Show COUNTY AGENTS COLUMN RODENT CONTROL ground squirrels are appearing in numbers duo due to the mild weather conditions it Is true that ground squirrels will receive bait in limited qu quantities antilles an titles during tile the early part ot of the season however it Is not practical to do early baiting field tests have shown that the bulk of our baiting should be put oft off until the green toed feed appears and we have continued warm weather it Is often argued that it if squirrels will take the poison early there are less squirrels killed later on there are two things to keep in mind regarding this argument first there is a possibility of poisoning certain of our song birds with the poison grain in the absence of insect life second there Is a decided disadvantage to early poisoning because only male rodents actually get the bait it if poisoning Is put oft until green teed feed Is present bird life Is protected and a more uniform control in rodents can be obtained there will e plenty of poison grain available but the biological survey notifies us that it will not be released until the conditions are right 4 H club A number ot of 4 11 club leaders spent the week of february 25 at logan receiving instructions tor for the coming season last season there were quite a number of successful girls 4 11 clubs in millard county it la Is hoped that this year we will have an increased enrollment in the boys 4 11 clubs mr garvin charlesworth of kanosh mr elford reeve ot of hinckley and mrs myrtle ot of SCIPIO attended the school these people will help the county agent supervise club work in the county during the corning coming season SEED the importance of good clean seed that will germinate well cannot be overemphasized overemphasized after a the past it is often hard to obtain quality seed there is likely to be a tendency because ot of the scarcity to plant any sort of seed this would surely bo be tolly folly weed seed is more likely to be prevalent in the ordinary grain any crop seed infested with the noxious coed seed is always more expensive than good clean seed farmers need to be sure that the seed they plant has not been la in storage tor for several years and now reclaimed tor for planting germination on old seed may be less than 5 per cent ot of last years seed old seed of poor germination is always expert sivo good clean grain seed can be obtained from any seed houses as por per ter walton the following also have seed grain to soil sell G kusworm murray utah george A lewis lehl lehi utah L G aunsion Sun slon sion springfield utah AAA to continue all adjustment programs in 1935 with farm prices still substantially Bub below parity although much improved during the past two years the agricultural adjustment administration Is not considering abandonment ot of any nd program now la in effect director william peterson has just been informed average january farm price ot of the 14 basic commodities included under the AAA was per cent ot of the prewar pre war level but in terms of present prices tor for commodities which farmers purchase parity would be afi ls 26 rf per cent ot of the prewar pre war level levela tho the january farm price of these 14 commodities I 1 modi parity ties was therefore 20 points below with farmers farmer facing a situation in which farm prices without benefit payments are 20 points below parity no consideration has been given to abandonment 0 of any adjustment program with normal growing conditions unless there are ara substantial increases in consumer buying power and industrial production in 1935 it Is believed that prices could easily go lower this year considering benefit payments pay menta as additional income farmers received on the part ot of their crops consumed in this country returns to per cent of oc prewar pro pre war prices or 2 points less than parity tor for the 14 basic commodities for the 7 of these 14 basic commodities covered by adjustment programs tamers farmers re calved in farm arm price plus benefit payments 9 points above parity however this margin above parity applies only to that share of sales consumed in this country |