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Show kiU have ash. in g it ycl. 01 from ROOSEVELT. UTAH, OCTOBER 1, 1927 - ILrrlriL figures for the late onion ensp tlroughout the United States, not teiu iing Utah, show that therm to a general decrease of 13f Cat over 'the production of VZ1Z, according to estimates given Morrday by Frank Andrews, agricultural statistician for the United States bureau of agricultural eeon-eS- lost your hail it e you maj large Moreover . 39. Onion Crop Yield Gains In Nation ill nrnoi shells aid ve a nr., iro. give your Gardens and Other Food FIFTY CENTS PEE YEAR Fairs Are Praised By Educator (By C. 0. STOTT, Sanpete County Agent leading feature of former reser- n more than half the precincts, For many generations farmers ablois vation life have exhibited at' community and the almost total crops are extra good in every sence of good gardens. In this new- cality. High sections, like Mt. county fairs the products of their er section of the basin one is im- Home, produce wonderful cabbage farms and homes. This has become-world-wid- e practice, and these-fairpressed by the little attention giv- and potatoes. can and should be made an. en to production of food. Few proEvery fanner who has dairy educational factor in the communduce their own potatoes, or enough These figures are lower than the of this necessity, ' and year after cows, and that means nearly all ity. As time goes on, the practice estimates made a month ago, he re- year we run short and import, even aow, or who has pigs, should pro- of holding community fairs is more to one acre of and more taking hold on the peoports, conditions at that time tend- now trucking potatoes into the bas- duce from one-ha- lf we should be exporting mangles. This beet crop for cow ple, and from every standpoint one ing to show an even greater in- in, when crease. Total production - of the them to the coal camps and to and pig feed is a mighty good one, who .is interested in the educational fourtocs producing states outside of Wyoming, two excellent markets. about as safe and sure as anything field should encourage the holding of fairs. It will not be Utah. was 17,295,000 during the Too many do too well with their that may be planted, yields very far community in the until we will see future 'last year and 15,546,W0 for the small sheep herds, their dairy cows, large returns and yet very few seed or perhaps two or more such farms produce any such crop. There practically every community develyear previous. cash crops, and let the other fel- is some reason for .such bad prac- oping its major agricultural activlow do the gardening. tices. Apparently the only reason ity and feeling proud of that devel'Alfalfa Meal But it is bad business to buy our Is a habit. Few farmers ever had opment, and this community pride cabbage, carrots, potatoes, celery the habit of producing foods for will show itself in a real, live fair. Cited as As the farmer is taught the best and such very vital foods. Our lo- storage that fill cellars and pits, of crops and livestock and to cal not is types market cellars and pits To Move let filling large large enough be inviting to professional garden- with cabbage, potatoes, beets, car- the best varieties and breeds and in how to prepare and select these Colorado hay growers aTe far ers and the rank and file of our rots, etc., is good husbandry, are farmers with little fact is it concerned necessary for agricutural crops and livestock to show to best ahead of those in Utah in the mat--i leuch matters. It is a matter progress. small advantage at the fair, as he follows ter of marketing their surplus al- of professionalism. nbw. Hence for food for men and food his entries to the judging arena his Every line falfa hay in the form of alfalfa days demands a specialist to make for cows and pigs better gardens eye is more critically prepared to meal, retarding to H. J. Webb, money with proper assurance, and and gardening is quite important. 3ee the good in his neighbors enspecialists are mighty We have gone about the limit with- try. These types and strains and Bupcrvtoor inspector of hay, grain gardener scarce in the basin. But every farm out this essential practice of pro- varieties are more firmly fixed in and fc ms standards in this district should produce a small excess of ducing foods Instead of buying the mind of the man who exhibits United State8 bureau of ag carrots, beets, potatoes, corn, cab- them or for doing without them. Our than they are in the mind of men ricu!C r'l economics. Mr. Webb has bage etc., because all not. needed at ground will yield mighty heavy who does not exhibit. The county fair will more and Jurt is is mod from an extended home may be sold, as a rule, and crops of beets and parrots, but it more be built up as a natural declared when Colorado and wont means market care the for in prothrrr.:?i the work, pay trip preparing that tha Lay growers in that state ducing any excess it may be fed to land, and constant attention dur- 'growth from the community fairs, Z $TQ great possibilities in pigs and cows at a good profit. ing the growing season bs well as and thus the farmer who exhibits f 3 Err ting of their surplus al Therefore, it is evident that when In planting. Good seed, then good at the county fair will have a wid3 form mentioned. In we have an average shortage of preperation of the soil, and next er range of comparison, as he will alfalfa of Utah many thousand dollars per year in :omes Intelligent marketing planting. Two come in contact with some of his such us behooves saw standard writer if it rears the wca.ll a farmer, one Tellow fanners. He will swap ideas crops ago :atly improved to save v who in Mr. Webb farmed the all his thls cash, keep had. life,' plant- and gain knowledge in many ways basin, says, round, Lay t and farmers do y-this ing his garden about May 1st. He that will help him when he goes Ih may surely it it is done, extra without effort. Wyom-tanplanted every seed with a planter back to his farm. It is a common rough Colorado, The did great damage prodition of good garden and never changed the depth for fault of farmers that they stay too crops, the Inspector crops, including berries, currants, any seed, that is, all were planted closely to their own plowed furc j cutting of the crop and the like,, is not hard work but the same depth. Each package told row and fail to take the time to ' hen the rains struck is good diversity, excellent for the the depth, for right planting, and see what their neighbors are dor' t: and it has been raked children, promotes better care of the planter gave a list of seeds on ing. The county fair adds this ini the Bide of the field the entire farm, and means money the device for regulating depth, but centive and gives the farmer an a ni to rot, as It was Im- saved. Is it not unusual to find he did not have time to care for opportunity to gain this much-needcontact. re it, and the ground farmers buying these common foods? such details) and of course he did r" ' --railroad not have much of a garden. RaisOut In the from far . here, main, then, the county away . next cleared for the t: markets, one would expect to find ing sheep and cattle Is quite a dif- fair should be, and is, an educaevery farm quite 'independent so ferent business compared with gar- tional institution and as time goes on r ry that pork was good far as such crops is concerned., We dening. One habit does not seem its will emphasize more and more to value as an agricultural show our the in other. is time for It with may crop go produce any grown t. i ' made by a Chinese and sense less of the carnival-recreatio- n common St. food state, in section. George excepting production the accident before Excellent features. man are beaBt. and We and for for such peaches, melons, a, according to as accident-liscover- y proofs- of good climatic conditions, buying far too much of these foods were on hand this year as usual, we should produce and we are doPeople who have escaped railby a Roman buttoo of for road a volume. little in volume Fears ing without very large crossings, bad liquor and fresh pork could be do our root likewise farms will rocking row boats so far thi3 year well, crops which peaches, in specoked and thus made care ial locations. But common garden produce with fair hate the toadstool season to go and use many months af-a- a melons will thrive yet. crops, through including butchered. A. a s S.' seed green y shrink if if there is ow in . the lump bright a seed that LcraJly stays is season oi pc and an. If y by cutting solid p and it. Of it is the Aid more course lost ii best si- - . 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