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Show Ml Growing flax on the Johnson ! I '- j Farm Located in Cache Valley I In the Morning the Flax Field Looks Like the Blue Waving I Sea. In the Day the Blossoms Are Closed. T IS 4&jj . Standing on tho hills west of Clark- Kin VS - ton, where-there aro only a hundred J llflfl farmers, I saw one lay eight thrush- II iti II lift , lng machines thrashing 10,000 bushels um f j'j of grali in one day. It tho sacks of (jl , f j wheat thrashed In one day were laid ji I3a. i m I10 ouo Uy tUo o10r th0 uno of f jfUl'3 "iencI8 "'oId reach a distance of three ftm I ' miles. I IIJ !Hf J. At tho foot of tho Clnrkston-hlll lill . extending for miles to tho north and J Hit .to tho south Is n strip of unproduc- IS QB ' . ., .tlvo worn out pasturo land; producing l Bitn "Ji"i ? ' - S lm t but a fow dollars worth of pastur- 7 HIM r. , , ngo each yoar, In tho very heart of SWL . th'8 seeming worthless strip of wot , slaty clay, the Johnson Ilropiexs aro IB j-o l'rlIuclllK r' worth of llax portacre. 1 , , It tnkos the Johnson hrothors no jfflj , t longer to plant nnd harvest a crop of H , ,t 5.( , flax than It does tho Clnrkston far- m ,, u. mcr to plant nnd harvest a' crop of m - ,n wheat. Tho Johnsons get ?"6 an acre k lag , t , .for tho flax and tho man who grows ' m ., 4 tliH whoat gets $2:., oven though tho f IK a , , wheat ,ciop gives tho remorkablo SO M bushels ylold. Tho land thnt pro- ' ai . ., duces tho wheat is cholco and high m . j . priced land, while tho tand that. pro- p. II duces the $50 crop ot llax is land ji , that is shunned at most any price. I j Though llax makes a profitable crop jj .,.. for this wet cold land t is not tho I B . , , : .best land for llax. On land that Jb Jl . sultablo for grain llax may rownrd II ,;, the fanner with a thirty bushq crop IB ,a. . which usually sells for $2. Gft pc-r bu- fe n ri f'101- u evon produce? a profitable I .mtlj, r crop on tho, dry farm, because It, ma- j 4,M1l ,.turcs early In the season. On tho dry farm or good grain land, It should not bo grown many years In succession, succes-sion, but worn out pasturo land Is rich In plant food that tho flax requires re-quires and thero tho cop may bo grown longer without rotation w!th other grains. On old pastures that have 'a heavy sod, the flax puts tho land In a good physical condition for other 'grains by rotting tho sod. yrtho demand for oil Is considered If Wo reallzo that fifty gallons of Unseed Un-seed oil can bo mado from h ton of flax, and that n ?30 crop can bo grown upon lr.nd thatls now scarco-ly scarco-ly paying taxes, If wo know that It Is adapted to Utah, wo may expect to seo soon, hluo Holds of llax as well as golden fields of grain In every town of Utah. It was but a few years ago that wo knew nothing or tho nlfalfa plant in Utah. Hut a fow years ago mon'-who hta'rtod to dry farm wcro laughed at and now our Mfalfu and dry farm crops nre the lmekbouo of Utnh's agriculture. ag-riculture. In n few moro years It will seem Btrango that we know so lit tlo of (lax In I0U. Oeseret News. . COAL MINES IN OHIO TO SHUT DOWN Nearly 100,000 Men Lose Employ-' ment; Miners In Illinois Stay At Work Columbus, Ohio,, March 30. Nearly Near-ly every, coal mjne In Ohio will shut down tomorrow;, .throwing moro than j 35,000 men out of work for an lndef- Inlto period. This announcement wns mado here tonight nt tho close I of a meeting of coal operators of ; tho Hocking valley, Jackson county ' Pomoroy, CrookBvillo. and 5Canosv!llo ! coal fields In southern Ohio. Tho decision of tho southern Ohio operators oper-ators to close their mines Is the sarrio action ns-that.takep by the eastern eas-tern Ohio operators at Cleveland on Saturday. . " '. Tho reason for the action, accord- c ing io ba. Colo of Columbus, Ohio, an operator is that Ihe operators cannot, can-not, run tho coal mines without knowing know-ing What the coal will cost. Failure .of the operators and miners to agrco on n now wage scnlo brought about this condition, ho added. Peoria,. Illinois, March 30. Tho Illinois Il-linois mine workers will remain at work until .tho Illinois miners tnko a referendum voto on tho policy ns out-l'ned out-l'ned by tho policy committee. This wns decided at a meeting of tho Illinois Illi-nois mlno workers today. Tho pros-ent pros-ent ugrecment expires April 1. John 1. Whito, president of tho United Mlno Workers accused tho operators of pulling wires In an endeavor en-deavor to effect ti strlko so that the natlonnl organization might not bo able to moot tho demands now placed plac-ed upon It by tho several strikes in tho United States. Prominent coal operators hero tonight to-night said that a general lock out wrs not probable, nlfhough many mines would De closed utter' April 1, on account of tho limits for coal nt tho. present time. . ' ,. |