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Show operations. It operate a seed cleaning plant for the alfalfa seed raisers and the plant cost less than $500. It llnds a ready market lor all the farmers' products pro-ducts and competes with other buyers, buy-ers, compelling them to pay the highest high-est market prices. As a result the farmers sold their wheat last fall for from 10 to 12 cents more than the Mil-lard Mil-lard County iarmers. They bought their oats last spring for considerably less than our farmers paid. They do not have to buy wheat as they raise all their seed, Last fall they sold over 200 carloads of produce for their j members at the best market price. They also sell coal, lumber, hardware, hard-ware, sacks and twine, effecting considerable con-siderable saving In these lines. For Instance they sell sacks for eight and nine cents where we pay twelve cents according to the last figures we heard oi. They buy In such quantities that they are able to supply all the local dealers In that section. They also save about 00 cents on coal and broke a coal combine and famine there last wloter. They buy all kinds of farm implements also at a considerable saving sav-ing to the members. They do not go Into the retail business. They sell everything at the regular market price to all comers, but at the end of the year the profits are divided among the shareholders, the members getting a dividend In proportion to their purchase pur-chase and another dividend being paid to members In proportion to the amount of stock they hold. Ijist year they did a business of over f 150,000. The Association Is on almost the exact lines as laid down for the proposed pro-posed Millard County Farmers' Association, Asso-ciation, which every one admits Is a good thing, but which It seems difficult diffi-cult to get the farmers here to come Into. Mr. Holmgreen, the manager ami promoter at Tremtonton la willing to come down and explain the benefit! bene-fit! and methods of his association to the farmers here. Would It not be a good idea for the Water Users Association Asso-ciation to have him am down and seft what he can doj . Hacaji give. t!i actual experience of such an association asso-ciation while few here have anything but a theoretical knowledge of them. Now Is the time to get busy. IN BOX ELDER COUNTY.J ' if . Ths Apple Region of Utah A 8u jres-ful jres-ful Farmers' Association.,;, The editor took a trip to Ti.-mso-ton, Box Elder County with the. Wh Press Association on Tuesday and aw more apples than he haa s. ro In years. It Is only about seven fears ago that this section of Iki fllder county was a aage brush pla) Inhabited In-habited only by Jack rabbits a n5 coyotes. coy-otes. Now there are thousands of acres of apple orchards with t'-jnaf prosperous looking towns with all the modern conveniences. We took!; an automobile trip of about 25 utiles around the country and aaw son.e of the biggest and best orchards. TJhere Is only one old orchard In that section sec-tion and It Is only five-eighths ot an acre In extent It is eighteen years old and haa borne continuously every year. The gross returns this jyear will amount to $1750. Dut of coqrse thla la an exception. The average return re-turn will be not over 200 por tcre. but to get this requires constant pare and attention. The treea have to be carefully sprayed, trimmed, Irrigated about once a week through the wesson, wes-son, the small and Inferior fruit' picked off when It Is young so aa to ensure large and perfect fruit when It matures, and It has to be carefully picked. Then provision lias t be made to protect the blossom from late frost In the spring and fire fots of various tyea have to be Installed throughout the orchard at considerable consider-able expense. Like every other: department de-partment of farm work it requires constant vigilance and Industry to secure se-cure success, and the Inexperienced farmer is Just as likely to make a failure there aa In any other part of the country. The quality of the fruit is fully equal to the famous apples grown in the Hood River Valley, but of source they have not yet secured the dvfr-Using dvfr-Using that the Oregon fruit bat,' liut It is fast securing a market on 'In merits. ,H Is through laeA-W methods that have given the Hood River apples their reputation, Every box of the same grade is guaranteed to be of uniform size and quality. This U secured by means of a local fruit association. The packing Is looked after by an inspector and no fruit is permitted to go out under the name of the asotiatlon that is not up to (he highest standard. It has been rather difficult to make the fruit raisers see the necessity of letting no fruit be i shipiK'd that Is not up to standard, i but they are coming to see this. The association has no difficulty In securing secur-ing a regular market at the highest price. This association has proved Df Immense advantage to the fruit growers, as It will be to raisers of any kind of farm produce. Individual farmers cannot secure the benefits of b!gb quality in any of their products. ' They must act In a body and have ( the selling end of their business organ- t zed as well as the producing end. i We think Box Elder offers Just as t great opportunities to the fruit raisers 1 is does the Hood River region. The ( and is very much cheaper. Unlra- proved land can be bought for about , (100 per acre, while bearing orchards c ran be purchased at from $300 to $500 r ?er acre. The aame land In Oregon ill cost from $00 to $2,000 per acre. J rhls section also baa the advantage ( if being closer to the market The 4 nly reason any one would chouse Oregon Is because he does not know t he opportunities in Utah. In comparing the aoll and climate tround Tremonton with that In Mil- u ird county we cannot nee but what ve are Just aa well adapted for raising , ipples as la that section. The soil la ti . clay and sandy loam washed, down b rom the mountains as It Is here. 1 here Is a little more sand In some ilaces, but we saw good orchard on and Just aa heavy aa we have here. 4 tut they do a great deal of fertilizing, s! Ve believe the climate la better in ! Hllard not so cold In winter cor are rosts as likely to come so late In thp I ting. They got heavy frosts th: ill the same time we did. Much of B heir late peach crop was ruined by i he frost, but they bad got In all their Ifalfa seed before the frost came. Jj1 A Farmer' Association. We were much Interested In the rc armers' Cash Union, the only uc-essful uc-essful farmer' association In the Is tate. It waa organised seven years hi go with a caplul of $15,000 and pays rt Ight per cent to Its members. It andlea all the farmers' products ex- B rpt fruit which requires a separate n rgaalsalioB owing to IU extensive fa) |