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Show Farm News-Notes By LEW MAR PRICE County Agent The Farm Garden With dollars scarce, labor more plentiful, and an abundance of fertile soil as a foundation, practically every farm in Beaver County should have a well balanced home garden; and' most : town families could find ample space to grow vegetables that would improve im-prove their dietary as well as the pocket book. This factor in an efficiency! effic-iency! program canlnot be log-ically overlooked; and yet, in most cases, i its benefits are not fully realized. In a survey by Mrs. Alameda P. i Brown including; 900 rural Utah fam-I fam-I ilies some of them in Beaver Coun- ty it was found that very few con-! con-! sumed a sufficient amount of fruits or vegetables to maintain the best balance in diet to induce proper growth and development in children or maintain a normal resistance to disease. A small area of summer vegetables with no thought of late summer and winter varieties is the usual type of garden, but while beneficial and worth while, its benefits are negligible neglig-ible when compared with one in which the later, more staple varieties variet-ies are the primary object. By furnishing furn-ishing a large assortment and con-t con-t i n u o u s supply of vegetables throughout the year, many, many dollars that ordinarily go for canned and fresh vegetables will be released for other purposes. A farm garden suggestion usually brings to the mind of the farmer a small intensely hand tilled area. If a third or half acre plot planted in moderately long rows is planned to be cultivated by horse drawn implements, imple-ments, the bulk of the labor can be shifted to horse power, and the back breaking labor materially reduced. Yet this area will probably yield many times the value of an equal area in any other crops. Bigger yields at lower costs are necessary to maintain an adequate income. Lamb Feeders' Day at Cedar The lamb feeding experiment carried car-ried on at the Branch Agricultural College during the past 90 days and announced in this issue of the papers should be of very great interest to Beaver County farmers who plan on feeding lambs in the future. The test has been carried on scientifically scien-tifically accurate, yet on a practical basis, and may bring out points of high economic value to producers of feeder lambs as well as to feeders themselves. It will demonstrate as nearly as one year's test can do the value of cross-breds as compared with the straight-breds for feeding purposes; and the killing demonstration will show why the packer prefers certain breeds, cross-breds, and types, etc. This may be a red letter day in the sheep industry of Southern Utah, and justifies the attendance . of everyone possible who is interested in either breeding or feeding of sheep. We Must Please the Final Judge This is the season of the year when it is most difficult to maintain our usually high quality cream or milk, and it is only for high quality product pro-duct that our creameries can pay on the present basis. Though the price is miserably low, the butterfat is being paid for on the same basis as when prices were higher; high-er; and the great consuming public who is the final judge! of our product is even more selective than when demand de-mand is greater and prices are higher. high-er. We all know that milk is only as clean as the dirtiest thing it touches, and it behooves every producer, whether large or small; to make every etl'ort necessary to get a clean, wholesome product to the creameries. ! Cedar City The feeding experiment experi-ment carried out at the Branch Agricultural Agri-cultural College will terminate Fri- j day, March 11 which will mark the one hundredth day the feeding experiment. ex-periment. In this experiment six classes of lambs of approximately the same age representing cross breeds of Hampshire, crossed with, Rambouillet, Suffolk crossed with Rambouillet, Corriedal crossed with Rambouillet, Lincoln crossed with Rambouillet, grade Rambouillet and a pen of Wrinkley Rambouillet, have been fed under the same conditions, have been weighed regularly at definite de-finite periods and the weights recorded record-ed both for individual and for pens. The demonstration is to determine which of the three classes do best under specified feeding conditions. The lambs will be 'weighed out for the last time on March 11. On March 12 Feeders Day will be held at the College. At one o'clock inspection of the pens and Jambs with discussion will be held. Al two o'clock a killing demonstration and at three-thirty a general assembly to discuss problems of feeding of sheep will be held in the college auditorium. The afternoon is open to the public and will be of real interest to sheepmen. sheep-men. Visitors will be down from the U. S. A. C. It is especially desired that people from surrounding towns also attend this instruction at the College. o |
