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Show COSTLY TUBERS POTATOES are only $60 per ton. An average acre of Utah land, well cultivated, will yieiu six tons of potatoes, and one man can plough, plant, tend and harvest eight acres of potatoes. That Is an earnest man, at present prices, can, out of eight acres of land worth $1.25 per acre with a little water, produce above expenses $2,500 in a year, or rather in seven months. Still there are husky loafers parading these streets and begging "the price of a bed" every day. That is one view of the subject, the other is, what kind of a management man-agement of private and public affairs must it be When in this region potatoes are allowed to bring ?300 per hundred pounds? No wonder eleven eclipses of the sun and moon are predicted for this year. |