Show j 1 f I DRY FARMING IN INI I j CEDAR VALLEY I Two Companies Report Sue Suc Success SueI I cess of Experiments in inI I 1 i 1 Raising Wheat If j I EXTENSIVE OPERATIONS t II j i j MUCH HAS BEEN SEEN ACCOMPLISHED I I WITHIN THREE YEARS i z I I t ti i Three years ago the federal government I 1 through the land office at Washington If f T k I decided to declare all the lands in the a 4 f Fort Crittonden Crittenden military reservation open I Ito to entry antry under all alt the land laws of the thet t I United Uniti States The Fort Crittenden res reservation embraced all aU the lands lande in Cedar 1 valley located in the western we tern portion of 7 j 1 Utah county It Is a historic locality being the where the first United I States post In the territory of I Utah was established Even today the theold theold 1 old buildings erected by the army remain standing and are used in Old Camp Floyd as the dwelling places of oC the resi reel residents I F r S dents of Fairfield The huge cottonwood I trees which sheltered Johnsons army in l Its first bivouac still stand along the thel I l I creek forming f an oasis in the sagebrush I I desert dee rt Few of those acquainted with Cedar ji 1 I valley thought It fit for anything else dee I than thaB sheep range and rabbit hunting i grounds but some observing ones who I remembered that in early days the army c I had md contracted with the Mormon settlers from the Salt Lake valley to furnish hay cut on the benches in Cedar valley de decided decided decided that the location was well suited for dry farming In consequence through S the state Mate land board a piece of ground was selected s and purchased and since that time they have been operating and de developing developing an extensive farm There is another company also al operating In the same vicinity composed of Utah county residents re These two companies hav persistently continued their work in spite of discouraging dl conditions and re rf results ouRs until the present year when the thet most moat t encouraging prospects are before them The first year two steam stem plows 1 t i I were put Into operation and hundreds of acres were plowed The wheat planted did not mature as was to be expected be because 1 cause time had not been given I the land to create plant foods feeds The see sec second ond year ear the Salt Lake company known as the Cedar Valley Land Improvement company harvested a crop which they theyS S sold on set the ground for s cents per bush bushel bushI I el The TIM quality of this grain was wae excel excellent excellent lent This crop ed the companies that the ground was WAR well adapted for and that an afi H that was wag need needed I ed te realize realise reali their hopes hope of converting the sagebrush benches and flats to waving I grain Brain fields field was proper methods method I So a third crop was sown j The Third Crop I Yesterday a party of stockholders of I the Salt Lake company visited the farm farmand farmand and were agreeably surprised Over OYer 1609 1600 I acres acra of promising grain now surround the he little hamlet of Pair Fairfield field The em c plo ot of the companies are pushing op operations operations and still more acres a are being broken up for planting this fall The I bome homesteaders teader seeing Ine the success of the large companies are planning active op operations opt and in the next neIt y yr year tr or two a aI t I good many acres of ot grain fields will be bf beI I added to the area of the I state stater I r The contrast between the he sagebrush lands land the greasewood flats and barren with the waving fIelds field of wheat and barley already standing twelve to toI I fifteen Inches high is proof enough to iv convince the most skeptical that dry farming is u a success and will wIil be one or orthe orthe orthe the principal factors facton In building buDding up the 4 state What is being done In spots In Cedar valley after three ears ar efforts can be done dotie in the whole valley and what can be accomplished In 1 this valley alley can be beIn beIn oe In all al the valleys vallys of Utah |