Show farm life in utah A few years ago when tho mines of utah were in foil blast and when the sheep industry was bringing in hundreds of thousands of dollard ei wai considerable business in the larger towns and cities where the men of money naturally gathered there come also to be a demand in those centera for aanons kinds of professions and the young men of utah were leaving the farm here as elsewhere in the country to take ap bobae job for wages in the city hard times have somewhat conditions and the boy g having lost their city back on tha farm agaid in fact the faring of utah hive been ite mainstay n tb recent financial crisis many a man has felic thankful that the farm still remained on it could be secured all necessaries of life if not its luxuries nid today our farmers eten with the prevailing low prices for produce are the moat independent of population bat still many young men feel the farm lifa irksome there ia a lack of sociability among the farmers in their work and some times we also incline to the behof that there is a lack of progressiveness each famor aloda his weary way without consultation with his neighbor he knows certain efforts will an duce certain results that plows sowing and wat aring in will produce a yield of about so many bushels per acre outside of that be knows little or nothing of the botanical nature of his crop or of the chemical properties of his soil he does not go into the fundamental causes as men do in other pursuits because he is a recluse business the old utah farmer may nevor get out of this channel but tho young should many of thorn are well educated having bad the advantages of the best schools they should org paize societies lead out in experiment thee long winter evenings should profitable to them in discussions and the presentation sen tation of papers on farm pursuits these cluba nonosh ehdy are especially csabal in scandinavia from whence many of our f amera come aad theis the societies also seek 0 markets and tolate the agricultural faira of the various farming districts the bosfa re studied and rotation chopa have been reduced to an exact eci enca through various individual experiments under the auspices of a farmers each fanner will devote a smal piece of ground to a certain experiment of seed or fertilizer ti and the results are reported to the society in winter and there discussed auch experiments could very profitably be pursued in utah where we have such a variety of acil and climate and where such great opportunities exist for amny agricultural pur acita A few farmers have asked THE to urge that the farmers of this county organize cud hold their regular conventions nd the same arguments which apply to the farm era of aou ity will apply to other courties where our readers reside gentlemen organize |