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Show Devoted to tnelVogress &.Dcvelopnent o? Agriculture Valley Seed Growers Why The Boys Leave The Farm Wen Peppard Cup To B. H. Harrison of the Mack district went the honor this year of winning the Peppard Seed silver cup offered for the best com-po- did you leave the farm, my lad? Why did you bolt and quit your dad? VThy did you beat it off to town And turn your poor old father down? Thinkers of platform, pulpit, press Are wallowing fin deep distress; They seek to know the hidden cause Why farmer boys desert their pas. Some day they long to get a taste Of faster life and social waste; Some say the silly little chumps Mistake the suit cards for the trumps. In wagering fresh and germless air Against the smoky thoroughfare. Weve all agreed the farms the place So free your mind and state your case. "Why ny peck of Grimm alfalfa seed to be displayed at the annual seed show at Cclorado Springs, news of his reached this city Last year the Pap-par- d cup was won by J. M. Newlan of Orchard Mesa district. This honor is a worthy one, as growers from over several western states 'exhibit at the Colorado show and the competition is very strong each year. That Mesa county should win this cup two years in succession spells well for this district as a seed producing section, and will further stimulate the growing of alfalfa in the valley. vie .y having this morning. It is particularly fortunate that this county should win again this year, as the Peppard company already operating extensively in the Uintah basin, is now considering entering this valley extensively in the contracting and growing of alfalfa seed. Grand Junction Pay it with pullets,, is the slogan of farm boys and girls of Tennessee who returned 1.910 standard bred pullets to the bankers who supplied them with iggs last spring on payment the Return a pullett memaJnd are, The girls boys plan.. bers of poultry clubs conducted by extension, workers cooperatively employed by the United States Department of Agriculture and the These State agricultural college. auction sold at be will by pullets the bankers to interest the farmers of the State in better poultry. Well, stranger since youve been so frank Ill roll aside the hazy bank. The misty cloud of theories. And show you where the trouble lies. I left my dad, his farm, his plow. Because my calf became his cow. I left my dad twas worry, of course. Because my colt became his horse. I left my dad to sow and reap Because ny lambs became his sheep. I dropped my hoe, stuck my fork Because my pig became his pork. The garden-truc- k that 1 made grow to 'Twas his sell, but mine to hoe. Its not the smoky atmosphere. Nor taste for life'' that brought me here. Please tell the platform, pulpit, press s No fear of toil or love to dress Is driving off the farmer lads. But just the methods of their dads! valuation of J. EDWARD TUFFT. 926 is PAY IT WITH PULLETS Total Utahs 1 crops in tfie Uinbab Basin. Cu-e-at U. A. C. Plans Short Course in Dairying The Utah Agricultural colleges short course itn dairying, designed to give dairymen, operators and employees of cheese factories and creameries an intensified instruction in this industry, opens January 10 for ten days, according to announcement by Professor Georg B. Caine, head of the college dairy department. This tenday (course replaces the regular dairy short course. Demonstrations and actual practice will characterize the work, but lectures will be given on. such topics- as the feeding and care of dairy cattle, the production of clean milk, bacteria in relation to the changes in milk, determining the fitness of milk for cheese making, the chemistry of milk, creamery and che'ese factory accounting, methods of pay- ing for milk, and the marketing of Professor says dairy products, Caine. An extensive teaching fores ha been arranged for the short course. II. R. Lochry and S. J. Pearce, spe- cialists in dairy manufacturing with the western dairy division of the department of agriculture, with headquarters in Salt Lake, will also assist In the work. Let There Be in America Let there be in America A beauty from the soil A truth from meadows and fields of grain. 7 In city populas and cramped. g, In town upstart and Man lives with man. And works and plays with manmade things. And creeds. by man-maMan at every turn city-tendin- de placed at $35,000,000 We Turn Faster by the department of ag- Now riculture statician. This Trying to hurry the job of septhe separator fast compares with the ex- arating. I turnedtested alnd the cream higher. So ceptionally high total of now we up speed. $43,370,000 for 1925, We hadkeepbeen getting a cream of 35, 36. per cent butterfat; $32,915,000 for 1924, test then 40, 41, 44 and 36. By turnan average for the four-ye- ing the separator faster the test to 45, 52, 52. The screw was period 1921 to went turned for thicker cream. 52, again 1924, of $32,250,000. 55, 56. 54. ar So if you are selling cream with Finds only man the intention of getting paid for And puny works of man. flild and grove and stream. butterfat, why not eliminate all the In On farmland, wasteland, prairie, milk we possibly can and sell the Man meets not man so much as real good-cream- ? God. The plain country fellow is one And learn to keep and reverence that manures hi3 ground well but ly Gods law. lets himself lie fallowed and Not' only sustenance. But peace and faith Come from the field. Subscribe today for THE UINTAH Let there come from America BASIN FARMER. It will keep you A beauty born of the soil informed on the Basin's farming A truth upsprung from meadows ' problems. H. W. Davi3. and fields. Whole-hearted- A good dairy herd ovner is never on the delinquent tax list -- - - a. ' : |