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Show THE XJUTTAn BA5HT FAEUEB r Family Garden Needs Good Plan gaining favor, but as a fertility crop, there appears to be serious doubt In many cases. Perhaps the next five years will reveal how soy beans should be grown to make them a first-clafertility crop. Many Varieties of Tree Fruits Must Have Bees Bees may not have grown bigger and better but they have been given another task to perform In orchards oooooooooooooooooooooooooo and small fruit plantations, accordingIn to statements made by specialists agriculture at Michigan State college. Studies made during the past few oooooooooooooooooooooooooo years hare proved that many varieties A sharp plow means more work ac- ' of tree fruits will not produce a profitcomplished. able crop unless Insects have free access to the trees at blossoming time, Piles of trash about the yard are and. In many cases, there are not fire menaces and breeding places for enough Insects under natural conflies. ditions to Insure a full set of fruit. Tests made at the II. S. C. South HaIt is easier to kill a thousand weeds ven station show that a larger crop In the spring than a hundred in midof raspberries was secured from plants summer. to which insects had access than from plants over which cages were placed to exclude Insects. Copper carbonate controls smut. ss I I To Be Successful It Must Be Thought Out Before Work Begins. A garden should grow piece bj piece, said Carl Stanton, landscape .architect, speaking at Cornells farm and home week at Ithaca, N. Y., but the i garden which Is to be successful when j completed is the one which has the whole plan of it thought out before the work starts. Such a plan makes each Installment an Integral part of the whole; each part dovetails with the rest and there Is no chance of 'duplication or work to be done over. Uany small gardens are lovely at he said, but they are enlarged (first, ' until all semblance of design and balance is lost. Frequently they are not (orderly and are greatly overcrowded. Rules for Plannlng.- Mr. Stanton gave certain rules for : planning the small garden. No gar-de- n or flower bed should be placed in an open lawn area, unless it be tied by plantings or architecture to some permanent feature. Avoid competition between tle garden and any other 1 feature such as a vista or a view. (The size of the garden, which should ; be decided from the first, is governed by three Important principles: thej I first Is taste the preference of the owner; the second deals with ability and willingness of the owner to pay for the maintenance, both in time and money; and the third governing ele-ment is the chosen site. Mr. Stanton said that he preferred the rectangular or oval garden to the (square or circle. The garden Is only (as good as its background. he con-- I tinned. In the country the back- ground question is easily solved In j the city more often than not the satis- factory solution is unattainable, "Do not give an air of depression j the picture by surrounding yonr i to with too high fences and walls. garden I Whenever possible, use evergreen s (trees as a background. For bed use such material as will tend (to avoid hard lines. Do not cut yonr (garden np into a jig saw pattern of 5 Agricultural Notes Paper mulch is too expensive to use on crops having a low acre value. Get acquainted with yonr milking machine. It may be able to explain how the milk can be better. , close of the month. The old snow Is comparatively well packed and the water content is considered to be relatively high. There has been about a normal amount of drifting to the protected exposures. UTAH WOOL GEOWEES nXDOESE COLTON BILL Directors of the Utah Woolgrow-er- s Ample Water Assured association ' went on record as regFarmers of This Section favoring the Colton bill for themeetat a of lands, ulation For This Season! ing in Saltgrazing Lake City Saturday af- ternoon. Ton must have an abundance of The following report is made by manure and fertilizer. Dont be afraid the Resolutions also were adopted Ashley National Forest concernyou will make your land too rich. urging the orderly marketing of ing enow measurements taken on wool and offering to make cash admounthe south slcpe of the Uintah Wheat Smut Losses Show Big Increase tains at the end of March, with a vances through the Utah Wool to local comparison of conditions for a cor- keting association, responding period a year ago. Growers Are Urged to Treat Home Seed Before Planting. $ I J edg-jlng- (beds. Planting Important. The planting is as much of the design as is the layout. The planting should be counted upon to furnish 'masses, variations in light and shade, much of the repetition and continuity required, a$ well as the anticipated beauty of line and color. Particularly .avoid any flatness in the planting. Where flower beds are above the i average width resort to the use of shrubs to give added height and bulk. Do not grade the height of the flowers (In the beds evenly, with the lowest In 'the foreground. More fascinating will be the picture when the top line is (broken np by placing some slightly taller varieties in the front with the lower growing sorts. I ! -- ;Soy Bean as Fertility Crop Is Disappointing Another recent development in the legume phase of soil improvement is ;that the soy bean, which it was hoped would be the leguminous savior of poor land, has, in a number of experi- meats proved disappointing. It is variously charged with increasing erosion, being a heavy feeder of mineral elements at the expense of succeeding crops, adding only small amounts of organic matter through its root systems, and even robbing the 'soil of its nitrogen. As a hay and (seed crorv th soj bean rapidly As stinking smut of wheat has Increased rapidly in the United States since the war, causing greater losses than any other plant disease, wheat growers are being urged to treat their e seed with dust before planting as a preventive meascopper-carbonat- ure. An investigation of conditions in eastern Colorado showed Seven to ten per cent of the wheat crop ruined by smut the past year, according to E. A. Lungren of the Colorado Agricultural college. In some cases fields have shown as high as 30 to 50 per cent smut with consequent losses of ten to twelve dollars an acre. Smut losses can be prevented by treating the seed wheat before plante dust, aping with mixplied to the grain in an er, the college says. Tills treatment gives practically perfect results, not only killing the smut spores on the kernels before planting but protecting them from smut infection that may be in the sacks or drill. The commercially pure copper dust or i powder can be mixed with the seed j wheat at the rate of two to three ounces, or two to three heaping tablespoonfuls of powder to the bushel. The best method of applying dust is to use a barrel mixer or box fixed in the manner of a cement mixer. Since the copper carbonate is a dry treatment, the seed can be planted immediately after dusting, or held a long time. The effect of the treatment is permanent Moreover, seed germination is cot injured by the cop 12& : , - "... j CnAsS.KiN.m--J , - " r Workin in the Yard ,jf Theres nothin that pays you a finer reward Than work that you do in improvin the yard! The beauty that follows, Fm here to contend. Rewards you full measure for all that you spend. And oh, but its fun, in your blue denim shirt And an old pair of pants, to get down in the dirt And bury your hands in the bountiful soil I tell you I know of no pleasanter toil! copper-carbonat- air-tig- Thin-Shell- Eggs ed There are apparently three causes d for shell-les- s and eggs. thin-shelle- d and very eggs are often laid by hens that have met with a slight accident such as falling off the roosts, or that have become frightened. Such eggs are usually not full when laid and are caused by the egg slipping past the shell glands before the shell has been made. Clumsy, overfat hens are more likely to lay this type of egg. Shell-les- s But I am not thinkin of truck that you ht treatment . 1 Mar- grow In vegtable gardens, Td have you to know! Fm glad to let others plant lettuce and peas (And also the carrots and squash, if you please !) Fm thinkin of jonquils, the dahlia and phlox And gay little creepers that border the walks Fm thinking of roses, of pansies, and all The flowers that bloom in the summer-anfall! While some prefer fishin to idle the time. And some think that golf is a pleasure sublime. And some think a ball game the finest of fun. When all of their workaday labors are done, Fd rather be spendia my duty-fre- e hours While whistlin and hummin, in raisin the flowers ! thin-shelle- Pick a LUSTY BULL For Profit They are builders of Beef R. S. LUSTY Breeds z pfea SONS, led EarcTsrd Uth : d |