Millard County Farm Bureau News, 1917-1918;

              v-FARM BUREAU NEWS
Volume 1.
DELTA, UTAH, MARCH 1917.
Number 1.
LIVE   LOCAL   BUREAUS
The Leamington Local has the
record for getting down to ral business and moving it along with speed.
At the Bureau meeting held February 12th, this Local organized a
Federal Farm Loan Association, appointed a committee to prepare articles for th Town Incorporation,
discussed the present financial condition of the county schools and instructed the local school principal
to inform the County Board that
Leamington was behind them in any
way necessary to raise the money required to continue the schools until the end of the school year, and
decided to take as a special project
the installation Of a city water system, by piping water from a spring
on Fool Creek. Good roads were
also discussed and we may look for
some real improvement along this
line in that vicinity before the closo
of the year.
The Delta Local has been very ac
tive, especially in its membership
campaign. The Secretary, A. P. Wallace is some hustler; this local leads
to date in membership. A number of
Locals have vowed they would capture the membership honors before
the membership campaign closes,
March 1st, so you may have to hustle
a little more Bert.
The Hinckley Local fully demonstrated the fact that the Farm Bur
eau is not complete without the cooperation of an organization of the
Housewives, when they met Wednesday evening, February 21st, in
the jolliest social, in which buisness
and pleasure were combined, ever
held in Hinckley. The evening began with dancing while the crowd
was gathering, patriotic songs were
sung, dialect readings, clever impersonations, and old time dancing in
Colonial costumes were other entertaining features. Talks, short, spicy
and to the point were made by the
County Agent Welch, Farm Bureau
President, Eddie Anderson, Mrs.
Broaddus, President of the Home
Economics Association and others, in
which the plans for the coming years
work was outlined. Delieious refreshments were served by the H. E.
A. Dancing was the closing feature of the evening.     The crowd was
REPORT    OF    COMMITTEES
ON LIVESTOCK IMPROV-
MENT
H. E. A. NOTES
In view of the fact that the Live
stock farms of the State are the better paying ones, of the increased
market demand within the state for
finished livestock, and of the growing necessity for maintenance of soil
fertility, we urge a substantial increase in the livestock businss.
In order to carry out this project we recommend the following
plan:
1. Increase our present number
of  livestock  by
1. Keeping all profitable females.
This can be done by keeping more
worthy females until they pass the
breeding   age. General   interest
should be worked up in this phase of
the project through the Bureaus and
in   the  public   press.
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the largest that has been together in
Hinckley  in years. All  declared
this the jolliest evening ever, and
there were added to the Bureau
forty members.
The Bureaus of Deseret and Oasis
are showing the real cooperative spirit by uniting in one large drainage
district for the reclamation of their
lands. This district includes about
17,200 acres, extending from the Bog
country east to the Fillmore road,
of Oasis, and north as far as the road
that leads from the grist mill to Mr.
Stapley's   corner. A   good   manv
Delta farmers north of this road hava
asked to join in this district so the
final boundary may be even farther
north . This is as it should be, for
the larger the district, the lower will
be the cost per acre. This tract of
land is exceptionally good soil and
when drained will be one of the best
and most fertile tracts in the state.
The Sutherland Bureau is prepar-1
ing to boost the sugar beet project to
the limit this year. They are also
wide awake on the Live Stock project, good roads, farm pest control,
and have a drainage committee at
work investigating the underground
water condition, that they may be
prepared to drain before their lands
are actually in need of such work.
The Hinckey Association is given
the credit at headquarters of being
the leading association of the state.
Its strong point is doing rather than
saying. At present it is backing
the Farm Bureau Organization in the
extermination of quimps, building
good roads, planting trees, and a general spring clean-up of premises.
South Tract Association celebrated
Washington's birthday in a royal
manner with a patriotic program,
feasting, full display of colors, etc.
They are a good live bunch and enjoy a discussion of home topics as
well as the more active public projects which they put thru. Sutherland association, owing to the loss
of their former president, Mrs.
Boardman, reorganized with Mrs. M.
E. Isles as president. Their record
in the past year shows some very
valuable demonstrations of home topics.
Abraham's date for the organization of an association conflicted with
the weather man's date. The blizzard won and the organization was
postpond.
Sugarville has an association organization under way.
Th Delta Association, which took
a temporary rest during cold weather, feels the returning thrill of spring
as well as the general association
awakening and is arousing to the occasion.
The associations as a whole are
eager to join hands with the Farm
Bureau and say "Our Farm and
Home let us improve them to geth-
er."
Blackleg  Vaccine
Any farmer wishing Blackleg vaccine may obtain it free of charge,
from the U. S. Department of Agriculture by applying to County Agent,
Welch for a blank form to be filled
out. We hope that farmers will
take advantage of this as the losses
each year from the disease in the
United States are greatr than the
losses from all other diseases put
together  . It  attacks  the young
stock from six months to two years
old, killing off the fattest and finest.