Show government MAKING I 1 experiments TO RECLAIM SWAMP LANDS IN SEVIER walte W IvI mclaughlin cLaughlin an tin engineer who has been stationed at the utah experiment station at logan for beveral years says although utah la Is considered one of the states in abich agriculture must be fostered by means of Ir irrigation lon r nevertheless the federal government is doing considerable work tn in reclaiming swamp lands in the state working of course in conjunction with ith the state authorities 9 I 1 in sevier bunty at present an experiment is being tried that is meeting with success clay tile drains can not be secured much nearer than salt lake the comparatively ively small number of tiding needed and the freight rates confronts the people there with i th a problem the problem is being solved by the use of cement in tle tte making i ig of tile in sevier county cement hag has taken the place of clay inasmuch as wet lands are not I 1 1 I camj nearly so commons UA lin in utah as the dry we are not attempting to drain lands that cannot be reclaimed in at least two sc esons wc WE at are d simply demonstrating what can be done along this jp ii alcasta alc asea where the government 46 fw vaydel work the government furi 01 niches the material and surveys UM 4 work and the farmers furnish the labor I 1 mclaughlin had a 9 good word to say about the fruit growers of utah he lie says the fraumen e paying particular attention to ta the business bu sinew he cited an example to show the pot abilities joone one farmer in the cache valley owns a two aero acm orchard which until two years ago we wee a gnass oi weeds he was induced indu d fo to cut down the weeds and spragge the trees this year the two acree acres brought in thirteen hun hundred hunared dred dollars and the buyer harvested the crop at his own expense |