Show UTAH HOLDS OUT MOST ALLURING INVITATIONS TO 1 I ALL WHO HAVE LONGING FOR FARMS OF THEIR OWN I GETTING ETTING U LAND LAND i. i NOW MADE EASY I. Uncle Sam Is Grantor in Tracts r-of r f Acres Salt Lakers IT Are Securing Title i k J EHRLICH MAKES GOOD J 10 Has Has' Promising Stands of Rye PotatOes es and Sudan Grass Grasson on Escalante Ranch f y Without ili I doubt no other place in the world holds out such alluring Invitations I to tho person who wishes to satisfy that inherent longing longing- for or back to the land ns ts docs Utah For the thu I small sum of 22 ho h. may secure from Crom the thC government a a. first rl right ht on a d. d li maln plain of S O acres Then Thon all that is ro re of pr him is that he hl Improve c eighty I acres ot O that bJ big big- piece of or land and QuaIl finally at proving pro up time make make- an- an payment 0 of 20 0 O to 25 5 and ho an ab absolutely patent pat pat- eat ent nt with Uncle Sam as the grantor Hundreds of Salt Lake men and women me tire securing title to the tho lands under the tho nonresident provision pro requiring five years to prove proc up tip More daring than these prudent citizens J. J M M. Ehrlich wh who for years oars was connected with the tue Johnson Schramm-Johnson Drug company com corn pany decided de last fall Call to cut loose loos grab ab a acro O-acro tract in the thc Escalante valley lle In southwest south Utah and secure title in throe three years years' time by making his residence on his new possessions fe seven fen n months each year ea That ho he is demonstrating the tho success of or modern scientific farming In jn Utah is proven in the remarkable results In so 50 short a time lime A Although he lie did not start plow plow- ing until m ember XO 15 1914 1014 nor plant his Ills ryo iyo 10 until December toda today he has Seventy cv acres under cultivation with a R 11 large c field of or rye cl forty eight ht Inches hl high h twenty acres of potatoes promising promis Promis- h ing hig largo large yield ten acres of oC corn and Jr l s such truck as beans and andeas pea c cand and five e acres of or tho the now famous Sudan grass a marvelous mar drouth re re- re gister r But nut when ho he plowed ho put the share harG down twelve tWel full Cull Inches and kept It there making a a. deep soil soU reservoir for the storage of or moisture Mr Ehrlich attributes his success principally to deep plowing hj Ho does docs not discount tho the selection of or a a. fine deep red sand loam soil in an equable climate under the sheltering protection of the thc ah Wah Wall ah mountains which veer CU the cold of or midwinter We c can work vork eleven en months of or the year ear and I figure figuro that I shall be able to cut three crops of the Sudan grassa grass n a season he hc declared IY in Hungary Hun lien gary ar where m my father Is farming 2000 acres the tIle lands arc are locked In Jn the grasp of or winter about five I months a a. year car This Utah climate its rich virgin soils re marvels to to me In tho the old country the thc lands have been cultivated for tor hundreds hun hen bred dS of years cars and nd tile they fall fail to respond like these rich western soils At To- To bor Jor Ethic Ethe Hun Hungary ary there is about thame the th same ame annual precipitation fifteen s as In the Escalante The ele- ele Uon Is 2000 feet The soil there Is 18 black loam There Is Js no irrigation Plowing Plowing- about eight inches constant cultivation ulti and manure fertilization maintains t the soil fertility The They work with Hh horses end and oxen ozon The They hardly know modern farm machinery The Thc are arp m mainly rye re harle barley corn J Kaffir c corn rn milo flax beans melons mango manso potatoes poppy seed and grapes rape Occasionally hea heavy hall hailstorms torms pass pasa over the country countr and destro destroy the crops L ro Io 0 Try TIT Out T cw S i Down on my mr Escalante farm Carm I in Intend tend riO tr try out a number of ot new ner things s for IDah Tho Thc poppy seed Is a profitable d C JOP Op in Hungary Undoubtedly it can Hie be successfully stull grown In these mild Utah alle valleys 8 The plants grow five fl to hi I Ix feet tall have ha a big flower lower with a g ted Seed ed pod the size of a hens hen's eg egg When rhen life lne pod is dried It opens and the see seeds s 1111 out The pods lOa may be bo stored for Cor ht eai The seed is ground entire into I J Jf j I f J r TL 7 w P r f i iJ i rr f. f I f I 1 I A J 4 Ai a rr Li 0 v iS' iS J I V I t I J I f. f of rf I rr r.- r. e I y l' l tf M i I J i tl H I i r rJ Mk I 1 ii I i I r. r j I it ti t i d' d rs 1 t. t h Ir 1 I tt r-tt 1 t I i t r f I 1 f II t J i Vi j r f I f. f 1 I i I J r f. f row It i h j fi n 1 t t c k t J f. f J I I q 11 tf t I t I Al rY j I J y dh 1 o- o 1 I J J Jt rA r- r m f i t I 0 f wS tt it i ft 1 1 A 1 11 k 1 ill E 1 1 g. g i J 8 t. t I 1 jt r f I t 1 Ji t J n nr L I i I W Jf J 4 If n. n PF y I I 1 J J. 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I J X li 8 iI f 1 I i t 4 1 V Vit it 1 i h 4 l it 43 0 tf 0 t f Wi W l t tI t 4 f tt ck W 4 r H s tf t j t li t i t k W Wt t t. t i t z M 0 i NA i i t i 4 A I 1 I g Jk IZ l f t rf 1 J i t r o t. l' l rr 4 i 51 L It I y jyon O i. i i x f JP it 1 z f h. h A l ti 1 b C 2 v t v 4 1 z KY s f N I 1 ich Yo t S 'S 11 1 c f j A 4 v U r t tV i 2 f t k h I t t Vc t 2 t 1 JF H I tj ij t 11 40 J t Z f. f m lf- lf k W 4 b f S fu A f t jJ u v f So t. t t t r u 1 tI tIt t v 5 L J 44 I 4 Me s 7 7 I a n darkish flour Clour It is used to make male the thc finest kinds of or pastry in tho the world The fhe best European cooks know its value val al ue jt and use It for cakes and fancy Cancy breads It makes nutritious palatable food tood B By the tho wa way I find that most c Americans American are injuring themselves by eating indigestible Indig pies and cakes They do not flat understand the truo true art of cookery The rho and Germans have this down to a fine art The American dougha are not properly cooked and so the they lose much of or their food value and arc are eaten In a more or orless orless orless less Indigestible form I 1 squatted on m my land last October before It was thrown open to homestead homestead homestead home home- stead entry The half halt section Is about three and one half miles from tho the south slope slop of oC the Wah altah alt Wah ah Inn range e between Lund and Modena on the Salt Lake Route Houte The elevation ele is 54 5 10 feet and anti the nearest weather station Is at Sahara Sa Sn- hara ham The ground was as covered ered with native nit na na- tive live white sage rabbit brush or yellow ellow top and native e grasses Owing to the nearness of the hills there is quite a adew adew dew hew and I consider this one of or the main Insurances against ag crop failure in dr dry years ears Give GI me plenty of or dew and eight Inches of oC precipitation and I can make good on almost any crop Of Ot a morning I 1 find the nightly dews dripping dripping drip drip- ping like so man ninny many pearls from Crom the eaves caves of or my cabin pinker Makes Improvement Although h m my land hand was not subject to filing upon until December 28 28 8 just six months a ago aco o I l a n carload of im im- irn- irn and arid household g- g goods godson on on OctOber Octo ihl ber 18 Now ow I have ha a two room cabin feet a barn chicken coop ho hog pens pensA etc My Iy lumber cost me mc 60 Two of or us dug dOg a well lEi feet deep H It Is 5 6 b by 5 feet and we lift water waler for Cor culinary purposes with a small mine whim him We Ve were four weeks digging At five twenty fl e feet we struck four tour Inches of gravel gla fifty feet Ceet deep deeper four inches of gravel and at feet reet wo we en encountered encountered en- en countered two and quarter one Inches of or hardpan A shot of dynamite In the bottom brought brough t in a rush of or water It tests 08 fiS pure pure and stands six feet Ceet In the well welle We e e have been unable to lower It with the whim and antI a u big bib barrel bucket Before DeCore we stuck th the nose of our HInch 14 H- Inch plow into the soil we first put up our house and shelters h for Cor the tho live stock The first furrow was turned twelve inches deep November ember 15 We Ye plowed with three horses and at that depth did not average more than an acre acro a da day But it was well done Deep plowing is the secret of or success We Vc started lo to plant rye rc December 12 1914 and put in twenty K We 0 broadcast the tho seed I believe f for r the thc first plantIng plantIng plant- plant Ing this I is better than drilling as it more evenly distributes the nitrogen and other plant food contained in the grain althou although h experts will differ with me mc on this point I harrowed tho the field Januar January 5 and tho the grain started to sprout in February after winter snows and warm rains T Tji Tie precipitation from January to June Junc 15 Hi has been ten Inches On June lune 15 the whole field was up UI fort forty eight inches with tile the promise o of a 20 to 25 bushel yield Iehl to the acre I rome Dig Yield The past spring spring- I planted twenty acres of or White Rose potatoes The seer seed was waH procured from a neighbor The round ground wa was aS seeded the last Jast of March In rows rans two thirty two Inches apart We Vc put In two to the hill kill and the lulls hills twenty four Inches apart On June Junc 1 15 16 th plants were ei eight ht Inches high bight with hills showing potatoes as big as a hens hen's e egg J. J I am nun certain of or a n. good yield d of or possibly to bushels to the acre Cultivation and rains are the thc re requirements ru- ru ments after the thc selection of seed tubers free tree from the tho prevailing disca dis dis- ca eMesI eases eMes es I 1 have ten acres of or yellow ellow dent corn and It was up five inches on June Hi 15 with every evidence of or a fair tall yield My ry beans antI and peas came up In a satisfactory manner One Ono mile from me last year cro grown rown on dr dry farm arm land sonic some of the finest t I ever ate I I put In five hc acres of or Sudan grass rals which promises to revolutionize forage In iii the tho arid west It started to sprout Juno 5 Sudan I is superior to timothy In feed values altie It was Intro Intro- from Crom Sudan In Into t 0 the United States In 19 1919 and has made macic remarkable Inco since then In the semi arid sections Two to three crops a year Jar are arc cut It Is a an annual I secured m my seed for 50 cent cents a pound from a a. government o station In Arizona I l shall plant noon soon ten tell acres of grapes I 1 know what lia had liat been d done dono nu with them In arid portions of ot m my nathe native native na na- na- na tive the country countr and I r have havo great confidence confidence con con- in grapes for fot the Escalante valley I I have also planted out trees including including- apple plum and pearI pear I I 1 planted them them- April 2 22 2 and tho they are aie snowIng showing up til to m my 1113 C. C In spite of or tho the fact that I d did d not receive cl first class ss stock Tho The trees were 3 years rears old in place of yearlings s The ric ora a. average e annual precipitation In Escalante all valley e Is b between tween 13 and 14 Inches This Is computed from more than half halt a do dozen en stations situated In Inand Inand Inand and about the great valley alley with Its more than 1 acres acre The 1914 annual pi Ion at t Sahara the then n nearest arest station tation to the Ehrlich homestead homestead homestead home home- stead was as 97 Inch inches 3 However er that was unusual unusually light no doubt doub The 1915 precipitation to date is a as follows according to the tho Sahara records records- January Jan Jan- liar uary 1 05 Inch Inches s February inches March tarch 22 2 Inches April 49 Inches May inches Juno June part 20 In Inh et Iv li 5 10 US OR Sahara hara station Ys Is situated out In tho the open valle valley while the Ehrlich ranch Is located locate near the higher foothills where as a rule the precipitation is Js much heavier Mr Ir Ehrlich tells of ot a wild colt that came down out of or the thc With Wah Wah hills hillsand hillsand and anti made friends with Lavern Carter tho the little daughter of or one of his as assistants as- as Every ery da day the timid HtWe litt-le animal corner comes to got Qt its re regular ular portion por por- then lion of ot milk The two twi youngsters oun have ha become s so o fond of ot each h other that the they are arG now no almost Inseparable l Women Take U Up U In an adjoining two young women from Los Angeles Ang have ha taken up tip a homestead and are arc living on It The They are Miss Cecilia Weis reis and Miss Lena Weis eis The They have a little cabin of their own and are arc enjoying mightily 4 4 r 1 I TOI Toil picture IK is little Ml I liner Curter her nil wild 11 colt tolt from front uh lIh UN its dally milk dinner The Ihl picture to to tn the rl right ht In Is I of tuo tSo omen front Crell ruin ON I 0 n Ie Una cedar l on their t new nei Utah Center plo pie t Litre IH is J. 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M cabin anti and nn- nn M tive thI poM 1104 fence fenee er pl plc pic 1 tire uro Is IH Mr Ir on June 17 1 17 1111 in III his nere acre rye re field I Inn II o euil cr r ir r and zunil planted j December n Itye IH ti ll fort fight j-fight ht I hl high h null and I Cut tn I I j It-Id It to I the lie nero acre I I this unusual experience of or winning a n. ahome homo home out In iii th the wIM west They have havo buckled down Iown and amid t with Rh Ith a nerve and persistency ncy that ml might ht be bc emulated by many of ot tho the sturdier sex arc are making leaking good Th They do not zot shrink from itom buildIng building build build- In Ing fences and cart carrying inS on all the regular reg rc- ular work of or the hOI In another section there is Js a ha hardy h flu niu larmer was WitS out cud 01 OL In tHe I I Imperial a valley 11 0 b by time the intensely hot I II j summer suns and the vast sums re required re- re I to purchase a real farmstead r-I r So he drove o his goor good train team all the way from coin California to Utah When he arrived ar- ar rived rl In the thc Es s valley alley last summer summer sum sum- I ar-I mer mI all he had to lo his lila name name- was hi his hungry team a stout heart healt and and 17 Ii cents cash capital Tn In II hi his pocket However How low ever he liked the looks of or the valley alle squatted on a n homestead and and toda today Is Is comfortable and contented with prospects prospects pros twos cheery cheen for rot valuable land Jand possessions possessions pos pos- sessions a competency for tor his declinIng declining ing Ingo years ears |