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Show f .. THE UINTAH BASIN FARMER I . FARMER B5SIN t. 1 B U. J. S ..tUfadtttSiH Established 1924 Published 1st and 15th of Each Month at Roosevelt, Utah- - matter at Entered as second-clas- s the post office at Roosevelt, Utah, tinder the act of Congress o I March li ?, 1879. Official organ of the TOOD SHORTAGE IS UNLIKELY i : i ; I 1928 United States Economist Finds Farmers Had Good Year In 1927, But Good Crops and Fair Prices Have Not Disposed of Agricultural Problem Written Specially for The Uintah, Basin Farmer by Robert Fuller Through Autocaster Service Uintah County Farm Bureau Office: Roosevelt Standard, Roos- WASHINGTON, January What evelt, Utah. Telephone 30. 50c relief will 1928 bring for AmeriSr.MCription Price, one year cas farmers? This is perhaps the Harrison H. Editor George most vital question the country Violet Harrison Business Manager faces as the new year gets under " ; . FARM RELIEF IS LIKELY IN YEAR OF way. Summing up for 1927, A. B. United States economist. Genung, of Department Agriculture, terms it the best year since 1920. But he points out that this does not mean all farmers have done well or that agriculture is back at the p. level of prosperity. But taking :he country as a whole, Mr. Genung says it is fair to record 1927 :is a year of moderate general improvement. All told, 1927 stands out as one of remarkably well balanced production, Mr. Genung concludes. There were neither acute shortage of any important crops, nor were there any undue surpluses such as bore down the market for cotton a year ago. The feed grains werfe abundant and hay a record crop, the great crops like Wheatland cotton yielded fairly well, yet not so overwhelmingly as to ruin their prices, while the livestock industries have come through in profitable fashion and with their position a strong one for the immediate Eggs Sold In Iowa at 18 Cents a Dozen Bring 60c in Brooklyn While helping her father pack eggs for the Eastern market some time ago, Miria.n Fairbanks, aged 14, of Monticello, Iowa, wrote her name and address on one of the eggs, along with a request that the buyer write her a letter telling what ' he paid for them. The tendency in recent years on the part of the farmers leaving Recently Mirian received a letter from Beatrice Ganis, 14, their farms and moving to cities, of 144 South Fourth Street, Brooklyn, saying that Beatrices has caused concern from various father had bought the eggs and paid 60 cents a dozen for them. viewpoints and especially as to what would became of a nation Mirians father sold them for 18 cents a dozen. that depends entirely upon the production from the farm lands to keep them alive. It is a well known fact that if of Idaho f vetoed by President Coolidge, are the farmers of the United States .to measure the bard working get should suddenly go on a strike and and believe they will through again stop their plows and tractors for be to able pass it over the presidensix months, that the country would tial if veto, necessary, this time. be destitute. But opponents of the McNary-Hauge- n The movement from the farm to bill are just as bitter the cities has caused many to preas ever. it against dict that the time was not far off Establishment of a Farm Board, made up of able men who underwhen there would be a tamine and stand the problems of agriculture, there would not be enough to eat. Dehas been proposed. This farm Board Dr. 0. E. Baker of the U. S. would function primarily to aid in partment of Agriculture furnishes as he asserts that future. some relief, minimizing price flucuations due to unpreventable surpluses, and to But good crops and fair prices there is small likelihood of a food dissense 1927 in no have deadjust production to mark shortage in the United States for during farm of the e mand. In addition, the boara problem. 'd the next seventy-fivyears. Just posed So long as we take one-thiof help the business organization of what will become of the next genfarm receipts, less other expenses, agriculture in every way possible. eration, he does not say. for of taxes, and so long as out From the interest being taken Rooking forward a century, when our population seems likely to have every dollar the consumer pays for about agricultural relief, but they in the problem of agricultural re lief, it seems likely that 1928 will become stationary at 200,000,000 farm products the farmer must pay differ on the method of solution. to McNary-Haug-e- n cents to them sixty-si- x of the see get .Supporters him, all Baker Doctor says, Congress doing something for persons. bill, passed last year only to be the farmer. the evidence available suggests that there will be a farm problem, Sen- agricultural production can keep When answering advertisements in pace with the increase of people this paper, please mention UINTAH without any greater changes in the BASIN FARMER. character of food supply than those which have occured during the past quarter century." Discussing the more immediate outlook. Doctor Baker declared that BARGAIN the substitution of mechanical for g 100 sheets paper and 100 en- - 8 animal power on farms must conH velopes with your name or if tinue for several years at least," the name of your farm and f g and that this continued mechanical address neatly printed. $2.00. fl cause will production agriculture H Best linen paper. Only a few H to increase as rapidly as populaH boxes left 1 tion during the next decade. Recent cost of production surMAIL YOUR ORDER TODAY B veys Indicate that somewhat highbe of crops would er nc 1 Roosevelt Standard if at even present prices. p fitabie uu 1 use of high-... more 1 widespread t '.MJAWUUV.WA1 efficient fa.r.i animals probably shows President Coolidge with members of tfte American If re u 'Photo even be profitable. v ul;! . n.-cent mo.e feed is con- delegation to the Sixth International Conference of American States which opens at Havana, Cuba, January 16. They called at the White cr.w; giving 10,000 ,iy Houseto dlacuss plans for participation in the conclave Left to TINGLEY & SONS pounds of ladh r. y. ar than by are: Judge Morgan O'Brien; Charles E. Hughes, former Secreright the of of B. State: State those giving 5,000 pounds, Frank CoolPresident Secretary Kellogg; tary idge; Henry P. Fletcher, United States Ambassador to Italy; former possibility of a large increase in BUYERS OF Senator Oscar Underwood; J. G. Scott; and Dr L. F Rowe, director production without agricultural of the Union or any increase in crop acreage becomes Seed, Wool, Honey, Pelts acre apparent." yields per and all lawfully First convict: How often have caught furs. Herd Spells Prosperity to its Owner you been in jail?" Dairy second convict: Just this once." BIYTON, UTAH Do You a Good Dairy Cow on Your Farm? First convict: Youre lucky. X&x P. O. i at. 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