Show r fff k k s 4 TIIE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE MONDAY MORNING DECEMBER 12 7 vk m J' ‘ k ' i’ ' rv l ’art- - rt ? - rf JLi Hf g3 I’ 1931 Agricultural News of the Intermountain Region U S A READER Family Lives Well URGES PARTIAL WELL CLOSING Mon Uina I Underground Supply Faces Exhaustion Through - Needless Waste ' 1 " I! the ground water reservoirs of the state are to be conserved flowing wells should not be left open during the winter season when the water is not needed accord-lto William ePterson director of the Utah State Agricultural college LOGAN— a extension service There are hundreds of wells In the artesian basin of the state and be cause these wells have always re sponded little thought has been given to conserving the underground water which is the source furnish lng the flow to the wells The summer of 1931 had an ex tremely low water supply Practically every valley in the state showed a lower water table than what has been considered normal The flowing wells gave less water than in other years and many of the wells along the upper margin of the basin failed to flow at least for part of the season Huge Amount Stored whether there Is ft general realization of the actual measurement of the amount of Water flowing from wells in the state Tor Instance three years ago an attempted measurement was made of every flowing well In Cache valley The sum total of these flows amounted to 64 second feet This amount Is equal to 108 acre feet per day This would amount to more than 300 acre feet per month and If the wells were allowed to flow the entire year It would amount to more than acre feet This Is equivalent to the reservoir storage of a fair-sizWater stored in the ground is just like that stored In any reservoir No more water can be taken out than can seasonally be put back into the ground In most of the reservoir basins the artesian pressure and the artesian flow is growing less It is a common saying among those who own artesian wells that the flow was stronger and with more water when the well was first opened than at present In each artesian basin many wells can be found with a record that they once flowed but now are dry This means that the water has been lowered until the effective head falls to force the water out at the elevation of the dry well Development Made Luring the last five years a great development has been made In the Kate by pump wells A pump well Is more economical in that the water U not drawn when It Is not needed If It is conservation to protect the flowlrg aej so that It Ought continue to flow then It is conservation to shut off the well during the period when the water is not needed Many flowing wells are used for household purposes for the watering of stock and for fish ponds If the water is needed of course it should be allowed to flow but if it la rot needed then the well should be closed In case it is used for culinary purpose or for the watering of stock often the well ca nbe partially closed This is only conserving water In the ground reservoirs for the next year’s use Test Prove Point Experience in closing wells in areas that already have adopted the practice of shutting off the flow during the winter have proved that the pressure and flow can be greatly rehabilitated for the following season If the wells are closed There has not been a single Instance where the closing of a well has proved detrimental to the well Many of the wells have been closed but there are too many that are running wide open during the winter season which practice is a wanton waste of the Underground water supply Methods of closing the wells need not be expensive They may be plugged There are many of the wells In which the pipe projecting from the ground has been rusted away These wells should be mended Probably the mending of each well h an Individual problem It has found however that in a great number of these older wells the rusting ftnd disintegration has taken place only In the upper few feet of the pipe and that by digging down a thort distance around the pipe the may be found In good condition either a length of pipe can be removed or replaced or the pipe piay be cut up rethreaded and a new piece attached House bill No 127 chapter 126 page 430 Utah Session Laws 1917 affords the authority for closing wells in any county It Is questionable 4-- BOZEMAN Mont (UP)— A family living on a farm near Bozeman lived well for 10 months on a cash outlay of $50 Their farm provided the rest d Mr and Mrs J B Holmes of Judith Basin county are not troubled bv the fluctuation of the grain market They make their farm produce their living Up to November 1 of this year their cash living expenses totaled $50 03 They live well too For this winter they have stored in their home 143 quarts of canned vegetables 126 quarts of canned fruit a good supply of canned meat and a quantity of root crog Holmes Is a wheat farmer on a fairHe farms entirely ly large scale with machinery But in addition to wheat he has a large garden and many chickens The flock of chickens in addition to supplying the family with eggs and meat brought in $20 61 from the sale of eggs this year The garden was kept flourishing last summer during the drouth by water which was hauled in barrels from a distant spring The fruit and meat which was canned for use this winter was bought when prices were low and quality high Even the wheat which was a drug on the market this year played a part in the Holmes larder When the scoop In the flour bln at the Holmes home began to scrape the bottom Holmes loaded a truck with wheat mill where and drove to a near-b- y he exchanged it at the rate of three 100 bushels of wheat for pounds of flour Ren-char- ’"Si I fL S' I 9 fj I j ti dred Scholarships in Nation EJ MAYNARD USAC of beef or ls 127-da- 1050-poun- £n Orchards Face Mouse Menace WHYTAKEACMCE? LOGAN— “Family Living Expendi- Other Periods BOISE Idaho— Despite the heavy loss sustained In 1930 from collapses In both wool and lamb prices the range sheepman of Idaho has averaged a profit of 51 cents per ewe in each of the seven years 1924 to 1930 Inclusive it Is revealed In a cost of production study by the Idaho Wool Growers' association What money the sheepman made during this period came In the first four era If some years of the seven-yeway could be found to strike 1930 from the records the showing of the range sheep Industry of the state during this time would be very favorable Since its inception In 1924 this cost study by the Idaho association has been very comprehensive embracing figures on about 200000 ewes annually The 1930 investigation was more comprehensive than ever taking returns on about 9000000 pounds of wool and 850 000 lambs The 1930 study shows a loss of $2 97 per ewe expenses for the year being $10 11 per head and receipts amounting to uut $714 The loss during 1929 was but 44 cents The other years show profits as follows: 1924 87 cents per ar 4-- H 4-- H 4-- H one-ten- Study of Farm $2 Interest paid Accounts Set Labor ewe and ram loss 98 cents 15 PROVO — All Utah county cooperators keeping farm accounts in cooperation with the state extension division are asked to got their books up to date ao their accounts can be balanced for the year County Agents Lyman II Rich and Anson B Call announced Sunday This is In preparation for the visit of C O Stott extension economist at lh Utah State Agricultural college who will be here lor that purpose December 15 to 19 County Agents Rich and Call have made numerous visits to theroopera tors to assist them with their books and are planning a visit to each before Mr Stott’s arrival Colorado Farmers Turn Attention to Tobacco (UP)-- Not LONOMONT Colo satisfied with letting a few bolls of cotton give a touch of Dixie to northern Colorado a Longmont resident has experimented In raising tobacco H B Camber a native of Turkey planted a small patch of Turkish toThe bacco which grew successfully leaves were mit through the curing satisfacwere the remits process and Tobacco experts believe the tory finished product will be equal to any raised In Turkey and Imported Farmers have expressed Interest In the project and from present indl cations It Is expected that nearly 50 acres will be grown In this section In 1932 There Indiana are 50000 beekeepers In pro-fe- rt ft UT L FALSE TEETH tir tth r -- STATESGATHER ‘RELIEF’ CROPS SAN FRANCISCO (UP)— Farmers of California and Nevada soon may Join with those of the east and the middle west in the distribution of surplus crcops to the needy this winter under a plan announced here Salvation Army headquarters In 71 cities of the two states will act as distributing points for the food and crops Whenever passible the farmers are requested to deliver the contributions to the Army corps offices but the organization will collect donations when the farmer find delivery Impossible John E Pickett editor of the Pacific Rural Press is credited With initiating the plan In California and Nevada patterning his appeal on the line of similar campaigns now under way In other states Wheat barley vegetables beans rice fruit poultry meat and all kinds of food are expected to be given To aid in distribution of the supplies railroads will be requested to move any carload lots obtained free of any charge and patkera and millers will be asked to handle without cost such livestock and grain as may be secured Pickett said Canners also will be asked to donate dented or second cans of fruit and vegetables while orchardists will be asked to allow unemployed men to aid In the clearing of their orchards thus providing fuel for many needy families Backers of the campaign pointed out that members of farming commu mtles are not directly called upon to contribute to chanty as are city residents and that much of California’s estimated $650000000 food production annually goes to waste C W Burr western states adjutant for the Salvation Army will supervise collection of the food it was announced tures in Summit County Utah" is the title of a new bulletin Just published by the Utah agricultural experiment station This publication by Edith Hayball research assistant and W P Thomas agricultural economist of the Utah agricultural experiment station is a detailed analysis of data secured by a recent study conducted through the joint activities of the experiment station and extension service Not until the Income available for family living reached $1000 or more could the average family in Summit county in 1930 afford more than the bare necessities of life As the income Increased beyond $1000 the family increased its expenditures accordingly Certain Items such as food and household operation remained fairly constant while clothing showed a uniform increase with increased Income This was true also In the case of expenditures for general cultural advancement life Insurance and automobile travel d of the A few more than families studied 36 2 per cent had less than $1000 available for family expenditure in 1930 Nearly 40 per cent had between $1000 and $1500 while 21 per cent had more than $1500 to spend On an average those having more than $500 confined their expenditures to amounts within their income The farm Income averaged $2520 of which a little more than half was required to pay farm expenses leaving $1133 for family living In the main the study shows the farm homes of Summit county are well built conveniently equipped and reasonably spacious averaging approximately one room for each person in the average family of six Ninety-six per cent of farms studied were equipped with electricity and had running water in the houses In studying parents’ school training 16 per cent had college training d had finished high school 34 per cent had finished eighth grade and only 13 had discontinued school before completing the eighth grade For a free copy of the bulletin write Division of Publication Utah Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin one-thir- two-thir- one-thir- No 232 California Buys Famous Steers ROCK SPRINGS Wyo — Five cent a pound seems to be the prevailing price lor the famous prime Big Plney steers this season Even young milch cows have brought that price Many of the ranchers have disposed of their culled herds at railroad points Instead of risking long trips to eastern markets and gambling on prices J E Sargent Beaver creek rancher and a pioneer In the Fall river basin country disposed of his several cars of steers at OpaL The shipment was sent to Los Angeles and Sargent all prepared to send his product on to Missouri river points suddenly decided on the easier way after a satisfactory offer was made California Is using more Wyoming beef each year according to statistics by the railroad companies cents deprecia- $1 08 hay and grain $2 84 supplies 64 cents range feed 49 cents shearing 23 cents taxes 24 cents other Incidental expense 71 cents Per cent ewe loss averaged 8 8 per cent In connection with this cost study the Idaho association tabulated the total Investment per head of sheep ran in the early lambing territories mostly southern Idaho This showed an average of $27 34 invested per sheep as follows: Ewe and ram $13 15 equipment $2 22 range land $3 45 range and leases 55 cents farm land $7 97 Disease In harmony with general MOLOCH STILL LIVES was once thought of as For centuries during the ancient superstition the manifestation of the whim of evil and prehlstorlo period mankind suf- spirits and progress in disease prefered Incalculable misery because of vention was delayed for centuries beIgnorance of natural law Because cause men were refused the right to for lnstanoe our ancestors had no think freely on this subject or to inknowledge of the nature of lightning vestigate the problems of bodily ailphysical suffering storm and pesti- ment With the beginnings of Galilence they developed the conception leo Luther Voltaire Copernicus that these manl(t stations of nature Wycllffe Huss and others among the were the expressions of anger of the Immortals who won our battle for host of gods with which they In their freedom of thought and conscience Expert Arranges for imagination peopled the heavens the new age was finally ushered in suPries ter alt thrived upon this slowly at first but recently Feeding Demonstration perstition the priests m all proba- beginning momentum amazing attaining responsible for the superPROVO — Balanced rstlons for bility being of War Still Suffer Plajoe to stition which they erected In order feeding aheep and beef cattle prethe last great century durto contribute During and satisfy questioners paratory to shipping them to market to their own status as mediators be- ing which the vast bulk of achievewill he demonitrated at Springvllle tween suffering humankind and these ment has found expression our prog Wednesday by Professor E J May- god Such a monstrous religion and res has been in the natural and animal nard husbandryman from the sociology easily led to compulsory physical sciences largely We have State Utah Agricultural college ex- levying of tribute to maintain the re- progressed with no such rapidity In tension division order the bulldlDg up of be- social and economic fields In comThe demonstration for beef cattle ligious sanctity of the priest to parison we have stood still To be will be made at the Oliver Dalton lief in thewhich illusion the east still sure we have achieved In the more preserve ranch and for sheep at the Myron suffers Inheritance of caste which enlightened nations political and reChild ranch both on the Sptingville does as the much as any other thing to ligious freedom probably the greatroad The demonstration Is tp deter hold down thp people in Impotence est result of the last thousand years mine the feed ration to secure the the reliance which political rulers of effort But liberty Itself has brok most economical gain County Agent came to have In the priest to appease en down In Important parts of EuAnson H Call said The demonstramob an evil partnership which rope notably in Italy and Russia tion will be concluded when the rat the (granting that Russia ever achieved haa vestiges today even In Christentie and sheep are ready for market dom ana other hideous practices liberty for Its citizen largely an inwith accounts of their gain being kept defensible such as that of human sacrifice assumption) we still the terrible plague of war our Smothered Creative Energies A bushel of seed corn donated to cities fester with slums and moral a drouth-strkke- n farmer In Indiana And these are but the negative penworse than slums povperversion 600 bushels of produced alties the more decastatlng Injury erty and want even In the midst of grain was Inflicted because this deliberate- the greatest plenty the world has The average winter temperature In ly maintained Ignorance and super- ever sern belles our seeming IntelliOhio U 30 degrees enerstition smothered the creative gence we are the victims not the gies of mankind and prevented the masters of money an Ignorant peasschools of of science antry infests the land In many coun development and of free thought tries law has all but broken down In Such a background drives the en- Important centers of population un to to nations defend the lightened der an Increasing weight of crime necown If of their extinction point might rather than right still rulrs essary the Irentfom of their citizens the world In violation of our so to think and act as they choose sub clal conceptopenCivilization Indeed joct only to laws of their own mak- see fs to be crumbling at the very peak alelgha to plow with the mereury ing and of conscience Knowledge of of it power going below aere almost nlghUy sui h a history supplies science with (To be continued ) and having gone a far a 17 be- its greatest defense because icience low In spite ef this aubiere weathIs after 11 a faith based upon tested er the blanket of about six Inches knowledge Grave limitations It haa ef anew haa kept the ground from particularly in dealing with the spiritfirming more than an Ini h er so ual and moTal concern of mankind In depth Several farmers are which re as yet beyond the direct No matter h$vw lone or feeittf plowing dally turning the while reach of telenee but rational thought ufleriNl I’AZO will fOO ha v snow tinder the black soli U the only possible basts of material br1n you trwtant relief ftum And ao when one hears sleigh-bell- s pngresa and ultimately when we dislathing blind bleeding or proIn a phralm he Is not sure If cover or moie fully comprehend the truding ptkft— or money both It la Jii t a sleigh riding party ar laws of the spirit probably of spiritHandy tut with pi la pipe sume farmer going out te plow ual progress as well 7U o boa 60c All druggiatt t BREEDERS SAY Subsoil Fire Burns Mem’s Farm Lands FARMS BES REED ANIMAL POWER SPOKANE Wash (ff)— After a two months’ fight J W Day Newman Lake has conquered General Trend Increases to Replace Machines With Horses a fire that threatened to burn all the land on his farm The peaty subsoil which makes up the farm limited when stubble was burned and consumed more than 75 acres before 15 fire fighters manning pumps and wielding shovels day and night could master It The farm was once part of the lake’s bed In places the fire left craters from three to four feet deep These must be filled with fresh soli before the land can be returned to production This will be done at once he said KANSAS CITY Mo Nov 30 (UP) definite swing back to the use of animal power rather thtin gasoline-fed machinery for farm work has placed breeders of "draft horses and mules in a position more than for many years leaders of the Industry said here Breeders told the United Press a story of rising prices of increased demand and of minimized competition George Argenbright the 65 year-olAdrian Mo man who has made the mule famous in the nearly 50 years of his association with breeding of the long eared animals came to the American Royal Livestock show on cratches and carried away with his partner Ed Frazier every principal mule award of the show As he sat talking to an interviewer he sold one 6pan of mules for $325 and refused $400 for the pair which had just been awarded the show championship Trend Shows Increase "The trend back to mule power and horse power on the farm Is a definite and Increasing thing” he said adding that several developments had motivated the change ‘Farm folk are tired of paying for gasoline when they can raise their own power so cheaply” he said "One reason that grain and hay prices have gone so low In the past year or two has been that farmers everywhere have bought machinery and have stopped using horses and mules ‘They're realizing now that they’ve been wrong that draft animals provide the cheapest and the most reliable power Their tractors are wearing out and they haven t the money to replace them “Meanwhile the breeders those who could hold out at least have gone ahead developing better animals than ever before more powerful animals — and we're ready to reap the harvest My only regret is that I can’t raise more mules than I do The supply won’t meet the demand” Breeding Alters Mule Argenbright raises and sells about 100 mules annually In 50 years he says the mule has become a different animal heavier more powerful less temperamental All this has been the result of careful breeding he says But the mule market Is not alone In Its boom Horse prices are higher Demand is better R C Flanery of Kansas 111 brought a big string of fine Perch-eronto the show— bigger than he had ever shown before A d NEVADA SHIPS FARM PRODUCE Economist Makes Report on Various Exports of State EUREKA Nev —Professor V E Scott economist of the Nevada extension service whon asked to what extent Nevada is in farm products and to what extent it exports a surplus gave the following statement here this U'eek: Douglas and Lyon are the leading export counties for potatoes Sixty per cent of Nevada's 1931 crop will be shipped out while the Ely district imports from Utah Las Vegas from Log Angeles and northern Nevada from Idaho Nevada produces 114 carloads of eggs ayear and is practically in this item The New-lanirrigation project territory is finding that turkeys and chickens are two of their most profitable crops where alfalfa and melons were formerly so considered Stale Exports Beef Nevada exports 95 per cent of the beef it raises In hogs the state is far from Importing 40 per cent of Its pork Churchill and Lyon counties rank first with turkeys with Pershing and next Between Thanksgiving New Year's Nevada will have shipped out 22 carloads of turkeys Alfalfa is largely raised but owing to the quarantine can be shipped out only as meal Scott believes Nevada ranchers would do better to feed all their alfalfa at home also to use all the manure on their hay lands instead of selling so much to California buyers for orange groves Of Iambs 65 per cent ar ahipped out There are 18000 dairy cows In d of their prodthe state uct is shipped out in the form of as butter The recream maining half is consumed in the state besides which considerable quantities are shipped in notably from Utah and Los Angeles Cooperative marketing has been carried farthest in turkey and dairy Budgeting of production products Extensive studies costs Is gaining in production costs are being carried on among certain cattle and sheep Scott said sections but Professor many other sections have not yet seen the benefit to be had in budgeting One-thir- one-six- th Drouth Group Turns To Problem of Feed Dm Bright Future "We’re out to advertise now" he "We’ve got a market an explained are Times market Increasing brighter than in five years for us— and we Intend to be ready to take advantage of It" Virtually a clean sweep In tire classes for Belgian horses was scored oy C G Good and son Ogden Iowa He also reported an optimistic outlook "It couldn't last forever" Good said referring to the hard times in the horse Industry of past years ‘People's couldn’t go on buying maNow chinery on time Indefinitely they’re coming back to cheaper power— and we're ready for it” Sheep Raiser Receives Ribbons Won at Show EPHRAIM— George A Jorgenson of Ephraim ha Just received ribbons for first and second places In RsmbouiUet atud ram and first place in a pen of three Rambouillet rams which his sheep won at the Arizona state fair held recently The prize ram were taken to Arizona and exhibited by Glen J Nielson Rewrote Mr Jorgenson that the winnings were made over entries from the Arizona State college as well as entries by private aheep owners STOP GRAY HAIR If you ar troubled With gray hair fulling hair or dandruff don t giv upl Uta Nouriihmel It a tome that Nourithin acti naturally at the baia of the trouble th hair roots Nourithin claantes the scalp banishes dandruff Simulates and invigorates th roots and promotes hair growth It acts as a food tome for starved hair follicles and thus eliminates th Nearishlaa Mfg Ca Washington lidg ' Las Angelas A few tablets Is all you need for When you begin to feel the first familiar symptoms of cold take a few tablet® of Bromo Quinine There is nothing so effective for ridding tire system of the cause— quickly gently thoroughly It is the standard remedy for colds all over causa of gray hair Th ona liquid will restore gray hair to any original color regardless of its shade Eesy to apply Certain uniform results (I 25 at all drug and department stores the world Be sure to get what you auk for— lAXATIVr K©M0 o-- tr mi MOURISHINE t s Tennessee wonlgrowers with a membership of 971 In 40 counties marketed 170000 pounds of wool HEBER— Wasatch county drouth through the farm board during May committee last week reorganized Into and June a county feed committee with Leland Wootton as president Joseph C Russel McDonald vice president Keetch secretary George A Huntington of Midway George Edler of Center and Henry F Watson of Charleston directors The organization will make & survey of the feed In the county and distribute It where needed and If there Is not enough will purchase feed farmers applied for Ninety-si- x drouth relief totaling $16400 uf-f- er SLEIGH 1IELLS JINGLE AS FARMER DRIVES TO PLOW s ? tion 70 LARAMIE Wyo (AT-- Dr John W Scott professor of zoology at the University of Washington announced he has made discoveries tending to show that a lung parasite found in sheep of the Rocky mountain region comes from wild rabbits The discovery is considered of vital importance to sheep and wool growers of this region The parasite is protoslongylus about the size of a common pin and In lives the lungs of rabbits Dr Scott said The spaces in the lungs which normally are filled with air become clogged with the eggs larvae and refuse of the parasite and the result is death for the rabbit from verminous pneumonia Dr Scott said he has found the parasite not only In the bodies of rabbits but In sheep as well Sheep have died showing symptoms similar to those found In rabbits dying as a result of the disease Mountain sheep In Colorado and mule deer in Yellowstone park have died from the same disease Dr Scott said He is convinced that sheep become Infected from pasturing on ground which has been contammated by rabbits having the disease th egg-layi- SPRINCVILLE -- Field mice are matter to Fanner are exempted a total of your poultry turnings in Uum InfsUng the oichards of Sprtngville treys: and vldnitv In large number and $319323000 by Ohio’s new tax code 1 rmKo to - pat doing eonsidciable damage AgriculTnT with CHICKS that are ITrxlurUon Brad tural Inspector Farl Hutchings anmmi&ln Bred and Acclimated nounces He urg-fruitgrowers to cooperate THEM HERE AT HOME where 9 -- BUT you can m your chlrfrt and the atock with county agents ami while there a mm Is from before you get them little snow In the orchards begin they And whruft you can get expert aolat-tnran Intensive campaign against these In rearing them rodt nts m Efcff HATCHED CHICKft— A poison wheat halt should be used Cmif a abort dutanre from our warm Mr Hutchings stated miRAIM— Th jingle of tltlh Batihery to your warm brooder belli baa taken on a new meaning BAFR AT Don’t Tou Endure to ft with mnl afford gam-Slipping here One ef Ephraim's enterprisfmtr yam It ry proflu thu year rhhka from tba oldmt and fur ing farmer tan be aeen driving iarywtt Hatchery In til west With 26 o briskly a vi ay from home each In 1‘rodmlng exigence Do your faJw drop or slip when ii AL3TY Out KS Wr’fa wire or call you talk sleigh bells Jingling eal lauyh or siieese? Don t morning with Im annod etui ntnharrmuwtl minute cheerily In the evening he can be aeen raeltH-U- i lonttf-new powder to returning In the same manon vour plat bold teeth ner During the day he ran be pitnkie ea firm tilt fine feeim of eeruflty end found on ilia farm north Of town comfort No gummy S7 South SUl Street peaty leate or feeling (let keateelh today et ploughing like I Ity Vlsh It la something very unuauat to or eny other drug Hum Miuruy ill 4 euke (Adv j be ablaut fide te the Jaitn ea fknsfni i Kslchcrics Average Profit SSWEmAGDE 4 'n fto fttmplt a Lungs PLOWING STOPS The teed cost of producing a pound pork or lamb is a factor that the farmer or feeder can control best of the many Item that enter his livestock fattening operations During five year of cattle fattening experiment at an agricultural experiment station where careful weight of feed consumed and gain produced were recorded there was an average difference of $4 14 in feed cost per hundredweight between the different rations used In other words between two well balanced ration for fattening cattle there was a possible saving of $1242 per head In the feed cost to produce 300 pounds of gain during an ordinary fattening period For the farmer fattening a carload of steers this would have meant a saving during one season of nearly $300 It Is not enough these days to know that you are feeding a well balanced ration The question to answer is "Am I producing the cheapest and most efficient gains possible with the feeds available for use?” Although in all cases farm grown feeds are best it is sometimes possible to use a com merclal concentrate to very good advantage A standard fattening ration for beef cattle that has produced very efficient gains consists of wet beet pulp beet molasses alfalfa hay and cotton seed coke The addition of the cottonseed cake appears to be advantageous where pulp molasses and alfalfa art available for use In a fattening test conducted by the Ilaley-HarrFeeding some company at Sterling Colo two 17 of years ago steers groups were fed during a y fattening period One lot of these d cattle received an average dally ration consisting of 95 pounds of wet beet pulp 5 pounds of beet molasses and 10 pounds of alfalfa hay The steers In this lot gained 1 54 pounds per head dally for the period at a feed cost of $8 98 per cwt of gain produced The other lot consumed dally ration consisting of 107 pound of wet beet pulp 5 pounds of beet molasses 8 pounds of alfalfa hay and 3 pounds of cottonseed cake The steers in this lot gained 2 48 pounds per head daily or 315 pounds for the period at a feed cost of only $7 14 per cwt of gain produced Because of additional finish these cattle brought 23 cent per cwt more than the others when sold In calculating feed cost for the lest the following values were used Wet beet pulp $1 50 per ton delivered to lot beet molasses $8 00 per ton alfalfa hay $10 00 per ton cottonseed cake $28 00 per ton In this test as well as in other similar tests the fact has been brought out that cottonseed cake has a very beneficial effect on a wet beet molasses alfalfa combinaCorn production In North Dakota pulp tion this year 1 estimated at 27 118 000 In this case each ton of cake fed bushels compared with 19058000 replaced 15 7 tons of wet beet pulp bushel In 1930 0 98 ton of beet molasses and 2 8 tons of alfalfa hay Mississippi farmers saved $1250-©0- 0 this year on fertilizer by cooperative buying Whra It It “Family Expensesjn SumZoologist Traces Deaths mit County” Gives Data to Parasite That Clogs on Farm Life Survey Shows CHICAQO (CTS)— The names of and girls living on farms In 36 states who have been awarded 3500 scholarships to help them through college were announced last week by Cyrus McCormick Jr who offered the $50000 in prizes in celebration of the centennial of the invention of the reaper McCormick read the list of names at a luncheon attended by 1200 deleclubs congress The gates to the contest was conducted by the clubs with the cooperation of state agricultural college and the United States department of commerce More than 100000 boys and girls submitted reports on grain growing livestock feeding and home economics to compete for the scholarships Western winners and the projects for which they were awarded schol arshlps follow: Idaho— Wilma E Mitchell Shoshone home economics Montana— Edna Lucile Talbott head 1925 $159 1926 $2 03 1927 Geyser home economics New Mexico— Roslto M Lucero 74 cents and 1928 $174 Las Vegas home economics Wool Averages 326 Cento Wyoming— Bruce Bower Douglas This study shows that growers dairy have received an average of 32 6 cents a pound grease weight for their wool which cost them 32 7 cents a pound to produce or a loss of of a cent a pound All of the loss however came during 1929 and 1930 Selling price for wool was highest in 1925 41 6 cents per pound and lowest in 1930 19 01 cents Cost of production In 1925 was 38 1 cents and in 1930 28 68 cents The largest profit shown on wool was 3 8 a pound made in 1928 Entomologist Tells Utah cents 8elllng price of lamb averaged $11 63 per hundredweight during the Farmers to Prevent period of this study varying from a high of $13 29 In 1928 to a low of Pest Return $7 92 In 1930 Average costs were $10 84 per hundredweight leaving an average prollt of 79 cents per LOGAN — Utah farmers can do hundredweight per year Average much to prevent a serious grasshop- winter feed costs were $2 84 eer ewe per outbreak next year by destroy- ranging from a low of $2 29 for 1926 ing the overwintering eggs at this to a high of $3 42 in 1929 time according to G F Knowlton Comparison of wool and lamb reassociate entomologist of the Utah ceipts per ewe for this period shows State Agricultural college experiment the extent to which the sheep instation dustry of Idaho depends upon lamb Most of the grasshoppers have now sales for Its Income Of an average and following Income of $10 58 per ewe $775 or completed the first killing frost cultivation about 75 per cent came from sale of should be commenced to destroy the lamb with $2 85 coming from wool overwtntei lng eggs Incomes and dlstiibution tor the vagiasnhopper These are laid largely In the dry rious years are 1924 $1017 $7 01 ditch banks hard roadsides along from lamb and $3 18 from wool 1925 68 $8 from lamb and $3 28 fence rows in packed alfalfa and $1196 stubble fields as well as on deserted from wool 1926 $1136 $8 44 from lamb 92 $2 and 1927 from wool farms and nearby wasteland Deep fall plowing if well turned $10 98 $819 from lamb and $2 79 1928 from wool 46 from $1180 $8 will turn the eggs under so that 1929 when the young hoppers hatch in the lamb and $3 34 from wool 93 65 $10 $7 from lamb and $272 spring they will be unable to reach the surface Shallow discing or har- from wool 1930 $714 $541 from rowing will expose the eggs to un- lamb and $1 73 from wool favorable weather conditions which Fleece Weighs 88 Pound destroys theta Community effort Is fleece weight has been Average important in areas where grasshop- 8 8 pounds ranging from 79 pounds obpers have been abundant and In 1925 to 9 3 pounds In 1928 Per served to deposit large numbers of cent of lambs matured averaged 89 5 egg per cent ranging from a low of 85 3 In 1927 to a high of 93 4 In 1928 Average weight of lambs was 74 5 pounds Average of cost items for the Severn-yea- r period on a per ewe basis are: 100 boys NEW BULLETIN 1930 RAVAGES Seven-Yea- r Hun- U S A C ISSUES SHEEPMALADY TAKEPRIZES Awards RABBITS CAUSE RAISERS HEAR II McCormick SAVANT FINDS IDAHO SHEEP MANY STATES Winter 30-0- ed Ten Months for $50 Outlay Farm Supplies i CLUBS OF Necessities for Ur n5 i QuorjorjE a sawn loon roe tmii ftwATURi (o SF j ri 1 |