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Show THROUGH COLORED GLASSES. A few dayotngo tho writer sat at a table In a Salt Lake City hotel, together with a party of tourlrts from lown As Is common with lltors, the members of the party In question discussed many things they had seen, nnd the usual questions wcro'nsked rcgardtng prices of land In the vicinity of Salt Lake City. When told that the fertile garden soli about Hountlful and Centcrvllle soil at J30O to $300 per acre, one Iowa man beeamo Indignant at what he termed the boom prices ' named, and declared he would rnthCr have a farm In Iowa, acre for acre This man had been In Utah about four da) a, and his knowledge, of Utah soils had been gained by looking at the farms through the car windows Even after being told ot the matchl'ss fertility nf the soil and the absolute assufnnco that tho Utah farmer has because of Irrigation, this self-contained Iowa, tourist reiterated his preference for the Iowa land The writer hereof waa born In Iowa and reared on one of tho best farms In that State of splendid farms Yet In tho light of practical farm experience tn both Iowa nnd Utah we are bound to say that twenty acres of lind In Utnh like that ot Centervllle and Hountlful Houn-tlful ma) be made to produce treater returns during a period of ten years than any eight) -acre farm In Iowa during dur-ing the sinie length of time This Is not theory, but Is a conclusion base 1 upon actual experience Neither may It be charged that the writer Is forgetful forget-ful of the greatness of his native State for both In season and out of season he Is loyal to his bojhood home, nnd recognizes recog-nizes with pilde tho fact that Ion a Is the brightest star agriculturally In the entile galax) Hut facts am ficts and nil the loyalty loy-alty Imaginable cannot alter the fact that the perfect control of the conditions condi-tions of moisture renders faimlng In Utah fir more certain than In any country where tho natural rainfall Is deperded upon The trouble with tho tourist above mentioned was that ho was homesick to look upon the accustomed fiell of Inwa corn from which thc farmer gcts never more than $J5 net profit per ncre nnd more frequently must be content with onehalf thu pinflt This man would not listen to the accounts of Jo profits on sugnr beets per acre nor of the crops of berries and vegetables that ylell 100 to JVM per acre to the Utih farmer In fact ho decUred such stories were male up to stuff the tourists tour-ists After n i,ood-natured and futile attempt to Impress the tourist with the truth of such statements he was given up ns a hopeless case of seeing through colored glasses " |