| Show A BRILLIAN I 1 RECORD A NEWS correspondent wh me ee letter appears appear in another column ot of this issues tells tella what we believe to be the champion grain of the country we doubt it anything batter can be heard beard anywhere A farmer who b ha a field of acres in grains grain bee baa harvested Lus bushels bels an average of about 43 bushels debele to the acre 0 there are hundreds of farmerr farm tre lu in utah who have had a larger yield rum a single dingle acre or a larger average imm from a email field but it if auy any of them have ever reacted such a fig ure on so large a tract as aa acres it has bets not been made generally in ID the absence of prior information therefore we move that the willow creek larm farm Sant itte couii ty be placed at the be head bead of we the list liet and the name of ka ila lal owner be plated farat in his bis class such results KB ilis theme are ot of particular value anu and interest in the me discussion ol of the surjeet of irrigation tor for it Is is through toil system alone that they ibey are moue pite sible in the cast case in polut point it la is only a aboa time since the now fruitful hold field was barren and no doubt forbidding almost all the teeming barme faro nand and gardt gardens neof of utah preset ted the same aspect in the beginning no one looking for a good thing Y woula have selected theme valleys as aa the home of an agricultural community if they had bad been judged by the appearance appear anee they first presented but water waier has baa wrought a transform transformation tion so 0 o woude wonderful wonder rul ul as ai to cause band and ant people to doubt whether alter after all al the be original desert was as aa arid and and un favor sible BB as has been stated some ot of them find and it difficult to belleve believe even when they see bee still vat val love leva and benches ben and are thus supplied with a at caple ot of what tile the w whole bole once was wae that the changes wrought have not been exaggerated and that the better beter lons were really as aa uninviting when nral first entered upon as B history describes chelin the results quoted by our correr corree ought to lend a great stimulus to the reservoir quest question loin and win favor for or every resso table project for evring nud increasing the water waier cupo aup i ly unless water shall be more care fudy usein aae it bull ha 11 be reserved in the months moutte of plenty for the mouth boath of scarcity unless the amount shall ahall be increased by additional rainfall or by the sources of natural supply the barmine lands landa of utah cannot be very greatly extended and those portions now classed as arid will have to remain so BO but the foregoing hypothesis is ia not correct anywhere there is much more water used in irrigation than is requisite or profil to the crops themselves there is ie every opportunity for constructing reservoirs in which to retain the surplus water until the advancing season makes its use uee necessary and if there is no reliable artificial means of increasing the rainfall there are various ways such as tree round ablat abi ut the sources of supply and developing these sources in which we quantity of water coming down into the valleys valleye for irrigation can be much increased all these are matters that are of the utmost importance and are deserving of the best befit thought and energy of the people |
