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Show VOL. 2a 5, HO. ROOSEVELT, UTAH, OCTOBER 15, 1823. ITFTY CENTS PER tEAS nnr.nn i " College Honors in Alfalfa Seed And Pine Nuts If tier were such a thing as high honors in finance bestowed at college commencements for skill in working etoes .way through college they should go to the student from the Utah alfalfa seed production section district who paid his way through four years of college by raising alfalfa seed and was able to get married the second year. During his freshman year he bought on time from his father for $ 5.0 00, a farm of fifty-thre- e acres, of which one-ha- lf was in alfalfa, in wheat, and the rest in grease-wooThe first year he had hard work to make expenses. His seed froze oin him and he had to give it away at five cents a bushel, but his eight hundred bushels of wheat saved him. The second year he had less weat and more seed, and his seed check was 12,900, and he sold 1300 worth of hay. He did much to the farm work himself, though - it necessitated his leaving college two weeks early and coming a week late one-quart- er d. Summer vacations he lived iE thee saddle out on the range keeping his fathers cattle near the water holes. We would also trap or run down, wild horses and then bcak them. In fact, he had such a string of horses that he would let them run loose, knowing he could always find a fresh one at a water hole. Early every September, this college student would go out to Pine Valley where the pine nuts grow and pick up Euts for two :r three weeks. This is a narrow valley about sixty miles long between Nt-raand Utah, and both sides are green with pine nut trees. He could pick up about a hundred ponds of nuts a day and he usually stayed These until he had about a ton. he could sell at any country store for 35 cents a pound, as the nuts have as steady a cowm ci:il value as eggs and retail for 60 cents per pound in the cities. If he took time to roast the cones Instead of waiting for the frost to open tnem, he would get 10 cents more a pound. da each year, and his profits that sophomore year were 12.000. Enough White people, however, dont have to get married on, pay his college the of roasting pine nuts as knack expense and pay his 5 per cent in- the Indians do. The Indian squaw terest to his father, as well as 16 can. show a white man how to do an acre for drainage district tax. He it, but he cant imitate her. His junior year his alfalfa seed use for a to cay trade eheek was 14,100, but his expenses ausuallyof nuts. The squaw first gets bag including interest were 12,000. & bed of hot coals on which she When he graduates he will h&Te a places the tight cones with coals on farm of very fertile, deep, clay top. In about an hour they begin loam, tile drained, partially paid to pop open. They are then covered for, because by the end of his jun- with dirt and left to roast slowly. 0 ior year he had paid his father After that the nuts are shaken out of the cost price as well as his of the cones and winnowed in basinterest. kets to get the blasted ones out. stuYou might think that this The whole process changes the raw to turpentine, timber taste into a meldent would retire permanently the farm when he graduates, but low nutty flavor as delicious as his college work in agricultural year old Italian cheese. val-b- at economics hs3 told him that the are so numerous in the price of seed cannot stay up. that in good Tears tlle Indians too much is produced, that Utah all over Southern Utah and Hone furnishes enough for the da camp there for three months hole United States. So he plans aven In poor years spend three to work for an II. A. degree in ags. Deer fatten on the nut and ricultural economics and hopes to also pasture on them and thus 31,-00- set a civil service position in luhject, but ho may first farm teach far a few years. Never man justify better , than he the and did the of an agricultural college. He the finest typo rush can produce. Another candidate at the Utah Agricultural college 'for financial recognition would be a man up for honors in pine 'nuts. Last June he deceived his degree is agriculture after having paid almost all hie college expenses with pint muts. valu . fe - 8 pork gets a beechnut Isflavor, too ;h the resulting lsrd to set. The student was able to earn each September from the to flfiOO. according tousual-eHe he stayed. h of time with other young fellows rained a hunting and camping It ion as well as his college nt made tses. His college training market a keen in developing Yankee , it was his shrewd Utah as in rmimd. as common Turkey Growers In Farmington Youth Raises Bumper Crop Uintah Feed Many BIrd4 This Year Dale Clark, freshman at the University of Utah, just past his 18 th birthday, and son of A. L. Clark, Bank cashier of Farmington, has just completed shipment of 8000 sacks of onions, comprising thirty-on- e carloads, and bringing a gross return of 312.000 and a net to young Clark of somewhere around 39,000. The achievement is all the more startling because Dale raised the crop from ten acres of ground scattered in email plots about Farmington and because be raised them upon his own Initiative and without any outside help, except that which be hired to harvest the erop. According to District Agricultural Inspector H. P. Mathews of Davis county, the shipment Is probably the largest sent by any one grower in Utah. in New England, that trade him realize how simple was the process of Learns Business and n Onion Helds. earning his yearly expenses Dales folks are not farmers; they that all gold need not necessarily do not own a team of horses; they come out of a gold mine. have no farm machinery, but the Of course every virtue has its lad had spent bis summers working corresponding vice and the coHege in onion fields, and learned some years should not be too preoccupied 6f details the of onion raising. Even with finance but should be years of at that time, showing the initiative leisure for developing scholarly that him successfully brought habits, and we think personally that all people who produce chil- through the past season. Young dren worthy of being sent to col- Clark gathered a group of boys toshould help provide those gether and contracted work on the lege children with th means to do so. various patches of onions for different farmers. Any student who has to work his Last year he decided he wanted way is handicapped, but coUeges to amshow in one Utah that like the try a small patch for himself, so be rented two and one-ha- lf acres of overcome the students bitious may in and the tall and that all .cleared of ground poverty handicap to his money for not clubs are expenses, pay enough country colleges buy seed, and to rent more land for loafers. fibis crop this summer. these side of The scholarship hintwe have Dale didnt take any one into h& nancial workers only we confidence, on the contrary his folks ed at and of the heart-burnin- g hare said nothing. They are too tried to persuade him not to go in pitiful and would make another Unite so steep, but he went ahead story. We once reproached a girl and rented ten acres of the beet student with taking a gallery seat land he could get, although he for Mordikfu and the Russian Bal- found it necessary to take it in five let. Why didnt she omit. a meal or eparate pieces. He had to hire his two and come up nearer the .foot- hand gasoline cultivator and seedlights? The girl replied she had er. in one day h had as high as had to go without three, meals to forty-eig- ht men and boys working get even into the gallery. She for him. All the work he supervised couldnt starve. There is a certain by himself, except for the assiststrain of Indian fndurance in some ance of his younger brother, Louis. college students that .cnly . those He kept strict account of all kls who (work their way In college expenses and had figured ctjt just can understand Western how much per sack it has cost him circles to raise his onions. . Farm Life. Prospects for the season of 1928 In the turkey industry are more promising In the region surrounding Myton than they have been in any previous year, according to growers. This is attributed to the fact that during the hatching season and in the early summer, the weather was warm, and losses were comparatively small. It is declared that there are now more turkeys in this part of the Uintah Basin, and they are in better condition than in previous seasons. Several growers have flocks ranging from 150 to 300 birds each. Suchi birds last year Bold around 35.00. |