may bave aometbing ture. University of California: long .enough for us to- have some eciai to dispose of, A classified The College of Agriculture did knowledge of their influence on the ivertisement. coatfng Butt a few not. fn my opinion, get as effective future lives of the boys concerned, nts, will quickly dispose of you, results from any other equal sum I think I am well within the mark ires. Perhaps yon desire some-In- g of money which it expended as It when I say that for the amount of special. Advertise for it. It did from the amount of money 3pent money expended we get the greatest on Boys clubs. ves pLtqe and human results.' 8.0 witi d1322,feedandcompared similar proportions 18 0 dl 25-ac-re j , -- w-e- , t j - J m-ns- y. ck were responsible for a gain of three-fourt- hs of a million, while wheat brought farmers of thig state an added two millions over last year, the report states. While the Utah corn crop for 1924 fell considerably below that of the preceding year, the better price this year brought the total income to approximately what it had been the year before. The half million bush-el increase in the wheat crop this year brought the value up to 000,000 as compared with $6,000, $8,-'aptt- ble 000 of 1923. The oat crop of thla state this ear is up to 3 million, bushels ag compared to 3 million the year before with the result that armers have taken m 2 million dollars on this crop as compared with 1 million the year before. TIle yield Per acre on corn in Utah.,, the report states, dropped to 13-bushels per acre as a result or unfavorable weather, bat the profit Per bushel to the farmer was 33 cents ag compared with 26 the year before. Tne wet days, on the other band, were a great help to the wlleat and ataJ Junction, the for- 3 Der nala aa compared 2f,2 24.1 the year afe he 3- -4 8 The increased yk d per icre cf small grain and the increased price per bushel on all grains has aideci materially m restomg the farmer to a better financial lus.s. the Foundation report concludes. The higher grain . prices have resulted in higher livestock price? and this has cuiuio brought a ne c v la itv to ar |