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Show PAGE FOUR THE SPANISH FORK PRESS. SPANISH FORK, UTAH a. CACHE COUNTY AND Problems of Agriculture Demand Best Brains of, the Country s The agricultural situation in Cache county is the best in ten years, viewed from the standpoint of prospective Crop conditions, all in production. all, probably never were better at this season of the year in the history of the county. Returns from those crops already harvested are very satisfactory. Alfalfa cuttings over practically all the county are heavy and the pea crop, now well along in the harvest, is taxing to capacity the facilities for- handling the same, so large is the yield. The harvesting of our very promising grain crops is about to begin with indications from all auctions of the county for bumper crops. The condition of the sugar beet crop on July 1st is reported as 100 percent by way of comparison with other , years, To recognize the beneficial results of the farm bureau activities upon the countys agriculture, one needs only view the cheanged conditions in Cache valley during the past decade. It is now about ten years since the farm bureau was organized in the county. While its life history is short, its acare reflected in a complishments greatly improved agricultural situa- tion in Cache county. It is to be noted that need of a farmers organization in the state and nation has long been felt by leading individuals but not until the federal government began a serious attempt in 1910 to improve rural conditions in America did the organization ot farmers become an absolute necessity. With the coming of the Agricultural Extension service through the cooperation of the U. S. department of agriculture and the Agricultural colleges, it was readily discovered that the task of the county agricultural agents was helpless without some organization through which they could work. This need of an agricultural organization then through which the newly created Extension service could function accounts for the immediate cause of the rapid development of farm bureau. Cache county, along with other counties of our state and other states, has participated and greatly benefited by the organized effort on the part of farmers to improve rural living conditions and at the same time develop better farming methods. The result is that today every community except one in Cache county has its farm bureau organization looking after the welfare and best interests of its mem bers locally. . The community problems and community programs of ag ricultural improvement or the righting of local conditions are handle; through farm bureau committees. The slogan of "better farms, better homes, and better living is the job of farm buroau in each local unit. These local farm bureau units of the county are federated together to form the Cache County Farm Bureau, whose function it is to decide upon and work out county agricultural program upon which all local farm bureaus can operate. To review in detail the accomplish ments of this organized effort on the part of the farmers of Cache county and point out the activities of the farm bureau in the promotion of bigger and better agriculture for the county, would be an interesting study For the purpose of this article we can only relate some of the more import- crop in our agriculture. The experience of twenty years has demonstrated, however, that Cache valley lands will not go on indefinitely producing on a single crop program. Through careful and collective study and demonstration, we have learned that results in sugar beet growing commensurate with the effort required to successfully produce this crop, can bo obtained only when a proper system of crop rotation is practiced. The prospects for the sugar beet crop in Cache valley never were better than this year. To date the crop condition is 100 per cent as compared with other years and over the whole county the stand is 80 per cent perfect on the basis of one beet every twelve inches in the row. This means that on the average in Cache county there are better . than 20,000 beet plants per acre this year to date. Taking into account all the favorable conditions, these plants should be made to weigh by harvesting time about one and one-hapounds per beet, or a per acre yield estimate for the county of fourteen tons. On this basis Cache county will produce upwards of 250,000 tons of sugar beets this season. Teas. The growing of peas in Cache county has become a substantial project in our agricultural program. This year the growers are enjoying an exceptionally favorable season for this crop. The harvesting is now on and is being done in record time, with practically all peas being handled of a high quality. This industry is relatively new in the county and farmers are just beginning to learn well the business of growing peas. This crop seems particularly well adapted to the conditions in Cache valley and theTndustry gives every promise of taking a permanent place among Cache countys profitable and leading crops. Returns from harvesting to date of the pea crop seem to warrant the conclusion that the average yield in the county this season will approximate 2500 pounds of shelled peas per acre. With close cooperation between the field representatives of the manufacturer of this crop and the grower in the preparation of seed bed, planting, caring for and harvesting, a high yield will be the reward of the growers of this crop in the count j, for climatic conditions are particularly favorable. Dairying. In the whole field of farm bureau activities the results of group effort are perhaps more apparent and outstanding in the dairy industry of the county than most other farm programs. Through the fafm bureau cooperating with the Extension service a real program of dairy improvement is under way. For a number of years in the county the importance of good breeding for milk production had been stressed. As a result the past decade has witnessed a very marked improvement in the dairy herds of the county. Not a few herds have been converted wholly into purebred animals. Much more important, however, is the very general improvement in practically all the herds of the county as evidenced by increased milk production. Through concerted action on the part of the farmers within the past few years four cow testing associations have been formed in the county. They are of great value in stimulating keen interest in better production and indirectly in better feeding methods. These cow testing associations are sponsored by the farm bureau and their officers and members are loyal farm bureau members. Another development of the Cache county dairy industry during the past few years through the efforts of the farm bureau and the county agent, has been the formation of bull associations. .A number of these organizations are going concerns in the county and are sure to be the economical means of .further greatly improving the grade of dairy cattle of the county. Better breeding, better feeding, and better care of our dairy animals is the farm bureau slogan for this phase of our agricultural pro- Newspaper Hen Sing Praise (Continued from Page 8.) phonograph and dance records. On the east and north is a wide screen porch, and at the north end of the dance hall is a modern, double fireplace, one facing into the dance hall, the other out on the porch. The decorations are beautifully colored fall leaves. In the upstairs department are seven double, comfortable beds. Mr. England has two small cottages nearby where the other members of the party enjoyed comfortable quarters. The evening air was cool and the water falling over the boulders in the Logan river had a soothing effect and in a few moments after lights were out all were in slumberland and hated awfully to get up the next morning at seven bells, ready for the trip north to Richmond and Lewiston. But orders were received to get out and once out in the cool, fresh air everybody was happy again and ready for hot cakes and coffee. And all this FREE of charge. Such hospitality is seldom witnessed in any mans country. On the trip over to the lake and back Mr. Earl and his son, Ernest, were in the rear with complete "servThe newsice station equipment. paper men were not allowed to even pour cold wated into the radiators. At every stop Mr. Earl or his son were on hand to render "service. At 10 oclock Sunday morning found the caravan headed north by the experimental farms and on to the farm of Lawrence Caine just south of Richmond where the scribes viewed a herd of purebred Jersey cows, some of the best in the state; thence north to the farms owned by C. Z. Harris, Clarence Funk, Albert Fisher and O. D. Merrill where some of the best blooded cows were found. The pencil pushers were surprised to learn that at modern dairy farms purebred milch cows are not sent to the pasture to hustle for green grass.' The cows are kept in convenient yards where there is feed, water and shade and they are busy all the day "manufacturing milk instead of chasing back and forth to and from pastures hunting for food. These animals receive regular portions of good alfalfa hay, barley and oats, ground up together with a little roughage. At these farms are modern dairy barns, milking machines, complete equipment and everything clean and sanitary. A visit was paid to the condensed milk factory at Richmond where the famous Sego brand Jf milk is made. Superintendent Merrill furnished the visitors with another surprise in pointing out the activities of the establishment, giving them an idea of the ex- tent of its operations and by showing them how condensed milk is made. One can not visit this factory and not come away a booster for Sego milk. The purity, cleanliness and quality of the product is fully demonstrated. But that was not all, Superintendent Merrill had prepared a delicious dairy lunch for the entire crowd, served in . lf . IHfl-ste- in The Brigham Young college, constituting as it does the only Mormon school in northern Utah or southern Idaho, serves a considerable population of Latter Day Saints. Living in fertile valleys the people are on the whole prosperous and enlightened and are rural rather than urban-minde- d. The evils of great trade centers are absent. Abject poverty is almost unknown. The average man finds it necessary to work industriously but the fertility of the soil insures him substantial returns. With a satisfactory economic basis it is possible to maintain well organized public schools. Two colleges, one sustained by the state and the other by the Mormon church, give unrivaled opportunities to the young people in educational lines. Ideal conditions for the development of an enlightened maintains. The college plant itself is in a more satisfactory condition than R has ever been. But more important than all of this is the high regard in which the many friends of the college view its efforts. New National Organization A change of major importance that has recently been made, is the organization of all instruction into three major divisions: Arts and Sciences, e. Dr. Education, and Joseph A. Geddes has been made director of the arts and science division. Professor Reynold C. Merrill, director of education, and Professor David Shepherd, director of the division. This new arrangement makes possible an orderly expansion particularly in the fields of the basic sciences, education and the Under-Collegiat- under-collegia- te America, a large corps of thoroughly trained and widely recognized specialists in agriculture and the physical and natural sciences. This school has an annual enrollment of approximately nine hundred with a thousand enrolled at the National Summer school The citizens of this city take greater pride in their water works than most any other institution as the thirst of a dry throat is fully quenched by a drink from this system. The DeWitt springs, seven miles up Logan canyon, furnish a supply of drinking water that is claimed to be 99 and 98 per cent pure. The first appearance into daylight comes to the water when the hydrant tap is turned to allow the water to flow forth. In addition to the pure water found in Logans water mains, visitors from various sections of the country are astonished when they observe the liberal arts. Opportunities never becitizenship are therefore present. fore offered in these lines are open Mormon Ideas of Education to students next year. clear sparkling streams of water Some wonder why the Mormon peowhich fills the gutters and ditches of sums to ple spend large money along the main thoroughfares of the church schools while at the operate city. This water serves to irrigate same time they maintain a complete the numerous garden spots, flower system of state schools. At the presbeds and grassy lawns, supplementent time the problem of avoiding a ing the supply from the water sysduplication is not as great a one as tem. That Logan was successful in it was formerly, for the reason that capturing the prize in the state clean within this district the church at city contest last year, was due large- the cool warehouse. The menu contempts to handle only three years of ly to the fact that our abundant water the 'sixteen normally embraced in the would be hard to think of north supply played its part both in its work sisted of cold sweet milk, buttermilk, It cold ham and cheese sandschool life of young people who finish em Utah without associating with it of irrigation and carrying away rub- cheese, college. It is expected that one' of Logan City, the county seat of Cache bish that would otherwise accumulate wiches, ice cream and cake. This these three years will be eliminated county, which is yearly becoming upon the streets and sidewalks. certainly was appreciated. soon so that only two will remain. more famous throughout the state and En route to Lewiston a stop was A substantial income is received by Naturally the two years that have the nation, and yet, it is only a small the city from the numerous industries made at the home of O. D. Merrill and been selected are the most important city of upwards of ten thousand in- in crowd was treated to ice and about Logan. Four large knit- here the manufactured on the farm. Not cream, Two prominent events years of the sixteen from a Mormon habitants. mills, three flour mills and a viewpoint. They are the two years have largely brought about the popu- ting just a small freezer of cream but four also that have been neglected in the larity of Logan, the Centennial cele- large grain elevator, one of five Cache different varieties in large quantity ConBordens valley sugar factories, average American college. Freshmen bration held July 24 and 25, 1924, densed Milk company plant, all bring a suffiicent amount to supply the and sophomores have been crowded and the National Summer school, now in a north end of Cache valley. Casper good income each year and sup- Merrill, son of Mr. and out and looked down upon, and ex- being conducted by the Agricultural Mrs. O. D. to citizens ply of employment many cluded from official representation in college. Because of its excellence as the Merrill, just out of college, has inWith three community. large stalled all new power equipment and student body affairs from time imme- an educational center, Logan is often institutions, several thriving is morial. It is these two crowded un- spoken of as the "Athens of Utah. banking manufacturing several different business blocks, good transportation ant developments. popular years that the church has Situated in the center of Cache val- facilities, comprising the Yellowstone flavors. Considering first the principal grain concentrated its efforts upon and has After a delightful ride 'to Lewisley where thrive a rich dairy indus- highway, the Oregon Short Line and crops of the county, wheat, oats, and ton, thence south to Cornish and Trenattempted to dignify and surround try, sugar beet culture, wheat raising the o Central show statistics the electric line, ton and then east to agricultural barley, with promising conditions. And what and flour Smithfield, manufacturing industries, Logan is both fortunate and prosthat during the past decade there has does the Mormon church propose to through a section where bumper crops offers attractive as Logan has unlimand been a consistent improvement in the advantages commercially perous add to these years that the state a home for the business man as ited room for added growth as a busi- are in evidence everywhere, the caraquality, uniformity, and crop yields schools do not supply? In short it is well as city van parked at the Morgan Canning the student. Lacking as it ness center. of these grains. Through the perthis: Knowledge while it is a chief does the crowded world. Manager Joseph Anderson the , A the of disadvantages careful maintainand the spacious sistent efforts cooper gram. element in progress, is presupposed densely extended a cordial welcome and piloted ed Mormon the noisy by a ion of the farm bureau organize church, equipped Of great interest and satisfaction to and conditioned by spiritual, moral and busypopulated, commercial centers, and, at with modern playground apparatus factory, the largest pea factory in tions with the Extension service i the dairy and livestock producers of by and physical growth if it is to find the same being, being within two to for the kiddies, a public park in Lo- the scribes and a touring party from the Utah Agricultural college, the the county is the placing of Cache genuine fulfillment. Fundamental to fours ride by train, interurban or au- gan canyon owned by Logan City, ten- Cincinnati, Ohio, through the estabwheat growers of the county have county on the Iccredited all advancement is the man himself. lishment. come to realize the importance of conarea of the United States. By The acquisition of information is tomobile of Ogden and Salt Lake City nis courts on the campuses of both The whole process of canning from on on Pocatello and the south the one of the most colleges, fining their efforts to a few standard the combined effort of the state and worth while only if in the acquireaffords its residents and beautiful theatres in the west, the threshing of the peas to the stornorth, Logan varieties of high quality wheat For government, Cache county, the farm ment the individual keeps himself es- easy access to the larger markets and The Capitol constitute ing of the filled cases in the ware.winter varieties two standard grains bureau, and the Extension service sentially right First and foremost commercial centers. Along with this in the amusement line. -Logans assets house, was explained and a brief acare planted almost wholly in the through the county agent, together ahead of facts, count of the development of the enreaching out beyond Along with the scenic attractions, county. These are the hard Turkey with the splendid cooperation of the quickness of wit, keenness of analysis quiet home life, the citizens of this surblessed are with the beautiful educational opportunities, and the terprise was given by Mr. Anderson.. Red and Gold Coin, a soft winter livestock owners themselves, this re- and of intellect is the pri- city of mountain scenery, clean business prosperity of Logan, go a He and his brother started out with roundings wheat Both of these varieties are sult was accomplished for Cache coun- marypenetration consideration of spiritual and streets, beautiful ornamental shade chamber of commerce, a an annual pack of seven thousand known to be grains of a high milling ty the past three months, through a moral health. The Mormon church trees, an abundance of cases and Smithfield factory forward proelectricity wheat looking, progressive Rotary now as highatasthe growers thorough tuberculosis test of all the proposes to lend a hand in this im- vided quality.. The spring 24,000 cases a day are and water of a at a Kiwanis rates, cheap club, building have almost universally concentrate; cattle in the county by state and gov- portant field. To strengthen the founclub, growbetter quality to be found no where ing lodges, including the Elks lodge packed. Following the trip through their efforts on two other standard ernment veterinarians. dations on which the structure of life the factory a delicious luncheon was All these activities indicate the pro- must be reared is therefore the pri- else, together with numerous modern 1435; twelve ecclesiastical wards of served varieties, namely, Early Baart for dry on the lawns surrounding the homes. the Latter Day Saints church, a newly land spring planting and Dicklow on gram of farm bureau relative to the mary object Balance and proportion factory. erected of Yellowstone to link an One the lands wheat betterment of the agricultural situa- tend to result from such efforts. Said the irrigated highPresbyterian church, Episplanted Sunday evening a program arranged Tho value of barley as a dairy and tion in Cache county. Aside from the President Henderson to the students' way passes through the Main street copal church, and a Christian Science especially for the newspaper men was These to corn has feed of and for fifteen society. have miles north organizations Logan of farm the production comparable life, poultry phase at the opening of school last fall, and at the First ward chapel. This ten miles south of the city, the been able to thoroughly supply for enjoyed come to be recognized as a very neces- farm bureau is greatly concerned as is one of the finest church buildings in your time that it may bring Yellowstone "Budget the citizens social conHere Logan is and in the to the welfare of its members and balance: distribute with care your religious the state county. highway paved, again sary crop a wonderful pipe organ this information has been acquired farmers generally in other particulars. efforts that your life may harmonize necting up with hard surfaced roads activities so necessary to every thrid-in- has been and installed. Special musical which seeks to keep which makes the Cache valley route community through careful investigations by the If its slogan for "better farms, better tfith the law of proportion. numbers were furnished by the ImExperiment station and its dissemina- homes, and better living is to be re- Outlook of Brigham Young College to the Yellowstone park a most de- abreast the times, to grow and to win perial Glee club; two readings by Miss as it penetrates one of its way into the hearts of those who Mae drive sirable tion to the farmers has been brought alized, the organization must interest has been never There a in the live year Edwards; pipe organ selections or who orvisit here here, sections most bureau fertile once and the the farm about through itself in the educational, social, and agricultural of the college when there were of the entire west by Prof. A. N. Durham and a lecture For the conve- partake of the community spirit ganization in cooperation with the Ex- recreational welfare of its members. history by Prof. G. G. Sedgewick of the Unitension service. A new kind of bar- !n this direction the farm bureau has more favorable promises of successful nience of tourists and other summer of British These functioning than present themselves visitors in Logan, a well equipped versity bar- done much and at all times is ley known as Trebi, or ready this year. No preceding year has Dennis Wood Gives Views features followed . Columbia.' the sacramental combeen has has been into the to shady camp ground county, ley, brought just sponsor helpful educational anc found as high an average service. scholarship pleted on South Main street, making with the result that this new grain recreational programs among its in Monday morning the scribes held a faculty. In no preceding year it handy and accessible to the busiis yielding wonderfully wherever it members. To date the effect of this hasthe from (Continued 3) page business session at the Agricultural there been the extensive library ness section. In addition we have has been tried. Farm bureau cooper- educational feature of farm bureau is and laboratory equipment that now three modern hotels equipped with have been formed in the mind as to college and were guests of the college ators in all sections of the county this widely helpful. lunch hour. Several members small of are tracts this growing year every convenience for guests, together its location and richness are soon during Quoting from an editorial of recent of club remained during the the fold. these its within The found press to be comindeed when and problems with several quiet puny for certification, and next year will date, "Education and Farming, the of such a rooming houses, adequate to care for pared with the real article. Dull in- afternoon and visited the various deprobably find our county well sup- writer has this to say: "It augurs of agricultureto today are best demand the brains tourists and convention delegates vis- deed must be the Utah citizen who partments of the first session of the plied with certified Trebi barley for well for agriculture in the west to character as after viewing this agricultural won- Farmers Annual Encampment. Esti- find that there are a constantly in- of the country. all our seeding requirements. iting the city. Resolutions wero adopted extending his soul does not swell with derland, mates indicate that Cache county will creasing number of men and women of "An intelligent and prosperous agriThis city has for more than forty sincere produce 125,000 bushels of barley this higher education returning to the cultural population is the salvation of years been recognized as a noteworthy pride in the knowledge that it is part tended thanks for the courtesies exthe newspaper men of the state year which will be hardly sufficient farm for their life work. Today the human race. Throughout the educational center. Here are located, of his Btate, and proud of the fact three-davisit to Cache for our dairy and poultry needs. there is no farming district in the world you will find the deepest con- besides four grammar grade schools that the progressive people of Cache during the was y wonderful a. It . valley. The have Beets. trip and farm tent bureaus their to and valley state of Utah in which there is not developed Sugar greatest prosperity among and a high school, the Logan Acadcounty relation to the permanent developbe found graduates of our Agri- those who live upon and till their own emy, (boarding school for girls main- such a high state of production, that all returned home carrying the conment and stabilizing of the sugar beet cultural college and universities. Some soil. Considered in the large the area tained by the Presbyterian church; has placed them among the most viction that Cache valley is one of the garden spots of the earth and that the industry in Cache county is well also hold degrees from other institu- of the earth affords only a limited the Brigham Young college and the prosperous of this great common Cache valley people are wonderful enknown. Out of a long period of or- tions. We find these men and women number of acres of arable land. Seas, Utah Agricultural college. The Brig- wealth. tertainers and most hospitable. ganized effort and finally the recog- operating poultry plants, engagod in mountains, and deserts occupy a large ham Young college, founded by the nition of the fact that for any manu- fruit industry, market gardening, part of the surface. Intensive soil Mormon church in 1878, has become Long-Live- d Patriott ag- dairying and even in general farming. culture and the raising tof maximum recognized as a junior facturing enterprise depending on maand college Regicide Fought Indiant Five signers of the Declaration of "The value of higher education in crops becomes not only a necessity normal school distinguished for the ricultural products for its raw William OoflPe, one of the Judges who to lived be over Independence 00 there must be end the and but be aim to of successful, field years of true human endeavor cannot rightful terials, any type and quality of teachers which condemned King Charles I to death, It is encouraging to agricultural science. The earth and it has prepared. The college has an old. They were Charles Carroll Mary- came genuine spirit of cooperation be- be gainsaid. to New England a.fter the restora- - , manufacnote that agriculture holds induce- the fullness thereof is man, for use. annual enrollment approaching five land; William Ellery, Rhode Island; tween the producer and the tlon of the monarchy In England, and has come. human Francis a is mutual and It New muen good ments contains men hundred. for educated The Lewis, women colheritage and Utah James York; turer, come to be of the best types. It is also good for no secrets which searching may not lege, founded in 1888,Agricultural boasts of one 8mlth, Pennsylvania, and John Adams, took part In the Indian warfare la Sugar beet growing has western Maiaachuaetts. , and desirable profitable the science of agriculture to have find out of the finest college campuses in Massachusetts. fixed as a Utah-Idah- public-square- over-heate- d, ; up-to-d- wide-awa- ke g six-row- ed . te . |