Show v i NEPHI FARMERS 1 ARE SCIENTIFIC ij Grow Dry Farm Farll Wheat Wheal on ou Levan Ridge Ridge Irrigated Irrigated 1 Land For Orchard I I BRIGHAM CAN SAVE WATER 4 Professors From Agricultural I College Talk of Possibilities of Utah ci Nephi people have e been een putting II 1 their money woner and amI time Into dry r farm farin farmIng Ing until last Jast year rear they ther produced f- f bushels of or dr dry farm wheat mostly in the Levan rl ridge Now they arc are going to cut down tho thio acreage of wheat on the irrigated atc lands ls nu and nud at lowest calculations they Uler will this LIds year put 1000 acres in fruit In that vicinity Professor R. R S. S Northrop of the Agricultural Agricultural Ag g cone college e at Lo Logan all Is responsible responsible sible for tim tho above o statement Professor Professor Pro Pro- fessor Northrop and aull Dr E. E I D. D Ball Bail a of tho the state experimental farm Carm were wele at the Kenyan on last night on S their wa way from Nephi where thc they have been conducting a n. farmers farmers' Institute to Brigham whore where the they will take lake charge of a chool this week Both noth men Inezi are enthusiastic about the country In In which the they have spent the tho tho last few weeks and which Includes 1 Mt Ut Pleasant Manti Richfield and I Nephi 7 hustlers at Nephi sal said one onet t of ot them them them-It It doesn't matter which seer seeIng seeIng see- see r Ing that they were both talking They F sold this year ear Ji OO spring lambs In addition to the products of or the soil soU We found foun them interested In farm farming InC nn and p particularly In the progressive methods metho s of agriculture What hat do O you expect may be at Brigham 1 was asked Double Irrl Irrigated cren One of ot the things we look for there thole Is to get ct the farmers experimenting on the of the water for their land that with proper methods s of Irrigating the water would go about twice t as 03 far faros as it Is ma made e to go o now Now lo the they have lots of ot good land in r that vicinity if the they had water for tor It We think they have ha water for something something some some- thing like 1000 acres more land than I they have hare un under el cultivation If It If the thet thet t t- farmers will t experiment a II little tt It- It and aull r demonstrate this to be a fact those k i acres of Jan land will go up to OO an acre In value alue and antl that makes malec an T item worth considering Both the professors are arc enthusiastic il about th the possibilities of or agriculture in lii Utah The They say sa- that the thc states state's experimental experimental mental dry r farms have shown soine some of ot the immense p possibilities s of the soil For example they ther said down In 7 Washington county count there Is a n. ver very fertile valley alley as yet et practically a waste Now ow the state stat did dill not establish Its experiment t station down In the alle r gro It t was inow P that tho the land lansi waC vaa fertile but ut u up on i a 0 bench where 4 J tho the l i la r all tit so wood Whatever the tho bench land laud will do the valley land ought to do o much better belter I On that farm falm the state reaped a n harvest of 35 bushels an acre The possibilities of or the valley are arc enormous Junn JUlin An And these men sa say the best laud land In int t Utah I is still a barren waste In San SanJuan Juan n county thc they state are to bo be e found foun foundS S thousands of oC acres of oC mesa land that are among the most fertile in the tho wor world These they say sar would woul reap Immense returns b by cultivation according to dry farming methods Of course the they point out there is no railroad in San Sait SanJuan Juan count county as ns yet et though there I is n a line running to Delores Colo Cob not so far ava away The They say Bay th there rc is an Imm Immense Im Im- im- im m mense menso nse future ahead of ot the San Juan region reg just the tho same sume Th They also so have hav a kind word to sa say r for tor the fruit growers crowers of Utah and m make th the statement nent that in several districts every ery farmer is showing a a. alively lively interest In the eradication of I pests from his vicinity There is nothing like It In the Eat East t they tiley declare There they have no community but has Its fossils or 01 fogies 1 Here we have communities all aU awake to the Idea that what whal Is for tho the good goodof of Qt one ope Is for fol the good of all aU and vice versa |