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Show "7" -Communication. ;j Cedar City, April 2, Editor Record: i' As this is considered a pro-'; gressive age, I am led to ask the, question what is, the matter with Cedar? or more particularly, what is the matter with the inhabitants? in-habitants? Having visited" the finest valleys and cities in the state ; having read of the wondt r-i'ul r-i'ul things tha't have been accom- plished by the people in nearly , every locality from Dixie on the ' south to the northern boundaries of our state; having examined the soil and knowing the amount of rainfall in the various parts, I ( wonder what is the matter with our people. To think that a com-' munity like ours having to make the admission that we have not learned to raise enough grain to last us-the twelve months in the . . year. We have been purchasing flour in Cache Valley and we came near sending to Kansas for a carload. 1 Now, Mr. Editor, anyone cm nsk questions, but I propose to submit to a rule that no one has H, a right to ask questions that he - , or she cannot make some jreason-; jreason-; " able answer to. One of my an swers is this : that wo arc perched V here on anairow, wedged shaped spot of very inferior land and apply enough water on one1 thousand acres of hard clay soil that we could spread onto four, thousand acres of land in other ( parts of our valley, and get more ( than five times the results that ' we obtain now and with less ' labor. , .Now we will consider blunder i No. 2. It is costing us each year I .. iibout $1.35 per acre to keep our tv ', field ditch 3S clean and our dams , )?. repaired in an endeavor to make r v water run up hill as has beenj pXs'"'r' "TEnnmTyearf past. AgtffriT'we have been compelled to travel from five to ten miles a day to get to our farms at a great waste of time, cost in horses and wagons, never taking into con- I ' sideration the fact' that if we I were located upon these farms we could avc id all this waste and E, loss. Now, if we would change t our method and adopt the plan to ' & take advantage of our changed I conditions, and locate in the val- " i ley, where surface and artesian I water can be secured, we could r better ourselves financially and ? I physically. Why not let us make I .a united move and go onto some I suitable spot and locate where I our interests can be mutually i subserved. By locating together School Districts can be formed; weean keep & fevpigs, chickens i and good cows and our living ' will come in with less than half the labor that we n'aw apply. !T, Personally, I have never given iF the matter of rainfall more than " a passing thought but I have be- f coma impressed with what thir- ttecn inches as wo had it last year g. means, pur creek is an hisig- W, nificant matter. We have a for $1 tune at our doors. What we f need to do is to grub and plow ? our land and cultivate that class W of crops for which our land is 3c . best adapted. Instead of wheat, I which must have water into July and August, let us plant pota-toss, pota-toss, lucern, corn and roots of different kinds. We have thou-sands thou-sands of acres of land which only needs to be cleared and plowed and the rains and snows will furnish the necessary amount of moisture to produce the crops that I have mentioned. -urn ' I shall confine myself to what m I have seen and know. Last year W my son raised fifty bushels of oats to the acre with two water ings and tl-.'ee crops of lucern with two waterings. There are ;housands of acres in the same , ocality that will grow crops ivj thoutirrigaton ifnroper ,cara And scientific methods ar adopted. Plow and harrow tin land so as to conserve the moisture, then about the middle of August sow your seed. You ' will bes rprised to see the stand you will have. Grass or lucern j will make a grand crop. Rye will do equally as well. I September 27 and 28, 11)05 we had over two inches of rain, and ' every year since we have had J more. Last September we had about four inches. I Think what wo could do if we would only prepare ourselves to feed our ca'ttle and sheep when they come off our mountain ranges in the fall. Provide shelter for them, which is half the battle. We are confronted with a , changed condition. The Escalanto , Desert is now owned by parties whom I hope will put it to better use than it has been put to in the past. We must be prepared to take care of all loose animals. Let us join the ranks of the Progressives and get in line to do things. Respectfuly, J. PARRY. |