Show ATOL anual d REPORT nl OF FARM BUREAU by organ orion P madmen since agricultural extension work or farm bureau work wa was instituted by the notates ver veralee vlee of the V U 8 A and the stale tal agricultural their field or county agricultural ri agents are requested reque eted to rub sub mil mit la in writing to all operative cooperative co agen apts eles eie an anoual report of the farm bureau activities organized county the work that has ixon been aeta has been made possible only ottly through thrpo gh the th eo operation cooperation of the farm fam ere ers and their the coal com ehte who have so 0 o earnestly car netly worked to finish the tanks it t st at have ben been placed upon them are given the credit together with t officers of the fana farm bureau who resumes the responsibility the agricultural abreut is employed by the government state ani ant county W t act aa an av adleor u in fit 11 branches of nuie urr undertaken by th farm form bureau ills 1 work is 11 t est all ca operative ag enles in putting tle the program of i v over all hie his tim time Is taken up la in the advancement advance nent of agricultural activities ilia only purpose is to aee see put into effect agriculture which means better arm arms homes ant an I 1 community living in aliw every county as in carbon county wl ere fann farm bureau work ia is being dolie a program of work ia Is ont lined d bv the member members at its antirust meet meeting ing such sua work aa as is most needed usually filk filla thi this tiro grogram grotta county aj local committees are part parts of each project to put over and they are 1 ia part for ita its 1 following I 1 Is the program of work la in projects taken up during the year 1920 in carbon carldon count county rit better irrigation systems due to ea so many complaints coining coming to the president of he the bureau an sit ie Is vesti gation wad w roade made as to the condition conditions of beant systems an attempt was made to fiera ria a lie me board on ono one ye tem which failed but ba the results in a better system were accomplished more water was delivered to the far harrotts un tin det der the systems than in several year years which resulted in better crops amor T fall fail the oa 01 are receiving another cleaning continued oa olk page sit FARM BUREAU REPORT continued from f rom page pa 0 siring saving lambs oie one hundred fifty tight eight lamb lambs were re pl teed amor boy boys al a l on farm farms of the county they were gath ath mw ered up near heep sheep ban hauls I 1 whore where other wine they would have b ave die diel I 1 at to 0 per head this would have made a giving oving ilone slone of men more and better dairy cows because of the lack of dairy pro ducts in the county an ani I 1 the good mar keto act tho the bureau hae has assisted I 1 in placing fotty fatty five head of rood good dairy cows dairying on the farm is essential for boil soil improvement and ie Is one basic prin rile title for permanent agriculture un lea less snore are kept on forms hero here the manure can an bo be bot 1111 I 1 in bull I 1 tug in up the pod sen our farm wilt will bp be depleted and their cropping elements gone dairying is belos being 1 I and the not t complete ur urit uril il es every try farm arm I 1 us as a goo gool 1 dairy her I 1 an ani I 1 a eilo silo wheat standardization one gool goal yielding variety of blat la to being la in the county learn eare ago and some now the wheat produced was a miserable mixture of everything this shows carelessness 1 in the farmer and gies gives a poor blell delow or california club yield yields well under our condition conditions and will be standardized ai as flat an a possible more than 50 per cent of the farmers now are growing thi this variety some ground this year has yielded fifer fiat five bushel bushels of thi this wheat per acre kubenka wheat one of the durum vallet lep was tested in nine parte parts of the county thi this year with good result results it wilt wil be tried again next year control of rodents Bodt nta more than acrea of cultivated and aar range ge land were vers treated with poi pot oats for the destruction of brair ie 1 e dog dogs the past season thirty three hundred pounds of this grain was dl tributes tri bated buted an est estimate imite of the results as 14 coming from farr farrere aers showed that prairie prattle log were killed by this method taking an av of the damages done la to cultivate ed crops and range vegetation as worked out by the biological survey each prairie dag destroys 50 cents worth of crops and grasses per year making a saving of there were sixty nine farmers fo eo operating in this work no livestock wa was reported pol ened ned wood eradication weeds that are de fared lared in carbon county are canada th thistle thic letle tle dur bur dock bull thistle aad end wh te top A campaign was waged against these weds with tle I 1 ic following results MH railroads cleared 10 miles etoal cleared 78 county and state roads experiment experiments were run on spraying the following weeds with sodium ar a lie results wild morning glory good canada thistle not killed mouse ear killed wandering Wanie riBS ring milk NN ced killed hilled this is the first time this thin chem leal has ha b en tried on killing wieda in car bon county definite results cannot ie le deter ninel until next growing season cros and pests inspector had charge of this work sparrow control most people who have tried raising raining gardens in price in years past have seen een the goo I 1 of the campaign a dinst sparrows par rovis last winter dead spar par r rows ws were counted an estimate has been placed that each sparrow will con sume six quarts of wheat annually N wheat heat was per bushel list pint w win in ter and this saved 1881 bushels of wheat or besides this sparrows spar rowa d di a lot of damage to gardens and f fiell lel I 1 crops the county agent visited differ out farms an I 1 made a total of I 1 visits to farm call calli I 1 on him in hia his office for albee alt ice days were spent ID in the field OS days were spent in the office 1 meetings were attended ly the lie counte agent total atten luice at Aings 1450 1 r hundred liun ired eighty scan person il lit lt ura vere nul nut circular it let t ri illel nil rel itel to agriculture ani bureau flork miscellaneous work of the county agent consist coni of such work that can not be rianne I 1 on before hand it just comes conies an I 1 mu mutt at be taken care of ad vice liaa lia been given to farmers isaf of tie count coun on crops oils soils ir gatton ri drainage marketing ing lits animal diseases poultry management seed Pe election seed treat ment for unease It sease rodent control preda tory tery animal control insect control hor ti culture floriculture flora culture gir lening and in fact almost everything local peo le are trouble with |