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Show some, and will use more, his total to-tal crop in grain 0f barley, oats and wheat, lacking- just 2 bushels bush-els of coming to 4,000. He has contracted 10 acres of sugar beets for 101(5, and may possibly increase that to 20. Whe'ii Henry Freese decided to locate in Utah, he disposed of most of his live stock in Nebraska, Nebras-ka, leased his farm there, which consists of 400 acres near Litchfield,' Litch-field,' Nebr., and threw his lot with Utah. That he is and will make a success here is beyond doubt. The best recommendation recommenda-tion that our country can have is that his judgement prompted him to give up so good a place there for what he thinks will be a better here. Frank Reckwith. The Soil Gives Up Riches to Farmer Last Sunday morning about nine thirty, by appointment, 1 visited the grain elevator of the Globe Grain & Milling Co., and saw the first load of grain put into in-to it. This news is doubly good; first we are encouraged to know that our field merits an elevator; secondly, the particular shipment ship-ment that went into this elevator eleva-tor was dollar wheat! Dollar wheat! . It looked to me just exactly ex-actly like 62c stuff of two years ago. That shows I should stick-to stick-to banking. A pig looked 8c to me then, too, and now it looks like a scrawny jitney. Well it's mighty good to see these little indications of prosperity pros-perity dropping along every once in awhile. The farmer Man may temporarily lose on pigs, but he'll sell wheat higher, than ever, and ride in a buzz wagon yet. From the elevator, I, the poor banker, hiked it out north on my pushmobile, while several horny handed sons of toil sped by me in their chugchug waggins, guying as they disappeared. I can't even ev-en get even with them by refusing refus-ing an overdraft, because they've coin of the realm within my coffers cof-fers and they know it. A couple coup-le of years ago they'd have yanked yank-ed up their mule and hoss, and real perlite like asked to give me a lift, and incidentally (be it said) touched me for a small overdraft! But now with money in the bank how durned independent they are ! I spent all the remainder of the day at the farm of Henry Freese, just east of Sutherland. Henry has eighty acres. Sss h! Under your breath; there now, put your ear closer. Yop, I'll whisper the secret of success-small success-small acerage. Now Henry savvies farming. He has 136 pigs, little and big, 9 horses, 2 cows, 3 calves; while his own farm is new, he must of conrse get his hay by working leased land, so he has a share of the crops off an adjoining piece, and works it just as well as he does his own land. Later, all the products he needs, will come off his own land-time only. There are six acres of sugar beets, a dandy stand, which will no doubt run from 17 to 20 tons to the acre. He just finished harvesting 10 acres of barley that ran 70 bushels to the acre! 76 acres of wheat ran 40 bushels to the acre, and this oir off year besides. And prudent, he sold just a little to run on at 96c, holding nearly 2,000 bushels in : the bin now. That'll go when the price suits him. He fed |