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Show o . A COMPARISON AND A THOUGHT ON APPRECIATION. AP-PRECIATION. A'comparison of conditions existing i here in Utah with those that confront ! . our Eastern and Southern neighbor would give rise to the thought, "arc ' we as fully appreciative of our blessed, virgin Wcstws we should be." j! We, here, arc confronted with few f of the things that make the life of the I Eastern and Southern farmer any thing but a continual dream of bliss. Our soil is virgin. Its store of plant food is as yet comparatively untouched. untouch-ed. No plundering, robbing generations genera-tions have gone before us "and ro"bbcd I Mother Earth of her store of working I . things out of which she makes crops. j We arc the first few generations to draw from our wise Mother's store of wealth. Our Eastern and our South- cm neighbor occupy soil that has been occupied and' plundered for a couple of hundred years now and the present occupants now attempt to appease ap-pease the outraged soil with yearly offerings of . commercial fertilizer. Their yearly bill for fertilizer is as sure as their taxes. Nor is our superiority over them ( confined to an advantage in the constituents, con-stituents, in the soil that go to make plant food. We arc seldom visited with any of the parasitical diseases tliat, with irregular regularity, sweep away the entire crcp of our neighbor. We have been visited with rust only once in the last half score of ycar3. Those of us who produce vegetables grow them with comparatively little fear of the parasites that make the vegetable season elsewhere a succession succes-sion of trips up and down the row wit!' a spraying tapparatuc. i. outh is as unknown to us as leprosy. lep-rosy. Utah and Utah's neighbors' Systems of irrigations, their miles upon up-on miles of canals, have made the drouth spectre a thing of dead history, his-tory, a thing we arc trying to forget as we try to forget all things that urc dead. There is so much around about us that is cheerful and suggestive of sunshine that we have no time to nvedttate on things that arc dead and black and that stand for gloom. These arc only a few of the things we should be grateful fqr. We could mention scores of others, but deem it unnecessary. We say things wc should be grateful for; wc monn be grateful for in the proper way. Shal-. low thanks for blessings do not go far in proving to the Giver that you arc truly grateful. There arc better ways. Show your gratitude iby making mak-ing Kin intelligent use of the good things placed at your disposal. Do not abuse Mother Earth. When she makes for you monster crops of good things, show your appreciation by paying back to her working material ma-terial from which she can replenish the store you have removed. That is true appreciation, the only real kind. |