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Show tiei i WHEAT EXPECTED OF UTArl Expert Makes Recommendations Recommen-dations to Meet Call of United States. MUCH PROPERTY IDLE Urges Economical Use of Water Now Permitted to Run to Waste. Ey DR. F. 55. HARRIS. Director Experiment Station, Utah Agricultural Ag-ricultural Coilcgc. . In llio cI'I'im-I. ,,1' till' povcninnMit I') i in-it;i it wln'Jit Hiipj'ly ol' Hip conn I vy in ( h h m-i iul id' yrcrtt mm I ion a 1 ii. 1'1,'ih ,as l.riMt iikni to a.!.! IJ or '''lit tn tier r i in-1 ion of t':i! wii-'at. I'll i comics as a '1 i ivrt call I'l oni 1 In' ;.o'i'i'iiiiii'Mt Hit minic as tin' olht'r calls to duty t lia t lia -c Leon issued d n i i n t lie past few am at lis. I ' tail has a I'.vay.i frit a pride in hcin a leader in !mt s.np-ort oj' every patriotic move. Iler .'espouse to the I a Ix-M y o;i n, tin1! lied f'ross and the rail for men are already maMers of record to which every l'y:il citizen ran point hark with pride in V": i'H to mute. I 'rom I ' t:i h 's ha hit. of re:-1 ondin w hen duty calls we may lie .sure that mi this lateM rail she wili H"t lie found wanting. 'i'lie only ipiesllon that will ho asked is; How can this In- done to best advantage ad-vantage wi t lion t dee reus i n l' the produc-t produc-t i on of other crops .' I ' I a h has never been a lare jirodurer of wiiea t, when compared with some of the other states. Her total pro. I net ion amounts to only about S.tHMi.iMH) bushels; while a munber of states have yielded over 10U,(MH),(HM bushels in a year. Large Tracts Idle. The area of I'tah is over nil.noo.iHMl acres, with less than I per cent of this la nd in en i t i va t ion. While the larger part of t he stale is made up of nioiiu- j tains, there are lare.e tracts of laud' now lyiuo- idle irat are rapablo of pro-! due in v w In ii t. M a n y of these tracts j a iv held by private individuals for speculation. spec-ulation. The owners do not have to i farm and they hold the land for a riso ; n price, when il should be. released t o , I huso who wouhUeultivate it. j In the days when wheat sold for (iU cuts a bushel, it did not pay these land owners to opera te t heir farms with hired help, and as a result, the land was h'ft in its native brush. Now that t rain has increased so in mdi in price, there is no doubt that rmii h of this land mil be made to return handsome profits. If it is over oi nsj to pay for being r: rmed, su rely now is the time. The ;mgest ion is made that during these : i mes of high prices the land can be I cleared and cropped, the expense be'iiiM ! justified by the extra money received! -v the crop ; then if prices sbon Id re- 1 'urn to normal, the big expense of bringing the land in having been met, the land will be able to pay. Use Waste Water. Millions of acres of wheat should be raised every year with the flood water ihat runs to waste in the spring. Down every river during the earlv part of the season great floods of water rush and go to waste. 1 f this water w ere diverted di-verted on to the land a rich harvest of wheat would result. The Ttah experiment experi-ment station has demonstrated that the early water can be used to verv pond advantage in raising wheat. " This ! makes it possible for the farmer to raise I as largo an acreage of beets, potatoes, aH'alfa, corn and other crops . as he has late water for, and at the same time he can produce as much wheat as will be p oss i b I e w i t h the e x t in ea rl v water. Tt is not mvossarv to use anv water for wheat during the later part of the summer when it U scarce. New Tracts Opened. Although important results may be expected from improved methods of irrigation, ir-rigation, the great increase in wheat production in Utah will come from the dry farms. J Kach year new tracts are being I opened, but there are manv more areas ! that are capable of development. Some j of these are comparatively near to tho larger cities of the state. The delay in manv of these eases is due to the fact that the owner will not develop the land himself, nor will he dispose of it at a fair juice to others who would be willing will-ing to .nue crops. Of course, much of the delay results from lack of capital, power and machinery. ma-chinery. In many of these cases helpful co-o pe rat ion between capi talis ts and land owners would be mutually profitable. profit-able. Notwithstanding all the difficulties that arise, Utah should try to do her part in giving to the nation the extra wheat that 1ms been requested of her: |