Show J UTAH'S A Wonderful Showing for a New State Utah State fair for great He has come and and it lesson to those Lid be an object work for or do a little business in the The is a the man in the cities and Si a consumer or lie farmer has but recently discovered he is that three tides every day the city man is at lis mercy for the past eight years He farmer has heen tightening tie screws on his city Ten Years Ten years ago the city man could earn in one hour what it look the farmer nearly two hours to with butter at JO tents per eggs 40 cents per wheat at per chickens 25 cents per apples per hay per steak 20 cents per and everything else in Ik city man now has to work two hours to get what it takes the one hour to During the past ten years the moss on the farmer's back has turned to and the hay seed in lis hair to gold the condition of the farmer is rapidly changing from the rude swain to the science his stone boat Ins been replaced by the modern tandy his buckboard to enclosed the back-breaking scythe and cradle have been thrown into the jn pile and the self-binding and the light-running mower have taken their place the me-lodan and the have been out of nearly every farm home by the The old and-Jow and crane have gone up the Ue and farmer's wife cooks er meals now over the glittering The the mail the county and the free for students to attend otner modem up-to-dates have upon the farmer at he hardly realizes the position he now J all day and doing chores all by the farmers has been minimized by the cream the power the incubator and brooder and other modern the The farmer has been the gainer in labor- saving while the laboring man has been injured and thrown out of work by The boy or man who feeds a horseshoe machine does not get half the wages that the blacksmith receded who forged them by the protected manufacturer and not his laborers and artisans is the one modern An The Utah State fair ought to be an eye-opener to the who work for wages m the Take for instance the Bear River valley Fourteen years Bear River ago valley was a wilderness of sage inhabited by jack nod when Bear River valley land was thrown open for settlement and when they offered the land and water at a very low price and on easy terms many of the townspeople gave the land agents the but how about who nerve enough to go there and grub sage brush and live in a shanty for a lew Most of those people now have good homes and a competency for old H. E. for at E. with a good business in Chicago left that hustling city thirteen years ago to battle with sage brush mosquitoes and jack rabbits in that wonderful va Redling added to his first land purchase and today he has a comfortable good large poultry farm and everything to make him you want anything done go to the busy Redling to look after the Bear River valley exhibits at the State displayed the Bear River products so artistically that he has 1 received first prize at every in which he has taken Bear River Valley Commercial This year Bear River Com-mercial Club look charge of the River valley Maroni John P. Holmgren and W. Knudson most of the products for while charge of at arranged and kept the display at its best during the result was that the Bear River valley display received the sweepstake besides two special prizes of eight individual fi and only one second l At River valley booth he seen over ten varieties of and the largest and best wealthy apples ever put on Grading and The and packing of fruit as taught and insisted upon by C. A. and others has done Smore for the fruit growers of Utah other one alsi the grouping of the best of the fruits in one display by who had charge of the State Agricultural and Horticultural was a great improvement Jon the old for there eight plates of Jonathan from eight different rf these plates were grouped together and judges made the awards knowing from what section of the State or by the apples' Hicken-looper certainly knows how to display the products of and it through his efforts Utah has had so many national fruit Dixie Thomas W. Judd of St. George is always in evidence at the and the display was a grand Judd stated that first fruit display was about twenty-five years and it consisted of two boxes of raisins and three boxes of other dried the boxes were in reach of the and the first day of the fair they ate up all the raisins and most of the other dried Prize S. N. C. G. of Corinne and exhibited for the first lime a bull and four They received the first prize for a three-year-old also first prize on bull and four second prize on a cow three years old and third prize on a cow three years and Cole felt as hilarious over his prizes as he did when he soaked the John Alexander alias the alias Alexander The First for a worn water-logged farm in Zion Gunnison Valley One very pleasing exhibit was by the Livingston vestment whose lands are situated in and around While the exhibit was not it showed what can he accomplished in that beautiful and productive There is no excuse for a man of moderate means or who has a small income for not owning a good productive farm and a comfortable and be sure of a competence old The Livingston Investment whose offices are ic the Newhouse have subdivided large tracts of good irrigated orchard and farm lands near Gunnison which they are at a low giving plen at time and low These lands are cheap in five years they will be cheap at double the price they can he bought for Ninety per cent of the rich men in the United States became so the advance of real Not one man in ten thousand ever became wealthy working on a Whether you are sick or well or out of a job your rent in the city goes on just it he On a farm you will have some but you will neve r be out of and your fruit your crops and live stock will grow while you The man or woman who feels a machine in a or clerks in a or works for wages at any with a boss over knowing that they must do as the boss says or loose their job and go is a but the person owns a farm that will support him is his own a free We will always he slaves as long as we have to depend on a boss for our bread and and a landlord for a home to live Own a farm and be |