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Show HHBHft i BBH Improvement. BBB ft is pleating to bee, nnd gratifying to BBB rclnto, tho great improvements obacrv- BBB nblo on every luind regarding tho beet B farmers lu our fields. Three years Imve BBB pawed only slneo tho sugnr beets were BBB H'it tulioduced here, but in those years BBB the farming interest hrnt undergone u BB remarkable change, grenlertnnn hdid in H :0yenrn previous. It has been liftid tip BBB mid placed upon a plain ot iirogiesnion BBB which attracts tho attention of those who BBB tmiM to bo vrfry indllleroiit mid cailees B Hjrurd tho lundn' tliey owned. J.hiuU BBB front which thuy did not rellw euouv;h BBB in pay them for tho small amount o work put itHJit them, last year bi ought BBJ them the most pleasing returns. Lands BBB Hint would not hnvo sold for inoro than BBB VIOper aero, havoin this short spneo of tlmo U-cn brought to such n lilgn stntc BBJ of cultivation, that IhH year tho tieet riops raised upon them brought a BBB clear profit to the owners over all ox- peurcsoftM) pcrnrro; more than three times tho amount which n crop of wheat H woi'lJ have brought from such lands, put- BBB.. ting It at tho highost number of bushels H would not luivo produced more tliaui'S H biihols jmr acru nt (15 cents pur bushel BBB or f 10.25 for tho ncro. Tho oxpenscs of BBJ raising that acre of wheat would bu at BBB least one Imlf of what it brought, or $8 leaving t8.25 ns ugalnst WM. Tills BBB pleating result has had tho wonderful BBB elt'ect of lllllng nearly every farmer with BBB ndesirc to nil so the sugar beets. BBB Inviiitiligpomeof tho farms yesterday BBB notwithstanding tho long Kpellofdry B weather wo have had, tho beets nn H coining up very nicoly in most places BBt nnd many of thorn in two weeks will bo BBB ready to thin out. A new, nnd very BBB good idea has nil tick: tho manager of tho BBB factory farms. That is, on lands which BftBj Iiavo mini ridges running through them BB it furrow is ploughed on the ridge, nml n BB miiallplpeishild intheditcli bank-Ictltig BBB a stream of water run continually along BB tho fur low which keeps the BBft rhlgo nlcwind moist, a ml soakes out on BBB tho land qnltu a distance from the BB farrow. The system of irrigation is one BB whicli Utah jiossefses over thoio comitr- BB ics that do not huvo It. It the weather be BB dry, and the l.tud bewmes parclud we B- huvotho chance of pouring the water BBB npor.it ill the spring of the year whn.h BB brings it In fciiohuu exelont twinlttiuti BBB that we n ro sure the seed w ill gcrmtuntp. |