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Show L 5, NO. 23. Keeping ROOSEVELT, UTAH, Scrub Stock Is Found Costly Re- at about 170 pounds. Assuming The largest aggregate price ever that the average production is 170 received for a Utah turkey pool has pounds, and that half the dairy brought growers a total of $142,-0at 42.5 cents a pound, for the cows are below average, we bump 1928 shipment of Thanksgiving up against the astounding fact that birds. The pool consisted of 360,-00- 0 re are feeding good hay and grain pounds, or thirteen carloads. and pasture to 12,000,000 low proMarkets in Chicago, Boston, Troy, N. Y.; New York City and Los An ducing dairy cows. It costs about 1600,000,000 to geles have brought the production an'd made Thanksgiving day defeed these cowu and about $600,-000,0more for labor and over- liveries. head expenses. We go to all this Albertus Wiliardson, trouble and expense and our only and C. C. Edmonds, manager tangible return is barns full of un- of the Utah Poultry Producers Coprofitable dairy cows. operative association have compiled If the association figures that show the 1928 output eliminates the scrubs and establish- of turkeys to be approximately well-fees well-bre- d, three times as large as the 1927 cows on every dairy farm, record pool, and brings nearly three it will have accomplished its chief times as much money into the purpose, Even .then, however, its state. Last year 120,000 pounds work will not all be done, because brought $55,000 into Utah. these higher standards must be Price Commanded This maintained. U. S. Department of Year Largest Received. Agriculture. The unit price of 42.5 cents, the Utah pool commanded,, was the THE TAX DIGEST largest received by any commercial growers in the west, the poultry Nephi, Utah, November 30. Wm. officials declared. The Idaho pool Bailey, of the National tax association, in an atticle in the December number of the Tax Digest, official publication of Calied 0, 00 vice-preside- cow-testi- ng d, high-produci- ng fornia taxpayers association, states that the public domain can be made to yield an income and that Sreater use of the grazing land is possible. Mr. Bailey says: The public range should be put under control. Grazers should be protected against themselves. They should not the range be permitted to ruin permanently by over-grazi- ng or by careless use of the range. There are those who advocate the turning of these lands to the respective states in which they are located. Others hold that they can only be handled' successfully by tae government. Imaginary state -- lines would inder, if not thwart the whole Large development programs . ob-Jec- must be outlined, reaching Period of yars. It is a well tv ovsr known let that there must be watering Paces established so as to better tribute the grazing at certain Masons of the year. This gigantic Pdertaking can best be handled y the government." PIETY CENTS PEE YEAR 1, 1928, Utah Turkeys Shipped This Year Set Up New High Record yearly butterfat production of all tie dairy cows in Largest Aggregate Prices Ever ceived Made ia State Pool. been States has estimattie United The average DECEMBER nt Growing Beets For Our Dairy Cattle Sugar beets are sometimes fed to brought 41.5 cents per pound and 3tock, but it would be better to Montanas sold for 40.5 cents per grow the mangel wtirzels or stock pound. beets, or what is known as sugar The Utah birds averaged eight-een pounds for males and 10.5 mangel cr half sugar beets, as they pounds for hens, which makes an- are quite often called. These are a other record for the states pool. hybrid of sugar beets and ordinary Scientific feeding methods are re- stock beets and are somewhat richsponsible for the enlarged size of er in feeding value. The stock beets the Utah birds, said Wiliardson or half-sug- ar beets grow partly out and Edmonds. of the ground, which makes them The Christmas pool that is being much easier to harvest than the made up gives indications of doubsugar beets, which grow all under ling the Thanksgiving figure. It ground. They also keep in storage is expected that the December ship-m- x little better. will total 750,000 pounds and Beets can be stored in a root bring $300,000 to the farmers of cellar, such as is used in storing the state. Aotatoes, or in pits or piles on the Next Years Plans Show ground covered sufficiently to pre-re- nt Raisers Orders Large their freezing. They are also Orders already have been given grown in cultivated rows, the for 20,000 baby turkeys for next ground being given deep and carent ful tillage. The usual practice is to drill the seed in solid, using around fifteen pounds to the acre and . then thin them down to about one beet to every twelve insome second grade sold as low as ches. They should be given careful 39 cents. A sudden crowding of the cultivation and the ground kept market, resulting from late ship- free of weeds. They must be irments by many growers, has kept rigated whenever they need water. down the price, according to Mr. G. C. W. year. TurVpT! retail cheaper in than Lake Salt they did last year. the price was generally Tuesday 45 cents per pound, and quoted at v-i- ji Wiliardson. STORMS Uintah Basin Farmers Should Take Gamble Out of Farming Industry than does wor There is no question, the Uintah game. The farmer the as stakes very He puts up Basin farmers are notorious gamb- this. and education the of his life wife, lers. They take desperate chances own future cf his children, and his on the weather. They put their all to the limit. His all goes in planting and tilling the crop. It strength into the pool. If he loses, he loses is thrown on the mercy of weaker for life ior himself conditions. With favorable weather, opportunity but if he and his whole family; the farmers win. A drought or frost to wins, he wins but a pittance,?, can turn his wheel of fortune existancs for himself and his loss. He may gu?s aure total or partial The odds are always best family. this crop or that will be the all in against him when he gambles then throw pay this year, and the ciop. the farming game. his energy into getting he wins; H was lucky Take the gamble out of farming If his guess dive:sified farming. Raise unlucky, he losses. on prices, li:st by The farmer gambles grains, poin farm alfalfa, corn, small and with the speculation and and fruits, vegetables tatoes, rketl our present and Get a produce try, not rely on cue long crop. same cows, system, he is, too fluently cf good head dairy few and sheep, ing to win on the turkeys pigs, chickens, and then we will gamble that the gambthe We hold in contempt Gamble will be taken out of wlfes ler who pawns his money for the Farming." and clothing to get Dairying The salvation of The IN SOME SECTIONS REDUCES 1927 WHEAT CROP Utahs wheat crop in 1327 amounted to 5,678,000 bushels. This was worth $5,792,000 to growers. Damage to the crop in a few of the important valleys reduced the otherwise high yield to 19 bushels per acre. AVERAGE YIELD OF ALL 1927 CROPE IS $35.00 PER ACRE Total value of all farm crops harvested in Utah in, 1927 amounted to' $39,000,000. The acreage harvested was estimated at 1,120,-00- 0, making an average yield of $35 per acre. Utahs hay crop in 1928 is estimated at $ 1 7, 206-GO- O, as compared with $15,425,000 in The 1928 crop is 1927. 1,608,-00- 0 tons, compared to 1,574,000 last year tjintah basin |