Uintah Basin Standard | 1959-07-16 | Page 10 | Basin Ag Tours to Cover Eastern and Western Area

Basin Ag tours to Cover eastern And western area Two tours will be the highlight of the annual Agricultural Day next July announces V. C. Tills event is sponsored by the Uintah Basin Soil Conservation District in cooperation with the Extension Agricultural Stabilization Soil Conservation Service and Bureau of Indian One tour will start at the Duchesne County Court House at a.m. and proceed to the Edmond Bench farm eight miles cast of then to Altamont where the farms of Wil-ilam Bruce Hart- man and Bernard where fertilizer demonstration plots will be observed on grain and At the group will sec the pasture of Walt Anderson and an open drain recently completed by James At the Senor farm in Myton they will see land leveling and also a forage nursery which contains 80 varieties of grasses and The tour will then proceed to where free lunch will be Leave Vernal at A.M. The other tour will start at the Court House in Vernal at a.m. and go to the Ray Nash farm to inspect a concrete ditch lining then to the Carl From there the group will go to Hugh Colton's place to sec land leveling and a forage nursery containing 80 varieties of grasses and Members of the tour will then proceed to Jess Caldwell's farm to sec fertilizer demonstration then they will journey on to where Alton Peterson will speak At the Lawrence Caldwell farm in Lapoint the group will see and at the Winfred Long farm in native and planted From here they will proceed to The two tours will meet at the Roosevelt City where free lunch will be served at p.m. Immediately following the lunch there will be a brief and a guest speaker from Salt Lake City will address the Western of Salt Lake City have furnished the nitrogen and phosphate for the fertilizer demonstration plots and have erected signs describing each They are also providing the lunches to be be served at the All equipment civic clubs and any others interested are cordially invited to participate In these free lunch and