Carbon and Emery Counties Farm Bureau News, July 1917;

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VOL.  1
PRICE, UTAH, JULY 10,  1917.
NO,  1
PROJECTS FOR 1917
The following projects were
adopted at the first meeting of the
Directors of the Farm Bureau in
January: Farm Accounts, Dairying, Potato Production, More and
Better Live Stock; Minor projects,
Pinto bean production, smut control, variety tests and standardization.
Farm Accounts: Ninety-three
farmers are keeping records in
this project in the farm account
book furnished them by the college. E. B. Brossard, farm management demonstrator, with the
county agent visited about one-
half of these during the past month
and found that all those visited
but four were keeping almost a
perfect record.
A summary of the business records kept on 48 farms at Ferron
last year showed some very interesting facts. There were 10 farms
that made an average labor income of $1538 for the year, i. e.,
the receipts minus expenses, minus
5% interest on investment. There
were also 10 farms in Ferron that
made an average labor income of
minus $126 per year. That means
that the owner of the farm would
have been $126 better off if he
had sold his farm and put his
money out at 5% interest and
never turned a hand at work.
Another interesting fact is that
in every instant of the better paying farms the greater part of the
receipts came from live stock sales
and the 10 poorer the opposite
was true. Another fact showed
that the better paying farms had
more capital invested, more acres
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FIRST CONCRETE SILO IN CARBON
OR EMERY COUNTY
Built by S. Singleton of Ferron
To Mr. S. Singleton of Ferron,
goes the honor of building the
first concrete silo in either Carbon
or Emery county. The above illustration shows a picture of it partially completed. It is 18 feet in
diameter and will be 40 feet in
height when completed. It will
hold 229 tons of silage which will
feed 62 head of cows for a period
of six months, feeding each cow
40 pounds each day. It will take
15.3 acres of corn yielding 15 tons
per acre, which is an average
yield, to fill it.
The walls are of solid concrete,
six inches thick and reinforced
with heavy woven wire. The silo
is seven feet in the ground which
puts the foundation below frost
line and also saves considerable
power in filling. The doors are
of the intermittent type.
Beside the concrete silo stands the
old silo which was built of wood.
It has the distinction of being the
oldest silo in the county. It is
square and did not prove entirely
satisfactory  as  a  food  saver,  al-
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BIG FARM BUREAU EXCURSION
FORTY OR MORE AUTOS TO GO
In April the county agent sent a
questionaire to all the officers in
regard to an excursion through
the northern part of the state. The
replies were unanimous in favor
of the excursion. There was some
difference of opinion in regard to
the time. However the majority
favored Aug. 1. The estimate was
that at least 40 automobiles would
go. So the date for this excursion
is Aug. 1st to 4th inclusive.
Following is the program in
general.
July 31, p. m. Get everything
ready for the trip—plenty of gas,
oil and the necessary equipment.
Go over the car. Those who live
farthest from Price should be in
Price that day.
Aug. 1. Gather at Price, lining
up on Main street from the First
National Bank east. You should
be in this line not later than 7:30
a. m., as at that hour sharp a
photograph will be taken of the
excursion just as it is ready to
start. Don't miss being in the picture.
Aug. 1, noon, Provo; night, Salt
Lake City.
Aug. 2, noon, Ogden; night,
Brigham City.
Aug. 3, noon, Box Elder county;
night, Riohmond.
Aug. 4, noon, Logan; night,
Logan or Salt Lake City.
Return home.
At Provo we will join a similar
excursion, including Iron, Beaver,
Millard and San Pete counties.
You may think this would make
too many but it is the plan to divide up in small groups and a
specialist will be with each group
to point out the things of interest.
We will see the very best types of
farms in the State of Utah, including live stock, fruit, sugar beet,
dairy and dry farming. We will
get a glimpse of the cities and industries. It will be a great educational trip. "Seeing is believing."
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