Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-12-31 | Page 12 | Farmers Urged to Work Land Intensively

7 F FARMERS A. A R M E R RS S URGED tJ U R R G GB GED B U 1 t WOR I Ld LAND fi N D' D 1 N.- N. NT T V ENSI tJI E I I Proper Cultivation Acre Better Than Shoddy Care of 5 Agriculture Chief Chief Sponsor Active Preparation of Planted Ground I By HARDEN BENNION Utah of There is one thing the farmers c o othe oj the state of Utah should learn Yearn Thais ThaI Tha is that both the farmer and the pub put lie lic will be benefited when the farmers farm fare ers cultivate one acre of ground properly prop pros erly in place of five acres improperly Many a farmer has virtually worked himself into the poor house hous because he persisted in in spreading irrigation ir it water over three or ar tour fou times as much land as it could properly properly prop prop- erly irrigate Many a farmer fanner has ha overworked himself his family hi his horses and his machinery because h he attempted to handle more land sand than that his bis means permitted A good bit of ot the movement from iron the farm to the city has been because the tried to do too much failed was discouraged and quit A lot of ot the failure to keep the boys on the farm has been due to tc unnecessarily long hours of ot work poor accommodations and poor re turns URGES THOROUGHNESS Why should a man slave to raise fiO 50 0 bushels of wheat on on five acres when by proper farming he can con raise 50 bushels on one acre It would be better to use the one acre well m fal-m farmed d and have the theother other four acres for pasture I b believe lieve that this is the most im important important lesson a farmer can ean learn He will find that his crops will have greater yield that the quality of his produce will be better and in competition competition com com- petition it is the quality that counts that he will he-will will have more time in which to modernize his home and seek rec rec- This problem is of course strictly up to the individual farmer The department department de de- of ot agriculture cannot tell him how much land to farm or how to farm it Now No that we have given free ad ad advice advice vice vice to the farmer let us see what the state department has done of I tangible bend benefit it SPIDER CONTROL Following the winter months of shipping point inspection and rabbit and rodent control work an active campaign of dormant spraying of fruit trees was started the objective being to control San Jose scale and the red spider This was followed by a number of subsequent sprayings lor the coddling moth An aggressive weed spraying campaign was start started d but Jn in some som counties the work was stopped slopped ii ir ill midsummer because of lack of ot funds fund Early in the season season reports were wen received of very heavy infestation infestations of ot grasshoppers in some sonic counties countie and an aggressive Campaign was carried car tied ried on against these pests In Sanpete Sanpete San pete county where a bounty was paid 45 tons of grasshoppers were trapped trapper and paid for and it is estimated that tha 10 times that many were poisoned This would indicate that the grasshopper grasshopper grass grass' hopper crop of that county was something something some some- thing like tons Another activity of the department was grading gruling and inspecting tomatoes This is the first year that this has ha been done in Utah and nd farmers and canners feel that they will never go gc goback goback back to the hit miss and methods of marketing tomato crops CANNERS COOPERATE The state inspectors who had genera general gen era oral eral supervision of the work were aided by 50 men hired by the canning canning can ning companies Our shipping point inspection work during the year was light largely because because be be- cause the apple crop was much smaller small small- er than usual The peach crop was good however and state ins inspectors were verc kept busy during shipping time making sure that the shipments con con- formed ormed with government standards The alfalfa seed crop w was s better this his year than for some years past and anda a good part of this has been certified We also inspected more than fields of or potatoes for certification and 23 fields of grain Heavy winter snows indicate ampIe ample ampie am am am- pIe water vater for next year and prospects are that Utah's agriculture should be normal