Show getting the most out of farming in the basin by HYLAS C SMITH up in dry fork canyon north of 0 maeser lives a pioneer of 0 forty six sis years standing As we drove down the eighty rod lane fenced by a pole fence five poles high we said to our here lives a man ahu knows how to work anyway As we reached the end of 0 the lane and turned toward a comfortable looking farm house standing in the shade of huge choke cherry trees we paused to admire the coziness of the surroundings little dreaming that we were to meet a pioneer who entered the basin forty six years ago a young man and located where he amigh rear a family in the environment ot of gods out of doors when he could have chosen the best farm la in ashley valley or the main street of vernal or the townsite of roosevelt for his home everything on this farm Is attractive the acers of 0 alfalfa al talta the grain fields the sheep sheds all advertise thrift and contentment when we opened the door and entered a middle aged gentleman greeted us and in his hand was an open book which he had been reading arid and we noticed the title the covered wag wagon he had been living his wonderful days in this wonder over again as the author led him through the fascinating pages of the covered wagon after having got acquainted we passed from subject to subject beginning with nith choke choice cherry wine and ending with the J GP eppard seed company in the alfalfa seed industry we had noticed the alfalfa fields and no seed fields and felt that here was a chance for a farmer to secure seventy five dollars from an acre instead ot of twenty or twenty five dollars lie ire did not want to sell out who would after staying forty six years in one place you love everything every lhing it possesses such home builders ars are the tha back bouc bone of the basin they are ara the bulwark of a great nation such stich homo home builders have a business of their own and mind it tremendously well through the streets of salt lake walk thousands of re rubt t less people annually seeking a change soaring roaring through the basin hundreds of loaded autos carrying the tha restless population of eastern and southern homes annually people come and people go the world moves by and change to foli lows change babes are born and graves aro are dug and halt half a century can blot out kingdoms build eighty cities or geat legions of young men and women and then be chronicled as part of eternity but tor for genuine stability usefulness and real worth to civilization here and heaven hereafter we hand the laarel wreath to J C hall ot of dry fork who has made his home one of the rich places of this basin sinking making valuable lund chris larean of 0 arcadia is making basin farms arms costly by showing the farmers what a farm in arcadia can d do 0 mr lu r larsen is a careful student of the alfalfa plant and its pests and of the soil conditions on his farm he never tails falls to raise an alfalfa seed crop ile he has an excellent crop of seed on sixty acres this year ile he is a seed raiser of many years and last year was efficient field man for tho the peppard field service in his vicinity we could not guess how much his acres will yield him this year but it if any acres go over the top his will be pushing right behind qua one of mr lamsens Lar sens neighbors bought a forty acre tract recently for no more than mr air larsen will realize from possibly eight acres of his seed M mr r farmer fanner acres are valuable heie it you do not know it own your own home now noille the getting is good A home joseph king of oe Ced cedarview arview has an ideal farm arm home beginning with a flowing well of cold water and passing over many acres ot of seeded fields of alfalfa over acres of heavy grain through shady banks concealing sparkling s creams and bounded by waste places full ot of heavy growth of pasture foliage and ending with a neatly hidden garden full of tomatoes potatoes sweet corn water melons banana musk music melons onions cucumbers great luxuriant bean vines loaded with pods and everything you run the gamut of 0 farm experience that leads leada to idealism mr king might soil sell we donot know but lie he has a fortune in that farm and the seed income this year will beat the salary of a professor of schools his place could easily produce a two thousand dollar income from sheep and with no rents and that garden a little heaven is not so tar far iway away |