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Circular No. 53 - Summary Of Publications
Circular No. 53 - Summary Of Publications
UAES Circulars
This circular contains summaries of the publications of the Utah Agricultural Experiment Station issued since September 1923. The publications of this Station are no longer sent to a general mailing list (except in the case of libraries) but are sent only on request. Therefore, copies of any of the publications listed will be sent without charge to those requesting them as long as the supply is available.
Circular No. 52 - Rules And Regulations For The Utah Intermountain Egg-Laying Contest, Byron Alder
Circular No. 52 - Rules And Regulations For The Utah Intermountain Egg-Laying Contest, Byron Alder
UAES Circulars
The contest will be located on a part of the Utah Agricultural College Farm near the experimental poultry yards. It will be managed by the Poultry Department with an experienced poultry raiser in direct charge of the feeding and care of the hens in the contest. It is hoped that the entry fee and the sale of eggs will pay for the expense of the contest. The buildings, ground, and fences will be built and furnished by the college.
Circular No. 51 - Foot-And-Mouth Disease, H. J. Frederick
Circular No. 51 - Foot-And-Mouth Disease, H. J. Frederick
UAES Circulars
The following is printed that the seriousness of the foot-and-mouth disease outbreak might be apparent to the farmers and ranchmen of Utah, that the importance of the quarantine regulations might be emphasized, that precautionary methods might be adopted by each individual concerned, that the disease might be recognized should it occur, and that each stock man of the state might see the importance of immediately reporting to the State Veterinarian or to a veterinarian in his locality or to the Utah Agricultural Experiment Station.
Circular No. 50 - Brooding And Feeding Chicks, Byron Alder
Circular No. 50 - Brooding And Feeding Chicks, Byron Alder
UAES Circulars
Raising baby chicks seems a comparatively simple matter to some, yet there are more failures in poultry-keeping due to inability to raise good, vigorous pullets than to any other one cause. The number of eggs produced, the size of the eggs (within certain limits), and the profit made from a flock of hens is often determined very largely by the success in brooding the chicks and developing the pullets into strong, vigorous hens. Many who try to raise chicks are not successful because they fail to realize that a baby chick is a "real baby". They cannot survive with careless …
Circular No. 49 - This Public Domain Of Ours, George Stewart
Circular No. 49 - This Public Domain Of Ours, George Stewart
UAES Circulars
In Utah are somewhat more than fifty-two and a half million acres of land. Of this about five million acres are in farms, but only 1,371,000 acres, or 2.6 per cent, are irrigated. In addition there are about 344,000 acres under dry-farm culture, making a total of 1,715,000 acres of improved land. This leaves all of Utah's fifty-two and a half million acres, except about 3.5 per cent, to be utilized by some means other than crop-growing. There will be some addition of new lands not in farms and some development in unimproved farm lands, but when every development that …