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Show e PRESIDENT THOS. JUDD. President Judd, of the State Board of Horticulture has just returned from a trip abroad' and speaks most interestingly inter-estingly of his observations while away" He was particularly interested in the intensive system of cultivation followed on the farms of the old world. Mtany of these lands have been cultivated for u thousand years or more and the farmers find it necessary neces-sary to pay just as much attention to the manure that goes on to the land s to the crops that arc taken away. The manure is carefully piled, kept . moist and precautions taken to sec that every- particle is returned to the soil. In the fields no weeds arc found and every piece of ground is kept under cultivation. He was especially pleased with the sugar-beet fields of Germany where the fields arc all kept in a high state of cultivation, and where the average fields arc -as good as the bast fields in Utah. England leads the world, in the production of strawberries and gooseberries, and Mr. JudU was -as-toulshcd at the quantity as well as the quality of these products produced on the farms of England. When it comes to fruit President Judd says that neither in si7,c, flavor or quality did he find anything to compare with our western grown product. In the farming districts of Germany, France, Holland and Belgium, M.r. Judd did not find any animals on pasture. The forage is cut and hauled to the barns where the animrals arc fed, this being another evidence of the intensive system sys-tem of farming followed. In England a greater effort than ever before is being made to supply her large alios with milk. Mr. Judd saw a long train of- cars loaded with milk each morning, morn-ing, making its way into the cities of the mother country. Mr. Judd is glad! to be home again and is already busy preparing for the exhibit at the Irrigation Congress in New Mexico. |