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Show i THE UINTAH BASIN FARMER :enre" C?"! i prrr thse and cared for IN FARMER. ,xg the forest reserve cooperatively. This method found very satisfactory. rrmH ?wif9 ? tjnr,TrT?,,T7; farm the i of efforts the Through bureau, good prospects are in store A Creamery Youll Enof inducing the J. G. Peppard Seed company to establish an alfalfa seed Business joy cleaning plant at Vernal. With The Western division or the farm Ute the Dairy ibureau established berculosis test given. DUCHESNE COUNTY Dairy sheds 'association at Fort Duchesne. Their; Conveniently located and are needed on nearly every farm, j cream from 600 cows was contract-- J equipped to handle a large The industry needs a new mo- -; ed to the Uintah Creamery company of business with volume The achievements of the Duchesne tive dairy force as its importance ranks at Neola at 3 cents per pound and ease, the varbeen promptness have bureau county farm that of raising alfalfa seed. jlow the Salt Lake city butterfat CREAMBROS. CALDER 2 cents Is has This much per pouna ied during the year, yet Farming must be taken from a market.what of favorite the is ERY dairymen outside of the been accomplished. guessing game to one of known ac- -i above In this farmers many and one of the best association are receiving for their At the annual meeting held at complishments, to accomplish this is the se- - butterfat. The dairy association ways has also been active in the mar- Roosevelt, January 8, 1924, ten of curing of a county agent. Bring your milk and poultry and through their the twelve locals were represented, to us. Better still, Secretary May in his closing re- -. keting of cream 2 carloads of turkeys were on one of our live if and President Chester H. Hartman marks in his recent article in the efforts one you each at Thanksgiving .shipped, Roosevelt Standard said: collection routes, ask us to likewise was In closing we wish to remind the and Christmas. The prices received have a driver caU and pick L. E. Potter and Secretary J. farmers that the farm bureau was were very satisfactory to its mem-creatup your surplus. P. May. The following local pressolely for their benefit ana : bers. We are equipped with the that they will get cut of it more A dairy shipment of 17 head of idents make up the county board: if into but than heifers were latest it, they put they testing apparatus aia registered Jersey Roosev,elt, G. W. Larsen; High- put care of you into the can members to bureau take farm organization nothing brought land, L. E. Potter; Myton, J. F. they can expoet little in' return. All from Utah county. Also one pure- No long waits. promptly. Wahlquist; Ioka, Walter Baird; Mi. together too many farmers are back- bred bull. We take pains particular Upalco, ward. Emniuvs, C. 11. Hartman; othwomfor the farm to the wait waiting skeptical, upon all with fair The Uintah Henry Mitchell; Altonah, J. B. Mur- er fellowT to do it. If the farm bu- its successful County en of this community who features, at the reray; Bluebell, Leslie B. Goodrich; reau fails, then they feel glad that cream here. and milk bring quest of the county commissioners Mt. Home, George G. Lindsey; not succeeds did it if and join, they was farm bureau. the managed by Lee Anderton; Midview, F. the apparently enjoy reaping some This venture was also successful W. J. Meyers; Neola, Dumont of the benefits from it without cost and the fair was maintained withCALDER or effort. This is unfair. Progress It was late in the season when may be measured by the degree in out a deficit. Again the county farm bureau was BROTHERS J. W. Carlson, a deputy inspector which people unite to form cooperactive from the state department of agri- ative bodies. This is well illus- I. C. in helping promote the U. B. this year. culture was secured and whose ser- trated in government as well as In vices were given for four months. The county membersrip Is 352 activity, but even A county agent could not be secured more so in strictly voluntary active members including the eastno appropriated money was eration as advocated by the farm ern and western division. V hat is bureau. No farmer can well afford available for this purpose. needed is all the year round work u0 ignore the farm bureau. It has of the field man. and the aim will already done much more good in be to secure such a man for Duchsne ; actual dollars earned and saved, for the coming year. Ien ten times more, than the farmers The biggest single job undertaken have paid out, and it is working was the vaccination of about forty without a county agent, except for five hundred head of milk cows. four months, and under many disHE SNOW on the ground and on the This required more than thirty days advantages which are gradually mountains gives us promise of a New by several experts time, assisted from the government service. ,A Year that will indeed he Happy and much larger number of cows havUINTAH COUNTY Prosperous, a year in which soil will be moist ing tuberculosis was found than the farmers had any idea was possible. and pleasant to work and plant in the spring, The farm bureau of Uintah councows In fact, the total of sixty-nin- e a year in which mid-summheat will find us reacted to the test, showing disease. ty during the year were active in much work, chiefly At the meeting on November 15, at accomplishing of clear with our canals running brim-fu- ll Myton, the farm bureau extended it among which were the following: Through their efforts tax valuathanks to Mr. Carlson for the good sparkling mountain water to protect and nourwork, and heard the detailed report tions on all improved real estate in ish our crops and livestock in short, a Good the county was reduced 40 per cent on the T. B. Year. In boys and girls club work much through the efforts of the tax comThis committee has been mittee. the was accomplished considering in touch with the members of the In this Good Year, You Our friends and fact that it was the first year any association and in a number of inwork along this line had been done patrons, and your neighbors, You and Our Comin the county and that all leadership stances adjustments have been made for individuals its efforts. through was voluntary and that the leaders even more closely and more pany, Answering a general demand for scarcely knew the requirements, and wisely than ever before, and using the knowlbecause of the lack of central lead- testing milk cows for T. B., the committee in succeded obtaindairy ership early in the year no concretedge we have gained through the experience of ed plan of work could be followed ing the services of a government the past three seasons, can put the Uintah Basin out. For the same cause no club veterinarian, Dr. Carlson. Twenty-thre- e hundred were head eighty fair was held in the fall. in the first place in the front rank of Alfalfa It is shown as being proof against feedhoped the club work will flourish Seed production. this year. For the money and time ing this dreaded disease to humanity. expended there is no work of the Two hundred bushels of Dicklow Lets pull together and make this year extension department that makes the return of that of club work wheat for seed was brought into the THE YEAR. county and widely distributed among boys and girls. the cooperative efforts of Great interest was taken in the through the association and the agricultural marketing of turkeys which stimu- college. This seed was given to the lated buying among the larger com- farmers at a lower the than figure Swift. Armour and Fox same panies. was retailing locally. grain Ilrothers were in keen competition. Three thousand pounds of "MinneNo company or concern was officialsota No. 13 seed corn was cooperly backed, but a good, open market atively bought at $1.00 per hundred was secured. weight less than individuals could A big step toward the standardthe corn. purchase ization of wheat has been accomefforts were made in Cooperative plished and but for the lack of wa- the purchasing of permanent pas ter would have shown a great net ture mixtures in an effort to result, both in the spring and fall the local pastures of native improve grasses. ' varieties. Much more can be done The mangle beet and sugar beei along this line as the work was only seed distributed greatly helped in started. the raising of mangles for feeding The same can be said in the dairy- as much of the seed was bought for ' Duchesne Roosevelt Vernal ing industry. A start only has been replanting the first crop which fall-- j ed to in-in : germinate good many made for improvement, but our atstances. tention was called to the fact of The farmers wool handled better stock needed through the tu- - 32,000 pounds of wool pool mm to good ad- i Work Accomplished By Dushesne And Uintah County Farm Bureaus In 1924 ! I j j ! I Doing be-wi- th ; . Vice-preside- nt r ed - i c. w, Ar-buck- le. CREAMERY semi-governmen- tal I coop-becau- se i j ty ix ( I er ng : J.G. IPeppard eed Co. i A Concerted Effort By All Will Secure A County Agent For Duchesne County a I; , |