Show SOME CHOICE FARMS ARlIS IN IX THE VALLEY I spent Sunday last in making a atour atour atour tour of some of our better farms to get views and to see what each had to show J Jeffery Brothers Edgar and Ervin Enin Irvin will be back in about two weeks are notable examples of thrift and excellent husbandry These men believe in raising hay lots of it and and in feeding the larger part of that hay to livestock They take no on the whole thing for seed to be he left high and dry should conditions prove adverse On the Irvin Jeffery place I climbed part way up the derrick to get a photo of the dairy herd berd It was worth it amply Il amply so For here is isa isa a a. farm that I can holler hoUer for horses cows pigs sheep turkeys chickens chickens chickens chick chick- ens and good management surmounted surmounted surmounted sur sur- mounted by hard work The good wife strained thru the last two years ears alone alone alone- eked out nobly let me add by her sister law sister In but even so the place speaks for her There is enough hay there to make them rich Across the road Is Edgars Edgar's place The fhe same as to livestock the same as to thrift and nd management A point of beauty I must not overlook is the th trees These are worth thousands s and attract the eye and purse too Nothing appeals so strongly to the Inter interest st one has in a farm as do the trees The The aesthetic tic value is incalculable These two en came to Delta among the very first bought land and water at a figure about equal to what the average buyer this year pays In interest alone on his contract for two years and have devel developed ed their farms into producers In other other ot ot- other ot- ot her words their purchase price was wasso wasso wasso so low as to enable them right quickly quick quick- ly to convert their surplus into live livestock stock to Stick is an Important important important im Im- im- im element of success and both these men have a big bump of that on their noggins They are prospering and are among those few men who can stand I prosperity They will be heard from further in this valley and rank with the highest I next I-next next visited Ted Whickers Whicker's Ted TedIs Tedis Tedis is a genius mechanically I used to cuss Ted regularly once a week for not farming Every time Id I'd see him Id I'd ding on the old theme until I guess Ted got pretty sore under It But Dut he wouldn't farm Hed He'd go up town yank a Ford to smithereens and revel In glory A acre farm could go fishing for all aU he cared Well VeU one day the that got uppermost uppermost uppermost upper upper- most in him to make over an old Ford Into a tractor and lo to and behold behold be be- hold bold Ted Jumped into farming in order to try tryout out that piece of junk got wrapped up hilt and now from early morning to late at night Ted is away breaking up land His boy is named named nam nam- ed eel Ford he carries a photo of a Ford FordIn Fordin Fordin In his watch he eats sleeps drinks Ford And I am glad to say he works Ford Now that he has a made home tractor and farm work worle is a pleasure his farm shows up to the goodIll goodIll goodIll good Ill I'll speak of this pile of Junk hes he's got first and then of his farm He took a Ford engine a Maxwell raid- raid lator a Cadillac differential a Studebaker Studebaker Stud- Stud wagon bolster plate a Ford chassis and and some old wheels out of a binder and some other other other oth oth- er wheels out of a thresher parts from a spring tooth harrow and finally finally fin fin- ally something from a tongue scraper threw the whole mess to together together together to- to gether and made up a rip snorting dandy fine tractor I saw Ted bowl along on high with a double disc plow thru tough alfalfa alala roots and never stall his engine in land free from roots he draws a three disc plow as slick as can be He has that dog old Ford fitted with more gas savers here extra water cooling surface there and fixings galore and galore and yet et its it's still stilla a Ford Its It's a Whicker Home-a- Home Tractor The thing freighted of coal up from Oasis do doing ng the job j like a n. real truck f 4 H He has a machine shop right now I that is better etter than any any garage in f I town Ted Is a wonder and if he stays at atthe atthe the farming game hell he'll make good i For he has acres of choice land and well located safe fairly easy to o respond to cultivation and withal with with- al such land as will eventually make makelim him lim rich He has trees a brick brickhouse brickhouse brickhouse house hay stacks to make your mouth water equipment around aroundhim aroundhim aroundhim him suitable to the needs of both a arich arich arich rich man and a big farm I would have given much to have had a panoramic panoramic panoramic pan pan- camera as his nis farm will take one of the pretties large views on the project The buildings are so nicely set off by the stacks and the whole balanced just right exactly b by the trees From Teds Ted's I went over to Rich Croppers Listen I ate ripe plums out of that place no my friends did not have to pick the bird shot out Think of it Fruit on the Greasewood Flat Something wonderful wonderful wonderful won won- unhand of There were pears there apples and a garden The plums only were ripe And such a load toad of fruit as there was on those limbs The pear tree was bent down hanging onto the plum tree This item of interest should be given all the publicity possible for many of us usI I at least anyway did not know that fruit could be grown here In all our literature It is al always always al- al ways mentioned as being at such sucha a place only so many always a few miles away but never as here I r went trotting g over to Deseret with that good news just bile In to tobe tobe tobe be told and sprung it on Mrs Joe Mood Moody Bless my soul the good woman sent Miss Norma out into the pantry and with one swoop knocked all the wind ut f m my sails gaily gaily- western For the young lady came back with bottled string-beans string bottled bottled bottled bot bot- plums and all ribbon winners at the Fair and all such fruit grown right there I felt like thirty cents at cold gray dawn of the morning after From now on every spiel I make makeI I r shall make it known that we do grow fruit t. t I visited our good friend and neighbor R R. A. A Nelson Only last week an advertising man getting out booklets for the Delta Land Water Vatel Wat Vat er el Co called on him got a statement statement statement state state- ment of what crops he had raised and took a snap of the best farmer In the valley For Nelson got 19 bu of alfalfa seed as an average off 24 24 acres last year and every prospect I that this season is equally as good I But say man If there is an advanced advanced advanced ad- ad ad ad- method he lie doesn't use if there is an hour he isn't Johnny on- on the spot Ill I'll buy lie He has bas the first farm In the valley production con con- County Demonstrator Welch Vetch visits it often to keep tab on it And they pass views back and forth What is done on a producer is som something to guide me mo and you First of all Mr Nelson goes In for seed Its It's his ambition And nothing short of being the tho best seed grower thereabouts will satisfy satisfy satisfy satis satis- fy him And he gets It Cultivation Cultivation Cultivation tion renovation to beat damnation And all the other He spring that place until it looks like a shell plowed field in No fiNo Mans Man's Land And when once done it is done again and again worked at tended to and to-and and not neglected fo for a jiffy Then ho he hohas hohas has sheep which he lie runs on the place in the spring and gets the best of the weevil This is the best best practice of the best growers They do the same at Meadow and those who do ride behind gas Then when the cold snap Is approaching he cuts down all he possibly can that is nearly ripe cocks it in big heaps and old Sol gets on the job Even cut a trifle green it it will ma ma- ture Charlie Burke Durke savvies the same doings and when it comes to sacking up tip the result both have it Not an n advertisement appears that does not crack up the Nelson farm And justly so Before Defore we finish let me add my myown myown myown own little say He operates forty acres No big job merely scratched scratch scratch- ed over for him He manages He lie has the head And livestock a few beets heets Just enough to be tended to properly and not overdone All in all I take my hat off to the Nelson Farm Frank Beckwith |