Show THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE MONDAY MORNING JULY INTERMOUNTAIN 15 1935 REGION AGRICULTURAL-NEWS- - Shippers Owners Poultry Husbandry Course Solves Experiments Give Microbiology Lose on Animals Many Problems in Egg Production High Results on Of the Soil Dead or Crippled By NOEL L BENNION maturity are usually found in the Crop Residue Use This is the fortieth article on hus- same bird and for this reason by At a recent course in poultry for high persistency more bandry given by the vocational ag- selecting progress can be made Liarft in Loading Offers Jriculture teachers of the state at rapid Dr Card also emphasized the imthe Utah State Agricultural college portance of the usfr-- f the progeny Relief in $3000000 — is judging the breeding by Dr L E Card some interesting test which value pf an animal by the performYearly Loss and pertinent problems were dis- ance of its offspring — in selecting cussed Dr Card is head of the for these various characteristics CHICAGO 111 — American farm- poultry department at the UniverAnother important problem was ers and shippers are suffering a sity of Illinois and is one of the the increasing mortality in the lavthe field of ing flocks throughout the United partly preventable loss of $3 000 000- - outstanding men in He Research work that has is also the States 000 a year through the death or poultry hunsbandry author and coauthor of several out- - been conducted by Dr Card at the crippling of livestock on the way to standing textbooks on this subject Illinois experiment station showed market H R Smith manager of The first week of the course was that susceptibility and resistance the national livestock loss preven- devoted to poultry breeding and the to certain diseases are inherited to problems on poul- and he is of the opinion that this tion board said recently in his first second week In the first part of increasing mortality will have to try feeding research report the work on breeding some time be controlled by selective breeding Basing his estimates on the per- was spent discussing the fundamen- He emphasized the importance of centage of animals known to have tals of genetics and the manner in using the high producing older died or been crippled while in tran- which various characteristics are birds that have been free from disease for breeders in as much as sit to seventeen livestock markets inherited Later in the course he discussed they have lived and layed for at in the last two years by train or truck and to seven other markets the inheritance of egg production least one year The fact was also brought out by train alone Mr Smith declared and in so doing he brought out the that out of 87000000 shipped for fact that there are at least five that egg size shape color and quah commercial slaughter in 1933 more factors that contribute to the num- ity are inherited and that improvethan 72000 died in transit and near- ber of eggs a bird produces and that ment along these lines can be ly 109000 were crippled — which each one is independently inherited brought about by selective breeding means that at least two animals in Th'ese five factors or characteristics along with the use of the progeny every thousand received serious in- are age at sexual maturity which test juries not including the additional is age at first egg winter pause Progeny Test Stressed thousands damaged through bruis- intensity of production or rate at In selecting for these desirable ing (1933 was taken as the last which a bird lays broodiness and characteristics that have been mentypical year since 1934 losses were persistency of production which is tioned the use of the progeny test abnormally high because of the the length of time a bird continues was not only emphasized but also to layd large number of family averages By this is meant animals) Selection Important the taking into consideration of the Hogs Lead Lists In selecting for increased egg pro- performance of a bird’s brothers Death and crippling injuries to duction with the use of the trap and sisters when selecting the hogs are most numerous and those nest the fact was brought out that breeding stock to cattle are least frequent (last the hreeder should select for one If a bird has brothers and sisters year’s drouth cattle having been characteristic at a time such as that are all desirable she is much an exception) according to the in- intensity or persistency of produc- more apt to be a desirable breeder jury totals compiled by Mr Smith tion and after sufficient progress than one from a family in which on nearly 70000000 animals shipped has been made with that character- there is considerable variation Of by train or truck in the last two istic start selecting for a second course this can only be done where the trap nest is used and a complete years to the seventeen markets — factor and so on Cincinnati Cleveland Kansas City Dr Card stated that persistency set of records are kept Milwaukee Oklahoma City Omaha of production is probably the charThe course proved to be very popSt Paul Salt Lake City San An- acteristic that should be selected ular and worth while Dr Card was tonio San Francisco Portland Seat- first This factor can be identified assisted throughout the course' by tle Sioux City Sioux Falls South by the length of time a bird con Professors Byron Alder and Carl St Joseph Spokane and Wichita — tinues to lay during the late sum- Frischknecht from the poultry deand on 28000000 shipped by train mer and fall months It seems as if partment at Utah State Agricultural — only to the seven other markets — high persistency and earjy sexual college - Baltimore Buffalo Chicago Detroit Evansville Fort Worth and Louisiana Losses in 1933 for example by either death or crippling were 98 per 100000 in the case of cattle 192 127 per 100000 among sheep per 100000 for calves and 261 per - drouth-weakene- - Tomato Disease Report Released 100000 for hogs In addition to the humane side of the picture animals arriving dead or crippled inflict heavy financial losses on their owners Those arriving dead can go only to the rendering tank and their only value where any value exists is as inedible product whereas bruised or crippled animals necessitate much loss by “trimming out” in the meatmaking process Thus the average loss on a dead animal Mr Smith reports is about 870 at present market prices in the case of cattle $26 for hogs and for calves and sheep $11 and $650 each respectively As to crippling the average loss in each class is about half of the amount stated In 1933 in proportion to the number handled by each 14 per cent more cattle died on trains than on trucks but 38 per cent more were crippled on trucks tharr'on railroads In each year in proportion to the number handled trucks delivered more dead or crippled hogs and far more dead or crippled sheep but calves arriving detfd or crippled were much more numerous by train Wheat Acreage Pea Vines and Stubble From Wheat Prove Help to Yield - Striking WASHINGTON D experimental results showing that one ton of pea residue per acre worked into the soil together with all the wheat stubble and straw has increased wheat yields from two to three bushels an acre as compared with yields when all stubble has been burned again led soil coservation service officials to urge farmers of the northwest to utilize —not burn — crop residue The figures on comparative yields came as the result of a five-yestudy at the Pendleton field station which further demonstrated that utilization of all wheat and C- ar pea residue does not reduce yields as commonly believed bat instead definitely improves the physical Condition of the soil and increases yields Manure Added Benefits similar to the two to three bushel per acre increase gained by returning pea and wheat residue have been obtained by adding ten tons of strawy manure to the stubble beforfe plowing In the Wildhorse Creek area the soil conservation service’s 35000 acre subproject officials expected still greater differences than were measured at the Pendleton field station because of a higher precipitation in the project area At the pesent time in the where pea growing is cen tered mainly on canning varieties of peas harvesting is accomplished Most of by stationary harvesters the pea refuse in past years has been hauled outside of the project for stock feed This refuse soil conservation experts said because of the value of its high nitrogen content to soil building should be utilized where growiv either by feeding it on the farm or by scattering it on the field during harvesting operations Distribution Needed Various methods of distributing the pea refuse in the field are being considered in the pea canning regions With the present system of stationary threshing a manure spreader appears to be the most Care- practical method It is hoped sub-proje- Checking Begins Sugar Beet Leaf Hopper Two Named to Make ful Measurements in Inject Virus Into Other Plants Enemy Country however Reports have CASTLE DALE — The checking ljOUNTIFUL reached the office of County Agent of wheat planted has alDeLore Nichols relative to the yel- ready begun in Emery county and low blight disease that is attacking Dee Christensen of Ferron and Vicmany of the tomato fields in Davis tor Mortensen ot Cleveland have Mr Nichols and Agent been appointed to do this work county H L Blood specialist in fruit and These men have been ordered by vegetable crops and diseases of the wheat section of the A A A to the Utah experiment station con- make very careful measurements ducted a survey of conditions in because of the rigidness of the this county compliance rules In the report of the survey Mr According to William Peterson Blood said: “Due to the fact that director Utah extension service so few growers are acquainted with the arrangements for 1935 are the nature of the disease it might somewhat different from 1934 The be well to state that the sugar beet county committee will be essenleaf hopper known as the white fly tially responsible for acreage comknown to inject into the sugar beet pliance under loe contract In 1934 a virus which develops and induces the drouth rather upset the entire the disease known as curley top in procedure because a large portion the beets does identically the same of the acreage failed and where thing in the tomato and induces the crop whollj or partly failed the development of the yellow blight careful checking for compliance in the tomatoes" was abandoned "There is no control pTan known Under the contract every man at present but the Utah Agricultur- should be able to indicate his plantal experiment station in coopera- ed and also contracted acreage that tion with the U S department of is left out of this year production a agriculture is working toward in accordance wlh the contract Acsolution as rapidly as limited funds cording to Dtlcctor Peterson the will permit use of the contracted acreage is He pointed to the progress which much the sanje as it was last year has been naade in developing a sugar beet seed which will resist Coiinty re disease in sugar beets and states that this gives a basis for the be4-lief that the ultimate control of the blight in tomatoes will be sucHUNTINGTON— Huntington with cessful five clubs leads in club work of con“There is a prospect for a the fourteen clubs organized in tinuous movement of the beet leaf Emery county They are all clothhopper from surrounding sugar beet ing clubs and are fields ditch banks and waste acres Mabel Lemmons Mrssurpervised by Laura Roper infested with Russian thistles and Ella Howard Della McElprang and various mustard plants Into the Ethel Shaw tomato fields with a resulting con Emery has four clubs three girls’ tinuous development of the (1186086 clothig clubs lead by Mabel Anderseason” said the he throughout son Fozella Peacock and Dorris He said a series of heavy sum-be- r and one boys’ club led storms combined with cool Williams R M Allred by the weather would probably retard Castle Dale has two home science disease and reduce the rapidity clubs led by Mrs George Magnuson with which it spreads and Mrs Milton Greaves and one boys’ forestry club led by Carlos Larson Orangeville has one boys’ Payson corn club led by Wilford Humphrey Cleveland has one girls’ food club ' directed by Thelma Johnson PAYSON — A food canning center established in Payson for relief Killed ' in Crash clients opened this week under the RUSSELL Run July 14 supervision of John Lerrill and Mrs Sellens- - 19 son of W H Pearl Bills The kitchen is being operated at Sellens forme sheriff of Russell the Payson high school and various county was killed early today in a kinds of fruits and vegetables will collision of two jnotor cars two miles west of here be canned for'winter needs — ac-ea- that a combined pea swather and thresher for green peas can be devised to solve the problefn of returning all residues at the same time greatly reducing harvesting costs two patrolmen Included la the was of stealing a car that charges UP) Klesh said he shot down 14 allied Klesh 39 who police said was planes in the World war a German ace in the war was booked today on five charges after Chandui Chauk Delhi was one the automobile he was driving supposed fo be the richest street in crashed into a radio car injuring the world Arrest German Ace District Survey— — NEW YORK July 14 microbiology of the noil and its relationship to soil fertility by Dr Thomas L Martin professor of agronomy at Brigham Young university Another article will be published next Monday By T L MARTIN Agronomist Brigham Young University A European investigator by the name of Winogradsky studied fixation for a number of years When he found that these organisms do fix nitrogen he also found that they required a lot of available phosphorus An analysis of the bodies of these organisms indicated that they were higher in azot-obact- phosphorus than the majority of other soil organisms This seemed to indicate to Winogradsky that these organisms would not grow un less a good supply of phosphorus was available Test Marked Out He worked out a test in which the growth of azotobaeter could be used as a measure of the amount of available phosphorus in the soil This test has been modified somewhat but usually a small amount of soil is mixed with a little water and starch and then placed in a very shallow dish The surface of the soil is glazed over with some smooth instrument and' in a moist environment this dish and its contents are placed at a temperature of 28 degrees Centigrade for about forty hours At the end of this time little colonies of organisms appear at the surface They look like little drops of water Upon examination these little drops are found to con tain thousands of little soil organisms considered as members of the azotobaeter group If there is a vigorous growth on the surface of this soil the soil is considered to be well supplied with phosphorus If very little growth is there then the soil is thought to be needing phosphorus If there is no growth it is considered as a positive test indicating that before any profitable plant gpowth can occur tt all in that soil it must be treated with phosphorus fertilizer There are a lot of uncertainties to this test However it may be used to a limited extent It is not to recommended unqualifiedly Soil Molds Changed There are other tests which work a little on the same principle in which different kinds of soil molds are used A discussion of this perhaps would be a little too technical for a series of articles How soil organisms have much to do with the making available of other plant foods in the soil should prove interesting This will be discussed next time be On Crops Shows Heavier ’35 Yield Three Idaho Areas Aided hy Full Water Flow and Early Rains Ic® 7?eA TWIN FALLS Idaho— A survey of crops on tho Twli Falls h and Salmon projects of Twin Falls county last week revealed them to promise a larger total proMur-taug- duction than last year Several factors contribute to a greater volume ana higher quality of most products than in 1934 Full Flow of Water Farmers on the Twin Falls project of 202000 seres have a 100 per cent water supply for ihe full growing season of 1935 compared with only 80 per cent for most of last year The condition is augmented by the fact that prolonged spring rains kept the soil in excellent condition The result was a high percentage of crop germination and to put all produces in shape for the rapid growth which has occurred since warm weather became permanent several weeks ago canal officials state A few fields ot barley and oats were headed before July 1 and a great many mori have headed since then The earliest fields are now beg'nnlng to ripen with harvest to start before the end of July These crops are eari'er toward the west end of the tract around Buhl and in Hagdrman valley as s lower there and the elevation crops have greater protection from cold winds and spring frosts All tracts yielued a big crop of hay the second crop now being well advanced Beans beets potatoes onions and corn all show a healthy with assurance and prolific-growtof good yields The combination of adequate water and frequent cultivation together with good soil conditions make these commercial products particularly promising Fruit Generally Good Except for some cherries peaches and Delicious apples the fruit crop is declared to be exceptional this occurred from year - What-damalate frost occurred only In scattered sections and was not general nor totally destructive The Murtaugh project is in tho sqme favorable situation as the Twin Falls project both being irrigated from Snake river Rnd American Falls reservoir The Salmon tract has the largest water supply in several years due to heavier runoD into Salmon reser voir from watersheds of southern Idaho and nortueasterr Nevada via the Salmon riva- Cas-tlefo- JE coWhat You Get ge FOR ONLY Sensational New Features That Make WARD The Greatest "Buy” Experience and By E J in Refrigeration FROZEN DESSERTS — freezes ice cream mousse sherbets etc at low cost in only 45 minutes 1 1 Comment Five Burley Youths Payson F F A Chapter To Attend FFA Meet Goes to Yellowstone BURLEY Idaho— Five Burley FuPAYSON— A party of 35 Future ture Farmers have been named to Farmers of America in company attend the State F F A conven- with Le Roy Bunnell vocational tion in Moscow July 15 to 20 They guidance instructor at Payson high are: Frank Manning and Eldon school are spending a week in YelLarson chapter officers' John Stout lowstone national park and Earl Matthews dairy judging The trip is a" project undertaken team and Neal Olson who with each year by the local association Stout and Manning make up the in line with an educational program livestock Delton of the unit judging team Parker is an alternate The boys will compete in an oraEking out a living by growing cotorical contest conduct competitive coa a colony founded by aristocratic chapter meetings and enjoy a recre- southern families who emigrated ational program as well as judging from the United States after the Glenn Kunke) vocational agricul- Civil war has been found by a ture instructor will accompany traveler on the banks of the Tapajoz river in South America them -Al- fred MAYNAftD 2 AIR CONDITIONED — absolutely re -- freshes foods with a crispness and delicious keeps them ness never known Prevents mixture of food flavors in gleaming 3 STREAMLINED BEAUTY-finishe- d white long wearing Dulux 4 ICE SERVICE SHELF-servin- g tray handy in placfood serving desserts chipping ice ing or 5 SLIDING BASKET-SHELF-fholding butter eggs and small food products 6 LOW PRICED -- costs only about ONE -- FOURTH the amount you would pay for any other type that even approaches such service! ed Utah State Agricultural College Control Breeding of Range Cattle Utah range cattle growers who attended the recent meeting atF R Carpenter’s Dawson Cattle company ranch at Hayden were impressed with the care and attention paid the eight head of high quality range bulls which Carpenter uses to sire the 550 odd calves produced on his ranch each year Assisted by his partners Evan Marr and Scotty Annand Carpenter has worked out a control breeding in each year system that during the past fifteen Mixing Sizes One Cause years has produced amazing results “The common practice of permityet is simple and practical of operation As a result of this control with to be calves largshipped ting er animals often for long distances breeding system bull cost per calf G PETERSON on- the Dawson ranch averages only By ELMER without partitions of any kind in 70 cents as compared to $2 to $4 President Utah Agricultural College the cars is another cause of the per calf on the general run of higher percentage dead and cripranches western pled by rail” said the report after not HOME so INDUSTRY many necessary goods are Birth Dates Close mentioning as a factor in the loss The new president of the Salt produceable as yet in Utah and of calves the longer distances travEmery Reports In addition practically all of the Idaho eled by rail City chamber of commerce Automobiles and many automo- 90 per cent or better calf crop Is On Club Work Lake In regard to sheep it was noted Will Ryberg begins his administra- bile period in parts including tires are ex- born within a “Apparently there has been sometion admirably by emphasizing the amples of heavy drains upon our the spring and as a result all thing radically wrong in the transneed of supporting home industry capital through necessary pat- calves are uniform in size and ready portation of sheep by truck They In advocating this policy Mr Ry- ronage of industry for market in the fall are delivered to the markets shorter Utah cattle growers berg will find abundant support So much the morp reason why those Forty-thre- e distances on the average and yet from throughout the region because goods and services we can produce and others interested in the range the number dead and the number the people of Utah and surrounding should be ’’the first choice of our rattle industry of the state shared crippled on arrival has been much states have from the first been nur- own citizens These goods include Carpenter’s hospitality on the Dawhigher than by rail tured on the idea of industry and agricultural crops raw and proc- son ranch observed the manageNo doubt efforts to get as much And there never was essed meats raw and processed ment methods empldyed and disweight as possible in the trucks a time when we more needed this woolen fabrics candies and other cussed possibilities for employing has brought about overcrowding doctrine than now when we are so confections and drinks ceramic adaptations of ' control breeding There are many instances where tempted to look to government for products processed and natural plans under Utah conditions sheep have been smothered in the solution of so many of our social stone marble metal goods which are J R Singleton bf Sandy who trucks from overcrowding Sheep and economic ills and when so many produced in the region knit goods showed the grand champion carlot are often loaded in trucks with largpeople are dependent upon govern- and other kinds of clothing and of Hereford feeder calves at the er animals unpartitioned and are ment for their livelihood many other products and we should Ogden carlot cattle show and sale in consequence frequently killed or The Salt Lake City chamber of include in our patronage the printing last January reported he had a! Injured commerce will find that its em- and mercantile establishments and ready adopted control breeding Establishes In the unloading of trucks sheep phasis upon the support of home the other home organizations and methods with outstanding success allowed to sometimes to are jump Food Center industry will serve as a rallying cry activities which are heavy tax pay- Last year on his Snake valley ranch Canning the ground from the upper deck and in the regional leadership which ers and whose future is ‘identified he used only five Joulls with 242 are cripple'd in this way The lack well ex- with us pecows and during only a this influential may body of cleats on truck floors permits a men Farmers riod ercise and business On June 12 last he had of Center Region certain amount of slipping and slid201 calves with prospects have an equal stake in this issue The Salt Lake City chamber of counted ing which is injurious” 19 more Mr Singleton reIt is something upon which we all commerce is much more than an or- for 16 to 23 calves were born can unite and something which will that ported ganization of business men of Salt period bring benefits to all the people Lake City Salt Lake City happens during one Alfalfa Seed Growers’ Given Attention Must Measure Up to be the industrial financial' and The support of home industry potentially the cultural center of the The excellent care and attention Board Holds Meeting The Salt paid to the herd bulls on the DawJ does not of course imply that home intermountain region products are to be used or advo- Lake City chamber of commerce son ranch emphasized handicaps cated for use unless they measure therefore is interested in the eco- suffered by the ordinary herd bull Idaho— Members BLACKFOOT up in- quality and unless the firms nomic and social development of the turned on the range to shift for of the Idaho Grimm Alfalfa Seed which produce these products are whole intermountain empire A new himself and too often unable to Growers’ association met Wednesprepared to render service com- industry or the strengthening of ex- scratch a satisfactory ration from Little day afternoon and canvassed the parable to that to be secured else- isting industries in any of the ’com- the scanty forage supply where There is no reason why all munities of Utah southern Idaho or wonder withjange feeds sadly dereport of Auditor M L Vickery for the fiscal year ended June 30 this and more may not be expected western Wyoming inevitably bene- ficient in1 protein essential miner1935 The showing made was highg MOSCOW Idaho — A patent for After' being split the peas are of most of our home industries and fits Salt Lake City All these hun- als and nutrients ly satisfactory 1934 having been a a machine which he claims will ma- dried in a hot-ablast and deliv- the assurance that they can count dreds of communities are in reality that calf crops are low and bulls prosperous year and the report was terially reduce the cost of husking ered from a spout ready for mar- upon a large measure of local pat- suburbs of Salt Lake City Put an unsatisfactory and splitting peas has been grant-edt- o ket accepted Entering this new era in range ronage will stimulate them to better other way Salt Lake City can de Plans also were made for marCharles A Michels assistant The inventor sets forth seven production and finer service velop no faster than the great area cattle production quality type conketing the present crop Indica- professor of agronomy at the Uni- points in his patent description in And the use of home goods agri- which surrouhds ft can be made formation uniform size and proper tions at this time are for a short versity of Idaho which the machine represents new cultural and industrial will in no to grow and prosper nor can it weight and size for age will be Unorthodox in its basic design ideas Professor Michels estimates wise run counter to the operation of prosper at the expense of the sur- essentials in commanding satisfaccrop The alfalfa apparently is not spreading as it should to produce the machine first washes dirt and it will save 10 to 20 per cent of that sound economic law and prac- rounding area Tlje social and eco- tory prices Closer attention to the well though with favorable other harvested foreign matter the loss due to cracked or chipped tice under whicn there is ah em- nomic unity of the intermountain bull's welfare especially during the weather conditions this may change from the peas then runs them peas which must be rejected as un- phasis upon production of certain region is a fact breeding season will be necessary before harvest time according to through a hot chemical solution salable It is good to see the Salt Lake City This does not mean that range goods in those areas best adapted E E Sanders manager Members which expands them almost to the Professor Michels has been a to their production Utah southern chamber of 'commerce take bulls must be'pamptred or raised as of the board are H K Wiley presi bursting point In this condition of the college of agricul-- ! Idaho and western Wyoming which ship in this issue of developing our "pitchfork” animals but rather that dent A J Snyder secretary and the peas are easily cracked or split' ture faculty here since 1928 He is are one industrial and social re- - own resources and citizens gen- - an earnest effort be made to build H L Lowe M L Osley and Ijinto halves by a pair of specially working on several other gion will of necessity be obliged to erallv will be found in support of and hold their vitality to best dN Noyer directors all of whomjdevised oscillating rollers with a dling devices which he hopes to'engage in extensive interstate com - other important issues waiting to be vantage for the important service were present minimum of breakage or crushing patent soon (they are charged with renderingjmcrce for the simple reason that championed Ask your Ice Serviceman - or phone any ice company WARD REFRIGERATOR & MFG CO Los Angeles Your Ice Serviceman Says: THOUGHTS ON RURAL LIFE "d want you to Inow what revolutionary been made in ice refrigeration - cabinets provide J offer eguaL today's £el beautiful refrigeration without an you courteous and prompt service in supply- ing sparkling crystal clear ice for me demonstrate bow H six-we- advances have modern more all uses in your home you can keep foods longer and healthfully" H ' 90-d- Distributed by ester ICE DELIVERY CO - V Agronomist Granted Patent on New Machine for Husking Splitting Peas OGDEN UTAH POLAR ICE CO SALT LAKE CITY energy-producin- ir -- ARCTIC ICE CO SALT LAKE CITY - WASATCH SERVICE CO PROVO UTAH leader-memb- pea-han-- 1 I I 10 DAYS’ FREE TRIAL |