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Show PAGE FIVE peppar ERV Associated Beehive Seed Growers of the Uintah Basin. PEPPARDS NO. i NO. 2 NO. 3 NO. 4 Extra No. I , December 1. 1926. open market - - $15.50 - - 14.00 5 SWEET CLOVER - 11.75 8.75 per cent over No. I Basis Clean $9.00 Thanksgiving day is past for another year. Soon will come Christmas and then shortly after, the beginning of the Hew Year 1927. It seems a little unfortunate, to some of ns that no doubt, fall water assessments and taxes comh due at the Thanksgiving season. Coming close together as they do they may dampen the Thanksgiving spirit considerably. On the other hand what more appropriate season could he found for the payment of our public dues? Our Water assessments go to operate, maintain, and improve the irrigation systems that make our fertile farms possible on land that was desert only a few years ago. Our farms would soon he desert again too. if it were not for the streams of water that flow down the irrigation canals and ditches and spread over our fields giving life to our crops. to Some part of these crops we eat ourselves, others we feed course of eat Those we go our livestock and stffl others we selL converted livestock is eaten The by lives. own part to sustain our into energy for working the farm' or into meat. milk. wool, eggs and so on. which we can eat or sell. from our crops and From the sale of animal products derived the cash to pay from marketed crops themselves we farmers get ourselves Sugar for the tab- -. cannot produce dothS; As to to r. book arf os abort the coimtry i.h school automobiles aid gasoline to children, and a long list of other Dege education for the the crops we produce. things are all paid for bj and the crops The irrigation water make, orr crops possible nake cur living possimc to us than trr. assessments sud nicer to Otherwise very it? il to hire to go to the water, .mt - ;Mbe of us would fw c, be here. and we have cur irrigation systems We can be thankful that that our water is not more expensive. Then as to taxes: t??W?hw How ' ss STJ&i pS thlt d But where does it go? nnd 'SS cmoneotnlS comes out of our tax Most folks have faTlltl , ;T. n education. important that the School buildings cost , the S" CASfttofosi - ,f If vou lived hv yourse money and it change. Consequently, we must have certain rules of living and dealing with our neighbors- and occasionally we need protection from them or they need protection from ns or the whole country or State needs some general improvement for the good of most of us hence the machinery of Government. The Legislature and the Governor must make new rules or repeal out of date oues from time to time. There must be courts to interpret the rules or laws in specific cases and peace officers to enforce them or some of U3 would get imposed on. This machinery. too. costs money for its operation. This money comes out of onr taxes, too. When we think of all the things we need, that are done for ns by the Government of cur county, state and nation, it seems a little surprising sometimes that our taxes are not larger. Naturally. we would rather have them smaller. We want these public affairs handled as economically as possible so that onr taxes will be no larger than absolutely necessary. Just the same most of ns are pretty well satisfied with our government and the way it spends the money we have to pay as taxes or we would either go to another country or change our government. As a matter of fact we are mighty thankful to be citizens of the United States and residents of the State of Utah and the Uintah Basin, arent we? We will grumble some about taxes but we pay our part rather cheerfully just the same, dont we ? tgSM come, out of onr tax- else there wav off from everybody oi sheriffs, laws or courts or We were too busy last issue to think very much about THANKSGIVING. Besides it was too far off. Now the day is just past and most of ns have a lot to be thankful for besides onr interests in onr irrigation companies and onr government. The Uintah. Basin alfalfa seed crop has turned out a little larger than most of ns expected. The weather was excellent, except for a little wind, all through harvest and threshing. Practically everybody got through threshing several weeks ago. In suite of the large alfalfa seed crop estimated by the Government in districts outside of Utah and a big carry over from the enormous crop in 1925, prices in the Basin have been higher than last year. In fact, although this has been a bad season for many Uintah Basin Seed Growers, it has not been so bad bnt that it might have been a lot worse and we can be thankful for that. In some wavs this short seed crop will no doubt be as helpful as it is harmful for the Basin in the long run. First, had Utah produced the volume of seed that she produced last vear there is no telling where prices would have gone or how much seed would have been arried over again or how long it would have been before Alfalfa Seed growing would have become profitable again. Now it begins to look as if there was a chance, IF PRTOFS DO NOT GO TOO HIGH, that the 1925 and 1926 crops 0T both be fairly well sold out this year so that we may go into 1927 rro season with only a moderate corryover against the cron expect to grow. Second, the shortage in this seasons crop has convinced a lot of that, although alfalfa seed is usually a successful and trofi table crop for them, other sources of income are mighty good things to have. Dairy cows seem to be the most popular choice and they are a good choice for two or three mighty good reasons; . (1) The cream check comes every week and if there are enough1, good cows it pays the current expenses of living and keeps the farmer out of debt. (2) Growing feed for eows enables a farmer to make an income from land that is not very profitable otherwise for instance. the patch of mixed clover and alfalfa or the new seeding, or a small patch of corn or beets, and (3) taking care of the cows and growing the feed for them mrkes profitable use of the firmers time between the seasons when he is working in the seed cron. Then there will most likely be an Increasing amount of first tnnfa- - alf-!- fa Vy from wear to year. The skim milk will support a bunch of shotes and so on. fo-nnr- But after aT? we are m the seed business. If you have not et sold your crop we would like to buy it. Come in and lets talk it over. t J. G. Peppar Roosevelt Vernal |