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Show V 1 14 Pages Srfte 98 Cols. TTtAgTTEa VOLUME X Trade and Finance Letter Issued by Copper National Bank. We can not but feel that the laek of attention, paid to the - growing of grass and theraising of lie stock is a regretable and serio.us error in the practice of the farmers of this territory. If there were( no other reason for this letter, there would be one in the fact that the farmers in a large part of the Intermountain Empire are at present aide to pay their bills only once a year. Crop handling expenses, store bills and interest must usually wait until December before their payment is possible. It is ob ious .that if some sort of husbandry were adopt would ktlw the fanner to secure a continuous income throughout the year;, he would cut short his salary to the circumstance which oftimes him to act at the compels dictation of others, lie would become his own master. But there is only one farm product' that is capable of supplying a constant flow of income, i. e.. live stock and not all lne stock at that. Sheep ranged and handled in the usual way will afford returns to the ow ner twice a year and somethin?& similar is true of range cattle, though cattle-m- ay be fed upon a farm in such a way as to provide marketable stuff at any month in the year. Or the farmer may Commence the raising of hogs and may install a dairy In these last - two kerns are found, we believe, the ml-whic- h- 3C Inaxi-lUQi- u of profit. Particularly in these last few years when the price of beef cattle has swung upward to about twice what it was, and the price of pork has done likewise, it is profitable to develop this industry'. The increase in meat prices is due almost entirely to an increased demand, for . both the amount of live stock produced in the United States, and the expense of producing it, have remained at figures not far from those of ten years ago. But in that time our population has cumulatively increased, growing at the rate of about 2 per cent each year. Furthermore, a large share of that increase too large a share has been in the population of cities and towns; which is a population that cannot produce food, though it must consume it. It is no wonder that the prices of meats have soared. They have a scarcity value. Even st Jthe .lower rprices. ,.of ten years ago, it used to be proverbial among the farmers of the middle jvest that, the richest of them were those who, even d with lands, devoted their energies to beef and dairy ' cattle, and 'to hogs." It' is now more true than ever. This same condition holds - in' the Intermountain Empire, and certainly to an even greater extent. If. there. is a natural hog and i dairy country in the. United States, this is the place. Pure water, clear dry air, and cool nights are valuable assets in this business, and nowhereelse are they possessed in am equal degree Adding to this the richness of the. intermountain soils, with accumulations their remarkable fertilizers, and their , of natural no less remarkable physical conof ditions, plus the proximity one hungry, expanding markets, hag a situation under which the failure to develop dairying and hog raising .seems the grossest negligence. There is not a single n logical reason why this favEmpire, so highly ored of Nature, should import dressed meats' by the trainload from Omaha and Chicago, should buy butter and cheese by the earload from Wisconsin, and even import it ffem New Zealand. Yet all of these.it does. It is those places ridiculous that should be supplying us, when we ought' to be supplying both ourselves and them. We could do it so much better. .In spite of these facts there is . high-price- -- Inter-mountai- this territory only one really notable dairying district, L e., the Cache Talley in northern Utah. In this valley of relatively small .extent,- - the ereameries and the condensed milk factories this year paid to the farmers $1,5000,000 for this cne product alone. The mont ey comes into the bands of the farmers in monthly instalments, and, more - than - any other industry, not even excepting the aagajr factories, baa' established so ... far developed-i- n the credit of the valley. The conditions are so favorable as to tt ther attention of even inch a company as Bordens Condensed at-tra- Milk Company, which has recently established a plant here. It is true that on the central and lower Snake valleys in Idaho, as well as in some of the Utah valleys, a similar development is going on, though it has not reached the same productive and profitable stage Not even in Cache Valley has more than a beginning been made in the establishment of this indnstrv. There is no danger of its tj&er-dCetopment. Milk, butter, beef and pork are staples for which the demand is ever increasing. Me have heard fears expressed that the planting of apple orchards will outrun the market demand for fancy apples, and' so it might possibly do, though we think not, at least in the present generation ; but one can scarcely imagine even such a possibility with dairying and bog raising. Our argument will be replied to by "the' statement that can of ten por-ducrcturns larger than stock would bring, as is evidenced by the fact that Utah lands welLfit ted for market gardening, bring an annual-cas- h rental that sometimes goes a? high as $100. But such instanees"'arenot the rnle and even where they exist, sneh farming must eventually deplete the soil. And that brings ns t the second point of the argument When new soil is to be brought under cultivation. When depleted land is to be restored to its original fertility, when clayey i other compacted soils are to be subdued, or when some plant disease like the dry rot of potatoes is to be eradicated from the soil, nothing but grass will do the work. Here let us quote from Eugene IL Grubb, the leading potato expert of the United States, who in conversation a few weeks ago, said to us, Corn is not king, nor is cotton, nor is wheat. Grass is king. There are four reasons for this.- - First: lands are usually far more profitable when supporting live stock than when cropped. Second: the most necessary as well as the cheapest food for stock is grass. Third : the cheapest, deepest and best tillers, -- drainers and warmers of the soil are roofs. , Fourth; the cheapest fertilizer is a turf composed largely of deeply rooting plants. Referring to the fourth, the ad vantages to be obtained by filling the soil with deeply rooted turf are chiefly these : The' Wope mature earlier. The soil is kept in better physical condition. It does not become soggy. Heavy rains do not wash the soil, or leach away its mineral constituents. The land can be more and easily and deeply plowed worked Weeds are absolutely The deep rooten extinguished. will penetrate - and break up the .hardest . pans. . The soil ., is supplied with humus to a considerable depth. It is more deeply aerated and moistened, and it retains moisture longer. Tough and "almost unworkable soils are completely altered in character. Besides all this, some of the grasses keep the land supplied with nitrogen, which of all the fertilizers, is the most important and the hardest to secure in any other way. It is the pivot around which f pining turns. These are assuredly benefits worth securing. That they can be secured in the way we point out is not just a matter of theory. These . facts have been established beyond question, and are especially true in this country where most grasses root deeply and grow welL The grasses, when properly seeded and properly cared for, are almost the only crops that ean pay rent on the land, pay a sufficient interest on the capital invested, and, on top of these, ean add constantly to the value of the land. The failure of cereals, fruits - and most vegetables to accomplish this last result is the cause of most of the troubles of the farmer, whether he lives East or West. For if his wkezl or potatoes pay him a fat profit on his investment, and If Cz growth of population, service cause his lzzj to c 1 vance in price, Ls -- e e cJ tlzrzj 6 J ' EVERY NOOK AND CORNER OF DAVIS COUNTY. KAYS YHXE "AND FARMINGTON GRASS A MOSI IMPDRTAIJT FARf.l CROP Largest Regular paper ever Printed he is getting richer, very likely forgetting, or not knowing, that a chemical inaljsis of the soil Wuul J jhw'dnreTvns reductions in the quantities of phosphates, nitrogen, etc, necessary to continued cropping, sal that the on his land digging of test-pit- s Ida lion ot would show a the the sod particles or even creation of a real hardpan just beneath' the lei el of plowing, which forces the than layer of top soil to support the crop, and by the same token, to waste its riches more quickly. Evthr of these ills will cut g pow-e- r down the he could Either land. of the of rotation sneh a presented by in land the would as crop put least as for at many years' grass m the scries as are allotted for or "else all by seeding down for a - permanent pasture. Intermountain, lands are fertile, not only because they contain large quantities of mineral fertilizers, but because of their excellent physical condition, L their looseness, warmth and friability, which has everything to do with the growing of good crops. That condition must be maintained.. Grasses can do it. Other crops ean not. We ean: not emphasize this idea too MATTER HOW strongly. income-producin- . MUCH .MONEY A FARMER IN DUCES HIS LAND TO YIELD IIIM, HE IS NOT A SUCCESS FUL FARMER UNLESS ALSO CAUSING HIS LAND TO GROW BETTER YEAR BY YEAR. UIS UTAH mil ,T1 llKSDAYr DECEMBER COMMER -A Vr'u' n t - Fanjiington Uiitht of'ler- t Wl la tn th t on hard Coj-merci- al - innry A' PARAWSTON rose city. County Mtt ef rich lad iwtll DfcYt comity Homs of lh MUlcr Floral oompofi?, the ftowom la the grower of hot horn Club Ho nut !roluitimi oi i Kitiittr Mill O, i I Ky. h rompl jut nut r Me t tut t cotmuiMlottw jwmmI linpof tint, tkiivt Hubuilusn u prjitp lor trmt wtul rtf tatiir vmmmK Su plj i Hit f r tariuem the CIAL CLUB numbers 3- - 1-- 191 uvvton t"n highly vr tjl 1 Lawton Busy Body LUrliin Loeafito of tho finhna ator Work and Elocttie fine place forreeldoaoe. country Ho rrtnri A The regular membership meet were hitherto existing were swept like snow on volcame lips ing ol the. Commercial Club, as away CLUB CH.EBR ATES UTAH PRODUCTS DAY. and all present joined in the prepreviously announced, convened Live Bunch of Progressive Business Men Sbow their Friends How to m tinvailing sentiment to place the Social ball last Saturday town on the map of Utah as Celebrate and Boom Home Products. 250 Guests Enjo the This the was the for the meeting veiling. city preeminaHt Hospitality of the Club. first of a series of monthly meet- factory, home and schooL Among the most prominent ings inaugurated by the Club Wednesday eiening the Lay-to- Fount product. tin- entertainment of Its mem-lier- s features of the entertainment, for Commercial club turned loose Gil AUK JUICE urxt'll Prill and the df and one that speaks for the uomotion their hospitality iu celebration of cipul inirn lh nt, Ur. Gleason's patriotism and tlirilt as well, spirit of boost which is everylilt i e were present u large num-In- r where apparent, and also the reone of Utahs greatest days Grape Juice. tin- Clubs bv ot i lull vvotk Gin the Smli the day to boom Utah produets. membership gard in which the Commercial otln-rami who mtoiy took out Club is held, were the two comTwo hundred and fifty people-wer- tnthusiaMji to tlie tLppitch ainl t arils; and the nit min plimentary songs composed for the guests of the elub at TheHeflex predict that this, the the wtet altogether unnmerfor the cgcssion and sung by the Fariueis I liiuu Hall, ulnT 'olii.gti.t TuTifiiU Vi hit flalt iis .splendid mnsival features and quartette .Our Commercial they were entertained by speak- state, wiTKk the busiest. Here's olltluisi.istu- .speeches; and was Club, by Archie . Brown, and ers and later danced to their to the ClubAket the good work the most intensify interesting and The Little Town Up Near the prolitalde nu cling of its kind llill,. by Elijah Gregory. The hearts content. A Utah pro- go on. Commercial Club quartette is ever held in Farmington. ducts lunch was served about 12 Appropriate music .and sing- composed of, Archie Brown, Hy-ruE. Ellison r turned from e o'clock, Welling,. Elijah B. Gregory ing by the Dahl orchestra and ' Charles and Club Commercial the vada Suinlav. Secrist. The Dahl X quartette W. W. Evans introduced the Vi is orchestra lent variation to composed of three harmony ..and first speaker, a Utah product, John Samlall's hat her simp the occasion. sons and one young daughter' Mr. 0. R. Hollingsworth, presi- has been moved jriiit to tile streit Aleeting whs called lo order of our village blacksmith, Augdent of the Utah Development line. by 1 resident Robert Alilkr who ust DahL These youug musiciin a short address reviewed the ans have a bright future before the big League, lie spoke upon mothMelvin fatlnT done in past years. Ad- them. Recognizing this the Comand work Hill's benefits that would a cure to Lay-todresses were made by tlie follow-m- mercial "Club" has also pressed Frier are giving him a s'minr from its commercial - club. m em be rs. E. B. Cla rk Ke A. them into service. 1 le also told of- the-w- rb of l he da y"ei cniligT On mothmTof Henry Anderson CdUrcttTltdrac eV a nfle e l," J ok n league in compiling statistics and Lorin the son of Air. and Mrs. Walsh, J. W. Uess. A. L. Clark, it was decided to send & comdata of each town in the state E. E. Ellispn, has a severe at- J. A. Bowen, Joseph Christen- mittee to the county commission-er-a ' requesting that son, J. T. Williams and llyrum the law that new comers may have ac- tack of pneumonia. Stwart.relative noxious to weeds be encurate data to Work from in re enthusiastic and Such forced. The chair stated that peppery Wits unM u tuaLw illlmeel gard to the"' establishment of with such committee would be speeches suggestion! fraught factories and the development oil Tuesday evening, instead of and ideus, set forth with vigor at the next board meetof Industrie, lie also drew at- on Sunday evening as heretofore and vim and seasoned well with ing. the true spirit of patriotism was The next membership meetirj tention to the agitation for a The entire Ellison family, of never before witnessed in the will be held on the last Friday sugar factory, which first found Layton were the guests at 'din- town. in December . and will include birth Jn The Reflex, that Live ner at the home of Air. ami Airs. The north and south ends of the ladies as well as the gents. ' the town, as well as the center, V. R. Skeen, of Ogden, Sunday. Newspaper of Davis County. Following are the words cf whatwell Were, Mr. J. W. McHenry of Murray, the songs rendeded at the meetrepresented and Airs. Anmtta Stevnson at- ever differences, if any, there ing of the Club: of the importance spoke 'upon tended the dancing party given asking for and demanding Utah OUR COMMERCIAL CLUB. lie said that the by Dr. and Mrs. Ezra Kich at products, Composed by Archie Brown. the Colonial in Ogden Alondaj' growth was largely up to the Farmingtons commercial club and all its members, hoiffi wives. Jle exiled attention evening. Have united hand in hand to improve our town, ' to the lienefits that Murray, his The Lay ton Drug store is giv- Lets get busy with our energy and dollars, home town, had derived from ing beautiful calendars to its And dont whine and try to keep a good thing down. t their commercial club. customers. Air, Birkin is right For it takes much' more than talk to make advancement, We must boost and boost and boost to make things go. Chas. II. Mabey spoke upon there" whiji it comes to adverLets dear out our vacant lots from all their litter, . the early struggles of the Utah tising. Turn the soil and make them blossom as the rose. Development league and the presfrom Rosemait returned Berny ent benefits the state is receiving Chicago last Thursday, where he Now weedsChorus are growing there and theres sunflowers everywhere, Mr. Mab- has been from the There friends. old are bottles, cans and rubbish at your will. visiting ey said, Utah is big enough for Berny reports that everything is Lets unite and clear them out so they never more will sprout In our pretty little toifru beneath the hilL all peoples, we need them all. happy as happy, in Chicago. We need outsiders, no matter of There will be a brighter future for our city, ' Stevenson and a what creed or If we all will try to help our fellow man; with Dont be backward when Following. the , Bpe ak mg ...t In- her son Joseph E., together you see a good improvement, E. Airs. P. mothi her Ellison, r But in the do and best can. get entertained with very you quests were for Southern The Miller Floral has improved a western portion, leaves Saturday a and Utah, dancing products where once.. the .pioneers-reposed- , will spend 01, lunch whs "Served at'a date" hour. California where-thehave cleared away the burdocks and the thistle, They the winter. Menu. In their place hes planted sweet-pea-s and the rose. emDOUGHNUTS- - Made of Layton is new a Barnes Herbert Hour, shortened with Adams ployee of the Utah Power & We have mothers young and old, we have fathers brave ap Brothers Pure Leaf Lard, Sugar- Light company at Layton. Tlie And their hair is going gray from toil and strife ; ed with sugar from Layton Beets. company will inspect and make Come and join the Commercial Club, make the labor ot t of In . So our parents will enjoy a happier life. PUMPKIN PIE Made of Layton necessary repairs to all meters Pumpkins and other Layton pro- in this ' system . A1 r. Ba nes - and THE LITTLE TOWN UP NEAR; THE HILL. ' ducts. Clyde Bishop are now engaged in Composed by Elijah B. Gregory. J CHEESE From Hooper, a Davis this work. ; Ou t.. among. tb e.. fertile lands of dear old Utah, . Where the meadow larks are singing all the day, Where the Nightingale singssweetly in the evening, DC 3 C DOC There" my heart' Is wont to go and ever stay. In a sacred little glen- among this grandeur, Where was built a little town up near the hill, ' There I spent so many hours in pleasant pastime. And in memory I can see those pleasures stilL Chorus Now the trees are growing there and the roses bloom so fair. Where in Springtime every heart with rapture thrill, By the inland crystal sea. is a home so dear to me, . . . In a thriving little town up near the hilL - ri - -- - s -- - m 1 n g - - - ap-point- valleys can maunftam throughout the season green, thick pastures of saccmlrnt grasses. These are o nutritious and luxuriant that the Agricultural College vouches for the fact that they can support from four to eight times as many cattle per acre aa ean the lands of the middle west. Then if hogs are mortgage lifters in Iowa, we must acknowledge that they would be about six times as valuable in Utah, Nevada and Idaho. GRASSES, DAIRY-CATTLAND HOGS IT LS THE KEYSTONE OF GOOD FARMING. Where we have spoken of grasses, are do not mean any one grass, but a mixture of them. Some valuable mixtures contain as many as fifteen or twenty varieties of grasses, alt put into the list for valid reasons. The clovers, vetches, timothy, Italian ryegrass, brume .grass, alfalfa chicory and Hue gams are some off the more prsamimeut in most of the mixtures. - "We lmagbi mention E here that great care should he used in braying grass seeds, for there is as much or more difference in their quality as there is between the' grades of Loraes for instance. The farmer ahoulc make certain that the seed is just- - what it is supposed - to be, and it has high germination percentage. In fact, he ought to bray his seed in the fail or winter, so that he would have plenty f time to secure just the mixtures be might need, and 'so that he might have time to test (continued on another page.) . ccuc DC 0 ed -- -- i olub-iwor- k. . JMrs-Annett- -- 1 -- ... our-tpw- n, -- " 300 - Mday Excursions If Via There are men in FarmingTo(w)n from many nations, Who re contented as the purest breeze that blows, They have spent a pleasant life assisting nature, And have made the desert blossom as the rose, As they now begin to come in greater numbers, v As the boundry of their ranks begin to swell, I can see; in years to come a pleasant future, For my neighbors in that town up near the hilL Bamberger Electric Line From all Stations to v The SALT LAKE CITY OR OGDEN H AT ONE FARE FOR THE ROUND TRIP Tickets oa Sale Dec. n, - RETURN LIMIT JAN. 5, 1914 apd Jan. J " e&Ogden Railway - lovers of music good and sparkling entertainment will no doubt be pleased to learn that on Wednesday evening, Dec. 17th, ' the Davis County Symphony orchestra organized some months ago, under the direction of Russell Parrish, of Centerville, and including many other good musicians of the county, will give an 'entertainment in the Farmington ward meeting house They are to be assisted by the Wasatch Male quartette, of Salt Lake and Miss Ireta Hess, of Farmington. A part of the proceeds will go to the Farmington ward choir. The adrairrion will - . o :0 be 25 cents. 8 p.m. Concert I ti The first annual Farmington be held ou Comnrtiil dib trll D prijinl t Fril'y ctciTij tt rH ben tks tzl sift iu tlz--3 c ' tl: x j I ill cf tks cember 19th. It ii make this ball tla ct season, one foreward to fn 1 ; with anticipiU ed with uz: ladies cf 11 3 edit , , : ' ' 1 ! 1 3 ! 7 'L. ' O |