Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-03-31 | Page 34 | Can Raise Plenty on Single Acre

CAN RAiSE PLENTY ON SINGLE ACRE Average Man Can -Sustain Family on Products, Realty Expert Says. The claim that a man can, by his own efforts, raise enough vegetables to supply his family practically the year around on an acre of land at Val Verda is fully substantiated by M. C. Brown, local railroad rail-road man, according to V. A. Bettilyon, president of Bettilyon Home Builders company, promoters of the Val Verda tract. Mr. Brown owns an acre at Val Verda, but as vet has not erected a home there. Although still living in the city, he spent several afternoons each week last summer cultivating his acre at Val Verda, and kept it in excellent condition all during last season. As a result, he raised watermelons, cantaloupes, potatoes, onions, turnips, carrots, sweet corn, tomatoes, cucumbers, string beans, lettuce, radishes in fact, practicallv all kinls of garden truck. By fall he had gathered enough from his acre to last his family throughout the winter. "Mr. Brown's is not an exceptional case," commented Mr. Bettilyon. "He did ail this, not while living at Val Verda, but while still residing in the city. "It mav be readily seen, therefore, what a man can do who has his home in the center of his one-acre tract. He loses no time going back and forth, except to and from his work in the city morning and evening, and he has plenty of time to cultivate his acre. "Mr. Brown's success has been duplicated dupli-cated by many other Val Verda owners. Thev have raised a big variety of vegetables." vegeta-bles." as well as poultry, and they are unanimous in praising the possibilities there. "Mr. Brown will tell you that the water supplv at Val Verda is adequate and that the soil is fertile to the highest degree. The location of the tract right at the base of the foothills on the east side of the vallev gives it a big advantage. advan-tage. "There can be little question that the average wage-earner can hold his position posi-tion in town, riding to and from the city on the Centerv;lle car line in twenty-five minutes, and make a big saving in his living expense by a few hours' work each day of the spring and summer season." sea-son." Mr. Bettilyon announced that his company com-pany is now planting 35i) maple and poplar pop-lar trees at Val Verda and making other improvements. With the coming of spring, Val Verda owners can be seen by die dozen cultivating their war gardens.