Show and encouragement ent gauen to uintah basin far farmers mers BY HON HARDEN BENNION ata we commissioner ot of agriculture with the arrival of the last month of the year and agricultural activities having pretty veil well closed up for the winter inter I 1 think it a good time to set down and look back over the years work and its results note the failure made the successes ach ved eved and especially ally to find out the reasons for such stich failures and successes with these problems worked out under the utmost care and anit li 11 then worth while to plia a program for next ear earin in arct for a number of ears based upon the vic eap exp experiences of the and aith very careful consideration of all factors governing production consumption and marketing of farm p in the generations past and with nine tenths of our population edgag ed in agriculture little thought was given to the production of crops other than those used on the farm and a year after year routine pr program as fol followed loed now nos however with the very great increase in our commercial and industrial popl with the excellent transportation facilities available for the movement of crop production to the ends of the earth and with the market news and other information made available daily to all peoples e ery where it is imperative that we cau call into service the best begin available and plan our agricultural activities the ene sine cere care and study as is given to any commer ew busine busl nes 3 in existence in fact the past put year haa has demonstrated that agriculture has heeled better brains than any ether other business in the face of these facts and conditions dit ions and especially in view of the depressed and adverse conditions under which agricultural and livestock interests are this year wiggling struggling I 1 km wn pleased to have an opportunity of saying through the columns of your erell tnt paper the vernal express a few words of advice and encouragement to the people of uintah basin not that I 1 make inake any claim to e to the better brains above mentioned but rather that I 1 wish to give to thea them the a the results of my experience and comparison with other parts of the state and nation you know whenever conditions reach the point of contest and competition the result la is the funival of the fittest under this well ell known adage it would seem setin to me that the farmers and stockholders of uintah basin should survive nowhere do I 1 know of land of longer life fertility or more productive nor do I 1 know of any section of this or any other state here more dependable and inexpensive water at rights obtain you have ample sum mer and int range ranges for catt e and sheep close to each other and to your homes together with abundant opportunity port unity to provide for winter feed should a hard winter unexpectedly hit you ym you have a comparatively email small handicap in freight charges peaking now of livestock and its products but such handicap Is more than off oaf set get by the many advantages in your favor A man of wide experience made the flat 1194 statement at our last U n I 1 C that one acre aar of barley frown grown in this country was in propeta content feed value to of the corn com cambell belt bell thus thug making nuking aval avable lAble splendid stock eted at tery very low cost of course you have a big I 1 against you when it coat comes to consideration I 1 erat icil of hay grain fruits or other th e f like products if it should become onn necessary ec to hip ship some out of the BASI but but so long as you dr not raise mis more then you vou consume then the freight ap la Is against the other fellow and in our favor so go rev admonition Is to concentrate on livestock and its it and on necessary feed there 11 e brou prou ane parmer in a recent I 1 i carried this statement livestock accumulated sc stock constitutes a laings sax ings bank baak of accumulated cumulated capital with sith which the fanner farmer can tide himself him elf over ears of crop price depression such as many sections are now experiencing the success and prosperity of the farmer and stock grower of the basin means success and prosperity to ev try commercial enterprise having contact with aith these men so ae let t us all put our shoulder to the shee heel I 1 and boost for the advancement and progress of these interests it is true that we cannot expect favorable fai fao oraNe rable conditions alays or that we will not have unfavorable years tr t meet a as has been the case for the year IM 1930 adversity is to a certain extent for the development of strong manhood which la is far more important than thin unmitigated success in business affairs and the piling up of wealth oliver goldsmith one of england En glands s greatest g poets vs hii al making a survey of the great nations of west ern em europe from the summit of the alps and noticing the successes and wid failures of these nations made this time honored expression LI tare fares the land to hastening ills ilis A prey when wealth accumulates and men de cay albert J beveridge in his book the me young man and the world say remember that every strong man that prevails ft in the merciless contest with ith events faces conditions which to eair men seem inaccessible arc are inaccessible but it Is the scaling of these heights or the tunneling through ah them or the blasting them olt of the and out of existence which makes these string strong men strong it li is the of these obstacles day after day and year after year as long as life laats which gives eve th tho 10 mighty ones much of their po power e so let buckle up our belts make careful study and survey of conditions confronting us and definite rite plans to future operations that r i 1 meet thes conditions with and carry on like the mighty u wa above men cloned |