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Show THE SUGAR BEET INDUSTRY; THE CROP NOW NINTH IN VALUE The annual report of the secretary of agriculture just made public, contains a comparison of the "Value of Leading Crops," which is of much interest to those engaged in the sugar Under the heading beet industry. above quoted the secretary says: "A remarkable development is that of the sugar beet, now the ninth crop in value. The production in 1906 is placed at 345,000 long tons, valued at Seven years 134,000,000. ago the value of this crop was $7,000,000. The value of all kinds of sugar, syrup and molasses aggregates $75,000,000." There are five beet sugar factories in Utah. Their locations is Garland, with a capacity of 1,200 tons a day; Lehi, 1,?00 tons; Lewiston, 600 tons; Logan, COO tons, and Ogden, 400 tons. SUGAR BEETS IN THE BEAR RIVER VALLEY. The following figures of the sugar beet industry have been compiled by the Utah Sugar company, and are probably very nearly correct. The total acreage of beets planted in the valley in 1906 was 5,160 acres, of which 5,100 acres were harvested in good condition. The average yield for the 5,100 acres was sixteen and hundredths tons to the acre, WHICH IS THE LARGEST yield ever realized on an equal number of acres in the United Slates. Waller Green raised fifteen tons of beets per acre in his young orchard, and on eighteen acres of land where there were no trees, the yield of beets was twenty tons per acre. Mr. Green has no idea of going to any of the boom states nor investing his money in mining stocks. Bear river valley is good enough for him. Hon. John P. Holmgren, a prominent farmer of Bear River City, haracres of sugar beets vested fifty-fivthis year which gave him twenty tons to the acre. Mr. Holmgren planted sixty acres in 1904, which avertons to the acre. aged twi BEETS WORTH $65 PER ACRE. These sugar beets netted Mr. Holmgren over $65 per acre, after every expense was paid, In the year 1903, Mr. Holmgren raised 576 tons from twenty-fou- r acres, and in 1902, fifty tons from two acres. Willie Ottogary, our Indian friend from Washakie, says that he had 110 r acres on tons on six and his farm at Elwood, or over sixteen tons to the acre. forty-si- x e nty-fiv- e three-quarte- THE FRUIT INDUSTRY BECOMING MOST IMPORTANT IN BEAR RIVER VALLEY PROFITS FROM ORCHARDS. The income received from the best bearing orchards sounds very much like a "Get Rich Quick" scheme. We hope this question will be thoroughly discussed by our experts from the Agricultural College, and our practical fruit growers during the session of the Farmers' Institute this week. It has been stated that land which is in proper condition for raising alfalfa or grain can be set with apple trees, and all work paid for at current wages until the income from the fruit will yield a profit above all expenses, for about $75 an acre. This means that the trees, after the sixth year, will yield a profit above expenses, and we are told that from the tenth year the income will be from $5 to $15 per tree, and counting one hundred trees to the acre, the income will vary We from $500 to $1,500 per acre. shall accept the yield of five boxes to the tree and the price $1 per box, as the higher estimates are doubtless exceptional, and this will bring an income of $500 an acre per year, and then allowing that there will only be a half crop each alternate year, the average annual income will thus be $375 per acre. This, on an actual inthis of about one-hal- f vestment amount of money, including the price of first-clas-s land, and all other expenses of bringing the orchard to its tenth year. Some successful fruit growers claim that with careful irrigation and drainage, they can grow more than a sufficient amount of potatoes and sugar beets between the rows during the first four years after setting the trees, to pay all expenses If other crops are of the orchard. grown in the orchard before the trees considerable commence bearing, amounts of fertilizer should be used in order to give the best results. We hope that the cost and profit of fruit growing will be thoroughly discussed by the farmers, so that no one will be deceived who engages in the fruit industry here, as it is much better for all that investors know just what to expect, and thus be prepared to meet the expense account, rather than purchase too much land, and be unable to meet payments on land or living expenses. WHAT HAS o BEEN DONE IN SIX YEARS. Six years ago last February Mr. G. M. Winzler and family moved from Illinois to the Bear River valley. He purchased a farm just west of what is now Tremonton and went to work. Some of the land had been cleared of sage brush and sown to wheat. One of the first jobs Mr. Winzeler undertook after getting his family out of an housed, was the setting orchard that they might be supplied with fruit.. This orchard consists of about 225 apples trees, with a liberal supply of cherry, pear, plum, peach and prune trees, nearly all of which have already come into bearing, and for Size and vigor considering their age the trees in this orchard are hard We had the to beat anywhere. pleasure of visiting the orchard, and we certainly were surprised to see the thrifty trees and the load of fruit they bore and to be told that they were little sapplings only six years ago. We understand that he hail about 300 bushels of apples this fall. fine Many of the trees had borne of peaches, plums, pears, crops Is the of and crop apples the of on so many heavy trees that they are breaking down, although he has had bushels of them picked off to lighten the burden. A of poplars and other strong wind-breatrees protects this orchard and prevents the wind from throwing down the fruit before It is ripe-MrWinzeler has so much faith in this as a good fruit country that he has another orchard of ten acres west or his bouse that will be the pride of his farm In two or three years more. It certainly Is a pleasure to visit a farm where the owner has been so an orchard successful in getting planted and In bearing In so short a time. It shows what thrift, energy and common sense can do. k . WALTER GREEN'S BANANA APPLES. One day this fall we were Invited by Mr. F. T. Troxcl! to visit the orchards of W 'Ii.m ; t ri and Rasmus Hansen, near Elwood, and of course went. We came to Mr. Green's place first and went Into his orchard where several men were just finishing the picking. His crop consisted mainly of Winter Banana and Ben Davis. Of trees the Banana he had fifty-nin- e from which he had picked 600 boxes of large, marketable apples, and we bushels judge there were twenty-fivon the ground that had fallen while the picking was going on. Mr. Gi'een is so much pleased with the productiveness and quality of the Banana and the price it brings, that he has just ordered 1,500 trees to be delivered in 1909. He would have had them planted next spring but the trees for next spring's delivery are all sold out and he has to wait a year. His fifty-nin- e trees occupy about half an acre of land and at a dollar a box s what they are worth (about this year), his crop brings him $1,200 an acre. Pretty good, even for Bear River Valley. RASMUS HANSEN'S ORCHARD. Down at Mr. Hansen's place we found an orchard of about ten acres or say 1,500 trees, that have been set ten years. These were mostly Ben Davis, the remainder being Jonathan and one or two other kinds. The trees are set twenty-fou- r by twelve feet apart, which Mr. Hanson thinks is altogether too close and he is going to take out every other tree in the rows in a year or so. It is all right for a few crops but after that the branches intertwine too much. He feet thinks eighteen by twenty-fou- r is about right. Among the Ben Davis trees the' boxes of apples were still on the ground, though a man was hauling to the packing house, and under one row it was a fine sight. From trees he had picked 315 the thirty-fiv- e boxes. Counting 151 trees to the acre, at the same rate of production an acre would produce over 1,300 bushels. Mr. Hanson sold his No. l's at $140 a box and No. 2's at $1.25, or an average of $1.32 a box. At this rate an acre of his orchard would give him about $1,800. Of course the whole orchard will not average quite so well as this, but on the ten acres he will have upwards of 5,000 boxes which will bring him in the neighborhood of $6,500. He banks on the Ben Davis as a money maker, and will probably set out ten acres more of them next year. HARRY SEEGER'S APPLE CROP. Harry Seeger, of Elwood, has an orchard of about 300 trees on two acres of land. They are mostly Ben Davis, Spitsenbergs and Golden Russets with a few Baldwins. From this little orchard Mr. Seeger realized more than $800 an acre, or fully $500 an acre above every expense. Stacy & Sons, of Minneapolis, bought the whole lot. This orchard is only ten years e two-third- old. PROFITABLE CORINNE ORCHARD. Dr. Roche, of Corinne, has an apple orchard of about twelve acres near Corinne that was set out about ten years ago. They are mostly Ben Da vis. The fruit from this orchard was sold this fall to parties who shipped It to Denver and Grand Junction, Colo. There were something over 8,000 boxes or eleven carloads of salable apples for which the doctor received He has $1 .40 a box, or nearly $12,000. kept an accurate account and says the orchard has netted him over $350 an acre. AND STILL ANOTHER. Some ten years ago a Mr. Cleveland purchased a small tract of land not far from Corinne. Five acres were set out in trees, and these trees are now In full bearing. During the present year a yield of 1,200 boxes of apples per acre was obtained, these apples selling at 75 cents a box on the tree. From the five acres of apples Mr. Cleveland has made a c lear profit of $4,500. THE BOTHWELL FRUIT FARM. Near Point lookout, some four miles west of Tremonton. is the Both-wel- l fruit farm, of which Mr. Louts 11 Most of this Getz Is proprietor. orchard is quite young, snd not in Full bearing, but specimens shown us were as fine as any we ever saw. They consisted of Jonathan, Gano, Winter Banana, Mammoth Black Twig, Arkansas Black and Ben Davis. All were of good size and perfect in contour and coloring. In company with others Mr. Getz has put in a large rider mill and press and fruit Into will make all imperfect cider and vinegar. K. H. FRIDAL'8 FINE ORCHARD. Just across the Malad river east of Tn monton, Is the larg and beauti A Mr. Fridai has occupied this farm for some twenty years, but, like many another farmer in the valley, he did not set out an orchard when he firrt settled here. He put it off for some time and then planted a few trees for the family use. Bellttowers They were Greenings. and other standard kinds but not enough of any one kind to produce more than were needed for home consumption. These trees did so well that Mr. Fridal concluded, about six years ago, to set out a large orchard on the bluff of the Malad where lie has most perfect drainage, a requirement that is He often forgotten by tree planters. has aboul three hundred trees, mostly Ganos, with one or two rows of Ben Davis. This is their first season of bearing, and of course the crop is not a heavy one. but the trees are very thrifty and have produced some very He had large and fine specimens. upwards of 150 boxes of choice apples besides 50 bushels of culls. This orchard is the admiration of every one who drives eastward from It overlooks the valley Tremonton. of the Malad and is a conspicuous part of the landscape. SOME FACTS ABOUT UTAH APPLE ORCHARDS. Only two or three years ago there was no market for Utah apples, and it was difficult for a nursery agent to sell more than a few trees to any one in the Bear River valley. The reason why there was no market was that nobody had enough apples to make a decent sized wagon load, let alone a car load. And the lack of a market for the smaller quantity made the farmer sceptical about the profits to be derived from planting larger orchards and raising larger crops. But all that has changed now and the large commercial orchard is the thing most desired by the apple grower ami he is now buying trees by the hundred and thousand where five or ten years ago he only bought by the dozen. Those who were foresighted enough to set out several acres of apples eight or ten years ago are now reaping a golden harvest that will continue to swell their coffers for years to come. There are but few such men in this valley, but their number is rapidly increasing. EASTERN BUYERS ON HAND. At both Mr. Green's and Mr. Hanson's the eastern buyers were present with their men sorting and packing the apples and getting them ready for shipment. And right here we want to make a little note. Some ten years ago Mr. Troxell came into this valley to sell trees. He advised farmers to set out large orchards of one or two kinds, telling them that they could easily compete with Missouri or Colorado, but only few men took his advice. These men are the ones who now are selling apples by the carload and can spend the winter in California. ful farm of K. H. Fridal. o UTAH APPLES ARE OF FINE QUALITY. So Say the Eastern Buyers. Mr. C. M. Holzinger, fruit buyer for furStacy & Sons, of Minneapolis, nishes the following information of value to Bear River valley orchardists. He says the fruit here, where the orchards are properly cared for, is fully equal, both in quality and yield per tree, to the best orchards of Colorado, and apples of that state now command the highest prices in the eastern markets. The freight rates from Utah, after this season, will be the same as from western Colorado. Owing to climatic conditions the Ptah orchards are less liable to damage from frost than Colorado orchards. In the apple districts of Colorado, land readily sells at more than double the present price of land in the Bear River valley. The best bearing orchards in Colorado have sold as high as $3,000 an acre, and they pay good interest on this price. Owners of Utah orchards do not as a rule take as good care of them as do the fruit growers of Colorado, but if they will do so, and will grow apples in sufficient quantities to ship train load lots, the profits here will be equal or greater than in Colorado, for the reasons stated. Messrs. Stacy, Holzinger and other fruit experts, by purchasing 160 acres of land in this valley, which they have set to fruit trees, have shown their faith in Bear River valley orchards. o Our experts at the Agricultural College and U. S. Department of Agriculture tell us that fruit trees yield the best returns where the water level is kept about the same during the growing season, and this should be at least four or five feet from the surface. This could not easily be done except in an irrigated country where the orchardist is not compelled to depend on the rainfall, but has practical control of the water supply, with the irrigation ditch. Where the supply of water is so abundant as In this valley, great care must be used to prevent injury from too much water, but this control of water level can be regulated by placing a tile at the proper depth between the lateral canal and the orchard. Tills will give absolute control of the water level, and prevent the death of trees, which has often been attributed to an excess of alkali, when in reality the cause of death was "wet feet." Experience has shown that trees will bear better and continue to produce fruit longer where the water level Is kept the same distance from the surface than when It varies with the changing seasons, or where It is caused to vary by bad methods of irrigation. An exit for drainage Is necessary where there Is so much water for Irrigation purposes as in the Bear river valley, for most farmers use ton much water here. The Bear and Malad rivers, together with Salt Creek and Its outlet furnish drainage faclll ties here much better than many other Irrigated districts have, o FRUIT BUYERS AND OTHERS IN VEST IN ORCHARD LAND. As stated In a recent. Issue of the "Times ." the Stacy Fruit Co. of Min neapolls, with two Utah fruit men, sid 160 acres of land in alley, and set the whole farm; with apple trees. Stohl Brother, natives of Utah, have also set out 160 acres of apple orchard. Prolessor Northrop of the Utah State Agricultural College, and two s Michigan friends have recently d 16o acres for an orchard, fifty acres of which have already been set with apple trees. Professor C. 11. Brown, U. S. drainage "Xpert, with friends in the Utah state engineer's office, have recently purchased 120 acres for an apple orchard, part of which land has trees of bearing age. Almost every farmer in the valley has an orchard varying in size from one to forty acres, which, with the large commercial orchard s referred to, and the large orders already given for trees for next year's setting, will make this the great apple county of Utah. We shall endeavor to give In a future issue, the total amount of trees already set in the Bear river valley, and the age of the different orchards. As requested in our last issue, please help yourselves by responding to this invitation. havt this KELLY & HERRICK SAY pur-cha- 4 4-- The gross returns from the large apple orchard near Corinne, purchased less than two years ago by Adney & Co., Is reported to be nearly equal to the price paid at the time of their purchase. This orchard was form, rly owned by who suffered loss from "criminal neglect" of this valuable property. Moroni Mortensen of Bear River City has twenty acres in orchard which is perhaps as well cultivated as any in this valley. Seven acres of it was set in 1894 and 1895, and has been in bearing about six years, the remainder has been set within the past two or three years. The crop this year was rather under that of some previous years, but the average yield this year is a little more than 400 boxes per acre. o Mr. Joseph Jensen, a capitalist of Salt Lake and a large land owner in this valley, has just ordered his foreman to have 100 acres of land plowed at once and put in proper condition for setting in orchard next spring. MONEY INVESTED IN BEAR RIVER VALLEY FARM AND ORCHARD LANDS IS ABSOLUTELY SAFE, AND WILL YIELD INAND LARGE PROFITS IN THE HANDS OF INDUSTRIOUS TELLIGENT PEOPLE. Observe the following reports of the BEST farming on Best soil; Oats 75 to 125 bushels per acre. Barley 60 to 90 bushels per acre. Wheat 25 to 40 bushels per acre. Alfalfa Hay 4 to 6 tons per acre. Sugar Beets 15 to 30 tons per acre. 150 to 350 bushels per acre. Potatoes Apples 500 to 1.000 boxes per acre. Healthful climate and Hot Mineral Springs for health and pleasure; three railroads; farm telephones, R. F. D. Mail Service; grav eled roads and Beet Sugar Factory. "We are up to date and prospering. Cone and see us or write and we can show you why $5,000.00 invested in Bear River Valley land will yield a greater profit than $15 000 in any eastern Farm. We have a fine list of properties in Ogden City and surround ing County. KELLY & HERRICK ALKALI LANDS OGDEN, UTAH : ARE VALUABLE Expert Mead Finds Plan for Their Reclamation Advises Syndicates to Buy Them While Drainage Makes Them Cheap Enormously Productive. o industrious farmers were into duced leave the Bear river for "Boomville," but we valley to have one learn of yet single instance where these farmers have made as much money from cultivating the soil as our best farmers make here, and we have good reasons for believing that the greatest prosperity is yet to come when many of our good farmers reduce the size of their farms, and give the remainder better cultivation. A few Fesno, Cal., April 24. 1907. Elwood of the United States departhas been in ment of agriculture, Fresno conducting experiments in regard to alkali drainage. He believes that great things are to be done with the lands which have long lain waste because of alkali, when the system of alkali drainage comes into praco tice. His experiments in California have The department of agriculture recvineommends the following species of fish been conducted upon the Dore in the West Park district, as being the most efficient exterminat- yard, lying where alkali has come to the surface ors of the mosquito larvae: Top minvery rapidly. The success of his exsticklebacks nows, sunfish, goldfish, periments have led bim to advise the and shiners. Garden Magazine. forming of syndicates for the purchase of alkali lands which can be bought for a very low figure. With An Easy Place to Live. in women's clothes As the fashions in Japan have not changed during HOW THEY ARE TRAINED FOR years there is no reason why the SAM'S SERVICE. UNCLE men of that country should not have the most serene countenances known among civilized people. in Ice. Danger The opaque center of artificial ice, which a French physician has pointed out, is due to freezing from the outside, the impurities, including bacteria, being crowded into the last portion to solidify. Quite Likely. We understand that Sir Thomas Eraser, whom the London Gazette described as "deceased" the other day. has become a member of the Burial society. Punch. Rice Food for Millions. Rice, which Is the world's leading cereal, is also the leading crop cultivated in the Philippines. In Asia rice f the food supconstitutes fully ply of the population. one-hal- An Amusement Lover. Binghamton girl at a dance fell window and through a fourth-storlanded on the first floor. She said she was unhurt and hurried back. Anything for a dance! A Yankee Ingenuity. An item of news from the insect world is that an American is said to have trained a silkworm to sing London Punch. cocoon songs. Deadly New York Streets. There is an average of one child killed every three days in New York city by being run over by vehicles. Soil Good for Tobacco. The tobacco plant, has grown larger and more profuse In the United States than In any other country. Preserving Foodstuffs. Fish Bhown at Paris in 1900 had been preserved In nitrogen for seven yean. Oranges, pears, grapes, cherries, etc., are now being packed in paper boxes containing nitrogen, and ihe exclusion of oxygen seems to keep fruit from decay for an Indefinite time. o Mechanically. Judge And what did the prisoner say when you told him that you would have bim arrested? Complainant He answered mechanically, yer honor. Judge Explain. Complainant He hit me on the head with a hammer. K.verybody's Magazine. She Deserves Some Rewird. Hope certainly springs eternal In the breast of the maiden of 42 sum niers who continues to glance over her shoulder at the mirror on Halloween. Mead, Big Rush by Naval Officials to Provide the Thousands of Men That Will Be Needed for New Battleships. drainage these lands would shortly become productive and the increase in their value would be enormous It is evident, from the following Washington dispatch that Mr. Mead is considered an authority on this subject: Dr. Eiwood Mead, formerly chief of the bureau of irrigation of the depart ment of agriculture, has accepted the office of chief of irrigation investigations for Australia, which was recently tendered him by the British government. The place, it is stated, car ries with it an anual salary of $15,000 It now seems probable that large areas of western lands, considered worthless, will, like the swamp lands of Indiana, become the most valuable after drainage. ward "'ith few interruptions until four o'clock in the afternoon, at which hour the young tars cease work for the day. From that time until "fcips" is sounded at nine o'clock their lime is thefr own and they may spend it in the writing rooms, the library, the gymnasium, on the baseball diamond, the football field, or where they choose. Apropos of Jack's material it may be noted that the mears at the naval training station are all that could be desired. The boys eat in mess halls provided with long tables, and while the menus served are not what would be termed fancy, the food well-bein- Think of It! More than 60,000 enlisted men needed to man the warships of the United States navy when the vessels now building are completed and ready to join the fleet. To provide this great force of bluejackets the navy department at Washington is now bestirring itself, spurred to especial energy in the matter by the circumstance that several efficient battleships had recently to be placed out of commission because T'ncle Sam had not enough naval tars to go around. Construction work is about to begin on a new naval training station located at Chicago which will cost $2,000,000, and which will afford Instruction to the young men of the great lake district whence come some of our best naval seamen. The training station on the Pacific coast Is to be greatly enlarged, and probably moved from San Francisco bay to a new location, and finally the nation's principal school for seamen, that located at Newport, R. I., has during the past few years been so extended and improved In various ways that it now stands without a peer among such institutions throughout the world. The system of training is the same at all stations and it Is truly remark able how much of the theory and practice of maritime affairs can be mastered within a few months by a young man who prior to his arrival at the school for seamen has perhaps never even seen an ocean-goinship, much less been aboard a warship. The newly enlisted navymen arrive at the training school in charge of a recruit Ing officer and almost th" sole formality of admission Is a very rigid physical examination by a medical officer, who makes sure that each individual who comes before him has BO disqualifying defect. Safely past the scrutiny of the doctor, the new recruit receives with the compliments of t'ncle Sam a complete outfit of summer and winter clothing, including a uniform, shoes, under wear, overcoat, cap, sweater, rubber boots, oilskins, etc. Kach fresh arrival at the school for seamen spends his first three or four weeks In the "newcomers' squad, vhere he Is taught cleanliness, discipline and other first principles of the aaval life. It is a pretty lively existence these sailors In the making b ad. They are up at 5:30 o'clock In the morning and save for the recesses for meals the training of hand and head goes for 3 The U. S. g t Practice Ship Constellation g is good, wholesome and well cooked: there Is plenty of it, and It. is served steaming hot. seaman has After an apprentice spent some weeks at the school and has learned about all concerning sea man hip that he can gather in the rig tring loft and on the land mast fa masthead set In the ground with ropes, sails, rigging, etc.) he Is taken. In company with groups of his fellows, for short cruises in nearby waters. At first these actual tastes of seafaring lift are given on board converted yachts or small sailing craft but as the knowledge and experience of the tars is broadened, they are given cruises on practice ships that seek th open ocean. On these excursions the newly qualified bluejackets learn all about hoisting boats, anchoring, steer ing and other important duties afloat and incldently familiarize themselves with conditions aboard ship so that there is nothing of the "green horn" boat them when the time comes for actual work In the navy |