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Show CORN A PAYING CROP. The farmer who continual!) cries, oit emit do It la not the one who succeeds nt an) thing Dozens of such farmer are to bc found lu the older settled allc) of Utah who hive all along Insisted tint )ou cant grow corn ptolltnbl) lu this Htate ' At tho simo tlmo tbero nic farmers In ever) one of the loner vnlle)s such a 1'ro-o 1'ro-o Salt Ijike, Weber and Hear lllvcr who nnnuall) hiuvest fort) to seventy bushels of corn per aero from Held properl) tilled That suc'h n leld of torn brings proilt to tho grower bo-comes bo-comes evllent upon rellectlon, n,nd after af-ter a little calculation Suppose the )leld I onl) fort) bushels per acre and the price Is II per hundredweight that mean 60 cent per bushel of shelled corn, or $32 40 per aero Now, It has been l rett) well determined that the foddei I woith two-third as much a the griln, so that we should ndd ilmut ll'c to the 13.' 10 making the value of the trop fiom one cte 187 40 which la certain!) sufllcleut to nuke tho business satlnfuctor) 'lhesc llg-urea llg-urea ale based upon a )leld of onl) forty bushels to the aire, while there nte numerous Instant es of sixty, eight) ulul even n hundred bushel being obtained ob-tained from one acie, the writer hereof corn Ii om one ucic In Weber count), and the corn with fodder, wa worth full) ItS when fed to hog It I not oar Intention to advise extensive ex-tensive planting of corn thinughout I'tuh but we do Insist I hat on good sandy loam with southern and western west-ern exposure the giound being fertilised fertil-ised and lougbed deep, need of the earl) Dnt varieties being tiled three good Irrigation, two harrowing and three plnughlng. there can tie grown In nil the valley named above a crop of c irn uliich will bo a profitable a an) other gruln or root trop, excepting sugar beet The wisdom ( growing more corn In Utah must become more and more apparent a the question of pork production receive nioie attention In Ltah Alfalfa for the growing pig I practically conceded the moat economical eco-nomical food obtainable up to thc tlmo of fattening and with this with Utah corn, which I the quteket fattening fond known, the I tnh fanner ha a roiublnntioii that Itould enable hint to Mil deltanc to all the 'hog countries' and coin hilts in the woild when It comes to making pork for the mutket |