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Show THE CITIZEN mered down to two, so far as the publican party is concerned? PROSPERITY and Re- CONSERVA- TISM. They look like enough. Prosperity we have with us. It ci n be kept intact. By the continuation of conservatism.. And which of the two major parties is consistently conservative? The answer is easy. THE SUGAR BEET. beet pulp in 1903. The pulp produced at all western factories is now used for feeding purposes and has meant the growth and development of the stock feeding industry in beet growing states. During the past winter the feeders of northern Colorado have had on feed 120,000 head of cattle and 1,240,000 head of sheep and lambs. As there is a growing demand for beef and mutton in the coast cities there is a splendid chance to build up the feeding industry in Utah where we annually send to market sheep and lambs. Many of these now go to feeders in other 1,-600,- 000 100 (Coontinuel from page 13.) pounds of dried beet pulp we have: 8.9 of protein. 59.6 of carbohydrates of fiber. of ash. of (including . fats. of water. 100.0 pounds. Food units 84. The food units of dried grains are 108, of com 109, and linseed cake 134. The Procctes At some of the factories this pulp is taken from the diffusion process and run into siloes from which I t Feed for Dairy Cows Not only is this pulp used for cattle and sheep on feed but it is also a splendid feed for dairy cow. It has become one of the principal rations for the Danish dairyman and every American dairyman who has attempted to make a high record with dairy cows has used pulp in the ration. Since the introduction of the beet sugar industry in the British Isles the dairy farmers there are replacing roots with beet pulp and are getting the same results as are shown by dairymen of Before this continental Europe. change the German farmer secured 6 per cent more meat and 60 per cent more silk per 100 acres of land cultivated than did the British farmer. the molasses, Another has not come into general use very extensively. In recent years it has become the practice to mix it with dried beet pulp and with alfalfa meal, thus adding to the feeding value of the products. In speaking of the use of this feed C. O. Asplund of the provincial School of Agriculture at Raymond, Canada, says: Beet molasses is a carbonaceaus - sugar). 18.9 3.5 0.9 8.2 states. it is taken for feeding. In other factor-- ies it is run through presses which take out the excess moisture so it is more easily handled and shipped. In other factories it is run through a dryer and put in bags of 100 pounds each. One ton of wet pulp will produce about 100 pounds of dried pulp. This is as easily handled and stored as bran or grain. Soon after factories were started in Utah feed yards were built at each of them and the feeding of pulp to cattle and sheep began. The Colorado Experiment station began feeding experiments with by-produ- ct, MEET ME AT TIHIE ; 23 East 2nd South Sportsmens le&dparters Phone Was. 104 15 containing sugar factory about 60 per cent of carbohydrates, most of which is sugar. Because of by-prod- uct a relatively high percentage of salts, beet molasses is a laxative and must be fed to live stock with care. The concentrated nature of this .feed reduces the cost of transportation to an extent that makes its wide use as a stock food possible.1 OIL INDUSTRY Oil Industry Features Growth of Wyoming Where Oils Pay Greatest Portion of Taxes By CHAS. LA BRONTE While basking in the limelight of agricultural development which has resulted in placing the state among the most wealthy of western sections, Wyoming is essentially and in all respects a coal mining region and an territory of vast prooil-produc- ing portions. Wyoming is a land of major oil fields such as the big Horn Basin, Salt Creek, Teapot Dome, Oregon Basin, Lost Soldier Field, and numerous others of actual and potential producing possibilities. of the state Casper is the and is stragetically located in respect to major oil production. It is a thriving center of population some 30,000 big, and reflects all the glint and glamour that goes with the great oil industry of the west. From its petroleum production Wyoming pays most of its state taxes, derivirg the major portion of its school funds from this single source. The state receives anually more money in royalties from oil production than any other western commonwealth according to statistical data as handed down by state officials. A number of widely scattered areas in Wyoming, standing idle for the past few years are now being explored and may soon be brought into production. There is evidence of major oil field operations soon to commence in the region close to Evanston and in parts of the Lost Soldier Field and In Big Horn Basin. Millions of dollars are annually spent in the further development of Wyomings vast oil domes, and, incidentally, millions are realized from the golden flow of crude oil which eight miles wide in places. The Big Horn Basin is an outstanding example of almost perfect dome and anticlinal oil field formation, The great Teapot Dome, over which the Oil Barons and the government waged a sanguinary battle, resulting in victory for Uncle Sam and his Navy, is another, but of vastly smaller extent and an oil dome subject to depletion by the offset wells drilled in surrounding territory. Piney-La-Bar- ge oil-capi- tol comes from the subterranean pools and lakes of oil that dot the landscape in every direction with Casper as the Hub city. Topography The average oil field in Wyoming is a depression surrounded by mountains ranging from low to lofty peaks. Many of the anticlines and belts in an average Wyoming oil structure constitute a continuous formation 25 to 30 miles long and from seven to Stratigraphy Wyoming is a land dotted by escarpments and oil domes nestling between mountain ranges. Geological data shows that its oil formations occur in the Tertiary, or recent formation, and extend down through the Cretaceous, the Jurassic, the Tiras-si- c and into the Carboniferous, Local Homenclature is used largely to designate the prevailing oil sands. Just now big production in Wyoming comes from the Morrison, the Sundance, the Embar, the Tensleep and the Mowry sands according to official ll reports. The lies Dome, in Colorado, a southern extension of the oil sands found in Wyoming, is a glowing example of the oil production found in the Sundance sand stratum. Wyoming is a territory of vast oil oil-we- shale deposition and when that time arrives in the rapid strides of motor vehicle expansion and the oil wells of the nation can no longer provide the motor fuel to keep them rolling, Wyoming shales, along with those of Utah and Colorado, will supply the oil necessary to stabilize this great industry. The United States is a nation literally on wheels and the futher uplift and progress of econmic and basic industry depends on keeping it there. In due time the vast oil shale fields of the intermountain west will play a major part in keeping the autos on the highways. It is reliably reported by governmental bureaus of statistical and research importance, that there is ten time's as much crude oil contained in the shale deposits of Utah, Colorado and Wyoming, as has been taken from all the oil wells in the world, since oil wells were first |