Show I 1 HAY SHORTAGE the price 0 of hay has almost made it prohibitive for a family of moderate means to keep a cow to say nothing of a horse and the outlook does not seem very encouraging tor for lucern fields are arc being converted into beet fields every year and in a very short time hay will be as scarce as the proverbial v liens hens teeth M W dalton of willard has taken some pains in looking up the question of supplying a substitute for hay and lie he is sending broadcast a little ailin ahlet containing the following sug vs tion I 1 which might be followed wi wll t profit A hay flay famine confronts Us never in tile the history of utah or her sister state on the north has the hay situation been so serious shortage stares us in the face it is the duty of every citizen to think seriously and quickly something must tie done without delay the consumption of hay in utah is greater than the production and though at a late date I 1 may discuss a remedy for this condition it is my purpose at this time to urge the people to take advantage of the one alternative left now the proposition is this there is a goodly supply of beets in the country which can be secured by buying them back from the sugar factory according to debts made at experiment stations there is much more nourishment h in a ton of beets than in three tons of hay with a little straw chair chaff or like material for forage sugar beets can be fed with even greater profit than hay and at much less expense act quickly before the beets are all sold respectfully it W DALTON |