| OCR Text |
Show RISING PRICES. There is great need of enlarging the area of soil that can be cultivated in Utah. The placing of so much land under beet cultivation, togethei Avith the increased population, has about doubled the coEt of living in this city, if not in the Avhole state. We think a comparison of piesent prices Avith those of ten years ago will prove the above statement. Then a great many farmers are careless. care-less. An acre of Avheat and a little c ,e Avould in chickens and turkeys bring more money than two acres of sugar beets, and Avith far less labor. There is a big groAvl over a raise of 75 cents per ton for coal and it is a .monopolistic robbery, but a ton of coal will last a small family for a month, Avhile If they have two chickens for dinner every Sunday and ham and eggs once a Aveek, the raise on the poultry and eggs exceeds the raise on coal 100 per cent. Live stock, especially cattle, have fallen greatly in price within three years, but has any family noticed any rebate on meats? By the Avay, have Utah farmers ever investigated investi-gated to ascertain Avhat the result to their farms is going to be if they continue to raise bests year after year Avithout any rotation of crops? What are the properties Avhich beets draAV from the soil and Iioav is the Avaste restored? We Avould like to receive a statpment on this subject from some of the professors of the Agricultural College or of the University of Utah. There must be a drain, hcAv is the Avaste neutralized? The constant cultivation cul-tivation of Avheat, or tobacco Avithout rotation of crops Avill make barren the soil. How avIH it be Avith beets? Are the farmers seeing to this? How is the Avork conducted in Germany, Avhere so much sugar is made? Is the soil fertilized anually, or is there a constant rotation of crop3? The men avIio oAvn the factories, for their own sake. ought to see to this. May be they have already, but if they have the tact is not generally knoAvn, and a good many people are anxious on the subject. Will some one who knows enlighten us? But Ave have strayed from the original subject, Avhich Avas to explain that as things are going most people peo-ple Avill have to reduce themselves to a diet of alfalfa in a feAV years more. |
