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Show FAHMlKti AflD FAKUEBS. Conip iratively only a small part of Utah territory is tillable; but those portions where there is soil in which to plant, and upon which water can be turned are surpassed in the quan. tity and quality of their production by few spots on the gloWa. The wheat yield is enormous in certain of the ccunties, as tjaupet?, Cache, Davis, and Salt Lake. It is no uncommon thing for fields to produce fifty, sixty, and eveu eighty bushels to the acre. And this is not Ihe result of careful or really intelligent farming; for there are not many sections that have been under cultivation so long as Utah, that will show a greater proportion of unskilled, un-skilled, awkward and careless farmers. The territory is settled by people who were not trained in agriculture, but who became husbandmen from necessity. neces-sity. Tbid applies to the masses, and not to the few who have been on farms all their lives in Europe or the United States. Many of our present farmers knew nothing of tilling the soil until they came to Utah, having worked all their lives in the coal mines, cotton mills, snoe shops, or at other trades. That their success in their new business has been so great reflecf s credit uood their innate in telligence; but speaks louder in praiso of the eoil, which, suffer ing abjse and mistreatment, continues con-tinues to yield up its fruits in almost incredible abundance-1 What might be expected from it1 .were the same degree of care exer I cieed as iB seen in older countries? In Ohio, one of the great wheat regions ; of the world, the average yield is only ; twenty two bushels to the acre. In Pennsylvania, where farming has been reduced to a science, the yield is thirty bushels per acre, and in Eng-; laud, where the land has been under! cultivation for centuries, the product ranges from thirty-three to forty bushels. With half of the care in cultivation that is observed in any of the places named, bestowed upon the fields in the average Utah valley, the - product would be twice what it is in those countries. We believe some; int rf st it being taken in the matter ot i tier firming. This shows itself iu lie well-tilled fields adjacent to tliii city, and also in the bet ter r.ppearance of farms in the eraio trrowinc counties. Some nf the people are beginning to realize lint ten acres of well-tilled laud will produce pro-duce more than twenty acres upon which little care and labor are bestowed. be-stowed. They are also learning Ibat however ambitious and however willing will-ing lo work a man may be.he can only do bo much in the way of farming, and if he attempts to cultivate more land than he can manage he muat neglect it alt to the injury of his crops. |