Show OPI ORT UNITIES AT OUR DOOR in reading the sunday salt lake lake paper I 1 noted that the supreme court had passed judgment on the drainage law that was enacted by the recent legislature and it made my heart leap for joy because the opportunity port unity to form a drainage district ir ip now a very easy matter it if the parties holding property in the proposed district will only get together and work unselfishly toward the desire improvement in the big field just north and west of brigham is located one of the most brilliant opportunities that could ever present itself to a community in this section at the present time the land Is more or less swampy and the most of it is water logged to such nn an extent that very little is grown except grass the grass affords fairly good pasture and in many cases is CU cut t for hay but the net income to the land owners is very low as the tonnage of hay per acre is very small if on oil the other hand the land were drained all of it would be adapted to growing of beets and many acres that are at the present time the least useful because th thy 7 are nothing more than bull rush patches could be converted into the best garden spots in the intermountain inter mountain region in these swamps different species of marsh vegetation has grown for thousands of years each winter the tops or of the plants plant are killed by the frost and eventually tall fall into the water where they thay decay and are slowly converted inlo anio humus wh tell is the main food required by all growing plants soil that is formed in this manner is known as muck soil so and is especially adapted to the growing of foliage and root crops such as celery lettuce spinach endive onions leeke leek horse radish and a nd parsnips par snips it is also a very good place tor for the growing of kolle kolie crops such as cabbage cauliflower drussela Brus sela selz S sprouts pr outs talc hale broccoli loail rabbi pd and turnips the acreage that could be grown of the above mentioned vegetables would in most cases be small but we could at least grow enough to supply 0 our home demands in some cases however this need net be the case because as you are all aware butali utah celery is gaining a national reputation for its superior quality and beauty at the present time there are comparatively ively few celery growers in this state and they are all located at salt lake city and ogdan why not grow some at brigham celery Is mentioned in history as being used by the greeks as a funeral decoration but its tame fame as a relish has developed in the last twenty five years it is a cool season reason crop and requires a well drained soil but an abu abundance dance of water all celery is produced on soils high in humus many of us have had the idea that no one except Clit namen could grow good celery this is not the case however as the culture and care of it is not very complicated and it responds very readily to good cultivation it is a crop that requires much attention but all of the special requirements are very easy to master and the net returns per acre are astonishing sixty thousand plants can be grown on one acre of muck land and you can figure on at least of them maturing it if you give them the proper care I 1 wont say how much money this would bring to the grower because that depends entirely on the business ability ol of the man many growers have reported as much as one thousand dol del lars profit per acre which is not at all impossible onions is another crop that would pay well on oil these muck lands and are not any more trouble to grow than sugar beets I 1 could say much on the possibilities of these good soils but a lengthy ar tide gets tiresome but before clos ing I 1 will state that my brother and I 1 tried a few experiments on some land wo we drained recently and we are v very e pleased leased with the results and have gares fl figures that will show that the first crop of vegetables will pay toi fox the drain tile and most of the work re quiren to drain the area we planted to vegetables W IV KNUDSON |