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Show THE UINTAH BASIN FARMER Devoted to the Livestock Industry of the Great Uintah Basin When finding stray stock refer to THE UINTAH BASIN FARMER Brand Page and notify owners of their critters. You will be doing them a service. mem NTA Tc.gon Load of Prize t welve Large Amount of Land Still Open for Entry in Turkeys Brings Profit the Uintah Basin hundred dollars for a , , a onload of turkeys! Hu S his ia the amount Wallace L Tremcnton of received Istensen yJiat ir a load he delivered at Lampo, Say tern Boxelder county. ';r. Christensen, who ranges his ir :eys in a small valley between fc fell and Thatcher, hauled 300 x sed birds to Lampo in a wagon drawn by four In the Uintah Basin there are acres of land open for entry, according to Leon P. Christensen, U. S. Land office register, at Vernal. Of this amount 1,386,342 acres lies in the Salt Lake Meridian, 184,255 acres in the U. S. Meridian and 150,980 acres unsurveyed. jres. Mr. Christensen also reported apI'oxelder county this year mar-;- d 6000 turkeys, according to proximately 1,178,000 acres of land H. Stewart, county agricultural covered by oil and gas prospecting ,t. Practically the entire num- - permits or applications, in the were graded first. dou-ls-Bedd- ed COL. itiiei lete 1 Uintah Basin Turkeys Top Holiday Market , Dry and' E. Peterson, Uintah Count p Farm Agent 9 and ware, and 4 i. peT Pound Paid for Christinas Tkeys was Highest Whole-- t le Price Ever Paid for Utah Birds Wonderful Results ' of !1 . J The turkey producers who have Wen; loyal t(o their farm bureau every reason to be proud of fs great organization which is do- so much to safeguard the in-ts of the farmers. Whoever I bed that we would ever get a jLilsale price of 45 cents per Yet thru kr4 for our turkeys. been has this efforts operative in spite of all kinds of Turkey dealers for a t, many years, have been making tome profits from the efforts of helpless producers and naturally h Tesent any movement which is at a fair deal for the producer. Is year local buyers bought live kays at 15 cents per pound in It Ashley valley and at Jensen, t Jooks ridiculous in face of the c those who sold through the r l Bureau received. piethod which worked very ieeasfully tills year, was the lib-- ;t grading, one company was go- s to give. They told the pro-:rthat they would take any frl of turkeys no matter how small taw poor, and would pay some-f- r them. They also said k they would grade hens which I; bed only five or. six pounds and ' j which weighed eight or nine ds as number ones, provided they were nice and fat. They perfectly safe in making such knowing that nice fat tur-- 5 ber, weigh a great deal more than I :t six pounds for hens and eight i e pounds for toms, was p result of this propaganda tur-i a great many poor, light werbr brought in and were grad-- f ry low. (which, of course, they (c: be, and were sold for 12 to 18 cents per pound, wheneas t :y had been held back and have j rly fattened, they39 should cents per fcht 31 cents to I I net to the producer. Ip other company took any kind t .keys the producers wanted to I In, paying the same price for One bad and indifferent. was the slo- sc for everything. They get a lot rf turkeys by !d stunt. The regretable thing all of this is that so many fall for it. lv no farmer should be mis-th-e tactics used by these com-1- . ; for certainly everyone knows t there is a difference in the U j of turkeys, the same as any-- i ilse. It is Just as reasonable U ed -- ! to say that one suit of clothes is just as good as another, or that one cow is just as good as another, and therefore they should all be sold at the same price. It is the writers opinion that these turkeys were graded before they were placed on exhibit for the consumer. If they were not it is certain that the good housewife or hotel keeper who purchased them did the grading. When one ponders about the great change in marketing turkeys during the last three years, he is forced to wonder how it all happened. Prior to three years ago, each producer sold his turkeys as best he could; some sold their turkeys alive at so much per head, (the price has been as low as 50 cents per head); others sold by live weight and still others sent their dressed turkeys by parcel post to some dealer in Salt Lake city or one of the other large cities of the state; thereby leaving the matter of price and grading enThis tirely with the ipurchaser. method of marketing was seldom satisfactory. At that time the Farm Bureau in with the Extension service of the Utah Agricultural college, took a hand in .marketing turThe dressed turkeys were keys. shipped in sacks by parcel post to Castle Gate, there they were graded and packed in uniform .crates and sold to a buyer from Los Angeles. This was the first car load of turkeys ever shipped out of the Uintah Basin. It proved so successful that each year since large Each shipments have been made. year improvements have been made, until at present the shipment of turkeys is on a sound basis. This year due to the efforts of the Farm Bureau, Extension service and othfer agencies, grading stations were established at vrnal, Fort Duchesne and other Basin points, making it possible for the farmers to bring their turkeys in and see them graded and packed in uniform containers which were to carry them to the consumers. After all that has been done to raise the standard of our turkeys, advertising we have received, and the demand that has bQen created for the high, quality Uintah Basin turkeys, surely none but the very poorest producers would want to go back to the old system of marketIt ing our turkeys in lump sum. takes a great deal of effort to. become knewn cn the best markets and now that we are established it seems foolish to think of throwing away the prestige we have gained. vVtMng will injure us more than carelessness and disregard for tbe consumers demand. - Vernal, Utah W. s. PERRY JOHN N. DAVIS AND SONS Lapoint, Utah On left ribs. Crop upper bit, right. On both shoulders. Crop and slit in left. Upper slope, under slit in right. Crop off left. G. H. SOUTHAM & SONS F. D. No. 2, Vernal, Utah R. gjsJ J. F. CHAPMAN ribs. On Three underbits left. left Vernal, Utah On left hip. On left shoulder Hole in right. Ear Mark: Swallow fork in each B. A. KIMBALL ear. Neola, Utah bnaerbit right ear. GEORGE DUDLEY, Randlett, Utah EATON BROS. On left ribs and thigh. No earmarks. Vernal, Utah Under On right hip or right ribs. F. B. COLLINS in each ear. half crop R. F. D No. 1, Vernal, Utah. On left side. HUGH BARNES Neola, Utah W. H. BOAVDEN Ear On left hips and left ribs. Hill Creek, Ouray, Utah Mark: Split in each dhr. Ear Mark: Upper and under half in left and upper and under bit in R. M. CLARK right. Cedarview, Utah On left hind quarter, hip or thigh. RORT. II. C. MARCHANT Tag in left ear. Ioka, Utah on left ribs HYRUM RASMUSSEN Upper and under slit in right and Vernal, Utah under half crop in left. On right ribs. Crop off right, slit in and left. underslope - m pq " n- C. A. ERICKSON wjjtA right ribs. on Boneta, Utah Square crop, left under half and under slope in right ear. ALBERT STEPHENSON Duchesne, Utah crop Underbit in right, swallow fork and underbit in left. LOUIS FREESTONE F. H. SMITH R. F. D. No. 1, Vernal, Utah Vernal, Utah Slit in left; swallow fork in right Waddle on right jaw. IRVIN EATON GEORGE A. SLAUGH Vernal, Utah Vernal, Utah. On right ribs. Under half crop Phone Red 495 in each ear. R. F. D. No. 1, DAVID KARREN & SONS L. McNAUGHTON Vernal, Utah Youghal, Colo. Vernal, Utah Ear Marks: (Lightning rod) on left side. Bar VP on either side. Underslope in both ears. Mark: Crops off both ears. E3 Ear FLOYD E. LAMB L. E. POTTER Myton, Utah Myton, Utah On left side. Earmarks, tip off left On left side. Under 7 (Seven.) ear; under half cropped, upper half tipped on right. GHRIS JENSEN Neola, Utah ffJJ w. h. oaks rrri R- F- D. No. On entire right side. 1, Box 63, Vernal, 1 Utah JOSEPH ENGBERSON Underbit in both ears. On left ribs. - - RAY GARDNER Hayden, Utah in bit Under right ear. PRICE Bluebell, Utah D. R. fjy Waddle on nose. Al-Wuz-On Ear Tags The test tag on th market, indorsed bj prominent rtockm rn. On right ribs. Vernal, Utah Crop off right ear. IVEN G. ROSS Tridell, Utah On left ribs. Crop upper and derbit righUhleinleft. un- WILLIAM ZOWE Myton, Utah ribs. Slit in right ear. On left fTJl AV. s. NICHOLSON Phone Crescent, Roosevelt, Utah On left ribs. Large hit in upper left. and right I With our DOUBLE ACTION PLIERS REX L. GARDNER 50 per cent more Tags can he atNeola, Utah tached, with one half the Exertion No ear marks. as other Pliers on the market. One On right hip. squeeze attaches Tag instantly. AV. L. FLETCHER Write for FREE Samples INTEIt-MTR. F. D. No. 1, Vernal, Utah MACHINE & STAMP UnOn right hip. Slit in right. AVORKS, Inc. in left. derbit 242 East 2nd So. Salt Lake, Utah. N. When answering advertisements, U I N TA II please mention THE BASIN FARMER. H. L. ALLRED Roosovclt, Utah On right ribs. Tag in right ear. AA'hen you are In need of a new Bull, remember we are producing the smooth, thick fleshing tpe of Beef Animal that the discriminating beef buyers demand. .Look them over before buying elsewhere. E. S. LUSTY & SONS Duchesne, TTh Breeders of Pure B,red Hereford Cattle d) |