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Show AGRICULTURAL WEALTH. IBJ ll Is a significant fact that tho M wealth of any people, In the II rial an- H alysls, Is found In tho resources of the B ground. The wealth produced through B the agricultural source Is vast, far M more than one at Hrst thought Is like- H ly to Imagine. The wealth of tho H United States is growing with rapid 1 strides. It Is growing through the B productiveness of the soil, Itlsgrow- m ing through the vast amount of land B that is being utilized for agricultural 1' purposes. Many a community has H flourished and its clclens become l wealthy and even independent through H their earnest elTorts In tilling the soil H-v which has liberally yielded vast for- H tunes. This thought cannot bo made H more emphatic than by comparing H the wealth of tho United States In H tho year 1820 with recently compiled H statistics of the agricultural drop of Hi the countryjor 1007. The crop last! H year, including the chief agricultural! H products, amounting to seven billion'' H, four hundred and twelve million dol- HI, lars. This sum equaled the country's I. wealth fifty-seven years ago. The H- wealth from this source Is bound to ( H increase. The government, us well as H ' private Individuals, is constantly pro-! H vldlng water for the irrigation of arid H lands which wlttiln a few years will H bo adding materially to the world's' H' , food supply. While tills country has I H' but 5 per cent of the world's popula- H tlon, yet It furnishes the world afar. a greater percentage of its supply of H food. Of tho chief .agricultural pro-"j H diicts, tho production in the United f H States ranges from 20 per cent of the H wheat to go per cent of the corn. Meaning that with but a population H- of 5 per cent the world is furnished by H this country alone between 20 and SO H per cent of Its foo-J stuffs From the H above it Is seen that our nation Is H( growing wealthier with eveiy harvest. I, As our country grows in wealth, so H also do the states. Tho'statesgrow H: rich no faster than do thocommunl-H thocommunl-H ' ties of which they arc composed. l!y H;: the wealth of the counties, is the llnan-H llnan-H clal status or our state adjudged. A H-3 county thrives with its Industries. H Our valley is a wealthy one, its source 1 of wealth Is the grouud, its principle Induitiy being that of agriculture. Hji, The low bend) lands of this valley H atlord bounteous returns to the hus-WL, hus-WL, bandman. These returns, however, come only through honest toil. Tho H outlook for a Cache valley farmer dur-H'V dur-H'V Ing tho hot spring days has been any-H any-H . thing but encouraging. It has looked H'4 as if the fruits for honest toll would l avail but little. Tho outlook now H J, couldn't bo more promising. With H I the recent storms the farmer Is made Bv& to smile. And why shouldn't hoV Ills iff crops, which aro to bring to him the k remuneration for his hard labor, aro Hffr. now flourishing. If all goes well ho HP''. will now bo able to raise tlmt.mort-H tlmt.mort-H t'age, to pay for that new house, or, Hfl perhaps, that new carriage can now H;, bo added to the comfoits of the farm. Bfc Work the soils for In them you shall B i ilad vast fortunes. |