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Show Devoted to tfeelVogress VOL. IV., NO. 43. &. Development g? EOOSEVELT, UTAH, Aricultur e in tfie Qre&t UinLahBasin FIFTY CENTS PEE YEAR DECEMBER, 1, 1927 Farmers Could Feed Much Stuff Wasted Fall Is Good Time To Various Reasons Given For Poison Ground Hogs contributor a the secret may paper From Farm to City Whateversacred Migration the rites suggests the idea that the farm lief problem as the humorous orders A to news re- may be solved by be purvariof pose and known ous they could make a better living on the of groundhog, the farm than in the city. Some orWorshippers similar name, the Biological moved back to the farm because of Survey of the United States Debetter living conditions in the partment of Agriculture would reccountry; the high cost of living ommend to the initials of these cooperate in in the cities drove others to the societies that they citizen undesirable this farm and still others were induced controlling in agricultural areas. The groundto take up farming for the satisfachog, or woodchuck, feeds on altion of an independent life. falfa, corn and other crops and to The bureaus survey covered some extent preys on poultry. In persons now in cities who had orchards it often burrows under moved from farms .scattered genfruit trees and like the pocket erally throughout the country and gopher will gnaw off the roots close had to the trunk, and thus kill the 1,167 persons on farms who moved cities stated tree. The groundhog will often root from recently their reasons for giving up city prune well matured trees and thu3 life. cause severe damage. In the alfalfa the the results of fields, being a clumsy animal, it Summarazing survey the bureau declares that wallows down a great deal of the more than half the migrants from plant growth in addition to what farms to cities still hold title to It eats. It is especially fond of corn their farms. These to cities had, on in the roasting-ea- r stage and later the average, between 1 and 2 of & few families of ground hogs their children with them in the along the border of a field will, 1 the during ' season, hog down an. city, town or village home, corn. average number in each family be- acre or st 3 more a children. fall weather lasts, than mild While little ing The conclusion Is drawn that in and through the period of Indian some cases one or more children summer, the groundhog is usually were left to operate the farm, while enjoying the sunshine and feeding the other members of the family destructively. This is the time for The bureau of agriculture econo- mics of the U. S. department of a has rather agriculture completed interesting study of the movement of population to and from farms, factors other than showing many economic pressure have been the cause of the precedented migration from farms to cities in recent years. Contrary to the' common conception of farm conditions, the survey disclosed that the opportunity to making a better living on the farm than in the city was the principal reason why the city was the principal reason why persons move from cities to farms. The survey also revealed that some farmers move to town because they can not make farming pay or are drawn to the city by the lure of a larger income; others move because of better school facilities for their children; others because of New Orchard Heater being physically unable to continue farming and a small number beNow In Production cause of financial ability to retire. Offering orchardists of Los AnMost of the persons moving from geles what is said to be complete the city to farms were found to be protection from frost, a neW type former farmers who had been of orchard heater has recently been by city life. They found moved to the city. perfected. The Jackson Iran Works FAEMEES SHOULD HOLD Insurance Man is now manufacturing under conCOUET FOE SCEUB SIEES tract, six of these machines for inSays Newspaper A new edition of an outline for itial installation, according to A. a scrub-bu- ll trial, preAdvertising Best W. Jackson, general manager of conducting the Bureau of Animal by pared the plant. That 95 per cent of direct mail Industry, United States Department The machine consists of a steel of isbeen has Agriculture, just propeller six feet in diameter driv- sued and copies are available to advertising fails in results, and that 50 per cent of mailed adveren at high speed by a Ford engine. extension workers, animal husbandis directed created does not hold its readers inThe draft thus men, and others interested in this tising through a galvanized iron flue or means' for hastening livestock im- terest for more than ten lines, was tube, about five feet square and provement. It is in mimeographed the contention of John D. Spencer twenty feet long. form, contains 21 pages and in- of the New York Life Insurance The entire mechanism, which will cludes forms for presenting the is weigh about 3000 pounds, case against inferior sires to the company. Mr. Spencer delivered the first of mounted on a turntable which is court. The procedure is an edutower about on a steel a series of six lectures at the Monsupported cational yet entertaining means of fifteen feet above the 'graund and determining local sentiment on the day meeting of the Salt Lake Adis so arranged that is swings in a question of livestock improvement. vertising club. He said that newscomplete circle every two minutes, It gives persons who really want papers were the big advertising Jackson explained. to defend the scrub sire the outIn the center of the air duct a line states, plenty of time and medium and were deserving of e heater is placed which burns chances to do so. This will stimu- every attention. fuel. Owing to the powerful late the presecuting attorney to as to advertising Suggestions draft and special features of de- his best efforts. methods to meet chain store comsign there is no smoke resulting were made by Mr. Spencer from the combustion which is so An Oklahoma man got a shave petition at the usual luncheon. the years objectionable with for the first time in fifty-on- e on his eighty-thir- d smudge pot, it was pointed out. birthday reIn response to the demand for a One machine protects a circular cently and his eleven children saw lf one-hafertilizer that does not have an area of about two and his face for the first time in half unpleasant odor, the United States acres, said the iron works execu- a century. department of agriculture has detive, giving two elements of prohours. air the veloped, of through research work, a eight the tection, agitation E. S. Cobb is the inventor of the new soil enricher that is not and the heating of it. It is automatic and when set will run for mafhine. chemists rather than by the economists of politicans. He tells how when he had a surplus of unsalable apples some years ago, he turned thousands of bushels into cider, other thousands into vinegar and could, he says, have gone further ito apple sauce and marmalade. He went further and fed the steers which he bought, on the pulps. He feels that this line can be followed with regard to other products and calls attention to the fact that oil has more than a thousand coal about a thousand byproducts, limestone four hundred and lead, iron, zinc with also a considerable number of side uses. In contrast, he said corn has only one hundred and thirty, cotton a hundred, but wheat only a dozen. His thought would seem to be worth considering. 2,-7- 45 . ed low-grad- eradication measures, for very shortly the groundhog goes into winter hibernation. A few handfuls of poisoned grain at the entrance of each main burrow or den will put many groundhogs permanently to sleep and prevent emergence the next season, with an enlarged family soon appearing. If the gas method of control is employed, however, it should be done only during the spring to prevent endangering valuable fur animals. On the Uintah mountain range occur the most extensive solid bodies of timber in Utah. The predominating tree is a lodgepole pine, although Douglas fir, Engelmann spruce, alpine fir and at the lower elevations bordering the forest, western yellow pine, are also present. Lodgepole pine covers twice the areas occupied by all the other evergreen trees |