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Show 'j EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE. CORRESPOND-ENCE. Last week thc Farmers' Institute train made a tour of the! Sanpete and Sevier valleys, and during' the present pres-ent week the work is being finished with a trip at Price and Green River Through Sanpete and Sevier counties, coun-ties, the train was at each place met by a large audience, and the farmers showed a good interest at each one of the points visited. The train stopped stop-ped at Fairvicw, Mt. .Pleasant, Eph-raim, Eph-raim, Manti, and Gunnison in Sanpete San-pete County and at Salina, Ritch-ficld Ritch-ficld and Elsinorc in Sevier County. The work was confined very largely to instruction in Horticulture, Domestic Do-mestic Science and Dairying. There .has probably never been a time in the history of the state when 'so many people have become interested in Farmers' Institute work, and the good that has ibeen accomplished is beyond estimate. Certain it is that there will be a great .awakening in these particular lines of endeavor, and we have no doubt that the orchards orch-ards will be better cared for; hundreds hun-dreds of new orchards will be planted, plant-ed, and there will be a splendid improvement im-provement in the dairy herds, and in the farm homes in the counties already al-ready visited. Especially along the lines of dairying has there been considerable con-siderable interest manifest 'The at-' at-' tcntion of the farmers has been called call-ed to the fact tliat the 79,000 dairy cows in Utah, producing 115 pounds of butter, fat, could by proper selection, select-ion, care and management be easily made to double or trebblc their pro-ductivc pro-ductivc power. The slogan in Utah should be' "Not more cows, but better bet-ter cows.". Under present methods of management, it is certain that enough cows arc already on Utah farms, but there must be a dcter-. dcter-. mined effort to get better types and breeds of dairy cows. The Institute workers also took n decided stand in favor of the co-operative creameries as opposed to tin. centralized system. It is pointed out at these Institutes that as a result of investigation made by the Department Depart-ment of Agriculture, it js certain that the co-operative creamery yields the largest returns to the farmer for his butter fat, the individual or combination com-bination creamery usually located in close competition with the co-operative creamery pay very nearly as much, the wcntralizcits where they have gained monopoly, pay as little as the farmers will accept. Reports for July 1907 show that in . Kansas and Nebraska, where the monopoly seems to be complete, the farmers receive only 17 cents to 18 cents per pound for their butter fat, while in northern Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin Wiscon-sin an Illinois, where the co-operative creameries have the field, the prices were from 25 to 26 cents. The Institute workers have called ! attention to the fact that very often the ccntralizcrs raise the price to a point that makes it impossible for the local creamery to operate, and thus force them out of business. Competition being thus destroyed and the monopoly secured, the prices paid to the farmers arc invariably lowered. lower-ed. This ability on the part of the ccntralizcrs to destroy competition without inflicting injury to themselves them-selves has been used effectively in many localities. It was pointed out that the tendency of the centralized J system is bad for both the farmers and the public. The small local co- operative creameries were cncourag-1 d by the Institute workers. An cf-J fort was made to "assist the creamery to avoid losses due to low over-run loose methods, etc., and they were also encouraged to improve the quality qual-ity of their product. The efforts of the Institute workers in this direction direct-ion were particularly emphasized in those localities where a creamery 'is already in existence. Where there is no creamery the farmers were encouraged en-couraged to produce milk, and in those cases the centralized system was not depreciated. Sanpete and Sevier valleys are two of the Ibcst agricultural valleys in the state, and a great deal of money has been made in the live-stock business. It is apparent however to the nios: casual observer that the greatest success suc-cess of the farmer in this region will eventually conic from following the dairy business. At some of the places visited some good dairy cows were found, but the very great majority ma-jority of cows in these localities could be very greatly improved. A careful selection and with more care repaid to the sheltering and feeding Jiof the dairy cows, could not fail to f be of great benefit to the dairy in-ITjlorebts in-ITjlorebts of that locality. |