Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-10-07 | Page 61 | College Expert Inspects Land Tract

1 SPEGTSLAND TRACT Reports Promontory-Curlew x Acreage Is Adapted to Stock Raising. Notwithstanding tho big profits which it is claimed the fanners are making in wheat on the dry farm lands of the Promontory-Curlew tract in northern Utah and southern Idaho, wheat raising, according to Herschel Bullen, Jr., of Logan, Utah, secretary of the Promontory-Curlew Land company, is not the only way the settlers on this land can make money. "Stock raising has become a big industry in-dustry on tho Promontorv-Curlew tract,'' said Mr. Bullen yesterday. '"This is dne to a large extent to the fact that rye can be raised so successfully, success-fully, and rye for both pasturing and for hap is the best food for stock." As proof of the unusual adaptability of this section to livestock raising, Mr. lcn cited the report made bv J. W. yi'i 'asinaii, extension specialist In dry r farming of the Utah Agricultural college, col-lege, after an investigation of the Promontorv-Curlew holdings. In hia report re-port Mr. Paxman said: "This great country is destined to produce millions for the milling industry besides sustaining sustain-ing thousands of cattle and sheep on the fields of rye. Rye provides an excellent ex-cellent early pasture and will give early beef and mutton and carry over the remnants and vounger animals to another an-other ear. Many thousands of livestock live-stock will eventually find support from the nutritious grasses and rye pastures -' on Ihe dry farms and provide sources of great wealth and bring happiness and contentment to the owners of the land." ".Several of the successful farmers of the district have already proved that Mr. Paxman 's estimate is a correct one,." said Mr. Bullen, "and when it is taken into consideration that the price at which excellent rye producing' laud can be purchased is less even than the price asked for the wheat land, it is not surprising that the livestock industry in-dustry is looking up in Box Elder county.''