Show I 1 1 I 1 4 I 1 11 I 1 az 1 I 1 I 1 Q 1 ii 1 a 11 4 1 1 4 I 1 1 a I 1 I 1 i 1 5 1 I 1 V 4 7 I 1 I 1 11 ij I 1 I 1 ap pp ak 1 f it 11 IV I 1 0 tio I 1 ei aut I 1 ill 14 i NO GLUT OP OF GOOD HOUSES HORSES 4 the writer recently took a drive with a gentleman in a earch of a coach horse rn bably ont one hundred were looked over t in the county cache county has on the average rus as good ft alot of 0 horses oa as ii any other county in the territory and 4 yet in the whole county not mar ammo than rf two tuo fair cbeth homes could be found 1 I 1 a aal nt cheso commanded a good price pi ice f what la Is the use of saying that I 1 he bot loin loan hail dropped out of the horae borne roar mar ket et when probably a carload of rood good of all breeds dould could not be made 5 up in tho the county were there horses enough to ship by the carload there would always be a good price palco for them 1 1 good horses are just an aa cheaply I 1 as the scrub that will v ill not bring 15 35 the writer heard of a man who bought a t horse the other day tor for 60 50 cents and f i that was probably SO 50 cents cent more than lie was waa morth there are many good horses hersca in this territory but for every good horse there ore are a hundred raised that are positively valueless and it t vou it be a godsend to the horse inter u ests of the territory were mere 75 per cent of the breeding stock shot and th the e ro re 4 ana malnine ining 23 25 por per cent used as a foundation for building up a superior clat clang 8 0 of f anta nals in france the govern government I 1 alone owns horse daims where an improved tipe of horses la Is bred they have their breeding establishments the horses i are bred tor for a purpose and hundreds of thes horses are bent to this country every year some come of them bringing fabulous prices and yet there are arc not f enough of those homes here in france 1 rance before a stallion can be put to service he h must first be inspected by tho the gov eov 1 t veterinarian we think it if 1 I 1 every stallion in this territory wore were to a rigid veterinary 1 tion and that no stallion without a 1 k from flip veterinarian that F lt it was a round and good horse and I 1 that its ita pedigree was satisfactory be 0 allowed tillo ired to stand for service it dould be ba a good thing As good horses ca can be tan rawl d in utah an in france but ualle at the present presen rate of improvement it will be many a day befaro we can pay eay utah produces as good horses as aa prance france farmers lar mora can do much individually I 1 the great thing to Is to breed to a type sud and stick nick to it through long generations france franc has been breeding the per che chenons rons an and d the rons of prance france are sold cold to all the ahr civilized nations nation i tor for lre large sums scotland Is famous tor for her clydesdales Clydes Clyde dales and many a clyde colt has brought 1000 not because it is it a better looking colt than some la forsea 0 rs es 4 we hp him P in utah that wont hrin bring 00 oo nut hut because it hue has been bred to a type e throw h generations and it la Is this type I 1 or pedigree that brings the extra taso there never v ILL III be a surplus of good horses orges good horses will never bo be a drug on an the market with all buc due deference to the electric car and the bicycle i find and the only rea reason son there are not good horses driven and fewer bl cycles Is that there are not enough 9 it of them to he had it if utah had a r reputation p for good horgea and clente plenty ui of them there would be shipped out carloads every season sit at good prices a A MEW V AL frenchmen frenchman named A girard has Ili covered a new method of increasing the yield 0 of crops sly by applying carbon to the land a remarkable in res in beld wn was obtained there was las an increase in the yield of grain ranging from 13 15 to 46 per cent in tho the grain rain said and from 21 to 80 per cent lit in tile I 1 raw pon potatoes toes on the ted plats plata gave so an increased yield or of from 6 to 38 per cent and the production of teet beet root was wa from rom lj 18 to 21 29 per cent greater clover gave bave an increased yield on the treated areas i arranging from rom 67 7 to p per er cent and tin in the case ot of oala dula an Ins uince la Is given alven 0 of an increase of too pr I 1 ir et ct nt in grain gra in and LO bo per cent in araw straw the explanation of thin increased growth is 1 not definitely inov known n it Is su that tho the bl acts acta an a a at t to vegetation atlon and also polyn fix subterranean insects or other organisms perhaps per hapa which otherwise would injuriously affect the roots of plants it rally may also exert some borne chemical action on the soil clements elem ants resulting in their capler if by plants of course tin aa yet the coat f t of this treatment prevents it from froin enn comine ting into general use it opens up however a new held of discovery dla covery in agricultural science clence ii FOREST reservation 1 j the constitutional convention b has as im sealed oed upon the legislature the 4 duly uty of 0 preserving erving the forests of 0 the state je we faroat treat the future legislatures will be e equal to thin task A law should bb In acted na cled that wll will in a measure at tenet hman the destruction cuti ged every year by fires in the mountains there la is no doubt that the forests in the maintains have ao an important bear ing uron upon the supply of irrigating water I 1 the claim that forests ope operate rate to ln in bitae the F of oc moisture tn the e earth trill Is largely a 0 theory but bul there Is no doubt of the fact that tor for iiii ta operate to conserve the moisture ready in the wal on treeless pral ties where the wind a have tull full sweep awe op evaporation Is tar far more rapid than in 1 it country interspersed by wooded araj to no much greater in fact act that shile hue in the latter inches of ru inay array be tuH clent to produce tend rood crops in the ormer former it may re I 1 quirt quire thirty inches were our tetter protected prot ted against tho the winds wind which chic 1 carry olt off tile alie s it Is jut just possible that 25 or M W per C nt lews less water would be required i tor ter purposes of irrigation the tin importance p or of p andl Is thus thua seen eon it be 19 on an easy matter for every ya amer to pliant it ft row of 0 trees around ION in farm when trees tree irro arow IV up I 1 1 they llly would not only beautify the farm atit ul they would woul at bo be of great eco novala ilelle Il lle in n preventing of elmure moisture Wl mure this would operate to deiy tl fly asp ar tin thi available water suit up aly M I 1 I 1 the oth othor othar ar qu quitton atton its n to protecting L 0 0 1 in our mount mountains Is equally imi Z professor fortier in bulletin 7 a 74 4 vt of the utah experiment station 1 IM IM to tiny say ton n this thin point t pin like mariner when rain falls alia on an mountain stripe that little tins has been deault rt 0 its in natural fort growth there ll 11 11 little it if any vegetable mold to ab corb antl retain tor for a time the moist moart atit IAM tho the rain dro kropa oropa re fall on the roc rocky ky ariato eri aTO rather into ellla these h into streams until a mountain torrent to la lora ltd these alie K intermittent streams bart amb flat t now flow with arkeat rapidity are irk in early very every wnm rise to tho ihn so po too the snows known of 0 winter wanli r fail and are drifted hither bather and thither alfil M the weak bl silt rocks and nl decaying kumra of n K oace cc well ISID in A little ads bindi a ont nt in n the de ftp rw 3 aal na recesses ol of the rocks e CL 1 17 1 I 1 I 1 but the great mass succumbs to the warm sunshine of oc april and may ant la Is speedily borne to lo the great inland si sen on wc adl ll va wooded boded mountain slopes tile the case cane Is d I 1 Ir prent here the leaf la mold or centuries absorbs find and bolds linck back th tho 0 rainfall onil and n ofha or even some wheat far down 1 lit lie valley may be by its ita presence litre here too the wi winters titers snow finds a rastin a place sheltered bcd alike at ike irom from wind AN I 1 aid awl sunshine th heni heat ot of e priner melts the snow gradually owl permits per its a large part rf elf r f it IL to sink into the vegetable mold from rom aich it Is gradually irra dually conveyed lien beri cath the surface to do good service to the tors of 0 the plains pl ilna rAIl MEKS representative every move mida made by our see rotary ot of agriculture since he be accepted nice as n the farmers ran neif representative in the government of nt thin nation has brought down upon bla bin devoted licad lead a frh deluge of agricultural wrath we sald farmers re presen lath e morton does not represent tile the farm farmers ra of this thia nation ile he has done 1 mexican stock a service he h has done ono more for the farmers ot of germany and france than he has lm for our own farmers lie Is a represent representative etive ot of the llie farmers of germany franco france and aex mexico ico but eliut not of the farmers of 0 the country who elected him to onica the worst break our secretary has made ye yet t Is the attempt to reduce the pa talce lee a 0 beet beef to the consumers on sumers by the of 0 mexican cattle the tanners farmers may very property properly ask their represent representative ill ve wherein does doen such a question interest them what they want Is a botter better price tor for their stock they are not very anxious that their representative should take money out of their own pockets in order to put it into the pockets of tile the new york be afef f eater this may represent the new yc york ark city agriculturists but it does not represent the of the nation some farmers would e even ve 1 I ro go so far as to applaud their representative in an all effora to make the consumer pay more for his beet beef it thereby it would crould raise the price ot of the block h he has to sell but the ridiculous thing thine about this mexican cattle business Is that tho the ad rall mablon slon of 0 mexican cattle la Is determined upon jurt otter after the secretary has riven given public genf ant to his righteous indignation that a beet trust trual in chicago was causing extortionate prices to lie be paid by consumers live cattle were cheah or er than ever they had been and yet the price to the consumer was as high as aa ever it Is well known wn that the ithe so called chicago beef trust Is making life a burden to the small cattle dealers tills trust trual has private lefrie crater cars in which they ship dressed beet beef to new york the railroad corn companies allow them a substantial rebate on these cars and with this rebate the chicago packers can practically eshue shut out the small email dealer tills this same trust was investigated a few lears ag aco 0 by a senate committee and that co committee malt accomplished as much probably as c cretaro secretary cre tary morton can accomplish which was nothing hut but the pertinent for the tanners tanner er to consider Is not whether wh ther new york beet beef eaters ray pay too much tor for their beet beef but whether their representative es tentative enta tive 13 11 representing at till all in this controversy tro versy veray it is an open ques question alon whether the department of 0 ag agriculture out whose chief wis made a cabinet officer ft a row few years ago on the demand of 0 the farmers tar merfi Is at the present time worth a row ot of beans to tile the farmers THI THE PEACH INDUSTRY the unsatisfactory state of 0 the peach industry in new york Is believed to be due to careless and unscientific froth such as lack of cultivation inattention te tion to insects and diseases neglect to thin the fault anil and carelessness anil and untidiness diness in warm deep sandy lands landd are considered ideal peach soils but high shaley phaley or gravelly soils lit in the lake legions well drained and so situated as to escape the late spring frosts are well adapted to produce good crops very frequent challow cultivation kivat ti on of the it 11 Is advised from may ABY until august when occasionally a green crop as vetch or crimson clover can be sown to be ploughed sloughed hed under the next the peach 01 chard should never be bowed sowed d to grain the trees should be planted about twenty feet fec t apart in addition to the tillage and green manure crop fertilizing with ashes potash aud and bone fertil izera is 13 urged the vase vare form method of 0 pruning Is in advocated the trunks being thorl and the top allowed to spread at will care should bo be taken mat the branches bran chea do not at start from the trunk nt at exactly the same naine height thus avoiding avold ln the ho ila ability of splitting it the tops topa are headed they thi y become thicker and shut oft iff much of 0 the sun from tho th ripening fruit the fruit should be thinned after the june drop when tile the pe peaches aches are the size of ones es thumb and no khosla two peaches d stand closer than five inches in market lariC the peaches care should be taken in packing them so sal that they may present an attractive appearance to ohp th purchaser ncr out nt if forty seven ar or of recommended ed lit in lists obtained from seventeen growers in the state slaty the fol I 1 a ing va are arc preferred 1 by live or more marly and late laif crawford free router poster Illi elberta erta barly rivers brigdon Mount fountain rose hose and wheatland L 11 bailey ON THE fa at a recent banners fan far meare ners conven convention tiou mr air chauncey il 31 depew said mild 11 1 belong to a family that except in my own came cage has ha produced larse large numbers ra ot of children and no child amone them has ha ever tiled died during the tight generational generation el that I 1 cart can trace trac back it Is a very ex cx record thy they were farmer folks folk living in a way subsist ins ing without any ot of the modern lions which are thrown around people having bovine oil all the th appliances and the environment which modern science delores declares at absolutely polut ly pro product duce death and yet every one of them lived beyond 60 yeni years of nee aaa chere 1 I here has never been a death in the family air lly under the age ot of 60 in all the alon an am genealogy comet comes irom from the amaly family bible how ifer tire fare we to account for it Is in it ft a peculiar faculty acuity that resists the microbe or Is the microbe a humbug for myself I 1 have come to the conclusion ion that the microbe Is a fr stid THE SAHARA ir II A frenc frenchman hm an discusses the he sahara from abt stan diZ int of its U in tor for commerce and agriculture tho the author discusses esile claisy the camarot the existence of 0 tho the desert of 0 Sa ti ahara barca bract and rinds indi that those to 10 aich it hm has heretofore been attributed ar am wt sufficient after a thorough of the climate and it its c charba alart during the year he decide that the causes of the existence of th the I 1 lemert are purely atmospheric lie f anda ands that a relative high pressure elt ests over the desert in winter r causing winds wind except in the tha extreme tra me northwest ul cherr ere there Is 1 a current of rinds which however croba the th elevated eu allan rang u of mountains anil and thus shux he bt dried up lit br for it 11 can attain the interior of the larl desert lM rl in fernmer the alert in occupied by a low law area of pressure ani and white while tt it cadach winds from rainfall treat outside yet the low itself li is due to beitt and U 4 I 1 L na this heat derrent 11 the 1 e re relative url a ty of the ii I 1 air 1 r until it murli much precipitation elpi tation is 1 generally impossible ile he notes however that there is probably no part of 0 the desert on v blell rain never falls but that in many parts friter in erval vals fl of 0 |