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Show W- HOW PATRIOTISM If AND PROFIT MET I- 8N UTAH FARM v. :. -..; THIS YEAR- 4 W $ Byj Professor John T. Cafnc, III., t '. , "Director Extension Division, . &; , i Utah Agricultural College if ' - rom, an agricultural standpoint -, . -' 1$)( was a great year in Utah's his't-' his't-' - i' 'h ory -Delayed by a late spring, which -. '"' ' kcif the cr.ops back from two to four , .': :4. wfceks, prospect's for big crops during 3E- ' ',(? -car'y summer were not bright .n '' Growing weather came at last, h.ow- ' "''''- . 6Xer and then came a prolonged pcr- f'l ' " '' ' ' drought which deprived Utah t, if of tons of hay and grain." This coin- .. $&., blriatidit of wcatlier was much in fav- ' 'KVji. Pf ,' tMC Raiser, but Utah's loyal ' "tt ' farmers pulled, through, in spite of S2 ' J. these conditions, with some great '' W$ " -rops. The call of t the Government "' Kfi -, ' dtirjng the fore part of April for in- M mw ,' creased production was heard kK " ' throughout the State and the re- " 3 j t '.V spOnsc was wonderful. Ground was k5 &"? '. plowed, seed secured and planted. i ifv''-' 'S ' ' a'fjci in one mouth the acreage in BK.'. ' crops .was materially increased over Safes 'i what had been anticipated. This in-' "i JSC j 1 crease is the more remarkable when " W" . ' ''4 "atc e0'1 spr'i'B ' taken into con- (i sdieration. Utah may not have har,- j $''. Vested the greatest tonnage in her; 1 1 WXv'- history, though this is likely, but she t , &V ' . , will harvest' th'c greatest amount of 'mlu -S " 'l?'"ars or ay singtc .yeaw' crop, '' a& '$ :fJcr ,ast ycar's shortage the r SifkN ?l 'J'PPcr rP ' '3a' was one -'" tnc 'iHli&Jl! , ',uPft welcome developments of the MfwV ' upjmer. Alfalfa yielded a third more 'M3E$' 1-,'"aJi U5Ual' s0 t,,at thc Statc is" forti Bf'S' ;ficd w.ith great stacks and bulging ''BS$r- jT " bVps. ,Duc to 'iiis great jrop; live 3Bfcla.-jr " Ttpek, feeders' arc "much pricouraged BSwI-W arfithctehas been nuitean increase 1r b5slHess.S ' HiSl'vt, Sugar' beets go-off to a bad start '''Tr"r ai4 due t0 t,ie sll0rt scason lilt "Dt r"9vfi?'' mjjiturc to the usual heavy yield. The tV1 " acrdgcwaVtlie largcsfevcr planted, jll'j;!' i but the-avera'ge-tonnage is beloV ?4mm normal.. Advanced prices for beets 3rBfj h 'will,, however, partly compensate for msk ' , the light tonnage. tfBr" ' ' Winter wheat was thought to be 'fclW .. in-'..fine. shape until the growing sea- '"py '. i on began, when it was found to 5jJ,m'' -have been winter killed to some.ex- ffiB'"' J tent, This slvortage in winter wheat 5iBgvit '. ' was made uri by an increase in the fVV Spring planting, which, contrary to $W$ ithc usual resu,'v out-yic'"11"1 that HP ' i-J1, plantetlin the fallUtah came through tl&li' ' ith a crop of better than 7.000.00Q IDEp '. bushels and a determination to raise ffimWlv 'w3 ' BeanI Vere. planted extensively in pIMFP1' r , Utah for the. fint time and have yield- Br: cd very wel,: 0n dry arm up t0 wHfi, ' "1200 pound's 'per acre has been re- ipfi- , ff ' ported, while under irrigation as pHW. "' ncl as 2300 pound is vouched for $& ,4) from, an .'acre. This, crop, new to 'P' ..WfWt Utah farmers, has been tried $ls$" ? J' over .wide areas this year, and re-rlffV'V re-rlffV'V ",U ports fjndlcate that our farmers' may WA Vt' .v? " 'liave overlooked one of the best $M'$i i '' ' paying, crops. crBioif' 4! Barley and oats have been produced rKw ' in about the usual amounts, though $iHH' r v tnerJ l$ a tendency to reducc .the fBf! ' , v ' acreage of these crops in favor of 'vHp- H - Ech year corn become more com" i'Bjit ' rnon' and the advent of the silo has &;HBtV l increased the acreage to a great ex- nfiBt-i'l ' ' ' tent.' Some great yields- of corn were (ljHhSv'' 4" reported., In one of thc northern .!B3hHTu . counties a 100 ton silo was filled from .BPK, One of-the great developments of S"$MXtrS'- , ihe summer was the garden move-'fe-JM&J . ment, which made the cultivation of B' '&&$& -yMe back lot the real thing among 'M-$ik those wishing to be in fashion. Thc fcl'Wilk!'!'' ' -vfsgarUen work spread throughout the f'HrjV?' ' ' ' State and it is estimated that over ?&K& uiY$ fiVcthousand acres that usually laid $BVUei'-were cropped, within the city B- ' i'Jiwiiti of our towns. In one of the 8$Msy -tJ 3"8e' owns of the Sute a rcport tftHtft' ' iow ?18.000.00 of produce grown WmFr' rir"by"-W and girls. Such work will MMtP . fhelp-'win the war. mIHK ' ' ' 'Th,e'fruit crop this year has beeu fimk -' ' a ,are one and the market ha bcen &' !, i'airly good, so that a profit has bcen rMrfr." 7 Tealixed by'tnost of the gjowers due kt lhe conservation work more fruit .VaHfMk ' t has heen canned in Utah this year &! ft -,- than eycr before." It is my belief that F&MR'4'v4' there i now one-third mortf fruit tSK'-W' ahan in norma years stacked on the S'tA vantry heWe's. The women have $m: lmS4vmi nobly1, r.snltingln a cui- HOW PATRIOTISM AND PROFIT METtN UTAH FARMS THIS YEAR (Continued from Page 1) J ' ting down of the waste so general in years of bumper crops pi fruit.-Live fruit.-Live stock came through the win-cr win-cr in poor shape, but with the good tangc and abundant pastures, most of the. stock is now in normal con; dition. Prices have been the highest ever knoxvn and so the stock men have reaped a good harvest. The 'sheep business is Utah's greatest great-est live stock industry, and this year, with the excuption of the Spring, has been an exceptionally favorable one. Not so many lambs were raised as usual though the price was so high that sales Were just as great, Wool amounting to about 15,000,000 pouuds''was marketed this Spring at a fair price. This was the shearing from about 2,000,000 sheep which are held in Ithe State. If thjs wool sold at an average of 40c which is probably low, the total amounts.up to six millions mil-lions of dollars. Add. this, to the sale of lambs and older stock and the sh.eep business would probably represent rep-resent an income of fifteen million dollars tq Utah flock masters this year. Prospects are bright 'for next, year ana we expect a big increase, especially in the farm flocks. Thousands Thou-sands of sheep are. being purchased to be kept on itarms and it looks like one of the best investments a farmer farm-er can make. The biggest annual event of interest to sheep men is the Salt Lake ram sale at which about three to five .thousand, mostly most-ly rams, change' 'owners The sheep is surely the golden hooped animal as far' as Utah is concerned. ' The beef cattle business Is flourishing flour-ishing and lias returned great sums to the cattle men during the year. Theiiummer range, has been excellent excel-lent and . thrifty cattle are everywhere. every-where. More feeding than 'usual is being done and it is expected that the" fat cattle shipped from the. state this year will outnumber other 'years.' Last winter some money was made in feeding, especially in Sevier Se-vier County where a baby beef business busi-ness is getting a good start. From this county 222 cattle averaging 13 months of age were marketed last spring at near 475 per headv A number of the feeders who handled these were new. at the business, great things are expected from this new methdd of marketing. Due to high priced hay there was a cutting, down, in the number of c'iry'ceri''kept'in',Utah-last'.sprihgi but fhe increased price1 for milk'' during the summer, tended to in- ' crease the' number so .that at this t time the shortage is,'not( large. Prices Pri-ces of milk remained low long after af-ter other products advanced whlch ' tended to cause the dairyman to go' - ,: , A out of business,- In Cache Valley as ' J high as 02 cents has been paid for ''' butter fat and this has aided" in in- '.) 'v creasing th.e dairy herds. Utah cows : v '' are "doing their' hit" as shown ,by. .-.. the fac't that condensed milk is be- '. " ''".: ing taken by the Government in , ''; , large quantities. The return froih , .,; , the1 -dairy cows this year will be,, , '.'' ,,, larger than ever before in Utah's . ; PJi history. V,jrP Even with high priced hogs it r seems that the Utah farmers have raised hut few th,is year. Price! have -been higher than any man could ' ' ' . hope for,, and yet the number raised, is not sufficient for the local packers' pack-ers' demands. As hogs arc the great fat producers and' fats are badly needed at the present ilme, farmers' of the West should increase their . holdings as quickly as possible. tUnder the conditions Utah '-his ' done her part, well, in the .increas- ing of production. With more fa- orabte weather, even larger crops can be exneted next year., The Utah ' fjock master and, farmer, have joined '-, hands to see that no apd lies idle,, that no feed goes to, waste, and that as near, as possible economical use is made of everything produced. ' Maximum production "arid" "economical "econ-omical 'use it 'thegreaV work- of ' th'o'se in the second 'lone trenches'. Utah fanners 'ban' be depended upon to do their part. . , ..-, ,- jz : |