Show in Agricultural news of the intermountain region 1 TIIE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE MONDAY MORNING’ JANUARY u Jl Government Statisticians Find Farm Conditions in Utah Well Above Average of U S as Whole Tabulation Hits ©nRuralDfe Department’s Figures Based on Brices Since 1912 ' UTAH AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE Federal statisticians studying farm real estate throughout the country find that the present conditions in Utah are well above the average for the nation The following tabulation from "The Farm Real Estate Situation published by the federal department of agriculture has for its basis prices in as 100 per cent The tabulation is in the index numbers of the farm prices and shows the Utah figures by years since 1912 the Idaho figures the average lor the eight mountain states and Americanism in Utah 1928-192- 1912-19- - and vT2 I Idaho Utah and southern Idaho came into existence as almost exclusively agricultural territory developed under Irrigation and demanding of its pioneers essentially the same general qualities of rugged physical and moral strength necessary in the reclaiming of a new land and the establishment in it of an Furthermore Irrigation Imposed upon the orderly society new settlers a measure of cooperation and intelligence above the average because of the necessary understanding between men using water from the same ditch and the organization necessary in the proper development and use of irrigation sys- terns Agriculture in the humid areas while It admits of high personal development on the part of the farm operator and Indeed has produced It in extraordinary degree in such states as Wisconsin and Iowa does not in the beginning make the exactions on the part of the operator that development un- der irrigation Institutions does The moral quality In the settlers which made possible their sustained objectives of homes schools and churcties In an orderly society instead of the shifting existence of trappers prospectors and adventurers is what Imparted to such areas the stability which they have had from the first Economic Pressure Is a Continuing Force It was largely after all devotion to old racial ideals and de- Commenting on its nationwide findings the circular- No 101 says "The 28 states showing a loss for the last year were largely the states of the south and mtddlewest although a state decline or two was shown in all geographic divisions save in the mountain All of the eight mountain states showed either no change or a slight gain the four Instances of an increase being found wholly within this group" Circular Sams Up General Situation Speaking of the situation in genera tlie circular sums up "A survey of conditions in the farm real estate market during 1928 and early 1929 furnishes somewhat more pleasant reading than in the years immediately preceding Although values generally continued in the downward trend characteristic of recent years the declines on the whole were comparatively slight and represented In a number of states the smallest annual loss recorded since the depression set in Fewer foreclosures or other forced transactions appear to have occurred Bankruptcies involving farmers declined Farm Incomes on the whole compared favorably with those realised hi the preceding year” As to farm bankruptcies measured in percentage of total bankruptcies In the state Utah farms make a lather favorable showing compared with other neighboring states or with the nation as a whole In the fiscal year ending in 1928 which is the latest year for which this data is available the department experts find that the 34 farm bankruptcies in Utah were 89 per cent of all the bankruptcies in the state In Idaho 101 farm bankruptcies were 358 per cent of all in the state In the eight mountain states 420 farm bankruptcies were 24 per cent of the total for the year and In the United States some 5679 were 106 of the nation's bankruptcies Utah Farm Bankruptcies Peak In 1924 The peak In number of farm bankruptcies in the past few years came in Utah In 1924 with 35 in Idaho in 1925 with 269 in the mountain (Continued on Pate Twelve not primarily economies which explains the settlement and is a velopment of these states although economic pressure sense a decontinuing force and Interpreted ofin its broadest Utah and Idaho termining force in the movement peoplesreasons Certainly however were not settled for mercenary the gold rush and the multiplying commercial opportunities on the Pacific would have drawn and did draw most of the pureUtah and to these coast regions ly mercenary-minde- d Idaho were settled in opposition to mercenary pressure Some writers have a theory that frontier areas drawthe make good under their home incompetent who have failed tosome of the Inferior followed conditions While undoubtedly great the trails to the newer lands the be£t thinking ascribesmigra-tiomotive to the people who have figured in the majorseaboard to America from Europe and from the Atlantic westward history bears the same Early European and Israclltish It seems after a few thousand years of record testimony that the maintenance of their Ideals Is Isthe result at least of not consciously the great movements of people even if It cause and that It Is the cause of migration Is the 4 more defensible of the possible explanations Idaho have grown up Industrially and socially Utah ‘and can be This is not say-in- g together as near twins as two statesof social or economic docthat they agree upon all points trine - '1 ' I Life Savers In eccnt years we have heard much the need of vitamins in both human and animal nutrition What are vltamUis how are they produced and what function do they perform in the nutrition of animals? Vitamins are substances that aid In the supTheir composition Is port of life unknown and they are known only by the function they perform In nutrit- HONEY In the you 10-l- b e&n SAVE ion ror want of a better name letters in the alphabet are used to designate the five known vitamins namely A B C D and E Vitamin A Is also called the fat soluble or growth vitamin Strictly speaking this vitamin is not only required for the growth of young but is also essential to the maintenance of older or mature animals The grains are generally low In vitamin A For many years some swine growers observed that growing YOCELER’S SEEDS BEST BY TEST’ Vogeler Seed Co 30 1 West First South Salt Lake City Ramshavv’s Production Bred Chicks Are Mountain Bred AND ACCLIMATED— ORDER NOW! WhD Lhomi r RUndurd brd and are xlo brd or heavy production of Urge whiteEgg Tor meat and eggs try our Barred Book Rhode Island Reda or Buff Of plngtons Remember you're dollar ahead when they’re Ramahaw bred Our 1 in the west "Quality "Sol-Ho- Chicks— Experienced hervice" JIT 5TATE STREET USitVettXirT ALONG HIGHWAYS Potatoes By CHARLES M GENAl'X Extension Forester U S A C Highway plantings from an ornamental aspect alone have much to commend them Whether it be a city street or a country lane or a Raved through tiaiflc highway tin thoroughfares that is adorned with the healthy green of growing trees enjoys greater iiopuiarlty and more wholehearted public support than one which Is lined with broken down fences and rubbish In her zeal for the Improvement of the traveled surfaces Utah like the majority of other sister states has neglected this important phase of highway modernization Indeed some of the most unsightly roadsides have been made unattractive by the dumping of refuse Incidental to Die surfacing and by the excavations or borrow pits from which material was taken for tilling In new grades Deasing Roadsides Needed In Utah The added comfort and safety that have resulted from Utah's extensive highway betterment projects are evident But as Thomas H MacDonald chief of the U S bureau of public roads recently said: ‘‘People seeking pleasure and recreation by travel are the greatest users of the highways and to them a pleasing roadside means as much as a smooth surface and easy grades" Some stales have already adopted w ell ordered plans for roadside plantd ing California has 685 miles of Massachusetts highways Pennsylvania and Delaware are all working on broad policies of highway bi auttficatlon including the planting of trees and shrubs' as well as the removal of unsightly objects along their roads Nearly every slate Is doing something in the way of removing glaring advertising signs and mowing brush and weeds even If they a so not yet doing any planting The government's Induisement of highway beautification Is evidenced In the 1928 amendment to the federal aid act which specifically authorizes the use of federal aid funds to oflset stale expenditures for planting suitable trees and shrubs along federal aid highways This is a generous offer but no assurance can be given that it will be extended Indefi- TFLFrnoSE MLRRAY 474 t SHIPMENTS TO LOS ANGELES COMPARED BY YEARS and Idaho more peas and 101 carloads of early potatoes September Utah cabbage began to move and she sent also peaches pears and two carloads of potatoes Idaho that month began to pour her apples southward eas prunes and sent also peaches and potatoes For tlie remainder of the year Utah was shipping apples cabbage on'ons CPlery squash and potatoes white Idaho confined herself almost entirely to the major crops of apples and pot e toes sending also a carload of cabbage and two of onions In November How the two upland states drew revenue from Los Angeles by months ts thus indicated the year being 1929 “ Utah & Mar h April May Idaho 10 aso 1J 824 437 7 2!S2 June July August pppmnber Ottolwr Nmcmwr December Totals 3 3 75 7 125 52 144 117 37 312 380 3405 078 418 2o2 Gardener Should Give’ Place to As to seasons of shipments a study of the monthly report for the last year shows that from January to May Inclusive the shipments from Idaho and Utah reaching the Los Angeles By MAI D (TIEGYYII)DEN' With almost as much romance behind them as the musk roses the moss roses fbid their admirers today also Seldom seen in Utah gardens It Is true they should nevertheless find a place hi tlie border if the garden's owner Is setting out to help make his town nationally known as a rose city No rosebud is more lovely than one of these nestling in Its mossy green When the moss roses are covering fully opened they become common roses and no more but when In bud tbey are unique There Is one variety which is known as the crested moss This is finest of all for its mossed greenery is superb The flowers here are rose pink Another pink paler but larger in blossom is Salet The white moss rose Is the favorite with many rosarians and Blanche Moreau is probably the best in this color If you wish a red moss rose Henry Martin Is a strong grower and has beautiful blooms Very little pruning la required with these old roses When the canes are very old rut them out but apart from this Old Man Winter will do all the pruning that la necessary These roses have but the one period of bloom In June They may find a happy home In the shrubbery border since there they will not be expected to be on exhibition all summer as we are beginning to expect our roses to be Growing about five feet tall they may be planted In front of taller shrubs but they need con- If his disposition Is bsd dairying had better be left alone Let the farmer then govern Ills selection of a major cash crop according to his likes and dislikes the project of the com the market possibilities and the soil He should work with his county agent and discuss with him the choice of his major cash crop After tliis decision Is made the next problem Is to farm the soil so that its gets richer year by year instead of poorrr The first article on stant sun this topic will be discussed next mu-ni- ty The SHEEP RAISER Grosser Hopeful Upward Price Trend in 1929 Opens New Era What Is ahead In wool? With th" world wool market on a downhill grade the last year and 1929 lamb prices rather discouraging this question is very much in the front in western wool grower circles Sixty per cent of the western sheepman s revenue may come from lamb but it is the wool price that finally determines whether there will be a profit from the year's operations The annual convention of the National Wool Growers’ association and the gatherings of the several state associations of wool men Including that of last week of the Utah association gave much prominence to the outlook in wool An increased consumption of wool for 1929 over that of the previous year was virtually the sole note of optimism In the wool business during the last year it the plans of the federal farm board are regarded as apart from consideration of selling price A speaker at the National Wool Growers’ convention in November noted seven developments in the last decade having a strong bearing on e situation in wool These the were listed as follows Increasing world wool supply decreasing per a relatively high capita consumption wool price level both as compared with other textile fibers and with the general commodity price level: a considerably larger average annual increase in supply than a decline In per capita consumption and an enormous growth in demand on the part of new consuming countries notably Japan and Russia partly offsetting the slackening demand in Europe and the United States Growers Hopeful New Era at Hand Wool growers are hopeful that tlie upward trend In wool consumption apparent in 1929 marks the openmg of an era of steadily Increasing wool demand The wool consumption In this country has been going down steadily since 1923 That year It was 812442000 pounds United States department of commerce figures Production in 1923 was 268196000 pounds leaving a deficiency of 644- 246000 pounds to be met through Importations from other countries By 1928 consumption was down to 672- 942000 pounds with production at 292362000 considerably pounds above the domestic output of 1923 to be the supplied by margin leaving other countries at 380580000 pounds Although per capita consumption of wool was declining during this period the country's population and wool production were Increasing Prior to 1920 except for one year 1913 the per capita demand for wool In this country always exceeded 6 pounds Since 1923 however It has always been below 6 pounds the year 1926 'registering a low record ol 46 pounds and production Consumption long-tim- Pretty Moss Rose nitely Utah should avail herself at once of the assistance proffered in tills leg- fruit and vegetable market are conas apislation Trees grow slowly and every fined to such stored products onions and especially tomatoes year that we delay planting is a year ples 73 In sent June Idaho carloads of polost from the standpoint of our enand Utah and Idaho each two joyment of the trees There Is a wide- tatoes carloads of green peas July Utah spread recognition of the need of cherries moved and Idaho peas conhighway plantings in Utah tinued August Utah sent nothing best with the monthly check Idea Ten cows producing 7500 pounds of 4 per cent milk per year will yield enough butterfat at 40 cents per pound yearly average to give the $1200 needed Twenty acres of ground will furnish the feed necessary Four hundred any sixty hens at 125 eggs per hen per year and at an average of 25 cents per dozen wUl also furnish the $1200 Ten acres of ground will produce the feed for these hens It may be that a farmer would prefer to combined the poultry and dairy Industry if so five coas 230 hens and 15 acres of ground should yield the required cash With the family table aud the cash requirement phase discussed the major cash crop problem comes before us This question does not call for as great a detailed discussion as did the first two commandments The market possibilities for a particular crop the adaptability of the soli the disposition of the farmer the project of the community etc are' all factors A man may be a sugar beet farmer the balance of his farm after the first two commandments are taken care of may be planted to sugar beets Perhaps the county is a dairy county If ' January February tree-line- (Continued "SIX-SPEE- D ©n Fe Twelve Special” with NEW Combination Body A Fast and Powerful Truck Built Especially for Rural Work y so dairying might constitute the major cropprofitably One may Increase his poultry flock considerably over his 460 hens If it is so desired then the poultry raising may be the major crop Again the farmer may live in an area where small fruits are produced or where orcharding is the order This should govern his choice If the farmer neglects details he should not go Into poultry business Very rich In calories furnish the extra fuel value so necessary to the laying her especially in cold weather INSIST ON GOLDEN BRAND IMPROVED MEAT SCRAPS In All Your Poultry Mashes FOR SALE BY LEADING ri ’3 mu V With th J$' - 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Fuel Economy In every feature end detail the new Six Speed Special measure up to high standards It has heavy frame long flexible springs and sturdy construction Roomy throughout cab adds to driving comfort It is easy steering at all speeds anywhere it goes -- two-spe- ed Six-Spe- fully-enclos- INTERNATIONAL TRUCKS Combination Body The new combination body of tha Special is aura to pleas you In a few minutes can change tbs truck from you a sound tight grain tank to a serviceable money-savisiock rack Commercial bodies also available The new International Special truck ia the truck to take your full loads — light or — heavy into town or out on ail roads and ia all weather Wo have tba new Special on display— coma in and sea it I ng GIVE THEM THE EIGHT START IN LIFE TB ' UTAH GOLDEN BRAND IMPROVED MEAT SCRAPS rs TEST WILL TELL safe side says the bureau Industry of the United States department of agriculture and have your cattle tested for tuberculosis In most cases the outward appearance ol the animal bears no relation to the degree of Infection The disease develops so slow ly that it may be moulds or even longer before any symptoms appear of Los Angeles as a market for surplus production of fruits and vegetables in Utah and Idaho is indicated by figures released market news serby the federal-stat- e vice at Los Angeles and complied in the office of Lite corresponding bureau in Utah of which Leonard S Fenn is in charge Los Angeles for example took 2666 cars of Idaho potatoes In 1929 the hugest number in the last five years Examination of the unload reports shows that by far the greater part of these shipments were of the 1928 polato crop being shipped south from January to May 1929 Utah with au active home market for fruits and vegetables and a wider production variety of commercial sends more commodities by the carload to Los Angeles than does Idaho but has nothing like the total carloads of shipments each year The following tabulation for the past five years was compiled lrom reports in the office of Mr Fenn The figures originated from the office of Walter Kingsbury at Los Angeles who was formerly In the position now occupied by Mr Fenn: Importance basic IS TO FURNISH THE BODY WITH HEAT AND ENERGY This Is True of Poultry s Well as Humans -- Be on the of animal Vegetables Other Produce Find Ever Demand Lasts Year Round Sale Increasing Whenever Goods Are Available Fruits ONE OF THE FUNCTIONS OF FOOD mins further t’' Silt Lake OUt Itah pigs did not seen to thrive so well on white corn as they did' upon yellow corn Alter years off controversy scientists proved that yellow1 corn contains an abundance of the growth factor or vitamin A The practical feeders had been right The scientists proved it Fortunately green plants especially alfalfa green or dried contains an abundance of this growth producing vitamin as does also whole milk Thus we can see an additional reason why alfalfa and whole milk make young animals thrive They are with our young animals Vitamin B or the water soluble vitamin as it is called was discovered in the orient In the study of beri-beThis nutritional disease appears among peoples that live largely on polished rice A lack of vitamin B affects the nervous system consequently it is also called the antlneurltlc vitamins When unpolished rice which Includes germ and hull is eaten the disease does not occur Vitamin B is contained abundantly In grains milk eggs yeast and leafy plants and Is of little economic Importance ill the feeding of farm animals Vitamin C or the antiscorbutic vitamin prevents scurvv in man but does not seem to be of importance in the feeding of farm animals They seem to require tt in such small amounts that ordinary rations h sufficient of it vitamin C is low In the cereals but Is abundant in fre‘h fruits and meat vegetables and milk Cooking or drying destroys vit amine C Nest week we shall consider vita- RAMSHAW HATCHERIES SOUTH BRIGHAM VOl'NO WORLD WOOL Figures Show Los Angeles Offers TREES Basic Market for Utali and Idaho MART WORRIES fui-liis- distributors for Brooders— coal oil or electric Klondike “Reel Type’ chick feeders R it T chirk feed The largest and beet equipped Hatchery Intrrmountatn MARTIN one-four- th for the Tribune’ Monday morning discussion of livestock problems intrrmounUIn region Qnerios end observations should be aent writer to the direct aboirt L Due to the fact that the discussion of the topic “The Four Commandments of Farm” is covering such a long period it becomes necessary to summarize what has gone before The farmer who makes a success of his work will adjust as nearly as possible to the task of feeding the family table to the growing of a minor cash crop to take care of the monthly current expenses to the growing a major cash crop and to the farming of the soil so that it will increase In fertility year by year The preceding articles have explained the first and second comThe farmer needs milk mandments butter eggs meat fruit vegetables and flour Two cows will furnish the milk and butter needs and three sheep two hogs and one yearling steer will provide for the meat Blx acres of ground will and furnish the hay pasture and grain needs of the animals and also the land for the production of the fruit vegetables and flour The farmer requires for Interest on debts taxes clothing coal automobiles doctor bills etc about 11200 ready casli per year He needs part of the money each month Dairying as a source of butterfat and poultry for egg production seem to fityln f GENUINE UINTAH BASIN ‘ y THOMAS ONOMIST Utah State Agricultural College FLOUR POTATOES ' POULTRY TEED cent Fertility By DEAN KENNETH C IKELFR VOGELER’S r to 100 rrsoiL-- Breed Feed and Read Th sixty-seve- From the results of these surveys It is evident that a real problem Is ronfrontlng the alfalfa grower Bacterial wilt appears to be the most serious of tnese diseases as twenty-eigh- t of the twenty-fiv- e fields surveyed showed the presence of this disease The percentage of plants affected in nineteen fields 1 ranged from to 70 per cent Two fields which were severely affected showed 60 to 70 per cent of the plants This soon either dead or diseased results In a thin Stand of alfalfa and the coming In of a lot of grass which materially reduces the quality ol the hay It appears that crop rotation is the only practical means of control and alfalfa should not be grown more than four years Where fields are known to be infested with the disease it is recommended that crops other than alfalfa be grown for at least two years normal Indeed they have disagreed often They resemble for Instance Kansas and MisInevitably 'will souri or Iowa and Wisconsin between which there have been to be funsharp differences which appeared after a time not time Durdamental however Important they appeared at the our frenzy sometimes Intering the world war for Instance while other neighbor states preted Wisconsin as' disloyal were loyal it may turn out that Wisconsin during the war subscribed to Ideals which were more truly American than some of the more "patriotic” states fatal During the civil war there were what appeared to bedevelAfterwards It differences between border states oped that there were no fundamental differences Th really Important thing about Utah and Idaho is that they are as Is true of many of the western and middle westernand Nordic overwhelmingstates particularly Anglo-Saxo- n Race Standards and emotions go deeper than anything ly else human except only the primitive biological Instincts Admire as we must the fine qualities in the Latin and other races it is agreed that American Institutions are the result of and Nordic struggle — a flux largely centuries of Anglo-Saxo- n of English German Scandinavian Scotch Irish and Welsh Ideals There Is no human record which equals the great history of these people In Its relationship to human rights and to the establishment of personal and social standards (This statement will be continued next Monday BUY AT M4RTINEAI' By Salt Lake County Agricultural Agent The growing of alfalfa has placed an important part In Utah's agncul ture for many years and it would be difficult for our farmers to operate without tills Important crop The growing of alfalfa in Utah had Its beginning in Salt Lake valley and approximately 3000(1 acres are de voted to aifaifa in the county Alfalfa like every other crop has its diseases and insect pests and the farmer recognizes the Im Itorlance of crop rotation and other practical methods of reducing losses The alfalfa weevil which about twenty-fiv- e years ago threatened the profitable growing of alfalfa proved to be an important factor in stimulating better rotation practices Many fields planted to this crop were plowed up for tho first time in fifteen to thirty years During recent years alfalfa diseases have become prevalent in a large percentage of the fields of Salt Lake county and as a result the grower more than ever before will be called upon to practice better rotation meth ods If he expects to grow a tonnage of hay which will be profitable Alfalfa disease surveys have been made during the past two or three years by Dr B L Richards plant pathologist of the Utali Stale college experiment station which indicates that a large percentage of the Helds are infested with bacterial wilt stem nematode crown wart witches broom and root and crown rotv Examination of from n to twenty-eigfields Indicated that Infestation ranged from 34 to 90 per cent The degree of infestation in each field ranged from 18 Will Disagreed as ISormal Communities as communities TO PLANT TO CURB DISEASE V L FEED PAX quality Starting Fred It rontalns the essential nutrient! for proper crow i h and life Buy your Pax hurting and Scratch Feeds from your A nearest dealer THFRE S INTER-OCEA- N A 1 Bo 1074 International Harvester Company 435 WEST FOURTH SOUTH FAX DF LFft IN VOIR TOY ELEVATORS Mannfictti re r F O 9 STATE NEGLECTS PROBLEM FACES ht ns Have ALFALFA 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