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Show Devoted, VOL. n. to tnelVogress & Development g? Agriculture in t(te Qyeat. UinbabBasin NO. 21. FIFTY CENTS PER YEAR. ROOSEVELT, UTAH, NOVEMBER 15, 1926. Water Before Cows Helps Milk Yield The Farm Income Rises and Falls Farmer Gains Four Per cent, Bnt Loses on Account of Liv- ing Costs. NEW YORK, Nov. 7. (By the associated Press.) The average farmers income In the United States improved by about 4 per cent during the crop year of 1925-192said an analysis of the agricultural industry by the national industrial conference board. It pointg out, however, that this improvement has been cancled increase by the in the farmers cost of living during the same period. The analysis shows that the average return for the labor and management by all farm operators amounted to ?679 per farnj operator for the year. Including food, shelter and fuel supplied by the farm. Ala lowing to farm owner-operatin5 return of per cent on their vestment, ftie remaining income from the farm representing labor and management averaged only r, the anper farm alysis shows. The average earnings of hired farm help are given as $575, not including board, 6, or 4-- 40 owner-operato- REGULAR FEEDING MORE IMPORTANT THAN REGULAR MILKING Dairy specialists of the Department of Agriculture have been trying to find out if regular milking Is as important as dairymen have long thought it. They found that with average to good cows milking at irregular hours had little 'effect on production. Irregular feeding, however, lessened production by about 5 per cent. It was also found that the old notion that cows give nore milk if milked always by the same person was not backed up by experimental results. The difference was so small as to be hardly notice- Result of Experiments Conducted at Beltsville. (Prepared by the United State of Agriculture.) Experiments conducted at the federal dairy farm at Beltsville, McL, on the drinking habits of dairy cows indicate that a greater quantity of water will be utilized when available at all times than when offered but nee a day. Cows watered but once a day not only drank less but also produced less milk than when watered at will from watering cups. Cows watered twice a day drank as much as. when watered at will, but did not produce so much milk. The cows used in the tests were average prodbeers, and the maximum difference found in production between watering once a day and at will, was only about 5 per cent. The higher the production, however, the greater the benefit to be derived from frequent watering. cows fed silage, Some to drink refused and hay, grain more than once a day in cold weather. With cows of similar production and receiving the same kind of feed, water consumption was 80 per cent greater in hot summer than in cold winter weather. The demand for water was greatest after eating hay. In cold weather cows prefer water that has been warmed, and will drink more of It, though experiments at several sta-- : tlons show that the amount of production is influenced but little by warming the drinking water. Less water is required when large quantities of such feeds as beets or mansels are fed. low-produci- is to cut it in half ing lengthwise and bake it with bacon in, strips over the top. p si()RT TURKEY CROP FALLS Stocks of turkeys in storage are less than half as large as at this time a year ago and 40 per cent Rebelow the five-yeaverage. serves of frozen turkeys, therefore, will be less of a market factor this season than last. Holdings of chickens and fowls are five million pounds larger than a year ago and ar ten million pounds larger than the five-yeaverage, however, offsetto somip degree the dcline in ting turkeys. ar BUTTER KERNELS In making butter the proper time to stop churning is as soon as the butter granules are the size of wheat or corn. When the churning is continued until the butter forms in lumps it is impossible to wash the buttermilk out. Too much buttermilk in the butter injures the keeping qualities. Sliced ham, baked in milk with sliced potatoes on top, is an excellent dinner dish. a v J, ? r ' t x I 4 3 4 ft ) i 2 h A T Bee Hive State Produces 40 Cent of Nations Consump- Per tion, Report. The normal seed requirment of alfalfa for the entire United States is approximately 50,000,000 to pounds annually, of which Utah produces normally about 40 per cent, writes Dr. George Stewart, agronomist at the Utah experiment station, in a bulletin on growing of From 80 to 90 per alfalfa seed. cent of all the alfalfa seed produced in the United States is grown in eleven areas. Three areas of intense production are in Utah, two are in Idaho and one in Arizona. A seventh zone lies partly in Kansas and partly in Nebraska about midway between, their eastern and western boundaries. About a dozen counties are included, whereas the spots in Utah and Idaho and Arizona lie principally within one or two counties. Spots somewhat similar to the Kansas-Nebrasarea occur in. California, Montana, New Mexico and South Dakota. Most seed grown in Canada is produced in two small near Alberta and in spots Brooks, Peel county in the west peninsula of Ontario. Since production in the leading seed growing states varies rather widely, writes the Utah authority, there are years of plenty and intervening years of scarcity. In the latter there is usually some importation, chiefly from Argentina and some from Turkestan , and Italy. All this imported seed is extremely unreliable, winter-killin- g badly in the corn belt and farther south. Dr. Stewart considers briefly various phases of the seed growing business. The headings include soil, polination, care of the fields with special reference to antiweed work, harvesting, marketing, Grimn alfalfa for seed cooperative growing and distributing associations. 55,-000,0- 00 4 v IV 0. leant- - Jf "'. .. NEW RECORD MADE IN MILK CONSUMPTION Milk consumption in country made a new record in 1925 pounds of milk and cream being used. It sounds like we must have sat up nights to s 1 I P Vt i f Taking High Place ka 0 problems. Utah Alfalfa Is If Iambs are to be born strong and vigorous, a moderate amount of exercise is necessary for the ewes during the winter. This can be obtained by scattering their roughage over a field and allowing yiem to work back and forth over it while eating, or by feeding sonje of the roughage some distance away from their shelter. If winter pastures are used, no other arrangement for exercise is necessary. 1!.' 'egg-pla- nt Subscribe today for THE UINTAH BASIN FARMER. It will keep you informed on the Basins farming BETTER Build up Uintah Basins Payroll With Dairy Herds able. One of the easiest ways of prepar- Department MORE EXERCISE LAMBS (WS'i drink milk but only averages not quite a pint and a quarter per capita daily. |