Show AN OPEN LETTER PROFESSOR J W utah agricultural college and experimental station logan lagao city my dear sir ai ae ft a sequence of ion long 9 experience and many jean observation I 1 I 1 take the liberty to address you the to following aphorisms on agriculture in our rucky mountains mountain 1 there should be a oneness on enesa a system through which a state or commonwealth advances harmoniously la in its different channels of progress and with farming arming as cur leading subject vie we put it down as a maxim 2 the to ten aagre acre farm is ia the ideal and the future farm I 1 hold it in ia the farm of a now new era before us when labor and producers shall have settled with consumers according to the writ writing irig on the wall 3 the size of the future farm I 1 think will be limited to what a farmer and his family without the help of servants eer as am a general thing can manage with the boat best possible cultivation and care 4 A rightly developed white man and may be in particular the anglo saxon will reside under his own roof and be his own master he will not remain a servant to try to make him a dependant tenant a serf a modern slave alive on say kind of feudal reproduction of serfdom will cause ruinous eruptions we are on the verge of an era when no degree of ser serfdom idom will thrive feudal fendal aristocracy can not be revived in any old or new form the providential economy of of time will not admit of it enlightenment and unfair dOMi dominion by any means do not agree A public opinion against tyranny in any form based on historical and rational conclusions are crystallized into a set beet and irrevocable verdict that it shall not be tolerated we want a moral intelligent and free population lathun of farmers we want the enjoy enjoyment i ment to a full extent of the fruits of our own labors without any cunning and artificial concentration of it in the shape cf so called capital which together all with its billions can not make one brick with this program and for the benefit of legitimate produce ri ns of well being I 1 now lay down the following as accepted data iu in advanced farming of the future the first and main problem to be solved we consider to b bt where to is the limit fur how much crop farming land can produce in paying quantity or how much improvement or enrichment can be remunerative to apply on the mot 1 when that problem is solved we are sanguine that the approximate ten acre farm will be bout about the si size ze of the ideal and future farm especially in our mountain regions region where farming land is limited irrigation necessary the mountain streams also limited and costly and only to be economized within proportion to deep and good cultivation and therewith connected arrest of evaporation and underground evenness of temperature we therefore most respectfully suggest to our agricultural colleges and experimental stations to weigh and conclude if it would not be profitable within five years bearis it if possible to solve these main questions for we the special benefit of our western slop a to what extent will it be remunerative to increase the productiveness of the soil and ask for instance 6 how deep plowing or underground grou ad loosening 0 how much and of what kinds 0 of f physical and chemical enrichments enrich ments 1 cl how to execute both under underground gromad and suir surface face cultivation in connection with drill cul culture tute for the he highest re a ulu suite s what kind of cereals roots roote and abd fodder plants are best beat adapted accord ing to locality and to in toto what to la the highest productiveness attainable at profitable expenditures thereon by going farther into details there are many more qu questions estima closely connected with the main question and with which your renowned college la Is well acquainted therefore these thene may suffice for the present wry respectfully 0 A M GUNNISON january 1893 |