Show HEREIN IS WISE COUNSEL I 1 learn by reading in your paper the report of the late bait lake e stake conference held in your city that it is ia proposed and advised that many of the unemployed now in the city go 90 to the he country and engage in cultivating the soil those who cannot find other employment in which they are more experienced perien ced another writer appears fearful thin advice may result in ia filling fil linic the country with tramps in search of places and work unless some means are em cm aloyed to inform them whore where tin ali work can be had before they leave home cometo to commence com menow the he search for it this may be a very timely and proper consideration lu in aid of the object in view but when this matter te is carefully considered I 1 think there are very few comparatively speaking who need to leave their homes at all if now comfortably located for instance there are hundreds of acres of land within easy access of the people of ball lake city which actually need to be put under cultivation for the good of the farming community and country adjoining this thin land to Is lying idle worse than idle Is in producing heavy crops of noxious weeds white clover and mustard which le la not only a shame and disgrace toa to a farming community but seriously injuring adjoining fields which are being cultivated with grain or other crops but which are nearly ruined and rendered unprofitable because of the he extra work required to separate the wheat from the tares or the crop proper from thorild the wild weeds among it now it if the owners of this unused and would give the use of it to those needy persons who would cultivate it a others are doing in the large cities and many parts of the she country it would furnish employment for many of the idle and the poor others are doing more than khan this they are furnishing seed need free with land so BO that there may be no nn excuse on the part of the needy the cities allies of detroit new york and other places which are overtaxed with we the poor are extending their charities to in this way vacant lots and waste ground to in and near cities are converts oon vertel I 1 into miniature farms for the po poor orand and the result has been highly satisfactory it is estimated with them that one third of an acre of good ground will deppo support a family of five persons with a good living jiving and that to is the amount dealt out to each family with potatoes and seed furnished free each man to cultivate the ground allotted to him and have the produce fir his hie family another advantage of this policy is that many who engage will acquire a taste for farming and become self sit supporting whenever and wherever they way may have access to the elements for that purpose the people people and owners of land in and near the city could furnish abundance of land now unused within the reach of many who have their homes in the city and lack only the means of subsistence si stence to be comfortable where they now are but says one this class of persons have no team tam with which plow and prepare the ground for cultivation it they have not there here are plenty of farmers near the land they would use UBO who would be glad to do it for them or furnish the team and implements with which to do it themselves for the benefit and protection it would be to 0 o their field adjoining for instance there la Is a five acre field excellent soil with rood good water privileges prepared for the seed aud and the seed furnished that field well cultivated will farnish labor for five ave meu men who have Gm guilles illes and can produce all the vegetables and ordinary products five ordinary families require for the he year possible says one yes quite pos acklis that acre of ground under ordinary cultivation with hone and plough may produce from live five to six hundred bushels of potatoes but the party working it has ban no horse and plough consequently cultivates with the hoe boo and hand hadd requires only one half the land for the same name amount of crop produced his twenty five bushels of potatoes which his bis family needs as ordinarily raised require but a small patch of ground round and when only about halt half of taut usual amount is required when the hoe boo is in used and all toe the ground made the most of it amu amounts ants to a very small piece and in like proportion with most other crops produced when this early crop of potatoes is in matured there is plenty of time tor for toome some other profitable crop to follow it again how bow few the days required under proper culture for those early pose peas to toj be sufficiently matured fur for the table luscious Juao ious and healthful health tul for those dear children who gather around the he board with eyes laua laughing blag with joy as they feast upon the fruits of father d toil oil then tots tale early crop of pose peas is followed in succession with other varieties of later growth and the table is not only sup plied buring the entire season but quantities are gathered and canned for or winter use so go with ot classes of vegetables the string bean is had for use both early and late in the season beatis 0 onions carrots oar roti parealee parsnips par pare snips alpe cabbage celery and every variety of garden produce are on the list all furnished by thoroughly cultivating that one acre of land which is three times the amount allowed in some cities and pronounced sufficient for one family rals fain acre of land can not only be made to furnish what the family require for their table use but enough to procure their sugar suar and groceries and all this the possibility of one bare acre of land as actual experience teaches may be done it if this now idle land could be secured for use two or tares years the occupant would probably be setting out early the rhubarb horseradish horse radish and such things as am in a little time would bring desirable returns without much other investment than the mans individual labor and that to him only a pleasure not a dreaded task should the person be so fortunate foit as to have a cow in his yard what an amount of food could be raised tor for her by sowing a few short rows thick with corn and those rows so close together as to make the stalks stalk small and spind ling producing when out cut and properly cured the chol choicest feed known for producing milk so necessary to the comfort ot of the family and health to the little JULIS ones ODON and if this efficient cultivator should rates raise vegetables enough to spare ana exchange with some moms neighbor who did not raise them for his bis needed breadstuff be would be surprised at what the labor of his badde applied to natures nature storehouse of production had done to supply his bis wanti and make a whole family happy laughing with defiance at the very thought of honiter and want it if the hundreds of acres in the neighborhood of salt dalt lake city were thus improved but few people would need to be tramping about theroun theo the oun try for labor labar to procure something dom ethino for far their families to eat and if this could be said of this city how bow much more of almost every town and settler settlement aeng throughout these mountain wales valea which are surrounded rounded Bur with vacant lands land only awaiting the touch of industry to make them yield their bur denof den of wealth la Ita it should bould be a shame and reproach for any one to 0 o have oc occasion omelon to be crying tau hunger uger and starvation in a community like tola this situated as aa it Is ia with every means meana IL al command necessary to satisfy the ma aerial wants of all if properly used liet let every needy man have what he can use to advantage of mother earth if he be has boys boya or others irk in his hie family who are able and need healthy exercise for the development develop meat of muscle and sinew there ia a none other so ao conducive to that end as the free and generous fertilizing of thu the earth by mixing the soil with air and water and thereby making it ig pro deolive almost beyond any conception wp we have of its ita powers to provide for the animal life that la Is upon it it if one acre Is not net sufficient to employ the help at nil his command increase loore aae the amount but never sow ROW bob as aa to en courage any iDelina don to do lew 1684 than all hadj can be done for its successful culture this kind of development for man far that of the gymnasium by which the human frame may be distorted and injured in various waye the writer of this has grown and harvested harve eted more than ninety bush bushels per acre of grain without any extraordinary effort at cultivation when it might just as well have boon been made to exceed one hundred bushels now suppose one acre is proper ly iv cultivated to barley and pro duon dubea that amount what a great number of famille families 0 could be supplied Bupp liedwith with a mild t ble drink the year round when nicely prepared and cmaj for that bat purpose ae as suggested by the he word of wisdom and ad tor for which it Is wonderfully adapted without tag tae process of brewing and adulterating to go ibe injury of the user and then after it bad served its use fur for the family health and comfort it could be as aa ilea baa been puo liely suggested used to advantage by the egg producers of she he poultry yard lot liet this whole question que atlon have the at of some experienced persons person and many of our city laboring men man way may be farni famished shed with ample eunity to make a comfortable living tor for themselves and families without leaving their homes bome only to go to their labor in the morning to return with gladsome hearts in the evet evening king even lor for quite a distance out kojm mutation tickets could be arranged for 1 if not freely given by the car compa bles that would be no serious detriment to the laborer in going to and from hla his work yes lot let these fields in and around this city which are now a disgrace to tue tae agricultural thrift that should be found prevailing everywhere aud aua are in an abomination to the vision of every eye that admires the beautiful be brought into a commoD commendable dable degree of cultivation lot liet every rod of the bun brods of lots in and about the elty cites s center be made productive and an adornment to the occupant instead of as now DOW the dumping ground of wrecks wreaks rubbish and garbage breeding disease and being disgusting to every pao beholder let tue the ambition of each and all be to 90 make our homes and lands it if tot ot an aa the be garden of the lord at least as ae the eden of the earth and begin to bring back soine of that beauty and luxuriant excellence to the earth with which it was wa adorned when man received it from and was wae made lord over it by the kid gift and decree of its if creator who is ia lord of lords R |