Salt Lake Tribune | 1905-11-28 | Page 4 | Farmers and Farmers

FARMERS AND FARMERS. Willi farm valuer and farm produ. ts attaining a value In this country, never before approximated In this or any other land within the time of known history, as shown by the report of Secretin Sec-retin v W'llsnn lh lmut , . 1 "avr.v iviriullell may naturally he expected in the n-terrnountan n-terrnountan or seml-arld region of the country. Utah is the center of that region, and should have been the heneficlary of the greatest advance. Called the mother of Irrigation, her need of further development should have taken a merited precedence with the great enterprises of private capital and governmental work. With industrious population wedded to her soil and possessed of half a century cen-tury of experience with conditions here, her output and the attendant Increase of values should have shown a higher percentage of gain than In any other State In the I'nlon. Without having the comparative figures. It Is certain that these have not been the attainments of I'tah agriculture agricul-ture and agriculturists. While Idaho, Colorado, Montana and California have been marching reslStlessly forward, I'tah has lagged. We get no migration of farmers from any other part of the country into this State rather we end away year by year young men from the farms, who desire to pursue agriculture, to find homes In Canada or Mexico, or some other part of the world Nor are the farms, which remain under tillage, cultivated to the limit of their productiveness. produc-tiveness. I'pon nearly all of them Is the clutch of the church, which squeezes out the profits Until the farmer, although al-though Industrious, grows less hopeful year by year, less energetic, less thoughtful to make the most of his (,-IMirtujiltles. (,-IMirtujiltles. Practically the church lakes the annual an-nual profit of the Mormon farm leaving It, after harvest Just where It was before be-fore sowing. And as demonstrated by the history of other communities." this iu a blight against w hich no peasant toll or thrift can make any headway. While other farmers ure getting ri Iter It-er with the years, many of the farmers of Utah are at a standstill.