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Show THE UINTAH BASIN' FARMEB , y DUCHESNE COUNTY FARM BUREAU ARTHUR WISCOMBE THOMAS ROBERTS C F. WAHLQUIST Utah Vice-Pres- Pres., Uytoa, Cedarriew, Utah ., Sec.-Trea- s., Eooserelt, Utah javwwwwwwwwwwvvwvwwwwvwuwwvwvvwAwwwwuwvvwwwAwwwwwwwvyvwv method. The greatest etror was 4 Tunnel Completion Is Big The Event of Passing Year The long talked of and long dreamed of Moffat tunnel under the James Peak, 6.10 miles long, is completed. The rock work is done and there remains only some cement work, ballasting, general of ties and rails up, laying cleaning before trains pass under the Continental divide, providing easy and safe transportation between the Eastern and Western slopes of Co- lorado. It is the outstanding achievement of the year and also of the decade, and probably of the entire history of the intermountain country. It is probable that trains will be running under the divide before Jan. 10. To test out the blower system and the new track it is probable that only freights will pass under the divide for a couple of weeks before the passenger train is routed that way. During the month of January all the traffic! between Denver and Northwestern Colorado will go through the great bore that has been more than four years in building and has cost approximately $15,000,000. Many said it would be a failure. It is not a failure, .it is a success. It will cut out all grades more than 2 per cent, awoid the snow difficulties of the hill" and reduce the time between Denver and running ' Northwestern Colorado approximat-l- y 2 H hours. The actual cost of building the tunnel has been approximately $13,-- i 000,000, of interest during the construction $2,000,000. tunnel commission voluntarily took over the boarding house, commissary and other concessions, involving an expense of approximately $2,000,-.00- 0, on which a profit of approximately $500,000 was made, all of which has gone into tunnel construction. There have been no side issue. The entire effort has been to complete the tunnel at the last possible expense to the people of the district, who are obligated for its payment under the terms of the legislative measure. It has been a big job, taking much more time and money than Was first contemplated. Many difficulties have been met with and o ercome. All the credit claimed by the members of the commission is that they found certain condition;, they realized the necessity of carrying on, of completing the job, no matter what the cost. This they have done in the face of criticism and opposition, but have at all times had the support of the great body of tlfc people who are directly concerned. Here are some of the Moffat tun-fc- el round figures." Length 6.1 miles, the longest railroad tunnel in America. Type Railroad tunnel standard, feet. Water fcingle track, 16x24 tunnel 8x8 feet, 75 feet south of railroad tunnel. Grades; East Portal, fehOTfi 9,200 feet gea level. JVest Portal 9,085 t I feet above sea level. Apex elevation 9.240 feet; 2,760 feet below crest of Continental divide. Grade east por- tal to apex, 0.2 per cent. West Por tal to apex, 0.8 per cent. Tunnel Eliminates 23 miles of 4 per cent grade between 9,200 and 11,660 feet elevation, leaving 2 per cent maximum. 10,800 degrees of curvature. Snow hazard above feet elevation. Rock East half, gray granite. West half, slickened biotite gneiss and schist, in some places flowing" ground required steel and concrete to held it. Camps--Ea- st Portal average of 400 men; West portal average of 600 men for four years. Excavation 750,000 cubic yards or about 3,000,000 pounds of rock; 1,600 freight trains of 40 cars each. Dynamite 2,500,000 pounds. Drill Holes 700 miles. Drill Steel 800,000 pounds. Electric Power 28,000,000 9,-2-00 W. H. Timber 11,000,000 board feet, equivalent to over 2,000 miles of 1 xl2 inch plank. Steamboat Pilot. Test Dairy Herd Every Two Months Owners May Obtain Many Benefits of Association Work at Lower Cost (Prepared by the United States Department ol Agriculture.) Dairymen owning small herds 'may obtain many of the benefits of asso elation testing at a lower cost per cow than would be obtained by the regular dairy herd Improvement association method. This fact Is brought out in Circular entitled Testing Cows for Production .Every .Other Month, by Dr. J. CL McDowell, dairy husbandman of the United States De-partment of Agriculture, As the title suggests, the method Involves testing every other month, or six times a year, instead of every month or 12 times a year, as in the regular association. In other respects the two methods are alike. Figures Used in Study. The figures used In the study on which the circular is based- were those from a herd of 70 cows at the Minnesota agricultural experiment station, and included the milking records for the year. With these figures as a basis, the feed, production and Income records were calculated for six test days, and the errors were computed by comparison with the actual figures for the year. The average error due to testing one day in two months was 3.8 per cent as compared with an average error of 2.91 per cent In monthly tests. In 24 cases out of 70 the error was 5 per cent or more, as compared with 16 cases out of 70 la the monthly 1-- C - day-to-da- y per cent, as against the monthly basis. 8.3 per cent on Where Herds Are Small. The drcular concludes: It Is not expected that the method of testing every other month will take the place of the .regular dairy herd Improvement association method, but that It may find Its own place In those districts where the dairy herds are small The circular may be obtained by writing to the United States Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C Mounting Corn Shellers on Automobile Trucks er 50-fo- ot Creosote Is Practical Preservative for Wood Since many farmers do not have an Implement shed, and will continue-tget along without one, it may be welt to suggest other methods of protecting the machinery. On many implements the tongue, neckyoke and even-erare the only wooden parts. These parts may be taken off and stored in the .barn or in other sheltered places; of they may be protected by paint. Paint protects ;wood only by keeping moisture and insects out, so it is neces r, y that the wood kept thoroQShly covered with pa!nL Coa tap creosofp Is the most practical wood preservative. It must penetrate the pores of the wood to protect it. Ordinary paint cannot be used over creosote, however. s Agricultural Squibs f Concrete should be placed in the forms as soon as possible after it has been mixed. The combine is an expensive machine, and is one of the most neglected machines so far as bousing Is concerned. harvester-threshe- r e Bruised or tubers had better be fed to live stock at once as a means of reducing as much loss at home as possibly. off-grad- Acta as Advance Guard in' Spreading Disease Among the White Pines. t (Prepared by the United State Department of Agriculture.) ' The European black currant Is at public nuisance, because It act3 as an advance guard In spreading the white pine blister rust, a disease of foreign origin which Is destructive to all of our American white (or pines, says Samuel B. Detwiler, chief blister-rus- t specialist of the United States Department of Agriculture. Two Host Plants. The blister rust requires two distinctly different kinds of host plants; for completing its life cycle. The spores that infect the pines are produced on the leqves of currant or gooseberry bashes and transmitted t the pines through the air. In turn the currants and gooseberries become infected from the spores produced on the pines. While all species of cur-rant and gooseberry plants take the disease to some extent, the European black currant Is so susceptible that a. single spot on one leaf may completely spread the disease to the entire1 plant as well as to other near-b- y plants of the same species. Tims the scattered wind-blow-n spores which may travel hundreds of 'miles and noc establish the rust on other 'species of currants do infect the European black and set up new centers of infec tion. For this reason the European black currant has been called the nurse plant of blister rust and outlawed by the states In which white pines are important forest cropst White Pines Endangered. The white pines in the Unltel States that are endangered by blister rust have a cash timber value of approximately $530,000,000, while the lumber value of this timber is many times greater. This does not take into account the value of trees of these species used as ornamentals ancf the potentially great value of the young pines for the future timber crops. The money value of the blackcurrant plantings of the country Is negligible. For these reasons the United States Department of Agriculture and the states concerned have declared the European black currant a public nuisance and are engaged In to campaign systematically eliminate it from the country. five-leafe- owners are Custom on automobile shellers mounting their trucks. The sheller Is operated by a power take-of- f arrangement from the transmission of the truck. With this combination of equipment, the sheller owner increases his radius of operation by ten or fifteen miles, if he so desires. Traveling from Job to job at a rate of eight or ten miles per boar, the wait between shelling Jobs when a number of farmers wish to shell at the same time is greatly reduced, a great advantage when the price of corn takes a sudden Jump or seems In danger of declining. The outfit is easily set at the crib and requires much less space than a tractor or steam engine and a 40 or belt. The days of work of custom shellers can thus be increased materially each year, as they cun shell before and after harvest and again following silo filling. com-shell- Black Currant Nurse of Rust: d) Much at the wheat is mixed hard and soft, bald and often considerable rye. Pure varieties command higher prices at the elevator. The best time to paint is when the weather is neither too hot nor to6 chilly. The temperature should be between CO and 80 degrees for best result?. The ring of the ax apd the whine of the saw is heard in many a wood-lo- tThis Is the chance to thin the woodlot and at the same time to gst a good supply of finwood. |