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Show THE BOX ELDER NEWS, BRIGHAM CITY, UTAH. and it develops an excess of vines to the detriment of the product. But the ground should be prepared as good as possible, pulverizing the lumps and leveling off the whole in order that the plants might the more easily be set out. Then when they are placed 33 up the earth and stimulate the growth of the plant, which its nature requires. And so, as stated, it makes little difference to the tomato as to the condition of the soil, so long as it gets a little water and plenty the soil permits the rays of the sun to quickly warm about 4,330 plants per acre. He places the rows five feet apart and sets the plants two and a half feet from each other. He plants his tomatoes a little closer than most other growers, but by reason of the vigorous cultivation which he gives them, finds that he loses nothing by it. He raises his own plants in hot beds, sowing the seed in the early spring, and gets the young plants ready for sett'ng out as early as the season will make it safe. The cost of an acre of plants is estimated at 25 cents per hundred, or 110.75 per acre. According to Mr. Reeder, the cost of caring for an acre of tomatoes for a season is $75, and 5 cents per bushel is g'ven for picking. The canning factory pays $10 per ton for the vegetable delivered at the factory, and when disposing of his product to that institution, Mr. Reeder nets a handsome profit, and a greater one when selling the tomatoes by the pound. When the season is normal, tomatoes in this section commence to ripen early in August, and they never get entirely through before the frost comes in October. As long as there are enough tomatoes coming in each day, the canning factory receives them and the shippers send them out to distant markets as long as they last. What Mr Reeder accomplished in this line, can be done on any acre of ground in this section If only $100 net is made from an acre of tomatoes that dividend on three hundred and represents a 29 fifty dollars an acre land, and any business man considers it a mighty good investment to get even ten to fifteen per cent on his money. At the rate of $100 on thousand dollar per acre net profit, means 10 tomato land, and none of the land used for that purpose in this section Is sold for that high price But it pays to raise tomatoes, just as it pays to raise other vegetables and fruits, and the better of sunshine. But naturally the better prepared the they are cultivated the greater the profits This same land is and the more thorough the cultivation, the man has netted $500 per acre in strawberries, and greater the harvest, and it is the harvest which last year he sold $225 worth of potatoes from a half an acre of ground Mr Reeder has demonstrated the every farmer works for. In setting out his tomato field, Mr. Reeder uses virtue of intensive farming In the ground the more they are cultivated to keep the soil loose around them, and irrigated in season, the greater the crop. The warm sunshine of this section, in connecton with the moisture which is given to the plant, works wonders for the texture of WILLARD Where Prize Peaches Grow and Where Educa- - tional Spirit Runs High lation, and that it has hardly more than passed through the pioneer period, we consider the educational record made a rather remarkable one. Here is the list: Evan Stevens, Certificate, Boston Conservatory of Music; leader of Tabernacle choir, Salt Lake. It has been said that no town in the state of similar size has sent more students to college tha$i our neighbor town on the south, Willard. To give other towns an opportunity of contesting the honor we have compiled below a partial list only such as we can. recall of those who have attended college degrees and certificates. It is confessed that the list is not complete, but we trust that this publication will induce others to report, so that a complete list may be published. We think the matter worthy of record. When we consider that this town has never exceeded 800 in popuwho have received - schools; graduate Rush Medical school, Chicago; physician and surgeon, Salt Lake City J. Dwight aHrding, M. D., student of U. of U.; teacher Box Elder schools; graduate Northwestern Medical school, Chcago, and 111. School of Electro Therepeutics; county physicain, Box Elder county; Box Elder graduate assistant surgeon, O. S. L. R. R.; physician and Cornell university, N .Y.; city attorney of Brigham; lawyer, Brigham, Utah. J. L. Perry, LL. B., student of U. of U,; graduate University of Michigan; lawyer, Willard, Utah. Geo. P. Harding, M. D., Normal U. of U.; teacher surgeon, Brigham, Utah. William T. Ward, M. D., 01 Normal, U. of U.; student teacher, 02 U. of U.; teacher Branch Normal, U. of U., graduate Columbia Medical N. Y., 08; hospital school, practice, Roosevelt hospi- - J. D. Call, LL. B., student of U. of U.; 03-0- |