| Show ALVA ADAMS PRACTICAL SERMON the he uintah ba barlia in includes all the beauties and possibilities which go to nake colorado great ed continued from last week the prototype of the clover fields that wintered tho the flocks and herds of abraham are seen in the alfalfa fields of 0 colorado and other arto aria states they are not alone material assets but upon the landscape they we aio spots of beauty their vivid color when viewed from our hills making them seem like brilliant emeralds up on the breast of the desert these crops are permanent pei anent manent in the ledger of mans mails resources resource Comm eico may fade and fleets may sink empties may become one mith neneah and fyie but the apple and alfalfa of an irrigated field will bear its fruit and fodder as long as the run shine 3 water runs rune and nian man works around the broken graven granite gods of forgotten rell religions ions the egyptian pes ant of the twentieth century guides hh wooden plow and gathers harvesta har vesti from the fields that pharoah tilled religions may disappear learning jimy be forgotten the palaces that K caesar builds may crumble anarchy may upset courts laws institutions but the irrigated Irr Irrl gated land it forever alfalfa la 13 not a transient grass its loots may not take hold ou on the cent er of specific gravity but they do have a keener sense for hidden water mater than my boyhood recently when telling of an old colorado who had followed an alfalfa tap root ninety feet judge bell remarked that he knew it to be true and that in his section the alt alf alfa grew so high that it blossome bloB somo above the clouds and tae bees that gathered honey from their flowers alarmed in heaven while the roots of f alfalfa may not go down to the hot belt nor its bloom to tho the skies its tenc alty of life its wealth of use its ability to thrive in dry countries make it god godo 6 best gift to the arid lands it lq iq among grasses what the camel to la among animals it our bur v alvea I 1 ves and blesses where other ariet les perish As AR blue grass has made kentucky famous so will alfalfa be come the pride and glory as it URI be the pride and redemption of our western arid empire lery every year the of alfalfa are being widen ed cd american scientists are studying the plant ar lelles les ere being brought from every section by selection anti and mixing and mixing new qualities are being developed and new varieties grown in connection the so soil and condition of every section are being studied the day will come when will be so no grassless grass less land in ow our country any more than la Is between the rocky mountains and the missouri river alfilda Is to make a conquest of the desert not Is it clone alone a plant of the desert it will flourish everywhere apples and alfalfa are permanent and abiding gold exhausts it has but one crop it flints no seed civil expends reproduction therefore goll goh cannot be its prophet prophet and savior the gold that solomon mined litters the bottom of the seas the very mines from which it came are lost loot but the seed from the apple that played its pat pa t in the garden of eden finds its progeny in the bud and blossom and fruit that glorify the orchards of the twentieth tury for two amundred generations the apple has blessed the race almost making amends tor for being the cause of mans mand expulsion from ilden eden alfalfa goes back to the infancy of the world god made it t oil u tho the third day of creation it has ever been good tor for man and beast it was alfalfa salad upon which zar fed his foraging in the fields with the brutes was physical and moral tonic for the dible says bays that I 1 after seven years of browsing in thel the alfalfa fields he became a greater king with the glory of hla his kingdom his honor and brightness restored the benefits that will come to the american farmer from studies of alfalfa only are worth morth moie than the cost of all the agricultural colleges in the land it Is a delusion to think that science la Is not practical that it will mill not pv pay those who experiment most who study most reap the most pays tho the largest dividends of any investment a farmer can make the bulletins issued by tho the agricultural department at washington and by the various agricultural colleges of the states are often veritable prescriptions script ions of gold to tho the farmer who studies and follows them Know knowledge leftt Is power everywhere the farmer who does doea not take ad vantage of the investigations and ex peri menta ments of state and nation is stupid lie he Is s throwing away diamonds and gold he Is not a barmer he Is a fool it is the burbanks Dur banka banks and not the kings of wall street who are arc the benefactors ef those who develop a new or improve an old variety of fruit food or fodder are greater than those who bo rule in the capitol or who by manipulation and combination gather millions of tainted dollars from the BlIsso missouri url to the pacific is the true land of alfalfa its promotion is a matter of national concern it spreads the domain of possible homes it builds houses of comfort and great barns it raises the grade of cow sheep and pig it Is the crop that never falls fails it never wants tor for a market the home stock pens makes an ever pressing and profitable demand upon the supply the farmei who mho consumes the product of his feadow meadow has found the sure road to prosperity alfalfa lends itself to this home use it is the fortunas fortuna s purse of modern agriculture it pay debts lifts mortgages it sends sam to college and mary to normal school it helps mother in a hund red ways mays and puts a flush of inde pen dence it if not impudence in dads dad s eyes it relieves tho the tension of un ending toll improves the place and stock adding to the returns from creamery and stock yards makes the farmer a depositor and not a debtor at the bank it bus buds and carriages and books for the daml ly it widens their outlook and links the farm with neighbors and the world orld what the bessemer paten was mas to the iron industry a generation ago alfalfa promises to be to the me western steril farmer As an investment it Is better and safer than wall street or brewery stock alfalfa is the best rotation crop it restores the nitrogen of which grain and beets beates f rob the soil aim maass es it as rich as ap before the plow turned the virgin soil deseret farmer |
