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Show I Damagedpage's! THE UINTA n BASIN FARMER PAGE THREE DUCHESNE COUNTY FARM BUREAU C. F. WAHLQUIST THOMAS ROBERTS Pres., Myton, Utah. Scientists Now Read Corn Plant Secret Code Solved in Which Food Wants Are Very Plainly Written. (Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture.) The com plant writes an order for food when there is a shortage in the soil, and it writes in colors. G. N. Hoffer, pathologist of the United States Department of Agriculture, cooperating with the Purdue agricultural experiment station, has sohed the secret code in which the food wants' are writt n. His mettnxl cart be used in the field and requires but a few minutes. Test Late in Season. The test is made during the latter part of the growing season, after the ears are well developed. A stalk is cut and split open lemuliwise. A solution of sulphuric acid containing a few drops of what the cher..Nts call "diphenylamine is applied to the cut surface of the stalk. If the plant has had sufficient nitrogen the tissues wlii turn blue. If tiie plant has been starved for this food the tissues will color. be of a yellow-gree- n A lack of potassium in the soil may be detected by examining the tissues at the nodes or joints of the stalk. If the tissues turn red when a solution of potassium thiocyanate is applied, the soil needs potassium. The amount of red color indicates the relative amount available. Need of Phosphates. In soils found to be acid in reaction, undersized or stunted plants indicate the need of phosphates, providing climatic conditions were normal during the season. On such soils both lime and phosphates can be profitably used. Using these means of determining the needs of the corn plant, a field survey was jTAlected in several belt last fall. Acstates of results the to many fields in cording southern Illinois, Indiana and Ohio, do not carry adequate supplies of available potassium for corn. Fields differed markedly in their relative supplies of nutrients, and in many cases the effects of growing corn continuously was shown by a deficiency of either nitrates or potassium. The fact that the specific needs of the corn plant can be detected in this manner, says Mr. Hoffer, should make the method of great practical value. thefw Vice-Pres- ., What Is the favorite food for each Desection of the United States? The is going to partment of Agriculture deterto in July undertake a survey eaten food throughof mine the kinds out the United States, the quality and the quantities consumed in various sections. There are said to have been no adequate figures on food consumption available, and there is a demand refor such information for scientific K other groups. search and various is planned to determine also whether an adequately nutritive diet is within the Incomes of large groups of people. i Roosevelt, Utah Sec.-Treas- .T value of approximately $S90, were loaded on a truck and hauled to Denver. The cream arrived in The Calder creamery good shape. believes that tracking cream to Transportation, the present devel- - Denver is a feasible project for the opment whidh. may be catalogued as basin. Approximately 1500 cows fairly near, is the big subject inher- are being milked for the (aider ent in the minds cf the 25,000 peo- creamery and a big portion of the ple who comprise the population of cream from this number is going the Uintah Basin, said a recent arti- to Denver. cle in the Salt Lake Tribune. The The agricultural organizations, hasin people will not open and dis- with their finger on the basin, say cussion on the subject of transpor- they are not encouraging any tation, but once it is opened change in the farming pro-- ! will talk freely. gram until better transportation The basin surplus now is First, the consensus of opinion is comes. all that can be handled effi-t- o opposed to a branch, railroad line the basin at this time. Last fall ciently under existing transporta-whe- n Salt Lake and Denver interests ticn facilities. The production of were appealing to the interstate com- - alfalfa seed and the rise in daryng merce commisssion for permission is recognition that the basin must to build a through line through, uhe stay with, concentrated agricultural basin from Craig, Cclo.. to Provo. product. After a drop in livestock connecting the Moffat line with lines production during the economic from Utah to the coast, the basin ex- - slump in 1920, the basin now is compressed approval of that through jing back in beef cattle, and the It. ha3 not chan red bulk of the alfalfa line project. hay pr duced that opinion. As a matter of Let. here will be marketed as beef. according to several basin leaders, (Continued on page 6) this secluded empire would prefer better highways tc a branch line. OUR 3I0TT0 Branch Not Wanted. to stay Fixed them "Fix In ether words, the basin would and General Jeweler Johnson, rather have the money intended Repairman a to build branch line devoted to Duchesne. Utah. improving the present highways and Mail orders given prompt a providing Attention and straighter route to Salt Lake.! a It is the feeling here that branch Transportation Big Item All Dairy Cows Relish For Uintah Basin, Utahs Change of Their Feeds Immense Inland Empire "The dairy cow likes a varied diet," says R. H. Hulce, animal husbandman at the Wisconsin College of Agriculture. "Cows fed over a long period on such a concentrate mixture as corn meal and cottonseed meal will ultimately refuse their food entirely and will gradually Iosd In flesh and vigor until the ration Is changed. "Just as most people welcome summer with its supply of fresh food from the orchard and garden, so does the dairy cow welcome green pastures as a' change from the winter's dry fodder, continues Hulce. He emphasizes the importance of palatability of food. If feeds are not palatable, variety of the ration Is doubly necessary. "Using a combination of feeds in the ration insures the supply of most all the elements a cow needs for maintenance and production. Monotony of diet and a narrow ration react to make the dairy animal produce at the minimum, and In time cause losses In body weight," declares Hulce. In feeding for heavy production and advanced registry records, variety of the ration is an important factor in their success. In the same way, average production may be increased by catering to the appetite of the cow in furnishing all the different feeds practicable to feed for profitable returns, concludes line will only serve to postpone ultiHulce. mate construct): n of a through line, which is the only development that Chester H. Hartman, Prop Plant Breeders Making will give the basin the transportaBreeder of Purebred Cctswold Crops More Profitable tion facilities it needs for fullest Sheep and Barred Rock Chickens The improvement of farm crops expansion. MT. EMMONS, UTAH Tfuls- prior consideration of highand the discovery of better methods of crop production are essential to ways traces- to the good business coming to basin communities from progress In farming. travel ever the Victory hightourist were Wisconsin agronomists among from the satisfactory ser-noand on work to way the first crop Improvement The Basin Pharmacy vice and a long list of successful pure-bre- d being accorded by the varieties stands to their credit. The tru'eking companies operating into Wisconsin pedigreed barley, our first the basin. During the late summer sewas pure-brethe tourist travel and by fall, produced grain, early from basin is heavy and the the many superior plants lecting through thousands grown together for com- feeling is that better roads would make this rente even more popular parison in breeding plots: After several years of testing the A new freight franchise between different selections, the best were mul- Salt Lake and the basin enaables the tiplied and distributed to pedigreed importation cf shipments at a low seed growers, and through them to rate and has practically doubled the the farmers. The success of this shipping volume from Salt Lake. It work is shown by the fact that almost is estimated now that the basin all the barley now grown in our state spends approximately $5,000,000 in. Is of the pedigree strain, and our seed Salt Lake each year, and as trans-j growers each year send thousands of portation routes are improved this bushels to other states. E. D. Holden, business volume will be increased. Wisconsin. Truck Cream to Denver. Send ns your mail orin-'ab- t hard-surface- d, all-ye- ar CRESCENT FARM w d the other hand, there is a tendency to market certain Brood Sow Ration in Denver. For in- -, A good standard ration for brood commodities cream-groun- d sows Is 4 pound of middlings or stance, the Calder Brothers Vernal is marketing sweet eiT oats, pound of bran, and in cream Denver, a venture which head. pound of tankage per day per believed impossible, to one two many from previously them feed Besides this now shipments of four For hundred years corn each for of pounds Craig pounds of live weight, depending upon cream !iave been trucked to reach-may on Moffat amount loaded the sows. The and line, of the condition the e hours be decreased to one pound If the ing Denver in twenty-ninare too fat, or Increased to two ter leaving the basin and in a or slightly over if they are too ; dition suitable fcr table use or f:r( thin. It Is well to have the sows in making ice cream. This summer an in trucking the entire j experiment good flesh but not fat. - ' 350 miles to Denver was tried. Thir- PARTRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS. yfour can3 0f cream, with a market On Stadying Favorite Foods ARTHUR WISCOMBE Cedarview, Utah no-tic- ed j af-so- j con-poun- ders Prompt service and the best price always. The Basin Pharmacy ds A GOOD DRUG STORE Phone 54 ROOSEVELT, UTAH WWWWWWWWWWWWV! V |