Show SOME GOOD ADVICE TO GRANGERS I Logan Journal Time and again has the Journal called attention of Cache valley farmers to the fact that they are apparently making no effort to supply our home market in certain lines while they are overdoing themselves in others Our complaint of too much I wheat raising will hardly be as appropriate ap-propriate this year as heretofore but I we must remember that India will not I suffer a famine eel season nor is I the Russia wheat crop liable to fall short for several years again Therefore I I There-fore we reprint as a word of advice the following editorial from the Tribune I Trib-une A good many people are complaining of hard times and justly so Still the day before Christmas one firm here disposed of thousands of turkeys brought from Iowa Wisconsin and other states of the old northwest Is not that a reproach to our farmers There is many a farmers boy and many a farmers girl in Utah that would have been glad to have had 20 to spend on Christmas day and there is not one of them who could not last spring have secured 30 turkey eggs and have raised at least 20 turkeys at no apparent expense and onlya little lit-tle trouble and they could have had I te those birds if of good stock weighing I 15 pounds apiecevon Christmas day I I and they could easily have realized 25 for the dock and that would have been 25 less sent away t pay some boy or girl in Nebraska for turkeys that he or she was thoughtful enough to I raise AVe believe that Mr T R Jones paid 5600 for foreign born turkeys tur-keys to give t his employees for their i Christmas dinner Now Mr Jones I is not partial to eastern turkeys I he had his choice he would rather have the money that he pays for turkeys go to the boys and girls f Utah than t boys and girls of Illinois But the boys and girls of Utah were not in evidence with turkeys It may be said there is more corn in Iowa than in Utah but I people ate turkeys a good many thousand I thou-sand years before corn was known to civilized man They raised turkeys on I wheat and barley and sunfloivers and bugs and locusts and no end of other I things that turkeys eat with avidity I and digest without difficulty We believe be-lieve that any earnest man or woman could go and jump one of the islands II in Salt Lake or hire a patch of one of the islands big enough to raise what turkeys would want to eat and I could unassisted in a summer raise and fit for market about five gross I of turkeys to be a capitalist on Christmas I Christ-mas day and sing the turkey song in Fatinitza for amusement all summer sum-mer long I While the turkeys are being sold barrel after barrel of New York Ohio and Michigan apples were sold here on our market although it is true that in old days until the people neglected their trees and let them go to the bugs there were no finer apples in the world than Utah produced Now if a sound apple is to be obtained an apple of a known grade it has to come from Idaho or from New York Michigan or some other eastern state The men who buy dried fruit will give more for Utah dried peaches than for those of any other part of the west and yet the amount of California peaches eaten in Utah every year aggregates ag-gregates thousands of dollars Milk and butter are 25 per cent higher in Salt Lake than in Boston New York or Chicago and yet every pound of food given to cattle in the east is costly while here there are thousands of acres of range that is free to all We do not object to the price here but in addition to what is supplied thousands of dollars worth of butter and cheese are brought from the east every year I is the same way with pork and bacon A good many people have Kansas City beef right here in Salt Lake Besides the turkeys chickens eggs and geese are brought here in large orders from the eats for this market And so Utah pays out thousands tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of dollars every year for articles that could be raised of better quality right here at I home And if the money thus paid out could be put in circulation right here at home it would be better for the merchants better for the state better for the people themselves The sum of the whole business is that while industrious hon Utah is peopled by an est race thej are not half as thrifty and broad minded as they ought to be There are thousands of farmers in Utah who believe that they waste nothing and yet every year enough goes to waste on their farms to raise all the turkeys all the chickens all the eggs needed for this market and U they would trim their orchards spray their orchards have the trees that now raise only worthless fruit grafted and then cultivate the soil around the roots ol the tree they could supply all the fruit needed here except such as Is I wanted before the Utah fruit matures I in the summer II I I |