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Show GREAT MESSAGE IS SEITMTTLERS i Report of Agricultural College Col-lege Expert Is Creditable Credita-ble to Utah. GIVES FARM RECORDS Shows Abundant Crops and Indicates More Land to Cultivate. So surprising have been the results obtained from dry farming in Utah in the past two years that the especially prepared report of J. W. Taxman, specialist spe-cialist of the Utah Agricultural college, just at hand, is characterized by H. T. Haines, state commissioner of immigration, immigra-tion, labor and statistics, as ''the best message that could be sent from Utah to prospective settler's." It is this kind of information that is contained in the forthcoming biennial report of this department, de-partment, which is used as the authority authori-ty in such matters by the Union Pacific colonization bureau and by the Denver & Rio Grande development department to send to those seeking western places of residence where they can make their livelihood. Officials Enthuiastic. So enthusiastic are the state officials over the results that they give the names and places of the record crops as follows : D. B. Broadhead, Nephi, fifty-five bushels of turkey red wheat per acre; Isaac H. Grace, Nephi, fifty-two fifty-two bushels of turkey red wheat; J. W. Paxman, Nephi, sixty-seven bushels of turkev red wheat; Bishop Henry Wood, Afonticello, San Juan countv, fiftj'-six bushels of turkey red wheat; D. B. Perkins, Monticel-lo, Monticel-lo, sixty-five bushels of oats; Henry S. Barnes, Monticello, twelve tons of carrots per acre and turnips weighing fourteen and one-half pounds each ; L. H. Doyle, Monticello, Monticel-lo, radishes weighing two and one-half one-half pounds each; Hans Jensen, Monticello, 105 bushels of potatoes, forty bushels of corn per acre; J. B. Harris, Verdure, San Juan coun-' ty, seven tons of sugar mangle-wuraels mangle-wuraels per acre; Lamara Graf, Kanarraville, Iron county, 10(3 bushels of corn; Samuel K. Christ-onsen, Springdale, Washington county, seventy-five bushels of com per acre; Moses Gifford, Springdale, thirty-seven bushels of turkey red v wheat; Bishop James B. Burrows, Hatch, Piute county, 200 bushels of potatoes; Harold Russell, Spring-dale, Spring-dale, 686 pounds of beans per acre; Seth M. Jones, Enterprise, 801 pounds Topary beans, fifty bushels of coin, 120 bushels of potatoes, 500 pounds of :alfalfa seed and 482 pounds of Sudan grass seed per acre:-Knight '8 Dry Farm' company, Tintic, fifty-two bushels of turkey red wheat: Grover W, McBride, Tooele, thirty-seven bushels of Uir-key Uir-key red wheat. Are Normal Yields. These yields were produced under strictly normal climatic conditions, with no subterranean water influences. influ-ences. The yield of sixty-seven bushels of wheat on the Nephi-Levan Nephi-Levan bench with a rainfall during fallow and growing years of only twenty-seven inches, or thirteen and one-half inches peT year, is per-fta.ps per-fta.ps the biggest yield of wheat ever produced per inch of rainfall in the United States, heing nearly two and one-half bushels for every inch of rainfall, as well as being the record yield on a dry farm in Utah, irrespective irre-spective of the amount of moisture. The 200 bushels of potatoes produced pro-duced by Bishop Burrows Is the largest yield on record, also the 100 bushels of corn by Lamar Graf. Hundreds of other reports equally good could be cited. Splendid yields of wheat, barlev, oats, rye, millet, corn, alfalfa, potatoes, bea.ns and Sudan grass are reported from nearly all parts of the state, and in some of the more favored sections many encouraging yields of vegetables vege-tables and small fruits are also added to the list. Plenty of Land Left. Cache valley is the big developed district and i"s producing by far more than any other section, having hav-ing made an enviable record for many years, due principally to the ideal conditions and the excellent quality of soil. Sail Juan county, reporting about 750.000 acres susceptible of cultivation, culti-vation, is without question the most promising undeveloped district. The soil is fertile and responsive and the Tainfall sixteen to twenty-two inches, with ideal climato for nearly near-ly all crops. Boxelder county has an area of over 1,000,000 acres that some day within the next generation will be utilized under dry farm methods. Close estimates show that the products of the drv farms are not far from the it7.nOG000 markWhile this does not seem a largo sum compared with the farm business of the state, said to be $200,000,000, vet, when we begin to secregato this large sum and give credit to each member of our wonderful agricultural agricul-tural family, we find that dry farming farm-ing gives us a sum in excess of sov-crul sov-crul important crops. Has Great Destiny. Whilo for many years dry fanning fann-ing has been recognized as an important im-portant factor in tho agriculture of Utah, it is destined to wield a still more potent influence in the development devel-opment of the state's agricultural resources. Its growth will very likely bo steady and healthy, void of tho spasmodic booms and reverses re-verses that have characterized its history in other states. Rather our growth will bo natural and normal nor-mal with a development wholesome and in keeping with the advancement advance-ment of other agricultural industries. indus-tries. There ore approximated 800.000 acres now under cultivation upon which dry farm methods are practiced. prac-ticed. A cursory survev reveals tho wonderful prospects. There are great stretches of fertile lands favored with climatic conditions that malio it possible to increase the present cultivated area eight to ton times and then havf room for a few pastures pas-tures on the outside. If all the dry farms in Utah could have the right kind of men and machinery placed upon them they would he capable of producing a crop of 100,000,000 bushels of wheat annually, besides millions of dollars' worth of other crops. What a tremendous resource thi. is to tho state, and yet who can say that tho next twenty or thirty years, under wie guidance and the prospects of plant ini provement and of bet ter mi'thods. will not bring this about? The results of the past fully justify justi-fy the hope and prophecy of a great future in the dry farm cud of Utah 's'agriculturc. |