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Show I in undersize', and this In Turn Is flected in the productive Honor System Pleases Farmer the animal. Normally developed animals should be bred at the following ages j More Loyal to Marketing Bodies Than Ironclad i8tIn8 operative marketing organizations of farmers throughout the country are rapidly dropping the Ironclad contracts by which their members have been bound in the past and are adopting an honor system which will allow farmers to withdraw from membership at will. This is the extensive movement revealed by Fred Wilmarth, marketing expert. In an article written for the Farm Journal. Mr. Wilmarth in a n-wide survey has found that 56 cooperative associations now favor the plan which will allow members to withdraw at will, as against 20 that present objections. -- so-call- will predicts that the stronger both in loyalty and membership in the future with the ob- ( a Wil-mart- now-operatin- h. g Best Breeding Age for Heifers Used in Dairy months months month months Postmaster Luke Clegg received advice Wednesday that the Post office Department had granted the request for a daily rural delivery-othe Roosevelt route No. 1. U. Inspector, E. L. Jackson spent last week checking some of (the smaller postoffices of the basin and making an investigation of the proposed extensions to the present route. Mr. Jacuson reported favorably upon the extensions, which include the lower Dry Gulch and along the North rim of the Highland bench, thereby benefitting some fifty families. The extension to the east will go as far as the Cliff Lee farm and will give service to an additional eleven families. Mr. Clegg accompanied Mr. Jack-so- n on his trip of inspeciion. The daily rural delivery service will start on Monday, August 16. one-hal- f, I Agricultural Squibs . It Is more important to plant when - the land is right than when the moon is right Sweet clover has no equal as a bined soil building, weed fighting, ture and hay crop. co-o- ligatory membership clause abolished than under the plan which bound the members to abide by the organizations rules for periods of from five to seven years. Compulsion Irritates Members. Such outstanding organizations as the California Fruit Growers and the Dairymens league are among those who feel that the plan is now so firmly established that compulsory membership of dissatisfied members will be more a .hindrance than an aid in the future, he points out. It must be admitted that the binding feature presented a powerful appeal In the organization period of many says Mr. The idea of making the other fellow stick went over with a bang. .Then, too, it gave the new organizations a certain air of permanency that was doubtless of value in the beginning. But as an instrument to actually bind members to deliver their product it hasn't worked according to specifications. I believe it will be borne out by most of those connected with the associations that the member who is delivering his product is doing it because he wants to and bemarcause he believes in keting, rather than because he thinks hell be sued if he doesnt deliver. American Trait This is peculiarly an American trait We do what we want to do. and it riles us to be told that we have to do anything. Contracts are necessary, to be sure. But the idea of forcing members to stick to their organization by threat of court action is of little effect Neither can it be argued longer that the ironclad feature is necessary to establish the permanency of the cooperatives, his Farm Journal article (Concludes. Those that are In successful operation are successful through plain business merit 21 Five definite conclusions have been drawn from work with sweet clover ai Ohio experiment station. They are : L Cutting sweet clover Tor hay late in September reduced the amount ol nitrogen available as green manure in April of the following year more than as an average of four years experiments at Columbus. 2. The loss in a particular field will depend on the amount of root growth made before the hay is cut. The better the growth made before cutting and the later the hay is cat, the less is the loss. 3. Swi t clover cut for hay the pre ceding fall may be two weeks later thm that not cut in making suffi-- t . growth to pasture in the lis. 4. c otling sweet clover for hay In September greatly increased its liability to winter-kiiiinby heaving Cutting about November 1 has not resulted in winter-killin- g at Columbus, but might possibly have an un favorable effect under other conditions. 5. r A sweet clover seedling should never be clipped in August unless it is clear that weeds would destroy the stand if it were not clipped. Then the mower should be set as high as possible. DAILY RURAL ROUTE IS ASSURED ON ROOSEVELT ROUTE NUMBER ONE - natio- He grow to to to to Ayrshire! 21 Guernseys 17 19 Jer8ey 17 These figures are based on a study of the production records of the cows in the herd of the University of Missouri, and further information on Ayrshire cattle contained in Maryland Station Bulletin 217. Contracts. Co Sweet Clover Cut First Year Reduces Nitrogen re- ability ol : g pas- - If killed at an early stage, weeds have not the opportunity to sap the ground of moisture and plant nutrients. first-yea- i The secret of weed control in the vegetable garden and with other cultivated crops is to destroy these pests while they are young. The careless manner in which barnyard manure is often handled suggests that its value as a fertilizer and the manner in which it deteriorates when exposed to leaching and fermentation are not fully appreciated. . Save Bean Losses From Storms During Harvest Serious losses from rains daring bean harvest may be avoided by the use of the McNaughton system of curing the beans, according to an announcement by the farm crops department at Michigan State college. Much of the alfalfa hay produced This system provides for the stackis of low quality due to a large perof the beans from eight windrows ing centage of the leaves being lost around posts placed at such intervals Most of the leaves may be saved if that there will be from 8 to 12 of the the hay Is raked into small windrows small stacks per acre. A pad of straw as soon as possible after the leaves is placed on the ground at the base of have wilted and the curing completed each post before the beans are piled in the windrows rather than in the about the post swath. Four men can stack from 12 to 2U acres of beans a day, and the beans Alfalfa Best Hay Crop can remain in these stacks until it is convenient to move them. Farmers Can Now Raise Alfalfa is the best hay crop farmers can grow, according to L. F. Graber of the University of Wisconsin. Clover, which once supplied protein in abundance, is now a general failure. The soil must be fed with lime, phosphate and manure to bring back clover and to raise a much better hay crop alfalfa. Because of its great yields and drought resistance, alfalfa is superior, where it can be successfully grown, to either red or alsike clover. Established fields of alfalfa will produce good yields when drought is so severe that clover and timothy fail. Alfalfa roots will penetrate the soil more than two or three times the depth of clover seeded under Identical conditions. This fact increases its drought resisting properties, and is especially valuable oh sandy soils where drought is a most important factor Notes of the Farm 'be The age at which the heifer should Good alfalfa fields should never come into milk depends somewhat on overpastured. the breed to which she belongs and the rapidity of development of the Indi Little weeds may be killed with very vlduaL In all herds there are some much less labor than required for heifers which mature more slowly than large ones. others, and it is well to postpone of the soil of the United breeding of backward animals two 01 suited to timber growthree months. better States Is Production of milk has an Important ing than to anything else, government Influence on growth and development, experts say. - and too early breeding is apt to result One-four- th UINTAH PROJECT PRODUCTION GIVES GOOD PROMISE i T. C. Guyn of Myton, resident engineer of the Uintaih irrigation, project, which is operated by the government, in making out the annual irepart at his office, has compiled some interesting facts relative to his wfcwk. The area under cultivation by the Indians is 15,307 acres, by wthite (men ,who are owners of land, 19,264 acres, and by those rwho lease Indian land', 25,-2acres, making a toital of 59,-8acres of cultivated land under the project. The value of crops produced by the Indians in 1927 was $254,225; by white men who own the land, $369,000 and by those who lease Indian lands, $453,764, No making a total of $1,056,764. doubt for 1928 the value of pro72 43 duction will equal and perhaps ceed that of 1927. . ex. The largest dried fruit industiy the United States is the raisin industry. In 5 Utopia Theatre Sunday and Monday AUGUST 5 AND 6 Pola Negri in "BARBED WIRE At last Pola comes into her own! All previous Negri dramas pale beside Barbed Wire The piercing story of a woman who loved a man so fiercely that she gave up father, home and country for him. Be sure and see it Admission 35c and 15c i |