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Show UTAJI, MARCH 11, 1IU. PAG to Marvelous Growth Is Shown In Annual Report of Bell Telephone Farms. In addition to the farm at Nephi exjierimcnt The lowest yiolder was market priee 'he results on seven other dry farns station has just published as station "ith an average of 32 bushels, At the end of the year the number Iwhieh have been operated to tost (be l bulletin 375, a rejKirt of sixteen ies of various sections are of telephone stations constituting the years Two Crops in Three Years. The farms Bell system in the United Slates was reported in the bulletin. of dry-farexperiments in Utah. in San .Tuan, Sevier, Tooele, and 12,601, 935 of w!.,, h 8,533,1179 were The authors state that two eros Who of the in three years has proven to be the Washington counties have been aban- owned by associated companies the Bell The increase in demondoned. San Juan system. The fnrm .most profitable drv-fan, praetice at 0, number of stations in the Bell 6 8tat,0n ,uu A. F. Braeken and total verv s' the rated that conclusively In ijft.phi. experiments extending over I. J. Jensen, assistant agronomists, was well adapted In dry fann- system during 1920 amounted to 800, period of sixteen years the two area The daily average of exchange who have done considerable work on crops in three years practice has ing and while crops were secured on Gxs. 'and toll connections during llJ2d was Tooele Sevier and the the farms 'given a net return per year per acre the experiments. an increase ot 2, 700, 000 most cases in 33,lti2,U00, indicated that yield j of $9.83; the alternate cropping sysover the so,,io"R daily o very promising uvciage during 1919. Investigations at Nepl. torn second with a net return i1"' There weie 231,310 employees in the The for Washington The Tho major portion of the bulletin in the Associated Bell companies at the close authors state that tho alternate sv.s-1- countv fnrm was used largely The wire mileage total-,cseed strains of devoted to a discussion of somc't,im and .l the year. of pure production ig in the long ruu onsid,.;ed of which 95.1 per cent vi as under 25,377,404, later brought irrigation of the results of tho seven major muoh safer, however. The percentage of which time was abandoned. a tutu copper. projects under investigation at Nephi wire in underground cable, The farms now in operation are with including cropping systems at Nephi, Cedar' City, Knnb. and exclusive of submarine cable, was in the Widtsoe, Garfield county. winter wheat; rotations with winter' Extensive tests reported The lnt-- t til. 8. The underground plant, includ- show r three are being operated to test iug cables and couduits, represented a wheat, winter barlev, spring onfc, ,'ulle.tin plowing immediately followed by nar- - the adaptability of these sections to tost of $307,800, Odd. The net adxarietal peas, potatoes, and corn, with one weeding and another r faming, the latter two of which ditions to the Bell owned plant durtests of winter and spring wheats, harrowing just before fall seeding have already shown themselves to be ing the year was $147,882,100, an oats, barleys, spelt, and emmer, and bn s proved to be tho most economical v cry promising sections though the increase of $74,430,00 over the addiof peas, beans, corn and potatoes; ,m'thol of Preparing the seedbed work has not progressed far enough tions made during 1919. for sowing under the alternate svs- - f r definite conclusions. fertility tests with barnvard and Jtem of Discing dry farm cropping. Surplus Earnings Bell System. green manure; breeding work with,,aI1(1 tho fflll immediately after I'OW TIIB WORLD WAR winter wheats, winter barley and oats harvesting was not profitable. The For the whole Boll svstem, with HELPED THE UNITED STATES best depth to plow according to the and a forage crop test. It he duplications excluued, the total : uthors appears to be between 5 and seven per gross income for the year was covers States United The Alfalfa Most Promising. 0 inches. Spring cultivation of rent of the worlds and area and from which over $37,000,000 was done at a loss. wheat winter The tests on forage crops as reportsix per cent of the worlds popula- was paid in interest, rent and niis-- ! wheat yielded best when sown from income, cellnneouH reductions ed in the bulletin included alfalfa, Winter It produces: tion. rate of about six peeks to t the of the worlds and nppioxinuitqly $40,000,000 in diviTwenty-fousweet clover, corn, peas, vetch, brome percent .he acre. The surplus earnings for the dends. wheat. grass, tall meadow oat grass, Sudnn-grasand millet, grain sorghums Sixty per cent of the worlds cot year were $7,785,480. Best Yielding Varieties. ten. The capital stock, bonds, and notes Though some success was had j rape. with most of these crops, alfalfa has Seventy-fivWinter wheat, according to the tabper cent of the worlds payable of the Boll system outstnnd proven to be the most profitable, crop ulations in the bulletin, has proven corn. . ing in the hands of the public, at the the close of the year 1920 were of for forage under most conditions. to be by far the most important Twenty seven per cent In experiments which have been conworld's cattle. while the book cost Crimean, Tuikey, $1,107,417,023, crop. ducted yearly sine0 1905, the average varieties of and Bulgarian Forty jier cent of the world P of the net assets devoted 1o i innings sea return on these outstanding yield of alfalfa per year has been winter wheat have given the best hogs. Twenty five ;or cent of the worlds curities amounted to over $1,551,000.-000- , approximately one ton to the aero, average yields over a long period of to 21.5 dairy produce. while individual years have run as time, ranging from 26.7 Actual appraisals of the teleSweet bushels per acre. Foity per cent of the worlds phone plant in the Bell system made high as a ton and a half. and clover, tall meadow Spring wheats have proven to be iron and steel. regulatory bodies for world s by brome-grashave given fair yields but useful sometimos where winter wheat Sixty per cent of the .purposes show that the true vulue of nro oppn to serious objections. a satisfactory copper. hns failed to give Bell system priqawty greatly exceeds Fifty-twThe best yielding varieties per emit of tho worlds this book cost. stand. r Bushels per Acre. Seventy-fonof common spring wheats have been coal. Twenty per emit of the worlds! Dividend Rate Eight Per Cent. The different varieties of potatoes, club, satmtir, early baart, ghirk-- i and as shown by extensive tables in the koola with yields ranging from 13.4 gold. Eighty-fivFor the American Telephone and The per cent of the worlds bulletin, were found to vary very down to 10. bushels per acre. .Telegraph company the net earnings much in their adaptability to dry- best yielding durum spring varieties nutomobiics. In 1914 was debtor to extent of of the year, after payment of inter-- , lent s have been kubanka, adjini, Molintn the conditions. -- In farm billions. est and fixed charges but five don. before velvet Ben and nod lods an with Bachir, average thoroughbred The United States is now ereditor 'div blends, were $51,821,215.06. DiviBariev ranks next to wheat in yield of 74 bushels while individual ton over extent billions. to of the the usual of dends on tho rate $8.00 bushels. at of as llfi experimental as per run grain vears yield high btuh agrieultiind Th(' shares each; 8,741 held from 100 shares each; 274 held from 1,000 to 5,00 shares each; and 13 held 5,000 sharea or more each( omitting brokers, holders in investments Of the holders of less trust, etc.). than 100 sharea each, 109,080 held 25 sharea or lesa each, and 52,055 The held 5 shares or less each. average number of shares held was .12. There are more women shu reThese sharehold' holders than lueu. ers reside in all parts oi the country, and their investments has been applied to the buildiug and extension of telephone plants in every section of the United States. 100 Bulgarian and Turkestan varieties have shown great j promise. Oats and spring barleys have not yet yielded satisfaetorvily ion the experimental farms. . .winter Dry Farming Highly Successful In Utah pos-dbil- I ' n - ca-n- i Bell-owne- j I r e dry-far- a i ; ' oat-gras- rate-fixin- s A - rxxxxx XXX0000 CKCK0 share per year amounted to $35,376,-792.88- . Of the reaultiug balance, $8,000,000 was appropriated to reserve for contingencies, and $8,444,422.78 was carried to the surplus account. Tiie earnings of the American Telephone and Tolograph company for 1920 include, in addition to the earnlines, diviings of the dends on the company's investment in stocks of its associated companies, interest on bonds and notes of and advances to associated companies, interest and dividends from investments in other companies, earnings under with the general service contracts associated and other companies for the furnishings of instruments and services and other miscellaneous rev- 1,000 long-distanc- e enues. O . . . i. ii 3 Duo to tho delay in tho granting of 1 increases several of the companies earned their dividends only in part, and at the end of the year sumo application for increased rates icro still pending (New York City is a notable case), but with the adjustments fully in effoct in the ma-- ! j, rity of cases the rate of earned return on the companies investment whole is substantially better (xs a than tho average rate of the year. The company and ns predecesors have paid dividends to the public lit the rate of at least $7.50 per share for tho past 39 years, and during the mist 14 years tho rate has been uniformly $8.00 per share. The numobr of shareholders in the American Telephone and Telegraph compnny on December 31, 1920, was 139,448, nn increase of 18,988 during To this number should he year. be added some 20,000 employees of the Bell system, who are paying for stock at the rate of a few dollars month. 23,000 Aproximntely per other employees are already stockholders of record. rate ROAD BUILDING REACHES HIGH MARK IN 1920 FEDERAL-AI- construction of the canal is regarded tho world over as a achievement in respect to the dispatch with which it was curThe cost, however, was ried out. a only $373,u00,000, and period was required to complete u, the average rate of expenditure being only $37,000,000 a year. the magnitude of the Comparing federal-aiprogram with the entire the United highway program of of federal States, the significance aid is readily soen. Federal money allotted to projects actually under construction at the end of the fiscal year 1920, namely, $103,925,094, was only slightly less than tho total ex pendituro of $106,861,053 front stale funds for highway construction during the calendar year 1919. In spite of untoward economic conditions, business handlof federal-aied, as represented in 1920 by the number of projects, was approximnt ely 25 per cent greater during year than all previous vvi it; dono under the net since 1916. Tho record-breakin- Then Began, Privnte Squib anyway T Private Squab Whats Id itrT NlMiins bit in me. Private Squib Well, yen g: me a nasty look. I never gave Private Squab to you; you were born with it. Q. M. C. Recruiting i.otes. vxxyx0060000000000000i VOTE in Favor of Extending the Present School Indebtedness Over a Period of Five Years, by the Issuance of Negotiable Notes Will Not Add One Penny to Your Taxes. A J sfi It you, GIRLS IN SCHOOL 1 g e Has Widest Stock Distribution. Of all American corporations the American Telophono and Telegraph compnny is third in the amount of stock outstanding, anil is first in the number of holders of common stock, and lias tho widest distribution of Of ownership' of any corporation. the 139,448 stockholders at the close of the year, 130,407 held less than D Federal-ai- d constructed highways lust year coal more than double the average arnouut spent annually for 10 years in buildiug tho lunamu Canal. The cost of the work completed during the fiscal year of 1920, including the amount paid by the states, totaled approximately $30,000,-900- . VOTE TO KEEP YOUR BOYS AND X THXXK A Vote Against the Proposition Will Rob 5,000 Boys and Girls in the Nebo District of One Year of Their Lives GOOOOOOOOGOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOtOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOGOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOGOWGGOOGIOOOOGOd it |