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Show Devoted to "fcfeelVogress VOL. IV., NO. 29 Development o Agriculture in t(ie Qreet Umtab Basin EOOSEVELT, UTAH, APRIL 1 and 15, 1927 Seme Call it Blight Seme Call it Rust and Others Leaf Spot PIETY CENTS PER YEAR ' ( The Uintah Basin Farmer And Its li j Bill Of Fare T j How We Can Improve Our Dairy Herds i (By EUGENE L. MORRILL) j J. (By F. K. SMITH) Attention has been called in the difficulties incident to parturation Allalfa Leaf Spot (pseudopeziza The bill of fare of the Uintah : articles to the condition of are greatly increased by such cros- Basin previous I T' .'oginous) is perhaps the most Farmer, is wholesome in all no in herds this beses. of and never The should sire dairy locality ciL-zio- n its parts. alfalfa disease known. I doubt the a has farmer been often of breed the breed than larger IxL'cve nearly every farmer in the How many valuable tips the can identify this disease, advised to get more and better the dam. farmer, horticulturalist. stock, sheep It must be borne in mind that call it blight, some rust and cows. We are aware or the fact and men, house that we need Improvement in this the chances for good calves from poultry and beekeeping others leaf spot. other enterprising wives, many This disease spreads from spores line but the question is still in our such crosses are no greater than people may glean from its pages? which live in circular spots on the minds of just how to go about it. those for poor ones. Any characterSome readers look upon its imleaves of the plant. These spores The business men of the Basin re- istic from either parent may appear portant information as mere book carried from plant to plant by alize that greater prosperity will in the offspring and as an indi- knowledge, theory, not facts. Thi3 , the wind or by rain drops which follow better dairy herds, and are vidual has a great number of an- is not the case; but the experience willing to foster such a move. The cestors we may expiect a variety of of others often, bought at a heavy ' Ejlash from one portion of the next thing is to determine just characteristics and should not be cost, or gained by experimental llant to another. what may be done along this line discouraged if every calf is not stations and agricultural colleges, When a plant becomes infested and then what we expect it to be. As is the where method, not money have been go ahead and do it. mlth this disease its vitality is Most no are case in farmers all animals not all the considered, as it had been imposcondition rreatly reduced and it can not to discard their present stock and good with looking calves may be ex- sible for private individuals to do. These withstand drought so welL beit with better producers pected to prove good but in time These facts have been handed down furnish openings replace broken, areas two cause of conditions. the First by keeping only the best we will to us (cut and dried) by our farm, , ' here evaporation is greatly in- cost of an entire new herd is The have a herd of good cows. beyond creased. This disease also has a th journals. be cows detected can second farmer and by verage good only Our local farm paper deals more tendency to make the plant brittle goo ws must have good barns the use of milk tests and records. with the particular reand causes it to snap off more and as we have very few barns After a treed has once been directly yet of our locality. It not This of course indicates that would be suitable for easily. and not other, should be quirements it chosen, high us what, when, where instructs that a plant at blossoming time producing cows. used tc build up the herd for in- only these Knowing to how and prepare soil, to plant, would have a greater tendency to there is only one course left stead of tending towards pure bre things and harvest, how cultivate map off or strip the bloom. to follow and after all the best .animals we are really producing irrigate, to eradicate pests; but when, where Thi3 disease does perhaps promote course for the average farmer. First mongrols. A mongrol is an animal and how to dispose of our produce stripping. we must decide whether we wish In whose ancestory there are a to the best advantage. It deals Almost invariably, where' strip-In- g to breeds. As the with diseases of animal and different or number of cream or whole milk produce occurs we find an abundance plant in other words we must choose the ancestory becomes more complex life and is as necessary about the This Is not con- breed that will best suit our needs. the possibilities of producing good t this disease. clusive proof, however, that this There is no better advice that animals becomes more remote. In farm as a doctor book is in the home. disease is responsible for all our can he this line than other words pure bred stock are along given How often could not a valuable seed failures, for this disease is to choose the breed that we like more desirable because the chances cow been saved if the owner had present even on fields that have best. However, as we are a cream of reversion are reduced to a minan article on bloat, or a flock read f ' t good seed, in fact it is present producing section and have a fair- imum and the longer a strain of of turkeys had he taken time .to Li n'arly every field, it is so gent-ly good market for hogs which will cattle is kept pure the less chance, study an item on symptoms and utilize the 6kim milk the Holstein we have of producing inferior an- cure of roup, ere the entire flock T have made some observations in breed will possibly meet our needs imals. was infected? . r ard to thi3 disease, that I will best. By keeping the breedng in a The careless or amateur farmer . .sfly summarize: The best cows we have should be given direction for a long time calls this Bad Luck. The fields that have this dis-- f. selected a3 a foundation for the new the ofspring become more and more Our farm journals are excellent and that do set seed, are fields herd and a good sire of the breed pure bred. To illustrate the first j correspondent agricultural schools, tl .fare not attacked until the selected should be secured. By a cross results in a half breed, the for its readers foundation a laying breed r nts are quite a ways along in good sire we mean one which has second in a three-quartto erect structures of which upon d :!opment. been proven. An animal may, and and the eighth generation will be success that will defy the quoted d two hundred The fields that are attacked very often does, rank high in the two hundred fifty-fiv- e " i the so fifty-sixtthe end of Bad Luck. at unare pure, very young show ring and yet prove very plants reThe important thing is to start ;onIy strip. satisfactory a a sire of high pro- twenty four years the animals The fields that are not at-- ducing cow, so if possible a proven sulting from such a process will be now to improve our herds and at until the plants are well sire should be secured. Good bulls nearly pure bred animals. same time improve our finan: are The time element will undoubted- he the fields that have ean often be purchased at a very cial condition. If it is possible to 1 - well cultivated early. reasonable cost as dairymen do not ly be a bit discouraging to some fields that are attacked keep a bull longer than one gene- but it must be borne in mind that buy new stock we may at least all the time we have been building improve the stock we .have. Why fre fields that have had little ration. mind In must be One fact cultivation. up our herd we have been making not start now to build up ouH kept not - I argues unquestionably that at this point; if the stock chosen as good money besides producing country by improving the productive but animals very smaller are the of grade must only a ition foundation high not be over looked. factors of it. (Next Article Will breeds a sire of the larger breeds valuable animals so that the operabe Continued on page five) the Bull Association Practice.) should not be chosen because of the tion is a very paying one. 1. er , hs 1. ; liis Paper Has 2200 Subscribers Three-fourth- s of Which are in the Basin ' - - ; : |