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Show FARMandHOMEte UTAH BTATB EXTENSION SERVICE IGBICULTURB - HOME ECONOMICS By Louis A. Jensen County Agricultural Agent This is an excellent time of the year to control sparrows, i With snow on the ground, feed tor them is very scarce, so tney I will take poison bait quite readily. read-ily. Also, most of our song birds have left us, so will not be killed by the baiting. The sparrow control program is sponsored by the Fish and Wildlife service, county commissioners com-missioners and the county agent. ag-ent. Bait is available at the court house in Duchesne, the county agent's office, Roosevelt, and at many of the small community commun-ity stores throughout the coun-, ty. Let's all make an effort to get rid of these pests during the next few weeks. I The numerous fires which have destroyed .homes in this area recently remind us of the danger of faulty heating systems. sys-tems. The cold weather calls for hotter fires to keep our homes comfortable, providing an opportunity for defects to show up. Every home owner should give his heating system 1 a thorough check-up and cor- j rect any defects which are found. I Efficient, dependable, quiet, and just a right good fellow are the things our dairymen are (saying about Norman Goodrich, of Bluebell, who is now starting his second year as supervisor of the Duchesne County Dairy Herd Improvement association. I Much of the success of this association as-sociation is due to the efforts of Norman and his wife, Betty. The life of the DHIA supervisor super-visor (cow tester) isBot an easy one. He gets out in the morning morn-ing before the earliest farmer's milking time and his day's work is not completed until after the night's milking. Then, too, many long hours are spent running milk samples for butter fat and keeping the records. He must visit each herd in the association at milking time both night and morning once every month, where he weighs and samples each cow's milk, finds out how much feed each is receiving and discusses dairy problems with the farmer. The samples he takes home, where each one is tested for butterfat. From this, production produc-tion records and feed costs are computed for each cow and for the entire herd. This information informa-tion is then sent to the farmer and informs him just which of his cows are making a profit and how much. Norman and Betty make a good team, with him doing most of the testing, while she keeps the records in her spare time. We want to say "Congratulations "Con-gratulations to both of you for the fine job you are doing." |
