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Show FARMER GIVES GOOD ADVICE Utah Irrigated Land Too I j Valuable for Wheat Pro-' Pro-' i. duction, Says Nei'.son. , I -fTy u i..i ' -a Ar.ri.MiAr ' ' - Much has been said and written j during the past three years concerning concern-ing the hardships of the farmers. The price of the farm product is not the trouble. The present price is about the same as it was prior to the war. The farmer's main trouble is that everything that he now buys is about SO per cent higher than it used to be. For this reason his bushel of wheat only has a purchasing power of 00 per cent of what it had in 1013. Many remedies have been suggested. suggest-ed. Uppermost of the many cures mentioned has been that the government govern-ment should make the farmer a guarantee of a definite price for his wheat. Eventually such a process would bankrupt the government and the farmer alike. A guarantee of this kind would stimulate wheat production to such nu cxlent that Ihe government could not stand the strain. When the guarantee was withdrawn the farmer would be in a worse predicament than ever before. be-fore. j The only feasible way to help the farmer is through diversified farming. farm-ing. Statistics show that we import six billion pounds of sugar annually at a cost of 8295.000,000. If sufficient suf-ficient wheat land was planted into beets to produce the sugar we now import, the wheat surplus would soon be nothing hut a memory. It seems to me that it is absolutely absolute-ly financial suicide for the farmers of Utah to mise wheat on valuable Irrigated land, -when the same land will produce ten times as many dollars dol-lars In 'beets. To this many will reply that it would be impossible to get the necessary neces-sary supply of fertilizer for such a large area of beet land. I will endeavor en-deavor to show the way this can be nccompusiiea. In my opinion Utah farmers should raise only two main crops, alfalfa al-falfa and beets. There should be a liberal dairy herd on each farm. This can be made very profitable. However, the most profitable animal on the farm is the sheep, even though only a few heads be kept at ! the beginning". ; The United States only produces half of the wool used in the nation. Mutton, too, is in a very good demand. de-mand. In order to arrive at a conclusion j lot us call to our assislnnce a few figures. Suppose that the farmer in Ihe fall buys 100 head of old ewes. These should not cost him more than five dollars per head. It is remembered that all sheep herds are culled each year for the old ewes. I If such ewes are fed olfilfa hay I and pulp they should bo good for from two to three years. They should yield eight pounds of wool. each. At 45 cents a pound the woo from a herd of 100 would bring $300. Snch a herd also should bring nt least 100 lambs which should be marketed in September. Weighing 80 pounds each and selling at 10 cents a pound the lambs would bring $800. There would be very little loss of the old ewes either by dnath or depreciation, de-preciation, as they nre quickly fattened fat-tened on green alfalfn or beet pulp, i M'hen sheep are nn full feed they t will eat from four (o fivo pounds of hay but they will gather mur-h of their feed from weerls, brush and I waste around the farm. Tlmy will jeat almost any kind of woeds that I grow on Ihe farm. If th" farm is i properly fenced they need but little 'attention. |