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Show . w . -. ., . . HOME AGAIN. After a brief but pleasant visit in s the East Ye Editor has great pleasure in coming home to the best State in the Union, and assuming again the management of the best appreciated little paper in the country. While away wc came in contact with a great many people who know of the Deseret Des-eret Farmer and its work. Wc received re-ceived gratifying compliments from many old time associates who receive and read the Farmer regularly, and when upon our arrival here wc find on the desk ai dozen letters all speaking speak-ing of the value of this little farm journal, wc sure feel that life is indeed worth living. It is a time of thanksgiving thanks-giving and the Editor feels that a comparison of the conditions of the farmers here and their prospects for a bright future with those of our brothers farther cast can not fail to make it a special cause of thanksgiving thanksgiv-ing to the fanners of he Arid West. The story of Utah's progress agriculturally agricul-turally was well received wherever wc had an opportunity to give it and it docs not suffer in comparison with our sister states, except perhaps in the telling. The thousands of acres recently planted to orchard crops, the reclamation of the thousands of acres of our arid sage brush land, by dry farming methods, the great improvement im-provement in our dairy herds, the wonderful yields of our sugar beet fields, the great irrigation projects now in process of construction, all these subjects are of intense interest to the easterner and many eyes are turned in this direction. Of course, some of those states of the middle west surpass in agricultural wealth' our own state many, many times, but when a comparison of soil, climate or markets is made, it is all in favor of our own section. Utah needs the wisdom and experience of some of those farmers of the middle west, and it is only a matter of a few years when the fruit and dairy possibilities of this section will attract thousands of these men to our borders. The Editor returns to his work with full confidence that the day when the Inter-mountain States will lead the world in the production of fruit and dairy products is not far d'tant. |