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Show IN SEVIER COUNTY., 3L ' I The writer has just returned from jfa trip to Sevier county where he went to inspect the State Experimental J farms located some twenty miles southeast of Richfield. This farm is at jvn elevation of some seven thousand feet. At the time of the visit the wheat hod not yet matured, but there was sufficient moisture in the ground! to insure its perfect development. de-velopment. A number of the plants gave promise of yielding at least 18 bushels per acre. It would be a splendid thing if the farmers of Sevier Se-vier county could be brought to realize real-ize that to. yield of this kind is equivalent equiva-lent to 45 to 50 bushels of wheat on irrigated land. Especially gratifying, 1 , T4l , 'however, on this farm was the condition con-dition of the grasses. Of these tcfts Bromus Incrmis gives the best promise. prom-ise. The grass seeded under the i writer's direction there five years ago, stands knee high, covers the ground . well, and Mr. Fairbanks, the foreman fore-man in charge reports that this grass ; is most desired of Ml by live stock. The form is kept in a splendid condition con-dition by Mr. J. W. Fairbanks, the cfTfcicnt foreman, amd the results already al-ready secured- show beyond any question ques-tion of doubt that the desert lands of Sevier and Wayne counties will be untimatcly reclaimed. 11 |
