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Show WHAT OGDEN MIGHT DO THAT OTHERS HAVE DONE. There is a stretch of country from ' Pleasant View to south of Ogdon, following fol-lowing the foothills of the Wasatch mountains, which, with water, could be made the most productive grape-growing grape-growing district in tho United States. Men from the vinoyards nlong the Rhine have said that the limestone formation on the bench land to tho east of Ogden ib Identical with that of tho soil where the grapes of Bavaria are most productive and of best flavor for wine making. Once water is plnced on those thousands thou-sands of acres, now idle and useless, there will spring up vineyards and orchards capable of supporting a larger population than is now sustained sus-tained by soil cultivation in Weber county. In this connection, our attention has been called to a report from the national na-tional bureau of education of the groat care with which Germany fosters the grape-growing industry. Intlnerant teachers work among the vineyard-ists, vineyard-ists, instructing them In the proper method of fertilizing, cultivating, pruning, spraying, etc. The school for wine and fruit growing grow-ing at Kreuznach sends its instructors instruc-tors over the entiro district of 200 villages. Tho plan is found to be excellent, ex-cellent, not only for the farmers who receive the direct benefit, but for tho teachers themselves, who arc enabled lo keep in close touch witli the practical prac-tical side of their work This instruction instruc-tion is furnished entirely without charge The horticultural school at Oppen-helm, Oppen-helm, besides giving instruction by lectures and furnishing practical aid to the farmers, has introduced "model vineyards." The school and Uio vineyard vine-yard proprietors enter into a five-year contract by the terms of which the school exercisos supervision over the vineyards and the vineyard owner agrees to follow the directions of the lh I " - l,L ...- school in every particular. The school makes no charge for this service Almost for the asking, Ogden can have 20,000 acres of just such farms as Germany, in foresight and wisdom, sees fit to develop with most watchful watch-ful care. Some day when jealousies arc forgotten and narrowness is displaced dis-placed by a policy of broad encouragement encour-agement which shall cease to try to shackle those who arc up and doing, Ogden shall be nestled In tho lap of Luxury, invited by Nature, to be present pres-ent at the uniting of the waters, that have known no responsibility, to the sun-kissed soil that has but awaited the presence of the dews of heaven to yield in abundance. |