Show PRACTICAL TALK TO FARMERS essow deseret deveret near loews spring time is coming and with it comes the question what can the farmers plant or produce that will pay 11 1 the farmers now work harjer than any other class of people many it is true idle their time away and let the summer pus pass not having produced enough to keep their families from want living twenty years on a place I 1 witia not a rod of fencing around their stac stacks s or a few trees that they could call an orchard i the time has now come for planting trees if you haye have not money enough to purchase trees tree go to the canyon and get them set them out around your farm the first year sixty feet apart in a year or two you can purchase three to four barbed wires and nail them to the trees tree the next year you can set out trees between the other trees and so on in a few years you will have your farms to yourselves rhe fhe farmer should use his hia mind as well as his hands there are now hundreds budd reds of papers in the united unite i states that treat on stock c farming I 1 fruits bogs chickens dairies and everything else and many can be had bad from 1 to a year by reaching and getting the study and practice of au successful men you will save many a dollar and make many more I 1 have met many a conceited who would say to me what do those thos e eastern farmers know about our country coun try 11 to them I 1 have replied and say those el experienced farmers know more about farming than all the dough beads will ever learn to practice the farmers own life and that of the community depend on him then should he not study to make the most out of his business almost everything will pay if well attended to ai anything will grow and thrive in this fat soli and climate where you can mke m ike it rain when other states cannot liet juet the farmer plant out an orchard say pears deac peaches bes and cherries whoever saw the time that they were a drug in the market they can be canned and preserved thousands of dollars that are now spent to in importations and freights can be saved the grape can be grown on every farm and what a nice thing a bunch of grapes is a to say nothing of the wine it makes the time will come com e when grape raising will be a lucrative industry from cache valley on the north to st george on the south the bench landphere land where anere is nothing growing now will be tilled up to the very rocks away up into the canyon what next the hog now is the time to raise him by raising lucerne how would you do it put in more lucerne and now is the time by breaking more ground and sowing it what others can do so ao can you not many years ago the greely settlement was established in northeastern northa astern colorado here is what one of the settlers said to me when we came here we planted wheat cors corn and oats we could make no headway io so we wout to utah and purchased lucern seed by the car load and planted it next we went to the east and purchased young hogs bogs put rings in their noses divided the fields or made portable fencing when a lot was eaten out they were turned then in the otar and so on until winter when we put a little corn or wheat into them to finish bluish them then they made bacon he asks one to come with him and see the county fair which was then on at fort collins collica Col liua many were the pens of hogs fat and sleek that had had bad nothing but lucern said bald he we are now making bacon aa and getting more for it than the eastern practice will bring thy the fair all through was fluer finer than our last years yearns territorial fair was as and all on account of a frugal I 1 industrious lot of eastern farmers I 1 asked mr beckwith what luck he be had in hog raising he said while I 1 could superintend the busin business esq myself it made money the last two hop hogs we raised weighed over one thousand lbs IDS each and were grown rown on lucern 11 our farmers will all tell you it does not pay to raise hogs of course not when you will take a grist of wheat to the mill and have it chopped feed the hog one day and starve him the next fret fr ting efting his flesh off thinking where the next meal will come from instead of going to sleep and getting fat there is now near near on to sent east for pork yearly you do not nor never have sold wheat out of the territory to the amount of half of it see the folly ahr or four hundred thousand dollars sent out and a dead loss lose say nothing of the chances of trichina of which we have never had a case do you know what one dollar left in the territory means I 1 will tell you the history of a hundred dollar bill in one day I 1 drew the bill paid it to a man he be handed it to another he be to another this excited our curiosity we took the number of the bill and by three we traced it back to the bank that we drew it from it having paid aid five debts in one day think of hl hi what could it have done next day providing some merchant had not sent it east for pork travel through the territory and stop at many farmers houses in the summer time you will get eastern bacon aryed into shoe leather or bread and milk most of the farmers do not live they dimply exist go east come in on a farmer when he sits site d down own to eat he has something on the table why is this it is not but what we have the same chance that they do and five times better but we send but bat little out and bring everything in they raise everything they use we go east for ours there is no better country to raise poultry in than this and still poultry is imported by the thousands sending thousands of dollars to kansas anti and nebraska that should go to the utah farmers I 1 have tried poultry in a small way aud and that pays well chickens will largely feed on grasses particularly r ticul arly on lucern those people C that t have but small numbers of fowls can join together and purchase an n incubator for several families MI bell a dozen egge you get 15 to 20 acts produce a spring chicken keD you get from 25 to 49 40 acts then if you do not want to sell them all you can have once in a while one to eat those that have small flocks of poultry and large families of children will do well to let jet the children raise the poultry on shares it induces children thildria ch ildria to bt b come self supporting and makes your table better and your pockets fatter H J FAUST march 19 1891 |