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Show THE UINTAH BASIN FARMER What Farm Boys Own For Themselves G. P. Warier i -- Thirty boys studying agriculture at Ducaesne County high school own 13,757 worth cf livestock and land, or an average of $125.23 each, according to a surrey recently made placed first, with an average per acre production of 36.96 tons. Several juniors produced more than thirty tons per acre? The average production for the state is in the One student at the high schooL owns he that twenty acres neighborhood cf thirteen tons. reports of land, tw'o horses, two cows, and one hog, and places the valuation of the let at $1,000. He is the wealthFour iest farmer questioned. boys own nothing, and the lowest valuation submitted was $5, the estimated worth of five. hens. These thirty farm boys own 47 horses, 20 cows, 10 sheep, 3 pigs, 8 calves, 22 colonies cf bees, 50 chickens and 22 'acres of land. All but six of the boys own horses, which reflects the farm lads love for his own riding horse or pony. Fourteen of the thirty boys have no independent income this winter. The largest monthly income reportOne boy works in a ed is $25 drug store for which he receives $3.50 a week. Others drive school The trucks or work at odd jobs. smallest mothly income reported is 25 cents, received fer doing chores. This boy sells his rrviees cheap. These beys are in their first and second year in high school and help with the chores night and morning They comprise thirty of the forty-seve- n students taking agriculture at the high school. Twelve of the boys have money in The largest amount is the bank. The $35 and the smallest is $1. for twelve the average beys is $9.85. When asked how they plan to- earn money during the summer of 1926 three report they will grow alfalfa seed, two will pick frnit, one will drive a truck, two will work at odd job::, one will ride the cattle range one will look after his bees, fifteen will werfc cn the farm, :ne will herd sheep, one will work in a mine and three have no plans as yet for the Vocational agriculture cannot be taught successfully in schools unless there is adequate equipment and in- Exceptionally results have been obtained in club work in The county has Uintah county. stood solidly behind E. Peterson, county agent, in his efforts to put the county on the map in club work. What ha3 been accomplished 13 of inestimable worth to the agriculturUintah al interests of the county. now has a Smith-Hughinstructor in the high school at Vernal. It is apparent that the county is alive to its responsibility, and is cognizant of the value, cf training its young people in vocational agriculture. Comparisons are odious, but they sometimes serve to arouse us from Duchesne county is our lethargy. not contributing materially to the agricultural education of its young people, and it is thus doing itself as well as its boys and girls an inA survey similar to the justice. one reported in the beginning of this article was carried oat at South Cache high school, at Hyrum, in Each boy owned Cache county. animals worth on the average of $231.36, and their bank deposits avSimilar figures alerage $74.65. Duchesne county for ready quoted high school are $125.23 and $9.85. struction. es South Cache Smith-Hugh- es ture. school has a instructor in agriculhigh Ed Wooten who resides on the North Myton bench reports one cf the bumper crops in this part of On ithree quarters the country. of an acre of ground the yield was S00 bushels cf potatoes. From 35 acres of alfalfa he harvested 175 bags o alfalfa seed, which 13 an average of five sacks to the acre. The post office department has advertised for sealed bids to carry the U. S. mail from Myton to BlueThe bell, a distance of 22 miles. 1926 contract 1, expires July present and the new contract will run to A bond of $2700 June 30, 1930. is required. The route pays $2500. 1 he mail is to be carried daily except Sundays. L. n. rotter, president of the Duchesne County farm bureau, who owns ranches on the North Myton bench finished threshing during tne past month hi3 alfalfa seed crop. His He had 667 sacks of seed- so far the is reported crop largest in this part of the Uintah Basin. The seed is of a good grade. During the past month several lectures on Nutrition were given in the Lecture room of the Presbyterian church, by Miss Jennie Reece, of the who was a representative Home Economics department of the Utah State Board of education. She also delivered an address at the Parent-TeacheAbout meeting. 15 of the ladies of Myton were enrolled in her classes. Paul Bingham of Myton, who introduced the Hardigan alfalfa seed into this part of the basin, obtained 111 sacks on 35 acres on the South Myton bench. During the past month he made a trip to several places in Idaho on business in connection with his company. E. C. Robbins, bank examiner, accepted througn Ward Ireland, agent for Myton L O. O. F. lodge No. 51, a bid of $6500 for the. bank buildIt was made ing and fixtures. at the Myton State Bank building. It is understood that the room used as a bank will remain as it is, with the hope that a bank may be startThe upper ed again in Myton. floor will still be used for lodge rs he has to report to Federal authorities. He has occupied the position The project at for three years. Florence will cover 100,000 acres and is under the San Carlos reserEarl voir yet to he completed. Patterson of Florence, Ariz., I? transferred to Myton to take Mr Irsfelds place January 1, 1926. The Commercial club of Myton has gone on record as opposed to letting the contract tor hauling the mail from Price to Vernal to priThe argument vate contractors. presented is that the service rendered will not be as efficient as governmental service. The Comemrcial club of Myton recently held its annual election of officers for the ensumg year: S. A. Wells, president; F. Dauwalder, vice president; R. E. Waugh, treasurer; George E. Phillips, secretary; R. L. Hurd, J. D. Beavera, B. Dart, George Elliott and Alec Beffert, advisory committee. 44 y f FOR SALE 4 4 4444444 When yon need GENUINE FORD PARTS just drop us a line, Mail orders are sent the day they ASHLEY MOTOR are received. CO., authorized Ford agents, naL Utah. FOR SALE A very beautiful $165 Victrola, practically new; will sell for $100, with good selection of Call or write The Uintah records. Basin Farmer. 6-- tf. Yon never have to wait for a car here. We have a complete stock on hand at all times. ASHLEY MOTOR CO., authorized agents. In a county solely agricultural, f. Vernal, Utah. he county high school of Duchesne county devotes but two forty-fiv- e minute periods per day to the scienVocatific study cf agriculture. summer. TINGLE Y & SONS tional instruction is due impossible Seventeen report that they expect to the lack of time and equipment. to follow farming as a life vocation. BUYERS OF One intends to be a carpenter, three This condition is surprising and announce their preference for some lamentable when it is considered line of mechanical work, cne seeks that agriculture is the ONLY indusSeed, Wool, Honey, Pelts the commercial field, two want to try of the county, and that the pos- purposes. B. L. A. Dart sibilities and his brother line Dart are that along simply be engineers and six are undecided and all lawfully enormous. of this place finished harvesting or have no definite preferences. Duchesne county needs a county their altalfa seed crop during the caught furs. It is interesting to note that most month. but it needs a Smith-HughThey report a total agent, past are boys forming strong preferences teacher in the high school as bad- of 453 sacks from 130 acres, an early in life and that the majority ly, if not worse. UTAH MYTON, A matter cf four average of three and one-ha- lf sacks taking agriculture in high school cr five hundred dollars more than to the acre. The total was gratiO. Box 54. P. expect to become farmers. They is being expended at present would fying as it surpassed their estimate. should be encouraged by being given provide S. Y. Taylor, who has the superfor a Smith-Hughteachthe opportunity tc own livestock and er, who would be on the vision which of the Taylor Ditch the job land of their own. The Uintah year around. Uintah Meadows Dairy Assn are water furnishes the Young for South people Myton Basin is and always will be princiof instrucand bench and Pleasant valley, spent training pally agricultural, and its future de- susceptible tion more so than adults. Herein considerable time in Myton during velopment and prosperity rest with lies the advantage of to December seeking overseeing the work being the boys and girls now being trained improve conditions thru of men have been at done. Crews agricultural in the schools. This is an the medium of the boys and girls of work enlarging the ditch and also a statement, and very signi- the county. strengthening the bank. They plan ficant cne. If the Basin is to deto work most of the winter and' Neola, Utah velop agriculturally, it must have HARDIGAN ALFALFA to finish ditch the extend and hope a citizenry trained in agriculture. OUTYIELDS GRIMM the first units. It will bring unThe sections of the state and nation AT ABERDEEN, IDAHO der the project 4500. acres more, FOB REE UEEDETS CHAJtT that are making the greatest strides making a total of 17,000 acres. along the lines of farming use mod-- , Paul A. Brigham of Myton, pioWork has stopped for the winter ern. scientific methods. Too great neer of Hardigan alfalfa on the Federal aid road. grower Seven stiess cannot be placed upon voca- seed in the west, who rehas one-ha- lf haYe miles and been just graded tional education. It is significant turned to Mytcn from a visit to the on the Antelope end of the road. that high school beys enrolled in vo- Aberdeen S SHEEP JCR experiment station, Aber- The bridge over the Antelope, a cational agriculture are continually deen, T6 Original Idaho, reports that Hardigan cement structure 118 feet in length, outstripping their dads in yields of alfalfa Ttg. Its DomUt H Ltci Grimm at the is finished. The culverts in Myton farm crips per acre, and in produc- above station I makes it superior to all 3 1 to for a period are done. by One and one-ha- lf miles g 4 imitations. Gampedoain stock. This cf two ing years. ! opermboo. It star put! to men is be yet graded. Fifty argues well for the future of agriThe station at Aberdeen is lo- were W.Bdmt. the summer employed culture. during SALTUXESTOCO: Salt ljucr Ur. cated right in the heart of the fa- and fall, 8 Ford trucks, 70 head As showing what junior farmers mous Idaho Grimm section. The cf horses or 35 teems. Sumsion Sot Ftu are doing in raising sugar beets, a two plats, one cf Ma a rasner ui tags one and Clyde of Springville have the and Hardigan of Grimm were located side by side contract. quotation from an article that expect to begin in the December 27th is- at the station and care was work again They about April 1st. The sue cf the Salt Lake Tribune is in- - taken that each platspecial should receive office in Myton will be kept open. teieoting. the same care. , W. H. Varley is the resident engiSAVE THE MIDDLEmers, who grow the beets f;r Utahs A special bulletin on Hardigan neer and B. W. Anderson, transit MANS PROFIT would sugar factories, consistently will be iued soon by the Aberdeen employee. Over one half of the by buying SADDS attain the average per acre produc- - Nation the advantages cf read is completed. givin direct from the. manuticn of the priTe winning juniors ever otter alfalfas. Hardigan N. W. Irsfeld, who holds the poin the an-'- ta facturer. Send for our ronfest apoisMr. Brigham has Hardigan seed sition of project engineer of the free ored by the Ytah-Tdib- o comillustrated catalog Sugar for sale grown in the Uintah basin Uintah Indian Irrigation project, has The Western Saddle pany. this stata would be able tc- L"'1 acclimated to Ariz. conditions here, been transferred to Florence, w"-I- d weeten Ti thi Mfg. Co. this sed is Oil Monday, December 28th, he left 1711 Larimer St. test P ewejr Orm of E tistow Adi, 12 Myttu fvr kos Angeles, Calif,, where Denier, Colorado 3-t- es es oft-repeat- ed smu CATTLE-HOG- out-yield- ed -- prize-winnin- ! - tp ' -- |