| Show ADVICE TO FARMERS grand county utah january ORB roq aa suggest g a R plan to wake up jb ahe 0 su k 1 rin era of our we bave ft great gloat many that do everything every thing in the farming line as an did their fathers before them there la Is not one in ten who reads reada an agrical ural paper farming is a science sol erce if man does not dot keep up with the times he IN not able to compete with a man who to ie to date dat I 1 very olten often find bad an article that hat la is worth the price ot of the pa or er for a year we need a good agricultural cultural paper in our state when we go to colorado and see eee some of the large well kept 0 I 1 can not help thinking ot of some of the orchards I 1 have seen in utah of course a reat real many of those in western colorado are men of considerable wealth but a man of small email means should not undertake m re than h can do and do it well that was what my father used to say gay to his bis boys 11 I 1 you plow your ground plow it well and when the soil la Is to la the right con coin altion that puts me in mind of a circumstance which happened something over thirty years ago A man was wae employed emp loyad to plow a piece of ground for a blacksmith in fullmore Fl Ilmore A ter the plowing was done there was wag a dispute about the price an ag the ibe man had oot not done as aa good plowing as ag the black smith thought that he should have dones dune 8 they called on my father tosy what it was wag worth when he had bad seen it he be said well I 1 would want a 8 man maim to pay me to do such plowing as ag that in ray my field goldyl we have a great many who think it if they get the be seed in the ground that to ie all that Is as aa tar far ac planting la Is concerned I 1 know of a mao man in our p vaca aca woo last summer rummer laid off his big ground in a young orchard dropped corn and then turned a furrow on it and the rest of the orchard WRO wae oot not plowed all summer gummer what W was the result there was wag some gome yellow auckly looking corn which could not dot get its ita head above the weeds the trees in that yung orchard are three thre years jeara old ana are earlier than some gome of 01 my nursery trees I 1 have one year from the bud it to la cheaper to grow fi ty bushels of wheat on an acre of ground thau than to grow the same abou amou ul on two it if a man has more land thau be can cultivate and cultivate rood he hal bet ter sell part of it then be would not nave so much taxes to pay it token one acre of lucern to keep up an acre of land cropped with grain and other produce never sell bell any more lay than you are obliged to fe food fed d it and return it to your land yuu you people in the old fettle mente ments who have those old orchards hat bat have not been cultivated piew them good anti and spread ibe ground over well with manure and prune them well oi 01 course if your orchard la Is infested with insects and worms you should fight them you will be surprised to see eee the results in a cultivated orchard compared to one that Is left to take care of itself I 1 have seen parties digging up old trees and putting out young trees mind and the reason given was waa that chat they did not yield and some were not as good at ae they bey wanted 1 I suppose the tree agent bad showed them his fine pictures of fruit fait now the way to replace a tree that to la old to is to cut off the limbs and graft in such fruit as you want if the tree la Is large I 1 w uld oot dot graft it all in one nir graft about half it if all Is cut on off at one time it is causes too many suckers to spread out put two grafts in each limb you wish to graft and when they are out of danger of breaking off eft out cut off what to Is nut not needed I 1 have cut trees close to the ground but had bad a great deal of trouble with sp route I 1 have also seen old trees jug up which if tb y bad beben on my place I 1 would have eldered them worth 26 25 if I 1 bad to graft to get such fruits as I 1 wanted you can take an old tree and in three years have stood rood top and plenty af fruit in reading over the agricultural re ports of 1895 1 see wat that statistics give the number of the be agricultural people at furty two per cent and acres tj ti the family of six the value the number of acres 4 our exports of produce uce is total exports so the farmers had produced about seventy six ter er cent of all of the exports after feeding the other efty eight per cent ot of the people now any one would think that the farmer should got get rich but oo no why because he lets the others othero do his bust noes ness for hi him in tte the producer does not receive what the consumer pays by 25 to io per cent there are too many men who are con pro lucere who live on the labors of the be producers mind and the only way to make eucla men labor and earn their broad bread by the sweat of their brow is in for the producers to cooperate aud do their own business the pro ducer should he be the dictator instead of being dictated to we flud find the merchant who will tell the farmer you can have so much for what you produce and you have got to pay we me so and so tor for what you want isad aud have oot not got there would be as muen jus tice in the he farmer going t tj a store and here is ten bushels of wheat I 1 want ten dollars worth of goods good and I 1 will give yi yiu u so and so eo for what I 1 want the way to got get at the value of pro ducie would be tor the farmers to keep it a strict account ot of all labor performed and take the value or of farm RDA st at ok and machinery allow lessof able wages and interest on form farm and machinery and the wear veer on machinery and stuck then tell the non noo producer it yu you want to eat of my labor you pay Ms me what it costs coats to produce it if all the farmers would do hat how long conid we the non producer bou bolt ou ouia not no four hours bourn there has been some alc sickness knote here this winter there have been several oases cases of typhoid fever and several of pneumonia I 1 have been very sick had bilious lever ever have not been out of doors for four week am getting along all right we have bad a fine winter so far for stock but not dot very good for the farmer as there is but little in the mountains there to is considerable talk of late about the coor cooper mines south of lis lia sal gal parties are still going to the blue mountains parties who want to get good homes in one of the best climates in the state now is the time before they are out oat of the reach of the average people 0 W |
