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Show THE UINTAH BASIN FARMER PAGE FOUR iiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiflMiiiiinBirjtintflfflonuifiiisiuiiiiiisi I EfiSIN FARMER 1 RED FRONT GARAGE 1 I Established 1924 Published 1st and 15th of Each Month at Roosevelt, Utah. Cole Batteries Gates Tires fl Authorized DODGE Dealer jj jj n n The grain crop is good. MIDVIEW The average date of nity. killing froet for the Uintah Basin ALTONAH Up to date we have matter at has passed and there has been no Entered as second-clas- s had no frost to damage crops All the lath seed is the post office at Roosevelt, Utah, frost yet. Last week there Altonah. under the act of Congress of March matured and most of it cut. was a heavy frost at the forest rang3, 1879. .MIDVIEW The threshers are ers cabin that froze their garden Official organ of the Larsens hul-J- stuff. running full blast. Uintah County Farm Bureau has been threshing seed for, more IOKA Mr. Nelson and sons, formOffice: Rocsevelt Standard, Roos- than a week as has the thresher. 30. Utah. evelt, Telephone erly of the Neola Creamery, held a 50c Where there is a crop at Subscription Price, one year meeting here Saturday night. Sept. jield seems to be up tc standard. This was a starter for a new 25. Editor ARCADIA The busy hum of the reamery here. George H. Harrison Wednesday night Violet Harrison. ...Business Manager thresher is new heard in our vici- - they held another meeting and people signed to get the creamery NOW IFS THE TIME started immediately. g 1 line of Good Used Cars Call or Phone 160 A good 3 Vernal, Utah ut 1 C. Owner F. TUCKER er U, A. C. Report Agricultural enrollments in have begun to come back, says Secretary Jardine. There were a few more Freshmen last yetr than That Utah in many ways has an the year before. N iv is the time, in unsurpassed opportunity to develop my estimation, to study agriculture. its along soulnd lines is There are opportunities for trained the agriculture statement of Dr. Elmer G. Petyoung men. Agriculerson, president of Ut-aOne of the unfortunate facts, tural Colleges, biennial the in report brought out by investigations, is of the institution for the two years not only that the enrollment in agJune 30, 1926, which was riculture has fallen but that the en- ending received at the office of Governor rollment of country beys and girls George H. Dern recently. in all courses has dropped. Country Dr. Peterson then goes on to say boys and girls are entitled to as farm people of the state good training as city boys and girls. that the are already of superior grade by virthe Nation .nee,ds the Moreover, of early pioneer' policy. They tue wholesome influence of well trained rural youth. If a ccuntry boy does have been disciplined, he says, in They not want to study agriculture, there the processes of are plenty of other things for him have a deep love of agriculture and the life which it makes possible, he to study. I realize the) financial difficulty declares, and while they recognize encountered in the last few years by the woeful lack of development farmers. I know that thousands of which exists on some of the farms, farm families cannot afford to send with all its apparent disadvantages, their children to college. But where is still the most elevating and staa family can afford it or where g bilizing force in American life. Dr. boy has a chancej to earn his way, Peterson expresses the opinion that there is no better investment for the the farm has been and will continue future of American farming and to be the most prolific producer of manhood and womanhood. American culture generally. There are still many unsolved and ADVERTISE IT IN THE UINTAH difficult problems connected with BASIN FARMER. the development of agriculture and rural life to that high plane of economic security and of enlightenment which is the ideal of the nation. Dr. Peterson says. Agriculture cannot, under American institutions, become the business of a peasantry, he, declares. It must be, if the national ideal is to bei achieved, raised to a level of economic equality with the other greater divisions of society. The difficulty of this problem, the Agricultural President says, is apparent when it is remembered that the present decade has seen the practical disappearance of cheap lands and lands increasing in value and the consequent loss to farmers of the unearned increment which comes from a rise in land values. Heretofore, Dr. Peterson says, agriculture has had, on the whole, a large source of income in addition to what could be made from thq sale of products. This source of income is not now available and agriculture for the first time, speaking nationally, is forced to adjust itself to the necessity of making the farm pay by virtue of its economic production; or of abandoning it, he says. Is Key. thinks that through Dr. Peterson in of the development and marketing both production much is being done and can be done to bring agriculture u&) to an economic level with the rest of society. eol-leg- es Praises Farms h on (Continued on Page Eight) Vernal Cleaning and tailoring Co. EARL J. FREEMAN, Manager PLUSH We are expecting the thresher here soon. Every one is anxious to get the threshing done before the fall storms come. DRY FORK COATS, VELVETS and Work is being done on the read at the gulch south of C. O. Weist by the men who live in the near vicinity. is a much This needed piece cf work. NAPLES Parcel SKIRTS SPECIALTY Post Paid g g 1 1 I PLEATED OUR H One Way g 1 nimiS !!ll!!!Utl!!!l!!l!ll!!i!!!l!l I I I TABIONA The home of John H. TINGLEY & SONS ja Jones was completely destroyed by H g fire of accidental origin here SaturBUYERS OF day, Sept. 25. Nothing was saved cream the except separator and a Seed, Wool, Honey, Pelts 1 few articles of clothing. The fire started from a defective chimney and all lawfully fj over the cook stove and was not caught furs. noticed until it had gained such headway as to be beyond control. UTAH MYTON, Several bushels of newly threshed inO. P. Rox was No 54. also consumed. grain surance was carried. The people vniiniiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiMiimiiiuiiiiMfiiimiimmmifl turned out to aid the unfortunate family in a few cf the necessities. fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii Mr. Jones says he will begin the construction of a new home at an Wong Sing Mercantile 1 date. early f The store with a complete TABIONA The school house is line of ig at last getting a touch of repair, Groceries and Provisions, Dry Cement steps are being placed at and f Goods, Notions, Ladies the south entrance and the plaster- Gents Furnishings, Boots and f ing is being patched. Shoes, Furniture, Hardware, Sto ves. Ranges, Harness, and MOUNTAIN HOME Most of the' Saddles. cattlemen have spent a few days last You will profit by trading week on the Lake Fork river and here. At that section at a roundup. FT. DUCHESNE, UTAH the present scme are over on Rock Creek for the same purpose. j I I j I j MOUNTAIN HOME Smoot Row-le- y has gone to Roosevelt to get a sheep wagon fer the Dillman sheep. They will now begin moving the sheep to their winter quarters. WOOL MYTON The Uintah Basin Seed Growers association at Myton, who recently had their plant broken into and robbed, are offering a reward of $100.00 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the The loss guilty party or parties. sustained amounted to $600. Wm. Zowe, as vice president and manager, makes the offer. Get our prices before selling. i Write today for our price list. I We also sell wool bags and twine. I CHAS. FRIEND & CO. i Inc. Wazee 917 St., Denver, Colo, g 1 li!ll!!:i;ill!!ll!!llll!!i!!lllll!!IIIil!lll!l!li:!M UINTAH GEM FLOUR MILLED BY NCOURAGE Home if Industry by patron- bring the ones you already have. UINTAH CREAMERY COMPANY Roosevelt Millg. Co. Roosevelt, Utah c. J. Nelson, Mgr. NEOLA UTAH 1 VMiiltiiilliiiUiUiiiiiUliliUHlIkiliUlitWkiiUhiiUiUUHiUMMWiliihmiiittMHiiUjdiuillliirHMlUMitttf |