Show UINTA fARMERS PROMPT TO ACCEPT SCIENTIFIC HINTS flINTS Agricultural College Expert Ex Ex Expert Expert pert Says Sons of Soil Eager ger r to Learn Brown as al a coffee berry L. L IM M. M M Win Win- lor or of the tho extension p fon department nt of the Utah agricultural college has hu just jut returned returned re turned from tm tyro months month of official in tho the sun BUn bathed fields of the tho UIntah basin That agricultural condition in jn the Use basin balin comp comprising sin Uintah e county nty and Andl a past part of count county are botter botter bot- bot ter now ow than they have hae been bee In man many nanY seasons is tho the of ot a a. report made nade to the th extension department by 1 Mr Jr r. r Wi Winsor sor or was d devoted ted to opening Upco up co operative co-operative experiments with the tho of ot the basin buin H His experiments br brought him in hI touch with fifty of U the 1 leading local farm farmers rp Much uch of his hie time was spent in fit testing out crops trapS be best t adapted apt d' d to that section and ad alsoto aboto also abo to t testing the ari varieties ti 6 of these crops Mr Mi if Wilson Wilsons Wilson's s 's work in Uintah and Wa- Wa natch patch counties counties included extensive experiments ex ex- In n irrigation ati n. n This work york was th the most complex with which Be Ee came carao ezmon in iri n contact et as u the Uie soil in the basin is isso so flO o. o d dry that it is difficult to moisten In some omo parts of the basin th the problem m reverts revert to the remedy of f mixing organic substances substances' with the earth Mr Winsor found the farmers easer eager to act on his bill is advice adice and to o incorporate in their work the scientific principles R advanced d da a need by b- the agricultural college Jf He re explained what methods would have to b be employed by farmers Jivin on I dr land aDd in order to successfully ca carry y oil on During hi hi bia stay he also alo distributed trees for fifty lift family orchards orchard The orchard orchards were planted chiefly in apple p pear ar peach plum and nd cherry trees These trees were were furnished to tho the farmer farmers farm farm- er ers at at a 1 redu reduced ed cost The object in in planting th the tho trees is is twofold first t to test out ut the fr fruit prospects of the U and second to help the tho farmer i in advancing his I own interests interests- The Thc extension experts find that the tile f farmers iTe are willing wiling to experiment and advance if jf they arc are shown t the way WRy but tho thoy are apt to be slow unless the college e tAk takes s tho the initiative tive Tile The J planting of th these e orchards may betaken betaken be taken as an example The extension d department ut nt feels feds that as many as fifty orchards s would not have ha been punted plante on ii principles in the tho basin for R R aIon lon time had it not Dot blazed the trail It is is s this way not not- with th the planting of orchards but bur w with th all horticultural and avi agricultural crops The result of Mr Winsor's extended visit isit to that section was that fifty leading industrious farmers of the basin bashi w were ro greatly aid aided d i in getting etting ahead faster astet than they could by themselves themselves- Mr r Winsor sor said that contrary to the report that appeared in the Provo Prove iome some ome little time a ago o to the tho ef of- effect i 1 ct ct- th that t the basin lin was not riot prospering prosper prosper- in ing nig the whole thole rc region ion is in a bett better r way t J it has ever e been |