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Show Y our Hens and Cows are your Devoted VOL. II. to tnePvogress NO. 18. &. Development o cash-registe- rs rainy-da- y Agriculture intfte Qi-ea.- 1 FIFTY' CENTS PER YEAR. ROOSEVELT, UTAH, OCTOBER 1. 1P20. Exhibits by Boys and Girls Clubs are Unexcelled in Quality Honey Shortage The first annual ccunty Boys and Girls Club Fair ever held in the State of Utah was successfully held at Vernal Thursday and Friday of last week. Not cnly did the fair attract the young people of the county but the more matured were aries, submitted recently to Harden Bennion, state commissioner of agriculture. These colonies produce an average of about 70 pounds of surplus heney each, aggregating more than 4.000,000 pounds annually. Inspection of these colonies is made each year fer foul brood, highly (plfcased wfith the splendid type of exhibits and demonstrations shown. The purebred hog, given by the Uintah State Bank to the having the best pig club in the county was won by Maeser. The affair was under the direction of E. Peterson, county farm agent. Mr.Peterson and the other judges state that the livestock exhibit consisting of Jersey cattle, Rambouillet sheep and Duroc-Jerse- y hogs, in quality excelled any heretofore shown in Uintah county. The poultry (display consisted mainly of Barred Plymouth Reck chickens and was very good. The Uintah high and central schools of Vernal were represeented by drawings, sketches and handiwork done by the classes. The large space reserved for exhibits of domestic art proved too small and the overflow was displayed in another booth. In all departments ithe Indian' boys and girls from the Reservation were represented by exhibits and a number of blue ribbons whre won by the Indian club members. Prizes jvere furnished jby the business houses of the county- The forest service showed in their ccm-mujni- ty Purebred Beef Bulls Improve Common-CoOffspring By $20 w great preventable loss in American animal production is in the low quality of the sires .used, says the United States Department of Agriculture. In no other phase of animal husbandry is it possible to make such direct, such marked, and such at such profitable improvement of in as use the superior plight cost purebred sires. breedRecords of the beef-cattl- e Jack-so- n iwork Farms, at ing County, Mo., furnish examples of the value of a good bull. Common A Sni-a-B- ar exhibit every commercially valuable species of timbeis growing in the Ashley national forest in the form of small trees and sections cut from the timbers. The tree exhibits included blue spruce, lumber pine, Douglass fir, lodge pine, Alpine fir and Englemann spruce. The value of deferred and rotating grazing was by a large oil painting depicted loaned for this exhibit by the district. forest office in Ogden, and by an exhibit of living grasses in their native soil. This exhibit shewed the complete evolution of an almost barren tract of overgrazed land to one densely covered by nutritive grasses. It showed the value rf the deferred and rotating grazing system in makof forest ing possible the of the forareas' and the permanency age growth, since each unit of a grazing allotment is protected for two Or three years to allow mature growth of fcrage and dissemination of the seed. The forest service also had on exhibit specimens of every poisonous plant growing on the Ashley national forest and another showing the destructive work of the bark beetle, which is, next to the fire hazzard, the mo,st destructive agency in forests. In the Ashley national forest the bark beetle activities have been -- ng the common steers. Since the dams of the two lots were essentially the same and the methods of feeding and marketing were identical, the difference of 52 a hundredweight in their value may be fairly attributed to the superiority of the purebred sires used for the first cross as compared to those used on the farm from which the foundation ccw8 were purchaseu. At the average of 1,000, pounds live weight for the animals, an increase of $2 a hundredweight in the value at marketing time of the offspring of a purebred bull brings an increased value of $240 a year on a crop of 12 calves, if it is assunhea that the heifers improved equally with the steers. -- EXHIBITS TAKEN TO FAIR Is Predicted in Apiary Survey County Agent E. Peterson. Mrs. Jane Murray and Mrs. Rose Johnson left Thursday morning for Salt Lake city to attend the State Fair. Mrs. Murray and Mrs. Johnson will have charge of arranging the exhibition of the Boys and Girls club work and chaperone LaBerl Cook and Cornelia Peterson, who will give a demonstration for four days in iwith from sewing girls competition The other counties in the state. best of the sewing that was exhibited at the fair last Thursday and Friday will be taken to the fair to compete with sewing from 'other Some of the garden excounties. hibits will also be taken. The Appri ximately CO, 000 colonies of bees are maintained in the state, according to the biennial report of D. II. Hilljian. state inspector of api- . which, if allowed to gain headway, would soon wipe out the apiaries, the inspector said. The costs of about Boys cooking club from Maeser was Utah is one a very close second to the Girls' of the few' states with less than two sewing class (which the judges the horror of taking their per cent of foul brood infecting its work to said. Efficient the the fair. colonies, report work on the part, of county bee has kept the foul brcod iwell eased colonies. The report estimates a shortage under control and there has not been a serious outbreak in Utah dur- in the heney production this year as ing the past two years, according each colony is expected to produce to the report. It is estimated that only about 65 pounds. Eight carthe records will show a decrease loads of bees were shipped into Utah each year in the number of dis- - this year and 13 in 1925. these institutions aggregate five cents per colony. -- Another Important Factor Why Alfalfa Should Be the Basins Leading Crop alfalfa destrey Canada A thistle? correct answer to this simple question is mighty, important to the thousands of farmers in the northern half of the United States, whose farms are fouled with the prickly pest. Canada this-tl- p is no longer confined to the eastern seaboard the pesky nuisance has made itself so much at home in America that it n':w stretches Will (Continued on page two) UinlabBasia from coast to coast. i first state-ttry this method in an. manner was Indiana, organized This came about through a test conducted on the Pinney-Purdu- e farm near Whnatab, Ind., nn experimental farm operated by PurIn the fall of 1921 due University. a field heavily infested with Canada thistle was plowed, and seeded to alfalfa. A good stand was sedied out, cured, which gradual turf that came leaving a on naturally, Practically all the thistles had died in the meantime and only a few of the prickly sprouts could be found in th blue-- j grass. So striking was this demon-Istratio- n that a number of neighboring farmers tried the plan. One rf the most amazing was the one on Frd farm. Huntington, Ind. (Loews in Fred succeeded completely (eradicating a pair of h"ge thistle Patches in two rear bv he 'simile process of growing alfalfa. There blq-gra- hundreds of thousands of farms where Canada thistle infests entire fields, there are only two known methods of control either clean cultivation or smothering with alfalfa. Clean cultivation, however, means many hours spent in the hot summer sun an uncomfortable and expensive proposition. On the other hand, if the pest can be smothered with alfalfa the deis clean velof struction of the thistle On cows in Calf to common bulls were Speaking bf the movement purchased as foundation stock for vet. the demonstration farm. These cows youth from the farm to town, we A great many folks testify that were later bred to purebred beef believe it should be limited strictly to about 35 miles an hour, say. alfalfa can be used successfully to bulls. The firstcross steers brought destroy Canada thistle. Perhaps the $2.00 a hundredweight more than Dallas :Neiws. ss demon-(Stratio- Continued on Page 3 ns |