Show NOT DOINO BEST the agriculturists and of utah have been receiving great credit for the work they have been doing and the system they have followed which ban baa brought them such success in the development athis western country these abe words worda ot commendation are de eer erred vedin in very many instances yet it cannot be said bald that the banners and stock growers and perhaps others a as wells have been doing their best beat under toe the outlined for them they have had bad the advantage of cooperative experience and a highly important factor actor in kneir success has been the practical teaching of the leading ru au mori tle tiet of the be church who noting acting an improvement in one section or an advantage that appeared in one mans manis man is methods method have carried the suggestion of advancement to other parts and have given it public explanation so that their work in this regard has baa been that of closely teachers tea who have disseminated knowledge freely and bounteously yet in all respects reB the people have not applied these valuable instructions to their full extent and therefore have not reaped from mother earth the richness they might have obtained an illustration ot of this point chy be made by oun with the work of aeme people elsewhere A tow few days daye ago there were sold gold in chicago a fine lot of lambs lamb led at the minnesota university uni venity experimental farm the price paid was a little mo reban per perneal pe nead taybe lambs lambe were created the southern part of the state and wore were purchased for experiment by the state farm when led fed up they chiy were sold old in chicago at six biz cents per pound live weights weight the high set eat price paid la in that market this win ter tar up to date of sale they were a magnificent lot of lambs lambe averaging pounds in they were not yet one year old when disposed of these weights are not very far behind those obtained for two year dethero reared on the range the experiment was very profitable in its results which suggett the thought that if the experiment station could produce pound lambs lamba under a year old other people can do as well the lesson leenon of improve ment could also be carried to other ant animals than adeep there has been much discussion of intense farmin farming gyP of late and abere here to ie no question quee tion that it would show as much advance over many present conditions as aa did the intense idea when applied in the instance quoted there are some agriculturists here who follow the idea with almost marvelous marvelo oa results it was a case of that kind which won for utah the flroa prize in wheat growing over all the country when william gibby elbby of farmers ward on hla his farm a mile south of salt lake city took the american agriculturist prize of for the highest yield to one acre it la is the same with regard to a utah county farm of forty sores acres where scarce a weed is to be seen so ao aare carefully fully la 18 it tended and where all available land is cropped to it its full extent bountiful davis county also affords illustrations illustration a of the same class olaaf among the well to do market gardners gardeners gard ners there sad and so do other places that might be named where small areas and high cultivation bring better returns than large tracei loosely tended the instances of good work cited give ample proof that in filling a long way behind the returns noted in these many utah people are not doing i their best by any me means no and they are proceeding thus to their own loss lose the agitation of these questions question gig is timely and taken in connection with the need for immediate irrigation organization among the people to preserve their water rights intact the work in the rural district i should be for an advance long along the whole line ot of agricultural industry that in the future it may be said of us what cau cannot be claimed for the past or present that hat we are doing the beat we can alt with the be means at our comi |