| Show t ARID lANDS I OF UTAH I TO BE REDEEMED 4 Five Experiment Farms located i Lo-cated by Committee U i DEEPLY INTERESTS FARMERS l Jual Iron Tooels Sevier and San Juan Chosen 1 i i JJacliincry Bought and Work B < gun Crops Will Bo Put in Noxt Pall tt t S Great Success Promised i j pr TooQle county to have one of the experiment ex-periment farms provided for by the last legislature Another of the farms la r to be located In Sevier county and still another in San Juan county Those already 0 al-ready established are in Juab and Iron 1z I counties 1C the sixth farm Is located and It ia now thought that It will bet be-t it will be located In Washington county twenty miles east of Modena lu the Kscalante desert near the Iron county lineThe The above tells In brlcC the result of 1 the work of the committee composed of Senator TVhltmore and Profs Merrill r and Wldtsoc of the Agricultural college These three gentlemen held a meeting with W S McCornlck and otbers of the college trustees at McCornlcks bank yesterday and closed up their work They had Just completed a complete com-plete lour oC the State visltlntr all the localities that they thought would be 1 benefited by such farms The location of the farms was not made till all the facts were thoroughly discussed Every county in the Stale seemed determined to get one of these farms The deepest I Interest Is being taken in the move by I the farmers of all parts oC the State k and the prediction Is made that within uo years very county will have its own experiment farm conducted at the expense of the county BOUGHT THE OUTFITS In addition to locating the farms the committee closed contracts for 3000 I worth oC fence farming machinery and implements The fence is to be rabbit tight It will constructed of strong wire netting five feet high The implements I imple-ments will consist of jilows subsellers dls harrows and see ers principally A complete outfit was purchased for I each farm The e were pinchased practically prac-tically at wholesale rates half the contract p con-tract was given to the Cooperative Wagon and Machine company and half g to the Utah Implement company HOW WORK WILL BE DONE l i The farms in Juab and Iron have al rcady been fenced and plowing will be started at once The other farms will be fenced and plowed without further I delay Prof Merrill will have this work k in charge He will start out on Wednesday Wed-nesday for the purpose of locating exactly i ex-actly the three new farms and start the L work of clearing oft the sago brush and I T starting the plowing The ground will be plowed twenty Inches deep Later in Ie the summer It will be plowed again 11 Early In September the croptr will bo put In principally wheat Grasses of i various kinds and kaffir corn will be Hi extensively tried also Each farm Is to be divided Into about fifty tracts and a r complete record will be kept oC the results re-sults obtained in each tract ProL Merrill Mer-rill will have charge of this work also tvlth Prof Wldtsoc as the chemist WHEAT WITH LONG ROOTS Great things are expected from a spe vies of wheat Imported from Siberia a This wheat has roots running down i four feet into the ground It has been ti t tried on the experiment farm at Logan L and has produced fortytwo bushels to I I u the acre A crop of this is to be raised every other year The experiment farms i will be maintained at State expense for r Jive years and by tho end of that time I It Is thought that such a demonstration will be made as to the possibilities of dry farming that the people will gladly OO carry the work forward at their own espenHc The farmers institutes are i1 taking the subject up with considerable enthusiasm The Tooclc county farm is to be located L lo-cated midway between Grantsville and Tooele on the West mountain The farm In Sevier county is to be In the extreme I ex-treme southeastern part of the county In the Grass valley The farm in San Juan county Is to be located near Mon 0 ticello In the southeastern part ot the State t3 GREAT THINGS IN SIGHT s t No action of the recent Legislature J j4 aside from the pabsngc of the Irrigation j t law so aroused the Interest of the agrl Wff culturlsls in all puitH l > ot the State as tho provision for the establishment and op eratlon of these experiment farms The committee that has had the location of j tx the farms In hand ID convinced that this if work will result In adding enormously 7 to the wealth of the State Senator iitt Whitmoie is confident that It 1 means 4 more in the way of permanent prosper ity for the people of Utah than the de i1 vclopment of all the mines |
