Show The County Agents Report Duchesne County Farm News By Robert Murdock and Lloyd Smith SAWDUST MULCH Sawdust is a good mulch for home orchard trees and reports Robert A. assistant professor of horticulture at Utah State It conserves weeds and improves heavy soils when plowed Norton says it might well be used in heavy clay soils in the valley bottoms of He advises adding seven or eight pounds of ammonium sulphate to each pounds of sawdust incorporated with the soil or about pounds of ammonium sulphate per bushel of This will avoid a deficiency and burning of The mulch be one inch deep for shallow-rooted crops such as several inches deep for deeper-rooted Apply the mulch after plants are several inches high and weeds are under Apply mulch around fruit trees in much heavier But be sure not to forget the SUCCESS IN SHEEP With proper management the beginner has every chance in the world to succeed in the sheep advise Duchesne County Agricultural They say much depends on the quality of foundation Also on the care and interest given the type of ram selected for a Russell R. extension sheep and wool specialist at the Utah State notes that most hard luck stories can be I traced to mismanagement Weather is an important but proper programming its effects can be he What type of sheep should one The best Keetch seems to be to raise the kind of sheep best adapted to the the kind that sell best on the He notes that commercial breeders like fast growing sheep the easy feeding kind that weigh well at an early Buyers prefer this type The ultimate eVid of commercial sheep is usually the packing The more weight you have in your lambs with reasonable carcass the more money there is for The specialist says wool is an important Flocks should produce better than the state average pounds per ewe shorn in to be GRAIN STORAGE Build grain storage and bins so they will be mice and bird proof so they can be be fumigated There is a clean grain program being carried on across the This is aimed at reducing losses and at preventing rodent and bird George extension entomologist at Utah State points out that contamina ed wheat no longer can be shipped from one state to another for milling into Federal agencies now are checking such is costly experience to buy contaminated grain and incur the expense of shipping only to have it seized as not fit for human Knowlton |