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Show THE CITIZEN 3 iiiiiiiiiiIIBIIIIilllllllllll,lll,lll,l,llllllllllllllilllllllllIIIIIIIIIIIllllllllIIIIIlllllllllllilllliailllllillllillllllllullllllllllllllllllillllllllllllllllllllllillllllllll,Klllil,l,llllllllllllllllll,IIIIIIII-llllllllll,lllllllinillllllllllIIIII,,ll,iiaiIIBI1BMai,BnBI- Growing In lllllll1lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll Iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii,iiiiiiiiiiiiiii,iiii,,iiiiiiiiiiiii"i,iiiii,!i,iimi1 Utah is known as an agricul-orState and is noted for its culti-ate- d crops, being one of thie pioneers irrigating lands, less than 3 per t is irrigated and less than 1 per gnt is in dry farms and the total of irrigation is prob-jjlicreage capable less than 5 per cent, which, eaves a vast area in the State of jtah which must be utilized for some tinual flow of wealth in the form of wool and lambs, m the spring months, according to the estimate for 1928, there will be produced approximillion pounds of mately twenty-tw- o wool, which at an average of thirty-fiv- e cents per pound will place in circulation seven million seven hundred thousand dollars at a time of the year when few products in Utah are being marketed. This poundage of wool will hing other than farming. Utah contains 52,597,760 acres of. clothe four million five hundred thousand people in the United States, with and, or an area as large as Delaware, the average annual consumption per few York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and capita approximately five pounds or few Hampshire, Massachusetts fifteen million of the worlds popuTermont all combined. It differs wide-- p lation where the average ' per capita in altitude, ranging from 2,000 feet n Washington County to Kings Peak rhich has altitude of 13,498 feet. these levels are located des-rtrolling hills and high mountains rith valleys extending between the irious mountain ranges with an election between four thousand and six housand feet above sea level. It is these valleys that farming is car-ie- d on, but due to the annual precipi-atio- n even some of these areas can ot be successfully farmed as the rerage rain fall varies from a light all of about five inches at the west-ile al y Be-we- iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiii llllllllllllllllllllllll!lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll!llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll? ership of Brigham. Young arrived, Thomas Grover pastured his stock on the grassy flats near Centerville. The pioneers arrived with such stock as they did not of necessity trade for provisions as they trekked across the plains. A Bell Wether tied to the wagon of a pioneer led the way for this wealth producing industry, in Utah. An addition of importance was made when a herd of sheep was moving from Missouri to California and by chance were wintering near Lehi, when a long and unusually cold winter compelled the owner to sell many of his herd to Lehi farmers. Thus did the number of sheep increase and ter of the United States aiid the Na- tional Woolgrowers Association moved their offices to Salt Lake, but the National Ram Sale was organized and held at Salt Lake City. Pure bred sheep of various breeds were entered at the sale and flock masters from all sections of the United States and from foreign countries came to exchange breeding ides, secure sire and improve the blood of their flocks. The Ram Sale became a school where sheepmen learned the advantag of good breeding. Held in Utahs own dooryard Utah growers received great benefits. The type of sheep is determined by not-onl- y . en s, i m the state to approxi-latel- y inches in the Wasatch border of 30 with an average of 13 inches and it has areas rith less than this average and no rtigation that does not lend them-elvto successful farmfng. JNot only farming made difficult in many by reason of altitude and but the topography in many ions is not conducive for crop fountains ap-roximat- ely es sec-io- ns pre-pitatio- n, rowing. conditions the eep industry has increased from 50,000 sheep in 1883 to 2,730,000 in . This increase has not only been sheep, but the average poundage of uol per fleece has increased from ve pounds in 1883 to nine pounds in 927. Utah is one of the few states here sheep can be grazed on the stive forage without supplementing srvested crops. The growth on the eserts are allowed to cure by the snd of nature and is grazed during fall and winter months, then the leP move on to the rolling hills eat-!the spring grasses and weeds and elding the lamb crop, shorn of their 6ece of wool, they move on to the Because I of these r g mountain ranges there utilizing wastage of these vast areas. As native forage harvested by the als is the most economical me-- d gh of es N feeding, the range sheep busidepends much on grazing and substitutes natural grasses by and 1 grain when bad winter the use of such feeds, banks are very necessary for utilization of most desert feed, as u the general means of watering con-for- ce P. ,E this manner there is produced otherwise wasted forage a con- - hunconsumption is one and forty-nin- e dredths pounds per capita. In the fall approximately one million six hundred thousand lambs and soon because of natural conditions range conditions, transportation faciliand being greater producers of gross ties and practical handling. Fine wool-e- d wealth for forage consumed, sheep sheep, or Rambouillet, form the were found grazing where cattle had basis of almost all range flocks in Utah, because they live longer, herd old ewes are moved to market at a grazed before. Because of the curtailment of range, easier showing a marked tendency to value of about twelve million three hundred thousand dollars and which sheep breeders were forced to reduce flock together, are more rugged, and will furnish lamb products to approxi-mate- y the size of their flocks and as early in the production of both lambs and seven million two hundred as 1890 pure bred herds were being wool come nearer filling the requirethousand people or twelve times the established in various sections of the ment than other types. They produce wool that generally population of the State of Utah. This state and before long the sheep were a type of will yield a total value of twenty laying the foundation of better flocks fies the market better and where transportation facilities are not the million dollars of new wealth to Utah in the entire surrounding country. and produced principally from what Pure bred Rabouillet sheep were best are more practical because they specialize in wool production, and would otherwise be wasted. shipped to every port of importance wool permits a longer haul than and every state of the Union. The That great van guard of civilizalambs to the railroad without detracttion livestock, the cow, the horse, Russians were soon taking large ship1926 purchased many ing from the uality and condition. in and ments areas these make must sheep and hogs Lincoln or Cotswold sheep known as bred sheep to be shipped to Ruspure have This wealth. done, they produce the long wooled breeds are often used flocks. are doing and will always do. Even sia to improve their native (Continued on Page 9) Utah soon became the sheep cen before the immigrants under the lead- - |