Show THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE MONDAY MORNING APRIL 27 8 1931 Agricultural News of the Intermountain Region FARMERS SET EXPERT URGES U S 'lights onRuralLife (faze MANY iAVv- -- DAIRY FARMERS CAMP SUBJECT TO Financing Theme Announced for Eleventh Annual Encampment in July GROW CORN Home LOGAN— Financing the farm and farm home will be the central theme of the eleventh annual farmers' encampment at the Utah State Agricultural to 18 Inclusive according to W W Owens county agent leader and general chairman of the encampment program Lectures department sessions and exhibits will be used to explain the various phases of the chosen subjects It was lelt by the committee In charge that In view of present conditions finances farm and home accounting agricultural credit marketing and a study of the markets of the west would be the most logical sublectsto have presented before of the state the farmer and rural home-make- college July rs Unusual effort is being made thtsr f ear to make the 1931 encampment 1 mTI OTTl 1 t he greatest in the history of the state V I A I H I H A IriTTTin HH Senator extrusion service Already Reed Smoot has promised to appear on the program to discuss the financial situation and financial credit In Utah as It la influenced by the nation Other leading state and national figures have been invited to address the group assembled on the sources of Income In the state of Utah Branch Agricultural ColIncluding farms ranges mines scenery and manufacturing establishOffers Short Course nm SHEEP CLIPPING lege ments Lecturers on markets and marketwill discuss the possible outlets lor Utah products Including— etate western national and woiid markets cted elaborate on the possibilities of new markets which nave not been opened to products of the state Special attention this year will be given to the home and family standard of living This subject will Include discussions on what constitutes acceptable housing facilities acceptable budgets for clothing food educaUon health Insurance Investments and avlngs for the farm family More general session will be held this year than at previous encampments and the departmental sessions will be conducted In connection with exhibits in various phases of home economics dairying poultry management crops sheep and wool livestock raising and gardening Recreation will also be provided in the form of dances movies musicals dramas and games" First in Utah ing Holstein Bull Association Lists Year’s Expenses BURLEY Idaho— Expenditures of the Burley-Ded- o Holstein Bull association for the past fiscal year were $32042 according to the financial statement Issued by H 0 Boris treasurer'- - The principal item was tor a bull purchased from the institute for $250 Receipts amounted to $79578 This Included a balance carried over from last year of $51328 Thirteen shares of stock were sold for $130 maintenance on 295 shares of stock amounted to $147110 and Interest on savings deposits brought $5 There is now s balance on hand of $47536 There are seven bull blocks In the association with 311 shares outstanding each representing one cow Each cf the Burley banks has purchased ten shares of stock which are nonassessable Inter-mounta- in Only Two or Three Irriga- tions Required for Good Ift CEDAR CITY— Under the direnon of E Rav Lyman the Branch Agricultural college Is conducting a shearers’ short course Up to date 18 men have been training In the shearing of sheep Mr Miles Hunter of Cedar City acting as Instructor The normal co6t of sheep shearing Is 19c per head The student shearers are paid 8c a head during their course which lasts two weeks each spring for two years The first group completed Its course last Friday Seven of the eight men finishing were employed as full fledged shearers before they left the B A C sheds The second group will complete this year's course In another ten days The course not only benefits the students teaches sheepmen to shear their own sheep but In this particular year it has given the advantage of a lower shearing cost to the sheep owners The maximum number of sheep sheared In one day by the eight students was 450 This Is the first shearing school conducted in the state of Utah and alms at two distinct points: First to teach the sheepmen the art of shearing and seoond to give a cleaner better Job to the sheepmen Students are Instructed especially In the care and handling of the animal In the care of the fleece while rutting and In the handling of the machine Up to date the sheep owners whose sheep have been sheared by the stu dents have been pleased with the results Oregon Farmers Fight for Oleo Tax SALEM Ore (JP) —Five hundred Oregon dairymen and farmers gathered here last week and organized the Oregon antioleomargarine association to prevent a referendum of the law enacted by the last state legislature Imposing a tax of 10 cents a Deaths are estimated to occur at pound cm all oleomargarine manufacrate of 70 per minute tured and sold In the state the YOU PURCHASED THE BEST BABY CHICKS! nd of hc R"!1 c ’ one-ha- lf together can purchase the necessary machinery so that it need not be burden to anyone Farmers should not hesitate to grow com If they do not have a silo already built Many dairy farm would undoubtedly be better off most of the time If they had a good cement silo In use Those who do not want the regular type of silo or feel that It is too expensive can use a pltt or trench silo to store corn Pitt silos are commonly seen in other countries for pulp or com In the United States they have been used for many years and In many sections of Utah are very cheaply and easily constructed Definite Information for the construction of pltt silos can be obtained from the county agents or the dairy department Utah State Agricultural college Logan Utah Corn can be readily used as s sup plement to pasture during late July and August It Is very palatable when cut green out of the field and the stalks are usually tender enough that they will be eaten up clean When arranging the amount of cofn to plant be liberal because of its many uses there should be no waste The varieties of com that have given the best results In most Utah valleys are Improved Learning and Minne13 REPORT URGES CROP ROTATION JUMP IN YEAR beet-sug- EXPERIENCE-COMMEN- T TRY SOME ANNUAL VINES Maud Chegwidden Can any home have enough vines around It? Over the front porch over the kitchen porch on wire or lattice fences up the sides of garages and outbuildings covering the stumps of dead trees or In numerous other positions the annual vines may be grown for both shade and beauty If you are occupying a new home these annual climbers will give privacy to your rear yard In a few weeks: they will adorn all your surroundings with green grace and loveliness Nothing can remain ugly when seeds of some of these vines areplanted near It The canary bird climber Is a slenof much grace It has der grower f lnely cut foliage and flowers which the Impression of a canary in give grow twenty feet at flight TheIt will cardinal climber another best By dainty thing has lacy leaves and small but brilliant red flowers Very well known Is the morning Them for the the ing til MANUFACTURERS P 0 Box 1079 Salt Lake City PLANT NOW SEEDS THAT GROW Hake Your Garden Grow More Beautiful— Flowers' Shrubs and Bulbs— With ed Station Russ Sugar Beet Acreage Grows LIrht’s preliminary estimate of the European sugar beet acreage including Russia shows an Increase of 19 per cent over last year Excluding Russia a decrease of lSper cent from last year Is indicated The total acreage Is estimated at 7425000 acres as compared with 7285000 acres harvested In 1930 according to Llcht's estimates The Russian acreage Is placed at 3415000 acres which Is 835000 acres above that of last year 1931 THE MODERN FERTILIZER BAILEY & SONS CO SEEDSMEN Retail Store 63 East 2nd South Warehouse 5th South and 3rd West Phone Was 365 ’ W - SHOWS SUGAR a from those of many other sections of Utah because of a low and uncertain winter rainfall the comparative “rawness” of the soil nd the peculiar stickiness of the soil when wet According to the bulletin the soUs of that locality are low In humus and for this reason crop rotations are absolutely essential and more livestock should be kept on the farms Because of this lack of humus content the soil are susceptible to gully erosion Apparently phosphorus should be used on the soils to supplement barnyard manure The wheat varieties were found to be better suited than the short varieties Oats have done very well on the farm Trebl proved to be the outstanding variety of barIt is also believed acley tested cording to the report- that sugar beets Is one of the best crops for this territory Alfalfa was the best forage crop tested The bulletin also contains many other observations and facts about the soils of this area Copies of this bulletin may be obtained by writing the Utah Agricultural Experiment 5-- PRODUCTION OF arge ELEVTORS STRAWBERRIES well-bein- In Its common form but the flowered variety called lpomea I D Zobell and Dr George Stew- Imperialis In the catalogs Is far suart are the authors of a progress perior Plant this sort in a rather report of the Carbon county exper- sheltered position The seeds have The hard coat which needs to be soaked imental farm Just published by the Utah agricultural experiment station overnight In water in order to facilQuality as bulletin 225 Mr Zobell Is su- itate germination The moonflower vine Is one of the Feed perintendent of the farm and Dr Oeorge Stewart who Is now con- loveliest not for any gay colors but the ethereal loveliness of its large nected with the U 8 forest service was formerly agronomist at the ex- creamy white blossoms In the dusk or moonlight During the heat of A Utah product made right here hi Balt Lake— balanced te Insure the periment station during the years sun the blooms fade but new ones covered by the report Ask heat of results from high-graproduct only any producer ash The report deals with the agricu- unfurl with the coming of the gloamand remain open and fragrant unltural problems of the Carbon counlocal Then FAX ask dealer for ny your hatchery today the next morning ty area particularly with those Resolve to try a new vine or two which are peculiar to that section THERE'S A DEALER NEAR YOU year Many of these problems aredlfler-e- nt INTER-OCEA- N Double Egg SURVEY THAN education presumably resulting In a greater ability to think plus a suIt becomes Increasingly apparent perior racial Inheritance- - subordiTREMONTON — A White that the present depression is no nates business to morals That is mere depression but rather a move- what the great races of earth have Leghorn hen belonging to Harry Drew laid an egg last week ment which justifies designation as thought was right they over-- all which for size ought to be ala world adjustment political social their history have sought to achieve Hundreds of Varieties Are whether It was good business or not most a record The egg and economic We have been trying Indeed Grown Only Forty ounces 8 It to believe that Just another economic weighed 4 they have time and time 7 8 8 measured inches by invited and actually precipitated cycle was operating It Is of course again economic Commercially went as disaster It On inches broken they being that and apparently much more beto principle And was found that there was an cause this cycle is accompanied by forward in loyalty worldwide political and social move- - marvelous as - are the American egg Inside the outside egg The People who avoid strawberries beinner shell contained the yolk ments of very large significance achievements of the last half cennot -need and the white was between the which have been In operation for a tury and particularly the last quar- cause of their lngh acidity eatof tbe themselves terms of widespread deny pleasure two shells long time but are crystallizing rap ter century inuntil 1929 the greatest ing this luscious fruit If they will try Idly Into established forms during achievement upof varieties flavored milder some of the In any people history the present few years Indeed our g yet such as the New York the Marshall present' economic condition seems to speaking of material some America is for class and the Chesapeake Several hundue first result be a of these greater forces of strawberries arc Heretofore on many occasions eco- housecleaning which will restore us dred varieties United States one for nomics seem to have forced political more nearly to the allegiance of our grown in the and purpose according every locality and social changes The world and founding to specialists of the United States our own country in this case seem to Defects Admit department of agriculture who have have precipitated this collapse In Of Correction classified them for the benefit of large part by virtue of pressing social As we and consumers Of this large approach these large tasks growers question! for solution of establishing greater Justice and number of varieties however only Economic Security of 40 are grown commercially and about equality of opportunity It will be 19 of these constitute 96 per cent of more and more clearly established In Country Certain the acreage The three leaders — If this Is true — and the movement our own minds that the defects in Klondike Aroma and Howard 17— acIs so large that no complete dlag our economics and our social developnoels Is possible — then we will get ment glaring as some of them' are count for 63 per cent of the acreage In country Cane ami llect Crop of out of the depression no faster than admit of comparatively easy correc theClimate and soil conditions are facwe solve the social and political tlon Abdications revolutions and tors exto a determine that large Thirty-nin- e Countries questions which confront us Farm- dictatorships are as Impossible In tent the best varieties to grow In the ers merchants manufacturers and America as they are necessary under different of sections the The country Increases others who have so much at stake some of the archaic governments and Is the leading sort In should give this thought considera- social arrangements of Europe and Missionary and along the Atlantic coast tion as they look forward to the fu- elsewhere The achievement of our Florida Maryland Most other parts of the The 1930-3- 1 production of cane and ture of their respective businesses alms demands only to righteous The south prefer the Klondike And fanners particularly should straightforward thinking in our vot- Blakemore a new berry developed heet sugar In 39 countries for which look to costs In these days when the ing and diligence in the manipulaIs the popuby statistics have been received shows department becoming future Is so uncertain Of course tion of our governmental machinery In the Carolines and as far north an increase of 45 per cent over the there Is no uncertainty about the assuming of course a high level of lar 1929-3- 0 economic security of tills country Individual virtue In the citizenship as New Jersey a season according to latest most in ls favorite Aroma of The Resources the like of which the world of the country which is still a Justireceived from official estimates regions of the central sources and the International Instilias never before seen are ours gov- fiable assumption in spite of the dan- the milder Including the northern part tute of Agriculture ernmental principles which arc the gerous infiltration over the past 50 states The total proArkansas and Tennessee and the duction in these countries which repmost advanced on earth (not so much years from countries with alien of of Missouri Illinois southern parts can be said for governmental prac- ideals Every necessary power la In and Indiana resent about 83 per cent of the world Is The popular is now placed at 26079854 short tices) a system of universal educa- the hands of the voters If we In the remainder ofDunlap the middle west crop with 24946236 tons as compared tion which more and more guaran- haven't the Intelligence and courage In the northwest Marshall Oregon tons reported for the 1929-3- 0 tees enlightened voting and thus to discriminate between men who 121 and Clark are most short Ettersburg guarantees the only possible safety are merchandise and usually already widely grown while the Howard 17 season for and sincere and Is Production In 12 cane sugar producin democratic government a racial bought and paid servant king north of the Ohio and Poto- ing countries representing about 74 Inheritance from the liberty loving capable public then we mac of east the and Mississippi cent of the world cane sugar crop have no right to expect good govand laware abiding peoples ofof Europe — ernment In recent years varieties adapted per is 84 per cent below last season the foundation continuthese to have their taken purposes special g This decrease however Is more than In America No other These days are far above the avering has places by the side of the older ones made up by an increase of 238 per so much upon which to age In Importance as we proceed to The nation 121 grown in WashEttersburg cent In the world crop Eubuild register here and throughout the ington and Oregon is preferred by rope this season reports a record Let us not however be deceived world very farreaching decisions new Blakemore beet sugar canners while the production of 11062889 appears to be especially good for pre- short tons as compared with 8862155 Ice cream The trade serving As prefers short tons reported for 1929-3- 0 the Marshall and Klondike previously stated Russia accounts for New varieties of strawberries are over Gerwhile half of this Increase being Introduced constantly the de- many France Czecho-Slovak- ia and partment says Many of them possess the United Kingdom account for the no special value as compared with balance varieties and Revised estimates received since the the isoAt of them soon disappear from latest published table Include the nurserymen's lists Occasionally a United Kingdom Irish Free State new variety such as the Blakemore Italy France Hungary and Bulgaria has merit enough to make a place New estimates received are from Jafor Itself maica and Peru EVEN BUSINESS flory Feed STATE DECLINE well-bei- tion of feed Yeara like' this when water Is scarce there Is art added argument for corn silage On many farms In Utah a good crop can be grown with two irrigations Almost any farm will make a good yield on three Irrigations Many silos in Utah have been left empty the past few years because the owners felt It was expensive to grow corrt Tills idea Is not well founded even for normal years vhen water Is plentiful and prices are better for other crops Beet pulp has been used Instead of silage on many dairy farms Unless conditions change materially the next few weeks there may be a decided shortage in the beet therefore the supply of tonnage pulp will be very limited If the beets do not start properly this spring com could be planted In that same land Silage has a replacement value In the dairy ration of two and or three pounds to one of alfalfa Farms that do not produce five tons or more of alfalfa per acre can get more tons of feed per acre from corn silage than any other crop Bilage can be produced on an average farm with about 20 to 25 Inches of water alfalfa requires 25 to 30 Inches pastures If kept up properly require more water than alfalfa The spring grain crops can be grown on considerably less water Frequent cultivation and row Irrigation are both very good practices for conservation of water Silage machinery Is often spoken of as a very expensive part of this crop Two or three farmers cooperating WHY NOT BE FAIR? ! KINDS OF 1- -8 tural College Utah farmers can profitably grow corn" for silage Silage will yield from 15 tons to 23 tons per acre which makes It a leader In produc- sota MORE IMPORTANT ACRICULTURALCOLlil FARM WAGES IN Leghorn Hen Lays Record 5-- Forage Crop 15 BY AJf PRESIDENT UTAH CONSUMES QUERIES Mrs S O P Salt Lake writes: “I am very fond of blue flowers Will you tell me of some which will grow In & border shaded for the most part of the day? Delphinium doesn’t do well there at all so I am moving them this spring and would like something about the same height to take their Also can you give place If possible me the name of a very tall flower in sprays creamy white which blooms very late In the year and Is very The leaves are sweetly scented pretty too” A Monkshood or aconltum Is just the plant you want for this shady position It Is a tall grower very deep blue with hooded flowers on strong stems The perennial anchusa also thrives in some shade and this has beautiful blue flowers but rather coarse foliage I think the flower you mean is lactiflora scented migwort or hawthome Mrs L W( Pleasant Grove writes: "We Intend to make a lily pool this year but do not know how deep to dig it Will you please help with advice? Should there be earth In the bottom?” A The rule for growing water Ulles Is a foot of earth and a foot of water over this Your excavation should be about thirty inches deep which allows for a wall of concrete Rich soil Is needed for the lilies with about an Inch of clean sand covering it to help keep the water clear six-fo- STATE ISSUES this SOIL BULLETIN FEEDWEEDS SAY A EXPERTS way to fight weeds In Is to feed them This Is the the advice of turf seemingly paradoxical of deUnited States the specialists partment of agriculture Feeding the la-w- good weeds gets results the experts say because the fertilizer that feeds the weeds also feeds the grass and stimulates such vigorous growth that the thrives with frequent grass which will run out the objectiocuttingweeds nable For lawn fertilizer the specialists It Is hard to beat aay manure For the spring dressing it Is a good plan to compost manure “Muck Boll Investigations” Is the title of a new bulletin Just issued by the Utah Agricultural college experiment station LeMoyne Wilson superintendent of the Sanpete county experiment farm and Dr George Stewart former agronomist at the college are Joint authors of the publication which is known as bulletin 224 The bulletin is a progress report of the work conducted at the San- pete farm since 1927 The farm Is located on muck or peat land There Is approximately 21000 acres of this type of soil In Utah and consequently the investigations made on this soil are considered to be very Important According to the authors a proper realisation of the possibilities of the l&rWcstem Grower V Finisher E J MAYNARD USAC ADEQUATE WINTER BEEF FEED E L and Albert Patry of Roosevelt are demonstrating the value of adequate winter maintenance rations for beef calves destined to be fattened the following winter as yearlings A bunch of long yearlings on the Patry ranch estimated to weigh right at 1000 pounds per head came in off the range last fall weighing between 800 and 850 pounds as a result of the system for winter feeding calves employed by the Patry’s It has become a well established rations fact that submaintenance are never economical in modem day beef production The Patry’s have found that young animals make most efficient use of feeds and consequently feed a fairly generous ration of alfalfa hay to calves during their first winter on the ranch These growing calves utilize to good advantage the high quality of protein or growth producing material contained In legume hay and produce most efficient growth during winter They are then In condition to continue with good gains during the summer Carbonaceous hays such as wild hay and native or prairie hay make a poor winter ration for a calf unless they contain some legume such as alslke or unless some protein concentrate is added The animal body can synthesize or change “protein to carbohydrates or fat but It cannot manufacture protein from these other Lack of protein the esIngredients sential growth producing nutrient Is a serious matter with young cattle and will cause an enormous increase in the cost of producing beef Calves on experiment fed native hay alone during a five months’ winter feeding period consumed nine pounds per head dally and gained only 25 pounds per head during the period while similar calves fed a mixed hay Including alslke clover consumed 13 pounds dally and gained 155 pounds per head in the same length of time Similar Improvement was obtained when an efficient protein concentrate was added to the native hay A calf starved through the winter on a nubmainteuance ration will make heavier summer gains than the winter fed calf but will not catch up with the latter on a year round basis It Is generally recommended that stock calves on a well balanced winter ration should be made to gain about a pound per head dally through the winter If most efficient year-rouwith leaf mold and sod or other region should help to eliminate gains are desired hazardous wastes on then the and It sift undertakings part vegetable with a coarse screen to remove lumps of farmers It Is thought that unA top dressing la a der the present physical and and bunches for a lawn In the fall It cLvfeopment of the project spring tonic so is not necessary to compost ma- tlie production of vegetable crops on to or a and remove nure unde large scale Is not warranted While lumps celery seems well adapted and is of cayed matter The forage men advise an applic- excellent quality there are still WASHINGTON? April 12 (TV-T- he ation of four or five pounds of either many problems that need study be- organization committee for the profore success of this crop In the area posed cooperative agency to sell mistbe muriate or the sulphate of potof su- can be assured cellaneous fruits and vegetables will ash and ten to fifteen pounds 1000 square The bulletin suggests that farmers meet here April 14 perphosphate for each of refeed of lawn consider value be should the growing The committee is composed of This feet crops for their livestock Since the members of organizations marketing peated every two or three years A good nitrogen fertilizer lor early major occupation of the valley Is ootatoes apples and various miscelmeal livestock raising additional supplies laneous fruits and vegetables spring is composed of cottonseed nitrate of soda or sul- of grain should be valuable In mak-- lt and either of Use four or flvelng possible to fatten stock at go far toward establishing a permaphate ofammonia the meal to each pound home Peas and potatoes grown on nent agriculture In the district pounds concentrated fertilizer and' selected area should be successful! Copies of this bulletin can be secured of the of by making a request of the Utah scatter the mixture over the lawn at as cash crops The desirability about fifteen to twenty rotation and fertilization la empha- State Agricultural Experiment Sta-- j I tbe rate ofeach sized by the authors 1000 square feet They would tlon at Logan pounds (o well-rott- ed eco-nort- lo nd Fruit Vegetable Unit Calls Parley vi ar Corrals Expect Record Shearing LEHX— The Fairfield Shearing corrals In Cedar valley owned and operated by A V Flack Of Fairfield will run a record clipping this year probably the second largest In the state Starting the season with contracts calling for between 75000 and 80000 head of sheep the Fairfield corrals now have contracts for over 100000 head Eighty men are at work at the corrals and the run Is expected to last until late In May The Jericho corrals south of Fair- field In northern Tin tic valley will run through In the neighborhood of 130000 head while Nephl will clip be- tween 30000 and 35000 head These three corrals will clip prac-- 1 tically all the wool of central Utahi that winter range on the west deserts of Utah SHOWS Labor Supply Increases Pay Takes Biggest Drop in East All classes of farm wages on April were lower In Utah by 15 per cent than a year ago while the supply of farm labor increased correspondingly In relation to the demand according to comparative data on national farm labor and wages Issued Tuesday by the United States department of agriculture bureau of agricultural economics Farm wages have decreased dui'Uig the year over the country from 28 per per cent hi eastern states to 15level cent hi the west at the lowest since 1916 the report Indicates due to considerably lower levels of industrial employment This resulted In in- creasing tlie supply of farm workers materially and a sharp decline in the demand for farm products due to drastic drops in prices paid farmers reduced the demand for farm help In Utah tlie demand for farm help Is 74 per cent of normal with the supply 124 per cent of normal tlie supply being 175 per cent of demand In Idaho the demand Is 70 per cent and supply Is 121 per cent ofjiormal the supply being 173 per c&it of demand In Wyoming the demand Is 115 per cent and supply 77 per cent of normal the supply being 149 per cent of demand Utah farm wages' by the month with board this year average $47 compared with an average of $43 a month for western states and $2596 for the country Idaho pays $43 and Wyoming $40 The Bible contains no words of more than six syllables 'J 1 V NOTICE I will not be responsible for debts contracted by the New York Coney Island Sandwich Shop 62 E 2nd South HARRY RALLIS Dated April 26 1931 BUYATVOGELER’S SEEDS Plant your flower garden with Vogeler Seeds and Plants BEST BY TEST Bedding Plants Asters Petunias Verbenas Snapdragons Tomato Plants V VOGELER’S 30 W 1st So Was 804 Auerbach’s Grocyterya (We reserve the right to limit quantity) Free Delivery on Grocery Purchases of $3 or More lb 35c Special ‘I:i BANANAS Ib6c New Potatoes 5 bs- - 25c SPINACH ’ 2 bs 5c a' £S2f25c 2 pkgs 25c Krispies Corn Flakes Rice Toilet Paper jam rolls 25c “°r: 5 cans 2 Pineapple EMfiL Cottage Cheese Special VEAL CHOPS LAMB CHOPS PORK CHOPS LAMB STEW 27c 2 for 35c cloy" al Lb 25c Lb '25c Lb 25c Lb 10c Vi |