Show agriculture there iri id a universal opinion in beaver county that fie soil boll here a not adapted to tho the production of grain this may he be true in parts ot of thel the county just as it Is in practically any county in utah at tho the sanio same time there were areas 4 n beaver that yielded moro than 80 bushels of wheat to the acre last ear the sig alg cincent ent pt of this athla Is that those these areas were on dairy farms where all of the f fertilizer orti lizer from the lie livestock was was utilized it if nil all the barnyard barfya barn ed manure from the livestock of deaver beaver county were intelligently applied to the farn farming lands each year it li Is doubtful it if grain would bo be regarded as unprofitable of grown year after year un under 1 n I definite nite system of rotation in 1907 dr cyril 0 hopkins of tho the university of TIlI nole purchased seit a farm of 30 dacres for practically nothing because th soil lind had been so a completely depleted of fertility that the crop yield averaged 7 busm alg is of wheat per acre the farm wasi was purchased for a demonstration A I 1 I 1 conser conservative votive plan of restoring fertility by the addition of commercial fertilizer and gr wang sweet clover was adopted each year the increase i in croll cron yield was to pay for the fei far applied jn in 1919 dr hopkins died and the farm was aa left to t 0 the soil robber again last year the av prage yield of wheat per arre acre was 43 nus liels the farm vii operated oni on V t paying basis from tho the time dr hopkins took it over until his ep there Is an erroneous tilea prova lent that alfalfa Is st a soil fullder hul lder prid ami that it does not use the fertility already present in the coll coil alfalfa does have the power to take nitrogen from the air and store it in the I 1 01 ol it it properly handled provided t tho rot eoll I 1 does not already have a meager supply of that element but it if the soil Is already rich lit in nitrogen thu 0 falfa takes it fhern tho the source at he be rate dr hoppins paid for commercial fertilizer it would cost to supply the elements necessary tu produce a seas seasons cons crop of five tons of alfalfa unless some of the fertility Is returned either by way of barn bardl of green man tring tens of thousands of bar barnyard manure are available for application to the farm lands of beaver county this year what c crop cop i yield aro are you going tol to got county abt |