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Show PAGE 8 UTAH BEHIND THE TIMES IN FARMING; LIVESTOCK RAISING (Continued from page 1.) In Utah stands low on corn. acres 1924, Montana had 511,000 in this crop and produced 9,198,-00- 0 165,000 bushels. Wyoming, Colorado, bushels; 2,310,000 acres, 1.565.000 acres, 15,630,000 bushels; New Mexico, 310,000 acres, 4,200,-00- 0 bushels; Arizona 31,000 acres, 930.000 bushels; Utah, 28,000 acres, 1,000 Nevada, 728.000 bushels; 0 Idaho, acres, 2.7,000 bushels; The bushels. acres, 2,800,00 average yield of corn per acre for the eight states was about 26 bushels per acre that year and Utah just but about comes to this average, Idaho made 35 per acre. Utah lands are high in value per acre for plow land, and we are proud of this, yet, considering our small acreage we should be rather humble. Montana has average value of plow land per acre of $21 for 1924; Wyoming $27, Colorado 52, Arizona $120, Utah $86, Idaho $68. Again on wheat we do not stand very high, viz; Montana, population 637,900, per capita consumption 5.3 bushels, exportable surplus 43.394.000 bushel; Idaho, 486,497, per capita consumption 5.9 bushel; surplus, 13,898,000; Wyoming, 219,-345.7 bushel, surplus 637,000; Colorado, population 1,012,044, con80,-00- 7, sumption per capita 5.5 bushel, sur- plus, 13,034,000 bushels; New Mexico, 377,371, 7.2, had to import 322.000 bushel; Arizona, 401,016, 1,842,000 bushel; 6.6, imported Utah, population 488,562, 5.6, surplus 1,257,000 bushel; Nevada, 5.6, imported 60,000; California, 3,967,278 people, consumption, 5.1, had to import 16,533 bushel. Population in these cases is given by the government as of January 1, 1925. The consumption is the average from 1919 to 1923 incluOn this bread question we sive. add the following: Total popmight ulation of the nation, per the yearbook, 112,786,165, per capita consumption 4.84 bushel, total requirements, average for the four years above, 626, 258,000 bushel, leaving 77,-14- 7, us an average surplus of 246,386,-00- 0 This surplus, howevbushel. er, is largely supplied by two or three states. North Dakota had a surplus of 118,000,000 bushel, Kan It is easily seen sas, 131,000,000. that if North Dakota and Kansas had a drouth or failure Uncle Sam would be short on wheat. Of the forty-eigstates in the union thirty-one do not grow enough wheat for their own use. Utah stands low on oats. The acreage for the nineteen principal crops in 1924 in United ht ing houses, an& about 22,000,000 are killed on the farms. But the are not pigs that we grow in Utah in weight and in up to standard amount of fat produced, hence we that import more than the number marOur we grow would indicate. ket value, for. that year, on the farms for the hogs we had was only about $1,000,000, practically the Montana had same as Wyoming. Colorado $3,000,000 .farm value; the about Arizona and $6,000,000, same as Utah. Idaho had over $3,- 500.000, In this country the farm value of hogs grown per capita is about $6, and Utah produced only $2 worth. (Remember this is not the price paid at the butcher shop, but the price for the live hogs.) d Utah produced only $2, or use. we of the $6 per capita which exported only $21,666,000 worth It should be apparent that Utah, while proud of her record in irrigation, in reclaiming the desert lands, is today a small state in population, in wealth, in land per capita that is in crops, and in the yields per acre. There is not one farmer in ten in Utah who would believe, without the proof, that Wyoming has more acres in crops per population than Utah. Yet that state of all the irrigated land has 6.3 Wyin the country and Utah and is 219,347, omings population Writer Utah has 488,562 people. 7.1. thought that Utah surely had at least 20 per cent more people than Idaho yet the total population of each state is almost the same, there not being possibly 5,000 people difference one way or the other, We buy possibly $5,000,000 worth and it would be an even bet as to of pork, because we buy at this which state has the larger populamuch increased price, ham, break- tion. Nevertheless Idaho has in fast bacon, lard, put up by the pack- crops nearly 3,000,00v acres, 85 ing houses and shipped in by job- of it irrigated, while Utah has less bers and retailed to the customer.' than half of this acreage and about We do not have exact figures. 90f of it irrigated. Utah imports most of the cheese It is evident that Utah must wake used, although we have no definite up. The land which we have growfigures on it. We apparently have ing crops may not be producing us butter for other states, and while it much more than our mines, and ceris comparatively small in quantity tainly not as much as livestock and The mining. Nevertheles the livestock yet it brings us some cash. about a whole as produces country could not do without the agriculall it needs, but there are years, ture, and we could not do without As quite often, where considerable is the farm and the livestock. imported from other countries, and Brigham Young said and many then Copenhagen rules the market. times emphasized in the pioneer On milk cows the following data days, it is better to let the mineris interesting: Montana 204,000 al remain undeveloped while we head, average value per head $53; build homes and have fertile farms Colorado, of our own. The United States as Wyoming, 48,000, $57; 261.000, $50; New Mexico, 47,000, a whole has three acres per capita $50; Arizona, 46,000, $85; Utah, in crops, while Utah is below this 96.000, $72; Nevada, 24,000, $83; average. California is rapidly growIdaho, 178,000, $62; California, ing and cannot produce 'her own 664.000 cows, average value per bread. She may get the wheat from On beef cattle we com- Washington and Idaho. But the head, $76. as follows: pare Montana, 1,248,-00- population in all of these states is Colorado growing rapidly. Wyoming 777,000; Irrigation, even 1.279.000, New Mexico, 1,160,000; in a state like Colorado, is playing Arizona 1.070,000, Utah 410,000, the leading role among the eight Nevada 345,000, Idaho 537,000. mountain states. The irrigated area Utah shows up fairly well on will not be greatly enlarged except for two big projects, that is, the dairy cows but is taking a back-se- t Uintah Basin and the Boulder dam on the beef cattle industry. Utah beats Idaho on sugar. We in California. Colorado already has have from sixteen to eighteen fac- nearly one fifth of all the land irtories in operation and produce on rigated in the United States, Calian average about 140,000 short tons fornia nearly one fourth of it, while of refined sugar a year, giving us a Utah has only about large margin which we export. Ida- of it. ho has seven to nine factories in use The purpose of this accumulation and produces on an average about one-thir- 0, one-fifteen- 55.000 tons. Utah is the greatest alfalfa seed state, but we are not any more the leader on production of alfalfa hay which we were thirty or forty years ago. There was a time when Utah was the only part of the continent where this great forage crop amounted to much. Now we are is 348,649,000 acres, or beaten by many states, as the 1924 slightly more than three acres per figures indicate: capita. Of this total Utah had Michigan 1,053,000 tons, "Wiacres in crops. On a one sconsin, Minnesota, and Iowa, nearhundred basis Utah stood in crop ly as much. Nebraska produces about production in 1924 82.5 against 3.000- .000, and Kansas two-thiras 86.2 for the entire western and much. Utah, Montana, South Dacoast states, and 98.1 for the forty-- kota, and Idaho go over the milstates. lion ton mark, Utah producing that Utah farm labor is high, the av- year 1,372,000 tons, and Idaho, 1,- erage in October, 1924 was $2.50 528.000 tons. Colorado is nearly per day, against $2.41 for the moun- up to Kansas, but California beats tain and western states, and $1.94 every state by far with a producfor the entire country. tion of 3,754,000 tons. The country as a whole produces We hear a lot about Uncle Sam about one-ha- lf full grown standard exporting so much farm machinery In these moun- and implements hog per capita. to foreign countain states Idaho and Colorado pro- tries. In 1920 we used $471,000,-00- 0 duce their own pork and have a worth of these goods, and in little to sell. Utah produces only 1922, the last figures at hand, we 115,000. These figures are for 1924 dropped down to $222,908,000. In government estimate of hogs grown. 1920 we exported to foreign counIt is estimated that about 44,000,-00- 0 tries $66,626,000 worth of farm hogs are handled by the pack equipment goods, and in 1922 we states ds of data, with other facts which tH writer has arranged, is to imprel our own Utah people with the fal that we need more wheat, mor corn, more pork, more beef, and ev While w en more alfalfa hay. is marke there wheat grow enough we On corn more than produce. for several and other pro beef, pork, ducts we are short, and must pay out our cash produced from alfal fa seed, wool, and coal mining, etc., for these foods. We should produce all our corn and pork, two very im- portant items which we need. But the land we have in cutlivation, two acres per capita, will not permit much more of these products. acres for every man, woThe 1 man and child, in our state is doing its full duty in all sections except the Uintah Basin. We should be impressed by the fact that we need more people in the Basin, and that our state needs more corn, more pork, and more beef, three products which the Uintah Basin can produce, and keep Utah money to build up our own The Uintah J3asin is the state. hope of our state, the biggest thing in the state yet undeveloped. It is the particular business of every land owner in our two counties to inform our fellow citizens elsewhere in the state that our state must help us. It is the business of our leading business men, and our political leaders, to inform our state administration that we must have help. This demand is not altogether selfish. The state of Utah needs these additional products, and our state is each year sending an excess of surplus population to other states. We must have good roads, independently of a railroad, so that the new people who come in to look at our vast land areas will not feel so keenly the isolation. We are the of the pioneerfirst stage past ing of this great inland country and we must now get down to business. Is it not about time that we should take this view? th SAVE THE MIDDLE- MANS PROFIT SADDLES by buying direct from the manufacturer. Send for our free illustrated catalog The Western Saddle Mfg. Co. 1651 Larimer St. Denver, - Colorado THE UINTAH BASIN FARMER IS A NECESSITY IN THE HOME "wmwwrwwwwnmmmiiw Free Combination CAN OPENER 1 eight &L With every two years subscription to The Uintah Only 50 cents a year |