Inter-Mountain Republican | 1909-07-21 | Page 4 | The Dry Farms in Juab.

13 TILE IX IN When Pro Professors Merrill and B Boll Bell JJ took a part party of or Utah Ulah men to 0 the ex experiment ex- ex farm arm south of or Nephi last Monday they presented to it n. n little group ono one of or the most Interesting Inter Inter- esting sc scenes nes possible for tor human eyes to in rest upon And they showed a marvel marvol which e every ery ry citizen of or Utah would be delighted to see sec J J. W. W of oC Nephi himself prominent In Irrigation work vork has stated the case c this way The biggest thing In fn Utah for or the people l Is th tho Agricultural co college II I Tho The next bi biggest gc t Is the three men men men- President e Professor or Bell and Prof Professor f 1 Merrill Ono One or of tho ad all ati- state senators senator an Informed man mail declares that tant Mr Merrill Menu h hii has g dond more for the th reclamation of or the desert esert a 1 hundred tines times over o than has the tho much pral praised ed Luther Luthor Burbank of California And these appear pP Jr to be truths Much of the credit for ai the success of or dr dry farming In U Utah ah must be ho given gl to Professor or L L. L A. A Merrill Intense Intensely enthusiastic In his work vork wonderfully well vell Informed he ho ha has p persisted until nothing but the thc indifference of the people of or the state can prevent th the thi reclamation of the tho waste vaste land laud and ind indI I its ta conversion erRion into productive That is no small thing In Juab 1 county down there dx mil CM from Crom Jl the Ule c of or the tho state tute hed an f farm I six X years car They tho cr 31 ago ai tJ t tm ni- ni som to provide them the needed ground which remains the thC I property of Ih the state tat so Io long us s it shall shah be bo continued an experiment farm an any time tInie it I is abandoned for tor that work It reverts crts to the countY Tho state received fort forty acres fi from om Juab 1 count county hater county later later Increased to ta eighty eIghty anti and made the bt beginning