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Show 1 4 ,1 r j ) 5 r r Devoted. to t fceR-ogres-s ' VOL. IL HO. 25, i t ADevstopsent q? Agriculture in (ie Qre&t Uinta.hBasm. ROOSEVELT, TTTATT, FEBRUARY PIETY CENTS PER YEAR 1, 1927. I A ; r : i - I ! V -- - The Daisy Cow To The Rescue yet the farmer who is operating up- year in and year out and will on a limited capital must nfeet his always be a reliable defence for In. ancient times the Prophet If you to fall back on when other expenses as they come along. Nehemtah. in recounting; the doings seed eonnot be depended upon to crops- fail. of his people,, uaid this phrase, neet the demands of the farmer he Stop raising seed? Never, as "Our God has turned the eurse in- must do one of the two things. He to a blessing. While this phrase must raise other crops or he must long as it is as profitable a busirefers to the doings of a people in tuit farming all together. As ag- ness as it is now, but prepare youi seasons of failure by inages past, tfr very same thing may riculture is the basic industry in self for on your farm a few rebe said of us by those who recount our locality It is self apparent that stalling our doings later. some thing must be done to keep it liable nachine3 which will convert of seed production your The past year has been very un- In a good healthy condition. use. Ask your Into for money your favorable to Duchesne county's big As the writer view3 the situacrop and consequently people who tion. there is a fornf of immediate seed buyer or your banker for have depended upon alfalfa seed to relief within the reach of every their opinion as to the probable meet their current expences, now fanner and, that relief is necessary. success or failure of a combination find themselves in rather stringent Is a fact conceded by alL Farming seed and dairy farming and they financial conditions. While we hope or the persuit of agriculture is not will undoubtedly tell you that if the financial part of the situation a poor business by any means, but properly handled; thia combination fa only a transitory matter, the fact Is often considered so because the will prove successful. If this great area of production remains that one of" our major in- wrong methods are followed there dustries will be hampered by this are a number of farmers in our will awake to its possibilities, if year's results. Farmers who have midst whom we 'envy because they the farmer will realize that he raised large acreages of seed in the seem to have money and if the must have more than one thing to past will undoubtedly decrease their source of their money is traced depend upon, it may be truly said next year's seed considerably and back, it will in many cases end at of us as was said of the people of this In turn will decrea the total tha'mpst faithful friend man has old, our failure, our curse if you please, will be turned into a blesproduction of seed in Duchesne ever known, the dairy cow. No county. This, statistics show, has place in the state are the sing. been the condition in other local- prospects of dairying more promities and in other agricultural ising than right here in the Uin- Eighth Grade Organ- and while a few profit by tah Basin. Our climate and soil ize A g. Pig -- Club conttnut g their work and acreage Is ideal for producing feed for our consistently the industry as a whole dairy animals. We can grow alfalfa as good and as cheaply as it The Eighth grade of the D. C. H. suffers. be Bchool can In the grown any place recently organized a Pig What is true of the alfalfa seed club United well and under the direction of Walter cows, States, good crop in Duchesne county, is also EL same will cared the In agriculture instructor for, produce Atwood, true of the sugar beet crop in other In school. as or the In order to here Cache would in state. Localities in the The beet high they must own loin the I3 this counties. to Utah It person club, possible crop haa fallen far below nonrjal at one least cream more and milk pig. Young pigs will this year and the beet and beet produce be oldhere the in than bought early in the spring and only farmer finds himself in about economically th same condition as he does the er dairy sections because our land the best type of house available all alfalfa seed fanner." The sugar values are not as high, which of will be built. Membership is limbeet acreage, due to poor crops in course lowers our cost of producing ited to Eighth grade students who are taking agriculture. The officers the past, ha3 continually fallen off feed. Mr. are all After until this year there Farmer, your prob- elected are Jack Mohlman, presionly three s; factories operating in Utah and if lem is not so much a problem of dent; Wrennetta Hartle, seDanfel aind Geneve a as of one the condition continues, of production it is problem Gagon, secretary Utah'3 big industries will fail curing a market for your produce. Pack, Reporter. The purpose of Tour old cow brings that needed the club i3 to stimulate this phase miserably. Let us consider how. a few fac- factor to your door for the dairy af animal industry and to- enable tories which are operating in de- cow, properly cared for, will pay each member to pay their own entermining the futnre of our seed you the top price for the feed you trance fees to high school next crop. As the point has been point- produce, give you a job, add fertil-itit- y year. to your soil and besides all ed but, poor crops discourage rathUtah Dairy organizing with will pay you interest on your er than stimulate the cultivation ot this, a and investment dairymen members. Has a give you profit large acreages. This condition. If besides. creamery at Ogden and will estabcontinued over a few years will lish others in Fillmore, Provo and at fail Dubut times, Any crop may greatly decrease the income of Lake districts. same cow Salt will old the produce chesne county from seed raising. Tour (By WALTER IL ATWOOD) l , - t by-produ- ets A' -- per-sui- ts n ( i vice-pre- Speakers Picked For Poultry Meet Prominent men in the creamery and poultry industrie3 from all partjj of the United States will speak at the fourth annual convention of the Pacific States Butter, Egg, Cheese and Poultry association to be held at the Newhouse hotel January 31, February 1 and 2, it is announced by J. A. Nelson, chairman of the convention publicity committee. Included among the speakers oh the program for the convention are Roy C. Potts, specialist in charge of the division of dairy and poultry products, U. S. department of agriculture, Washington, D. C.; Dr. J. J. Frey, chief of dairy division, state departnent of agriculture, Sacramento, Calif.; A. ft. Smith president of the American Dairy Food and Drug officials, Cheyenne, Wyo.; D. W. Thomas, secretary of the Colorado Creamery Butter Manufacturers association, Washington, D. C.r J. A. Hall, Seattle; E. J. Cashin, Portland; state dairy and poultry officials from various other Pacific slope states, and Judge Flannery, Washington, D. C., representing the federal trade 1 k i Test of Cream t The sweetness or sourness of cream has nothing to do with its test. However, if you let a small sample stand exposed to the air for several days before testing, it will test more because some of the water has evaporated. Another Letter of Appreciation From A Club Member I it f - 2,-0- 00 t . .. Tridell, Utah, January 18, 1927, Uintah Basin Farmer, Roosevelt, Utah. Dear Sirs: I received the one dollar chack awarded me for club work, from you. Except my thanks for the : I t I i sam. Very Truly Yours, LOYAL R. MERKLEY. home, the spot of earth supremely blest, dearer, sveetcr than all the rest I t I |