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Show A Luxury All Farmers Might Well Enjoy. It seems strange, when one stops to consider, that such a locality as the Gunnison Valley, with its many advantages ad-vantages and special adaptations, should be almost entirely without those delicacies which go to make up the rich man's daily table ration. Even the mere passer-by or casual observer can but notice the great lack of fruit trees and vegetable gardens so much in evidence in many less favorable favor-able localities. It is a strange thing to hear farmers complaining at the high price of farm produce, yet this is exactly the condition we find here. There are but few farmers in the valley who can afiord to feed their own horses grain, because they have none, or use as their excuse that the price is too high. Think of a big ranch being without cows and paying five cents a quart for milk ! Yet we have that very oondition here. Farmers Farm-ers have thus far, this year,'been pay- ing five cents a pound for potatoes. Few of them have tasted green peas, except at fancy prices realized elsewhere. else-where. Think of a farmer paying exorbitant ex-orbitant prices for products that, with little effort, could as well be raised by himself, on his own land, and also form the principal part of his daily bill of fare. I am almost afraid to mention such things as asparagus, rhubarb, onions, horse-radishes, beans, beets, cabbage, tiauiiflowers, sweet corn, cucumbers, lettuce, musk-melons, watermelons, ! parsnips, parsley, squash, tomatoes, or celery, yet 1 am confident they will all grow here, in fact it has been demonstrated de-monstrated that they will. What about strawberries and ere; m? Did you ever taste them? Well, perhaps per-haps ; but they were not raised here, they came from provo or eome place up that way. May be you tasted them in Salt Lake City, but could not afiord to buy them for the family. Strawberries do very well on the clay soils in New Jersey, but, of course, it would not do to try them here where there is so much sunshine and irrigation irriga-tion water to insure vigorous growth I Raspberries would look like gold nuggets on most of our tables in this section, yet they do well on clay soil. They flourish where there is plenty of sunshine and irrigation water to make them grow as well as fill nice at ripening time. Every farmer should raise his own fruit apples, cherries, plums, Bnd a few of the hardy varieties should be found on every farmer's home ground. Of course I would not advise any farmer to go into this without first studying his conditions and informing himself with reference to the varieties best suited to bib environment. But one can get practically all the inform ation he desires in regard to thin matter mat-ter by simply ihe asking for uecesaay literature which is usually sent free by the secretary of agriculture at Washington, D. C. ; or the state agricultural ag-ricultural college at Logan would gladly furnish any imformation possible pos-sible regarding these points. There is also a great farm paper in this state which deals almost entirely with local conditions, You can get it at a yearly year-ly subscription of one dollar sent to the Deseret Farmer, Salt Lake city. Erastus Peterson, |