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Show THE UINTAH BASIN FARMER Farming Methods Why and How W. E. TAYLOR $ The John Deere Soil Culture Department Director CLASSIFIED ADS of 4i had practically none. I have had similar results with other creps, especially corn and potatoes. The farm tractor has proven a bagging t0 winter wheat farmers, 3 BUY THE BEST! It pays to bt for wjtfi they can plow stubble FOR SALE Used 2 horse power, a recognfi chix from in your baby motor good iand regardless of its dryness, electric phase breeder. W. S. C. at Accredits Leghorn The sur-I-t shape. Price reasonable. Inquire mediately after harvest. 250-28- 5 46tf- - Hatchery AAA grade. face trash ig not only turned under, this office. sire's side. April, $12; May, but insects, insect eggs and weeds FOR SALE Apples at McNaughtons Prices on breeding stock on request are destroyed. mile south of Maeser James Gage Breeding Farm, Novato Sod intended for corn should be farm, California. to give store plowed in the fall, not only The only safe way I know to!jt time to rot, but for the purpose of FOR SALE One 30 inch wood POULTRYMEN! handle there soils is to plow during-' destroying cut worms, Profit through 4 inch Exthe fall, ridging the furrow. split pulley taking a chicken raising. Investigate thi Coulter. to a How Set 46-tf Rolling belt. Inquire at this office. Stovetl posure to frosts, rains and snows Petaluma Brooder of Pride secure To the best results, the will render the soil friable and in 5 0 Sizes should be kept sharp and When you need GENUINE FORD (formerly Kresky). splendid condition for planting crops coulter Simple, safe anil PARTS just drop us a line, chick capacity. rust. of If dull, it will cause free in the spring. Drainage improves the Use in opet to economical operate. the day they plow to ride on top of the ground Mail orders are sent Yard manure, green both soils. No soot, I house. or closed front MILLER-THOMA- S type or if run too the are received. shallow, especially manures, muck, loams, peat, marl inspect.! Stoves or fumes. moisture If MOTOR CO., authorized Ford agents, and lime will all improve clay soils. ground is very hard and dry. Write! local our ed representative. by Sand, clay loam, or coarse manure the ground is hard and dry, set the Vernal, Utah. for literature H. Pride of Petalumjf coulter well back on the plow' This will improve gumbo soils. advertisements Brooder Stove Co., 619 Main St,, When answering will to the penepermit plow point When to Plow. BASUINTAH THE mention Petaluma, Calif. the coulter please A good time to plow is when the trate the soil before FARMER. IN Under normal Then the touches the ground. soil is moist and mellow. BETTER BABY CHICKS fromTree draft is light and the furrow crum- soil conditions, a "oiling coulter is FOR SALE Table style Victrola, range vigorous stock White Leg. Unfortunate- properly set when the hub of the bles as it is turned. splendid priced; very R. I. Reds and Barred Rocks reasonably horns, lf inch out- records to plow coulter is about one-haCall or every Tuesday. ly, it is often necessary with machine. go Safe delivery oi side adthe shin of the plow. This does not . when an ideal condition THE UINTAH BASIN FARM- full count guaranteed. write For booklet! wil cause the coulter to cut ER. exist. Beyond question the best justment B write lf cne-haand prices inch outside the shin, results are obtained if the land is about - You never have to wait for a car a to furearlleave clean CLARA VALLEY HATCHERY the SANTA just the enough and fall, plowed during The adjustment should here. We have a complete stock 1049 Lincoln Ave., San Jose, Calif, ier aftec harvest it is dene the bet- row wall. MILLER-THOMA- S ter. Stubble land, for fall or spring be the same ion all plows of a gang on hand at all times. otherwise difthe furrow's of will MOTOR authorized be be should CO., plowed regard planting, ferent widths. Ford agents, Vernal, Utah. less of bow dry it may been liar Depth to Plow With the Coulter. after the grain has Every boy and girl in the Uintah For ordinary conditions, the best vested, for as soon as the grain is LEON P. CHRISTENSEN The Brown Basin should read cut. every stubble an i every crack depth is abcut three inches. In in the soil becomes a chimney thru sod plowing, the coulter should be Mouse appearing each, month in Irrigation and Civil Engineer If the set to cut about one inch shallower THE UINTAH BASIN FARMER. which moisture escapes. Phone Vernal 4 or Blk 452 ground can be disked prompty after than the share, and inch FOR SALE 5 head of mules. Two, The hub of the cutting, the evaporation of moisture outside the shin. VERNAL, UTAH 4 years old, partly broken.. Two is in a great measure stopped, but coulter should be set in a line, just One, It is a little back of the point of the 3 years old, halter broken. puwing is far more efieciive. 2 A unbroken. old, bargain. years always advisable bo attach a disk share. harrow to the plow for the purpose Combination Rolling Coulter and See or write, MRS. ELLA BRYANT, Uintah Meadows Dairy Assn R. F D. No. l, Fort Duchesne, Utah. of pulverizing and packing .he soil Jointer. as well as forming a mulch. The As coulter-jointsocner stubble and surface trash is is nowthe combination common use, w'e made on. the plow. into coming Its intelligent buried, the quicker jf rots and forms want to add a word about its rela- use renders a much broader utility humus, the substance so important tion to the coulter and the of the. plow than would he possible in fertility. If trash is plowed un- plow bottom.rolling Where the combi- without it. Tenacious sod, can be der early, it begins to decay before nation coulter-jointworked is it Neola, Utah used, satisfactorily if the jointer winter grain is sown, and by spring should be so on beam is the to set adjusted break the rigdeep enough it is well rotted. In addition to the that the hub of the coulter is ap- idity of that part of the furrow slice of surface trash, decomposition one inch back Tf the that remains uppermost. proximately On the lumps of soil will crumble through pcint of the the same other hand, stubble and cultivated plow, Gates Tires Cole Batteries freezing and thawing and the soil lateral adjustment carrying will become thoroughly aerated if ter is used alone. as when the coul- lands are rendered more friable by The jointer its judicious use. When plowed before winter sets in should be so adjusted against the adjusted, it prevents the properly RED FRONT GARAGE furrow The following gives the results of face of the coulter that it clears at slice from being turned over flat. early plowing in Oklahoma, which the point and does not rub Authorized DODGE Dealer against Thus soil warms up more rapidly in correspond very closely to fall plow- the coulter. clearinch moistuTe-holdinthe has g a greater spring, ing in, sections where fall plowing ance at this This point is plenty. A good line of Good Used Cars and i3 left in such capacity, is practiced: The Extension Division of Okla- is enough to keep it from rubbing condition that subsequent tillage by Call or Phona 160 and not enough to permit harrow or drag is facilitated. The homa Agricultural and Mechanical the coulter to' trash Set to cut gather. also jointer aids materially in turnjointer College has some interesting figures ing under manure or rubbi.h that on the effects of early plowing upon about two inches deep. Vernal, Utah The Jointer, may be on the surface of the soil. corn yields of Oklahoma. these , TU t If the ground is covered with rear(i figures are compiled from data fur- - j0intPT. as a C. F. TUCKER very a sharp rolling coulter run necessary vines,, Owner adjunct nished by members of the noya corn to the MisFarmers close to plow. in the the e will clubs in 1922. jointer Twenty-fivcounprevent ties of the state are represented in sissippi valley are oeginning bo ap- clogging, and all trash will be comit, and beyond question it pletely covered. the figures and conclusions. Here preciate be very soon will generally used are the sumamrized results: where conditions will permit. The average yield of all tracts IX UTAH SHEEP This attachment can be gauged to & plowed in December was 50 bushels any FIXED AT 11 PER CENT required depth necessary to turn these calculations show; the average surface soil. As the soil is turned for fields plowed in January, 44 5 it Losses rf sheep in Utah TAILORING CO. the previous furrow a few the strikes during those bushels; not including bosses of plowed in February, inches below year, the top and is caught 38 bushels; those plowed in March, whifh cannot be figured yet Earl J. Freeman, Mgr. covered by the moldboard slice,: lambs, ard are placed at 11 per cent 244 bushels; those plowed in April, leaving the surface free of the of trash. 22 3 bushels, and those plowed in number on hand it the years beginSod can be plowed and all PLUSH COATS, VELVETS grass ning, 2,3 4 0,000, by George A. May, liy2 bushels. be covered perfectly if the Scott, is livestock tatist A few years ago 1 pli.wed five jointer and ician with the United it should be run to acres of stubble land in August and aproperly set. PLEATED SKIRTS department o' agriculture. dcph of about two inches. The Spates an adjoining five acres the first of Mot. losses were caused v U R SPECIALTY )y j,rda-toris o to. own when it js April following. animals an poion, lie notes The entire tract turned that it is covered eompetely was seeded to 'oats. while a considerable part is due The five acres .v the to Parcel post paid one way GilJohn plowed in the fall produced fifty more main furrow. or old ewes. The statistician deaths makes the following bushels per acre, and the spring ment: .Umatc-H that losses during 19LM are a tout as plowing but twenty-seve- n bushels. as can be expected The w. jo'nter, or kim-pl n The growth of weeds on the spring nt is one of the most Im- under prere; t conditions. attachm. Io.-W hen for the two plowing was very marked, while the portant answering advertisements, , re previous improvements that, has pi ase mention THE UINTAH heavier than tor 1024. IN fall plowed land (Continued from last me nth) Plowing Clay and Gumbo Soils. These soils are plastic and sticky when wet because of the fineness of, If plowed while sur-their texture. or very wet, tae water charged with heat of the sun will cause them to and become a3 hard as a brick. should be remembered that clay and gumbo must not be meddled with while wet, for the dirt will bake so hard no amount of rolling or tilling will mellow it POULTRY FOR SALE im-ba- ke , j 0 i O.-l- t 1-- j j j j 3-- tf. ; tj I 2-- tf. 2-- 3t. 3-- tf. one-quart- er 3-- lt. er er One-eigh- th , 3-- j 1-- sod-ribbo- n ! - s hn ye-.r- s |