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Show f " " f sStD CHANfflT PLAN OF FARMING Leading Cedar Valley Farmer Points Out Changes that Should Be Made in Farming The following communication from one of the successful farmers of the valley is well worth being considered and the advice adopted by hundreds of other land owners in the valley, particularly those interested in the South and West fields. There is a change coming in the methods meth-ods heretofore followed by the farmers in this valley, and those who take the initiative will be the first to derive substantial benefits from the change. ' Farmers are moving onto their land in the valley, the matter of moisture for crops is being solv- ,,- u ed by the use of pumping plants, - and the present plan of "farming at long range" will of necessity - have to be abandoned if the best results are to be obtained. M Closer attention to farming and I better facilities for raising crops 8 will result in -greater prosperity for all the people and the elimina- tion of any further need for im-m im-m porting those foods that should be produced in this section in S great abundance. H Mr. Editor: With your per- B mission I should like to make a H few suggestions to the farmers . of this community. If the prophesies concerning Southern B Utah are to be fulfilled, it seems H to me that some of our present H methods must be changed. For H some years there has been a plan UHL proposed for the land owners of TL tne South and West fields- cor- HAk. poration to extend their farming. ' " activities, ana use the early 1 spring water out on the west 1 valley, and by so doing multiply I our farm products several times 1 the present production, during 1 the early spring months. I It has been clearly demonstrat- J cd that one application of an' I abundance of water in the early 1 spring after the snows have i " ceased, will insure two cuttings I of alfalfa. En a recent, report in J , an agricultural paper of experi-1 experi-1 ments made by the Utah Agri--I cultural college, it was shown 1 that by the application of a given number of inches of water on one acre of land, the yield of il alfalfa could be increased up to a im certain amount, and that there-'1 there-'1 after the yield decreased. The :l test showed that although as rl much as 60 inches wasapplied to I I an acre, the yield on a given acre Il decreased after the application jl" of 40 or more inches. So, if by Bjl securing a 60-bushel ylied with i 40 inches of water and a 20-rcl 20-rcl Dushel yield with 8 inches, we Kl have an increase of 40 bushels I with the fort y inches spread over $ five acres. M The correctness of this test is L j clearly demonstrated in our own 5) 3 community, where the farmers li of the worth and Union fields, J year after year, are increasing the ,j acreage of land cultivated with '. the same amount of water, until ', j we now see an unbroken stretch I ( of farms from Cedar to Enoch. i ; Then why do not the farmers of ftj the South and West fields getj, jf busy and spread their waters out I ' west and reclaim a few more 9 hundred acres of valuable land "j in our valley?- i 1 If wo are to maintain the A .1 school (Agricultural School) and I'M increase our population, why do I m we not put the creamery in opera- WM tion and support it by convert- f M K 1 mi ml m w ihg our high-priced land into a pasture and fruit orchards? LET US SINK A FEW WELLS IN THE 'VALLEY, INSTALL GAS PUMPS, EXTEND OUR ELECTRIC P.OWER LINES, HARNESS THE WIND AND HOIST THE WATER FROM BELOW THE SURFACE AND SPREADUT OVER OUR. LAND. The state has demonstrated for us that we have an abundance abund-ance of water at a depth of GOO feet, and which now stands in the experimental" well within eleven feet of the surface. According Ac-cording to Mr. Halterman's statement, in a recent issue of The Recoid, that at a cost of $900 he was able to water 60 acres of land' by means of a pump, then if in the State well we have a strata of 12 feet of water in gravel at 300 feet, we have the assurance that we have a good thing, if pumping operations opera-tions are at all. reasonable in cost. a Then, Mr. Farmer, what's the matter with us; are we going to continue in the same old rut? SUBSCRIBER. |