Show I SOME CROPS RAISED NEAR DELTA UTAH Hay is a favorite crop th the intermountain country as it is not not to prepare the land and replant each year and alfalfa has proven the most satisfactory hav hay haycrop crop rop In this State as it produces produce three crops each year and is adapted adapted adap- adap ted ed for feeding so many kinds df stock took Cattle sheep horses hogs hogsand hogsand hogsand and and chickens hickens flourish on this king of of forage orage plants Raw land Is usually cropped for a few seasons then put Into nto alfalfa to get It in shape for more cropping fine cropping fine crops crops crops' of wheat have lave been raised on the newly cleared leared land the first year The growing of alfalfa offers one of f the best surest and cheapest methods of soil fertilizing known and nd an old alfalfa field plowed up lP and nd planted to any cereal or root crop rop produces wonders for several successive years It has been estimated that one- one fourth of all the alfalfa seed in tho the United States comes from Utah and third one of that comes from Millard County Statistics extending over a long period show an average return of 65 65 per acre for the production of alfalfa seed teed but Individuals in favorable favorable favor- favor able bio years have realized double that and nd more For instance in 1916 R n R. R A A. A Nelson raised 19 bushels of eed teed pero fO acre acro and realized the enor enor- return of per acre One yea worth of alfalfa seed was shipped from this county This year the hay is worth 17 baled and 15 stacked with from 5 to 7 tons per acreVe acre We Ve raise three craps of alfalfa hay haya a season and from 10 to 20 bushels of alfalfa seed per acre The following Is a list of at farmers residing within a distance of from 2 to 8 miles of Delta and their various yields of alfalfa seed and other grains Verifications of these crops can be bo had by addressing the growers growers grow grow- ers ol's Alfalfa G. Alfalfa G. G W. W Cropper Oasis 2706 32 acres J. J M. M Moody Deseret Deseret Deseret Des Des- eret 28 acres L. L C. C Neely bu Glenn Cropper Hinckley 1000 oft off 12 acres Hy Sherer oats bu wheat 53 63 bu barley 70 bu per acre sugar beets 23 tons per acre Simpkin Bros Delta spring wheat 53 bu per acre In 1916 there were shipped from Del Delta cars of sugar beets 98 cars of hogs hogs cars of hay and cars of wheat wheat- Oasis probably shipped as much more moro The Tho following figures show the average yield of various grains grown rown here hero Wheat 40 to 60 bushels per acre Oats 70 to bushels per acre 40 to 44 pounds to the bushel Alfalfa seed 10 to 20 bushels per acre Barley CO GO to 90 bushels per er acre |