Show A good wheat crop has been harvested from the dry farms of san juan county despite a season short in rainfall and somewhat backward and there is a note of optimism amoia the farmers of that region regarding the possibilities of farming in southeastern utah this summarizes s made by president E G peterson of tae utah agricultural college director P V cardon of tho state elpe lant lm nt station and dr george stewert Ste wirt agronomist during a recent trip to monticello to inspect the experimental farm located ten miles cast of that town the visit to this farm followed an of the farms ut price and fort duchesne wheat yields from land in tho vicinity of monticello are reported as averaging higher than usual threshing hm not yet been completed on all farms on the san juan experimental farm some wheat plats yielded at the rate of over forty bushels to the acre and certain farms in that region are said to have had equally high yields other grain crops as oats and barley also promise to yield well this year according to director cardon and some excellent crops of beans have been produced A late frost damaged the alfalfa seed crop on the experimental farm but a fair crop of hay has been harvested potentially san juan county is one of the greatest dry farm areas in he intel mountain country director cardon believes but much remains to be done before the promise of this region can be fully realized cheap fertile land Is there in aban dance he states and some day when economic conditions warrant development of this land modem methods of dry farming and modem machinery backed by pluck and intelligence will bring san juan into the front rank of wheat producing counties A normally well distributed summer rainfall rai fall Is favorable also to the production of oats barley and other feed crops which seme day doubtless will aid in the support of a much larger livestock population dairying Is being taken up by many farmers with promising results cream Is being shipped by truck to the railroad and Is finding a market in grand junction some of the better tanners visited displayed a confidence in the future of san juan which was inspiring but it is plain that distance from market a sparse population tremendous edica dional and social problems and other factors of equal importance are delaying development frontier conditions obtain and the farmers down there ore pioneers in a broad fertile country they need more neighbors more good farmers who are capable of helping to bring san juan into its own mr and mrs peter A poulson and children of mantl have been in moab the past week visiting mons peterson and children they returned to mantl today mrs poulson Is a alster ln law of mr peterson |