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Show Bishop Gardner Some Farmer Ulshop James II. Gardmr is gon-"rally gon-"rally thought of as being u sugar man, but a visit to his Pawnee ranch over Jordan easily demonstrates him to be the biggest farmer in Lehi or this vicinity. The Rlshop Insists that It should be Gardner and, sous, as his two boys, Reed and Itm, aged, 17 and II years respectfull, operated the mnehlnory which hamated n'nd threshed the T.lJsO bushi la or grnln which tho farm produced this J(!nr? Tho Pavvneo farm consists of about 1.000 ncros, practically all in ?ono trnct. About 100 acres Is irrigated a.ul tho balance Is dry farming SFlie div farm part probably lioldsjjhe ri cord for big yields this y.-ai Ono thirty acre tract produced Turkey Red whont which weighed up atftlie mill 1,170 bushels, making eactiy,3S bushels per acre 300 aens more'-of summer fallowed land Is nov roudy to plant into fall grain for next yoar's harvest. ' fF The Ulshop Intends nuking . great stock ranch or his farm ami wiil-plant the Irrigated nn lurgel to alfalfa 'ml torn, putting j, ,,,., f lht) ftttcr i " " ' - '" ' ' hug Cs acres of i i.r, win. t, iv jur Jhould . ..niu. ov i ., of )my Ol0 r.c vi iit u ,. mi , tW(J yt.ar8 uM lie lua aire ,ul ml ovf'r four toils 1 i air and imli. .uionb are Hat the aniLnovv rendv to cut, will ,...! nr exceed cither of tho two pre- wo i cuttings. "Over Jordan" con- I 5 the strongest alfalfa lantl In Tt1,cPraeC!vSl.er representative was also shown somo of the finest corn seen In this locality, it contains slx-tce slx-tce rows and Is about fllxteon inches one Ho Ims several ncres of lrrl- I Sed on. and seven acres of u dry farm variety, all of which la looking fln, and l give good yields. The rniicbliuB Its own pumping plant which consists of a 20 horsepower olettrlc motor, a six inch centrifugal pump and twelve Inch wood otnvc ul,P wltli which o elevates he 6 out of the old Al Red spring & the laml l,bovc' Ue,ftB, ,hl8, he ms a smaller plant In Cold spring. nils year he also used 3G acres of water fiom the Utah Lake Irrigation ""'nio'thriii Is becoming well stocked with faun nnimals. Ifcotitn Iiib 12 head of work horses, several of them being line brood mares, u nas head of cattle, most of them being .young hlefers, Including n thorobrcd Hcrcrord bull.. There are CO head of hogs and a big llock of White Leg-iiora Leg-iiora and Rhode Island Red chickens. When Ulshop Gardner took hold of thU farm but a few years ago It was covered with sago brush and producing produc-ing practically nothing. This year his nay roll for farm help amounted to jctweeu $f00 nud $000 per month, and the kind of work ho Is doing ounts more than anything else to develop the country, lor he makes .wo blades of grass grow where none jrow before, and Is certainly making lie desert blossom as a rose. |