Show FINE CROPS AT HIGH ELEVATION Apples Apricots Melons l Good Corn Other Products Found Full Fully Matured at Elevation of From 65 to 75 Hundred Feet For several weeks this paper has mentioned the fact that we found fruit and other products produced at elevations which we did not believe believe believe be be- lieve would permit the growing of such crops Gradually we have enlarged this field of vision until we are really astounded by the accumulation of data we have the editor of this paper personally seeing the results of ot the farming crops craps still sUll unfrozen and the following is only another phase of it Last week at Altonah we found a merchant there has secured the following for tor display in his store all gown at an elevation above feet still on hand and the facts on each case available One but bier 83 pounds two or three kinds of hubbard I j squash A A. display of flowers made up of bouquets that would please th most moat fastidious in iii a large city and yet grown by a lady Mrs J Jessie Jessie Jes Jes- essie es- es sie Barlow which Included at least I six kinds of flowers all still sUll growIng growing growing grow grow- ing October 9 A beet one half sugar weight 15 pounds and several several several sev sev- eral other varieties of the beet family and a all l of extra good quality quality qua qua- ity and size While the Altonah section n is well known for p potatoes including Mountain Home ome and Talmage Talmage Talmage Tal- Tal mage the following interested us No 1 Idaho Russets just about perfect early New York early russets and the Irish Cob- Cob ler These standard varieties and andall andall all competing in size and shape for first place and favor in the kitchen kitchen kit kit- chen surprised us There were three kinds of Delicious apples and one Wolf River apple measurIng measuring ing full four inches in diameter while N. N W. W Greening the Wealthy and other varieties were on hand I and were produced on orchards at atthe atthe atthe the altitude above noted A healthy Chinese cucumber was more interesting possibly than useful but there it was along with parsley etc There were prunes and peaches We looked into the matter a little further and found that this season has been no exception In producing ap- ap apricots apricots ap ap- and good cherries No 1 tomatoes were there and had been merely touched by the frost but were still out in the gardens Very good celery is produced but no business is made of it Cabbage seems s to thrive along with the potatoes potatoes potatoes po po- po- po as though it has found a natural home and these high benches benches benches ben ben- ches can beat any part of Utah in growing such crops The selecting of the ground generally generally generally gen gen- in places slightly lifted above the valley floor or to have haveit it directly where the air current moves air rapidly from a higher altitude seems seem to tobe be first and the growing of the crop is sure to follow follow follow fol fol- fol- fol low that is such crops as we weha ha have ve mentioned It Is no news to I say that Altonah and Mountain MountainHome MountainHome Home Talmage and Tabiona Bluebell Bluebell Bluebell Blue Blue- bell and Mt Emmons sections all produce fine potatoes But when we take some of the higher land that in LJ over the foot mark and find as we did at Altonah first-class first corn fully matured and of several varieties it is at least surprising and agricultural agents should explain the matter matter In the Uintah Basin farming is I I In progress at elevations of from feet teet up to feet To find these crops crop such as corn apples apricots etc produced fairly well at over feet teet surprises us In mountain vales and valleys even when distributed over a large landscape such as the Basin and south of the mighty Uintah range there are certain factors of sub- sub irrigation location relative to air currents and the absorption of heat due to slant favorably for absorption in spring and fall months Our farmers should understand understand und mid these factors that permit crops su such h as these to grow in certain places and not to grow in others Anyway we feel more proud of the Uintah Basin when we have such demonstrations of diversified farming that extends over such a wide field or that will Include practically all aU of our agricultural area of the Basin In Utah and well into Colorado The farming fannin season down near Ouray is at least four weeks longer for growing of crops than it Is at the elevations where the above crops are produced pro pro- because it is so much low low- er By giving more attention to the location as well as the thc soil and irrigation we may have diversified di diversified dl- dl versified farming in every precinct precinct precinct pre pre- although some will ex excell ell in certain lines and others in other lines of farm production |