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Show By Bob Murdock OPEN LETTER TO CATTLE MEN The monthly meeting for the Directors of the Duchesne Cattle Association was held June 19 at 2:00 p.m. Ted Crawford, State Cattle Association Secretary, and Dr. Cuttler, State Veterinarian, in charge of State and Federal animal disese and control work, were present. pre-sent. Mr. Crawford was asked to discuss the 100 per head scale-off scale-off on all animals sold. Mr. Crawford' Craw-ford' stated that the cattle sates have organized the National. Beef Council and the proposal is now that 10d per head be collected at the point of sale. A motion was made that the directors of the association go on record as favoring favor-ing legislation pertaining to 100 scale-off on each animal sold. Robert S. Murdock, secretary of the association, was instructed to write letters to our congressmen and representatives to this effect, i Dr. Cuttler discussed briefly the bangs program. He stated that this program can work, but that we must all work together. Mr. Murdock mentioned that we had lost 85 head of animals in our county with brisket disease and that aid has been asked for from experiment Station and other research re-search people- Mr. Crawford told the group that the cattle association associ-ation is pushing for the National Research Foundation at Logan. He also discussed the bull grading program and stated that the next State association meeting had been scheduled at Logan at which time they will go over the entire experimental program and see just where the money is being spent. It was suggested that the secretary write a letter to the Utah State Agricultural College (Dean Walker)) and state that as a County Association we want the bull grading program to be continued and improved wherever possible. Plans are being made for a p o s s ib 1 e association-sponsored tour'. Another topic discused at this meeting was a Big Game meeting meet-ing scheduled at the court house in Duchesne on July 5, at which time stockmen discuss deer and elk hunting areas and special, hunts with the game department. (Any of you who have a problem had better attend. Let's see you there whether you have a problem or not!). Attempts are being made to organize a "Cow Belles" organization organiz-ation in this area. The "Cow Belles" are an auxiliary organization organi-zation to the Cattle Association organizations. Those ladies who are wives, mothers, sisters, daughters, daugh-ters, etc., of any active member in the association will be eligible to join. Mrs. Hugh Colton, vice-president vice-president of the State Association would like to meet with all interested" in-terested" women at the Frontier Grill next month. Date and time for this meeting will be reported later. So ladies, be thinking seriously seri-ously about this and tell your friends about it (whose husbands belong to the Cattel Association), and try to attend this meeting. By. Lloyd Smith Duchesne District County Agent INSECTS Replant garden seeds destroyed' by seed corn maggotts, suggests Lloyd Smith, Duchesne District County agricultural agent When corn, beans, peas, squash, Gucumber or melon seeds are planted in well-manured soil during dur-ing wet, cool weather; seed corn amggots may destroy them, making mak-ing replanting necessary. Following seed magof damage, always plant the new seed when weather is warm and in a well- prepared seed bed to insure promii germination, Mr. ' Smith emphasizes. empha-sizes. c-a Earwigs showing up ; around youf home? Why not control them now jand reudce trouble later this season, says Lloyd Smith, agricultural agent of Du-1 chesne District. Earwigs can be killed with chlordane, dieldrin or heptachlor. These are used chiefly as a dust or spray application. Commercial sprayers do a good job of getting rid of earwigs. They spray over the home yard, in general The home owners may do equally well if he controls generally and' uses enough insecticide. in-secticide. Where the neighbors do not treat earwigs, two teratments usually will be needed if we"-are to keep our vegetables, flowers and home free from these annoying annoy-ing pests, Mr. Smith suggests. AGRICULTURE A new bulletin has just been published 'by Utah State Agricultural Agri-cultural College on crops for diverted di-verted dryland wheat acres. The bulletin says that several grasses and alfalfa can be seeded where wheat has grown but that, in marginal wheat areas, where precipitation is 12 inches or less, more care must be taken in selecting se-lecting species. . Crested wheatgrass is the most universally adapted grass for seeding throughout the dryland area It grows early in the spring and its greatest value is for early spring grazing. In general, the bulletin says, grasses adapted to the dryland of Utah will produce forage under conditions less favorable than those needed for profitable seed production. This means that if a grower takes his least productive land out of wheat he must be in a relatively favorable dry-farming area if these acres are to be profitable for growing seed. Spring grazing will decrease a grass seed crop. However, in years when the moisture is favorable the benfit in forage will more than balance the loss of seed. |