Show county farm news by tile the county agent the films those who follow a 16 mm min sound picture lii ill natural color and some slide films were shown tills this week throughout the county under the direction of the county beautification tl fi committee for the centennial year both the slides and the film were put out by the utah state centennial committee and showed beauty spots of our state as well as some deplorable conditions along our highways all who seen these pictures cou help but have renewed determination to beautify their own home grounds and assist in the cleanup clean up of their community ity lets wake up to our possibilities and make plute county a lovelier place in which to live we cannot do everything needed to bo be done till this a centennial year but lets do all we can tu to imade make our communities beautiful ifal testing for bangs disease in in plute county was completed last week with dairy and range cattle being tested under the direction of robert L poulsen of the state department 0 f animal industry and dr 0 L jones of the U S department of animal industry and the county agent forty two animals ot of the animals tested had tile the disease or per cent thirty two 0 others were suspects herds with s suspects Is I 1 pacts should be tested again this tall fall to eliminate any chance chanc of f reactors which will be spreading the disease burtenshaw Dur said T n B testing to lie he done in order to be ah accredited county the law requires that all dairy cattle be tested tor for tuberculosis every three years to keep plute pints county on the accredited list and to keep reactors at a minimum tuberculosis testing of 0 all dairy cattle will be done in the near future under the direction ot of dr jones and dr poulson the 1947 tree shipping season from the utah state college forest nursery has now closed raymond R moore extension forester announced today there have been 0 trees rees of twelve dIf different varieties shipped to farmers of utah and nevada this season mr air moore co continued tinned on page five county farm news WS continue from page one reported these trees tree included both hard and soft wood varieties cost to farmers averaged two and one halt half cents per tree all orders received from hero here out t will bo be returned with money or if the sender desires will bo be back ordered to next year mr moore said most tr cos are now budding anil and cannot stand bland to be shipped hipped 8 lie he explained the uso use of good seed in ili planting 1847 1947 crops cannot be urged too strongly stion gly it is impossible to produce big crops ciopa with poor seed bead r eton ven fairly good seed la is not lot good enough duy buy and use nothing but the best the planting of oe crop seeds contaminated with noxious wood weed seeds eeds lids has been the principal bouce 1 of weed infestation in ji atah 1 11 most of tile noxious nolous weeds die are not native to this area but but lide have been introduced croul lorn other parts mostly from foreign counties and yet this coil contaminated seed Is still being used in ili t the le state in preparing tile the seed seedbed bod an all attempt should ie be made to bring about the best possible conditions 1 for seed germination and seedling development heat air and moisture are necessary before germination can talo taho place therefore there foie tile alie seedbed should be prep prepared ared in such a in manner liner t that I 1 lat all throe three will be provided seedbeds should be him firm to allow a close contact between soil and seed and should also oe bo moist it the soil Is worked too deeply in ili the spring the surface may be loosened so much that the flie moisture in ili the seed area Is largely lost resulting in failure to secure adequate stands the use ot of sufficient fertilizer on oil the land will pay big dividends fertilizer Is cheap compared to the price at which farmers will sell most products this year therefore do not e economize by cutting down on fertilizer the problem in roost most areas is getting enough certainly there Is no excuse for not cleaning up the last bit of manure around the barn sheds and poultry houses and getting it spread on the crop land where it will do the most good |