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Show I ' FARMER'S MEET I- ' IN ORAMGEVILLE. Alkali a fertilizer When Not Too H Abundant. I PROFESSORS MERRILL & HUTT. How td Raise Crops With Less Wn- W. $' tor. Next Door Neighbors Oct Acquainted. I I T people in Orange villi;, Emery -sf County, have been holding u Farmers' bjf' fionvcntlon tlicre recently and they are TlW jubilant over the results. As an incen- jM livo to our readers to prepare for a like IK good time we clip the following from B. t,lu Kinury County 1'rogie.ss, a live il ,,0i'L' paper published at Castle Dale in I that county: j , nw that the e.vperlmental station Tj fitafT and our farmers have gotten to- 1 f gether.all realize that past unaoqualnt- I unco has been a mutuiil loss, and pledge f each other that in the future the col- '' ''g and farmers will work in close and I harmonious relation with each other. ' The addresses of 1'rofessors .Merrill and Ilutt were of sueh range and scope , as well as the questions answered by them that some radical changes in our 1 former farming methods will at once result. Theylproved that our soil Is similar to the best soil on earth, and that without r1' m'y reservation. The much despised alkali is but a grand fertilizer after all, 1 only it is too abundant here. However, the visiting college men converted their audiences to the belief that it 1b no great task to get rid of the alkali, and a 1 practical demonstration that that can be t done will soon bo made in the county. They also proved that crops cm be ',? raised hero with about one third of the A i, muuiMty of water wo now use, that thu 1-r-X r" 'c'" "d'ofcr, codling moth, wooly upheuit I and other fruit tree pests can easily bo J knocked into the Kingdom come, that bees ure the farmers' friend nnd the little lit-tle old angle worm is not bad company after all. Local speakers even surprised their next door neighbors by telling them what they had raised in adjoining gar- I dens, ami one man stated that ho found f it no trick at all. to raise (18 bushels of J wheat to the acre. Heretofore, it seems I ' that the man who really conducted a I farming business in this county attend ed to that business alone and paid no attention to his neighbor's business. AVhlle "Attend to your own business" is . ' pretty good advice in most cases, still there are exceptions, and exception are quite valuable assets when rightly applied. Hut it's going to bo different here-'' here-'' after. The scientific college farmers If have removed some of the alkali from j our eyes, and the Sanpete sheepmen i $ have gathered their last crop of wool k J5"""""' from our optics, and thero is going to t be something doing by the farmers of I Emery county if the authorities of E Washington will but divorce themselves V, of the opinion that God made Utah for il the sheepman and Emery county is his gfl corral. Hy comparison it was shown, M and by former residents of Sanpete M j county, too, that thu only edge that Hfc " countv has over Emerv is in the tiro- 8W ductlon of a bpecies of men who count K" two slicep as one at assessing lime, and fft ono sheen as two at reserve-grazing H permit time, while a pair of Utah sen- KS utors never butt an eye while umpiring U that sort of a game before Washington H authorities. Wm There wcro so many good things said 2a and done at the convention that the Egk Progress is obliged to make a continued iji story of it and make further comment il I next week. I The two main things accomplished, I I however, was the adoption of a resolu 1 tton requesting financial aid from the n county to carry on a local demonstru- JI Hon of under-draining a piece of alkali land, uuder the direction of l'rof. Widt- I soe of thu Agricultural experiment E station and a government expert. Sec- oiid, the appointment of a committee, A consisting of F. V. Sweet, L. V. Ovesed A and J. V. Nixon to perforin the prolim- B inary labor for organizing the "Emery A County Farmers' Institute." A There were four sessions of the con- H. cnllon during Wednesday and Thurs- tHk y, attended by aiullenees that lllled iHi ' auditorium of Oraugeville's meeting house and part of the stage. Interest never Hugged for a moment and enthusiasm enthu-siasm gave vent by frequent applause. Keptesentatlve citizens of all the towns In the county, other than those at the extreme east end of the county, were present. It was the greatestgathcritig, other than an ecclesiastical one, oyer held in Emery county, and unhesitatingly unhesitat-ingly pronounced by the visiting breth-ern breth-ern the best attended farmers' convention conven-tion they had ever seen in the state, and it is part of their busrness to meet with farmers'institutesand like bodies. |