Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-03-10 | Page 42 | Demand for Farms is Unusually Brisk

DEMAND FOR FARMS . IS UNUSUALLY BRISK Kimball & Richards Salesrnau States This Class of Transactions More Active Than for Years. There are more farms being bought and sold this spring than for several years, a member of the farm department depart-ment of Kimball & Richards, ' 1 Land Merchants," who has just closed several big deals for northern Utah agricultural lands, says. "This is surely the year for the farmer, ' ' he decTares. ' ' Land prices have not yet scored any material advance ad-vance and' the demand for all varieties of farm products is greater 'than ever before. Prices are also at their highest point now, so that if there was ever a time when farming should pay, surely it is now. Grain and sugar beet farms are highly in demand, and it is mostly in this line of property that the sales are being made. "There is also an active trade in potato po-tato lauds and general 7nixed farming tracts, where a variety of crops can be grown and a herd of cows, a few sheep, chickens and other poultry and various other livestock kept. Log raising is being given a big impetus this season, and, in fact, every line of food proriuc: tion is helping to make farm sales unusually un-usually active. It is almost certain that the growing demand for farm lands will soon have a tendency to stiffen prices. ' ' With the promise of spring in the air, a strong demand for close-in garden land has set in, and within the next few weeks it is certain that many thousand thou-sand war gardens will be planted. After being confined at home for the last six weeks, following an accident in which he injured his leg, Charles ,1. Ross, one of Kimball & Richards "s salesmen is ' again at his office, although al-though still using crutches.