Show EDITORIAL L C COMMENT ENT J Joseph E Eo Blakes wonderful wonder ul seed crop crop of 1975 bu per acre cre gr grown wn on 14 acres acres of I land nd mentioned in last last weeks week's columns of the Chronicle as netting him per acre for tor seed alone was too cursorily given last week to do It t full tull Justice Mr Blake called into our office ottice and we now take the take the time to present his sh a different manner Danner As tr diversion er us usa a a momentS m- m b back ck I six years ears ago gc private ownership i con on- on trolled this railroad and they got out what was known as the Arrowhead Arrowhead Arrow Arrow- head Magazine devoted to exploiting the regions through which h the Salt Lake Route ran I Hence q Millard Ullard County received tavor l ni mention Uon A young man was at that time Um on a mission In New Zealand Zealand- let us say for tor convenience sake ten thousand miles mUes away from his home in Hinckley Hinckley Hinck Hinck- ley Utah that young man was In Interested Interested In- In to go to the Steward Is Islands Islands Is- Is lands the group farthest south to toward toward to- to ward the Antarctic of ot any known is islands islands is- is lands Inhabited by white men these Islands were occupied by the British Government who took strict charge of ot them patrolled them militarily to to prevent any anyone one disturbing the nature nature na na- ture as found there no guns wore were alo ed no animals or birds could be killed It be kept Intact to show the original birds fauna tauna and flora tlora Indigenous to that location The fhe young oung man went Into one e of ot the prominent hotels to look 1001 over the various pamphlets always in hotels to be found informing the public in its pages of ot the points of ot Interest and places to travel to with the hope of ot g getting Informed as to the means of ot getting to the Steward Islands Imagine magine that young mans man's surprise I t pick to-pick pick up a picture of his uncles uncle's home In Hinckley Millard County dounty Utah ten thousand miles away Yes there it was I In the Arrowhead advertising advertising ad ad- Millard County Great is printing When Guttenberg Guttenberg Gutten- Gutten berg hacked a design on a movable H t type P and parchment onto its blackened lacke surface little did he dream fr am the the- pebble he threw into the of time should send ripples like that halt half way round the world world world- that a young man of ot a creed then unknown unknown un un- known In a land unheard of ot should find In the remotest the product of ot Guttenberg's developed invention And of ot his own uncles uncle's farm This young man was Joseph JosephE E Blake and the picture was that of ot 1 the the home h n of ot Jt James m s Blake hi In th l joung mans fInans home town town The young oung men mai veiled at 1 it Who can nn say sar where the effect of ot th tb printed wor word ceases ceases ceases' And the ps etiology of n advertising takes that up and r repeals peats and repeats and th customer bu buys s 's from that young oung man had left his farm to go on that mission his duty requiring that his start to ge get that farm begun should be broken broke Into and toda today after rive five years working hard bard on It to level It It get 1 It shaped up he be reaps what la Is the best alfalfa seed crop raised i h this valley Ho told the writer that tha i he worked hard with tour four six an and eight horses to get his land dow pretty yevel 1 BO 0 he be had sixty acre producing out of ot his eighty and thi year of Grace nineteen nineteen h hill he will ill g got t to exceed off tha farm His policy polley Is to rotate though a yet he has not done so as this patch of alt alfalfa producing the wonder crop cropis is only five th-e years cars old but he wil rotate crops on It later His policy polley Is to have some Ita hay some seed 1 If the climatic conditions presage t good year have bave live e stock stock stock-he he now no has sheep 7 horses borses and cattle the little Insignificant Item of ot chickens turkeys and geese We Ve say insignificant item be because cause caus Mr Blake attributes the tho mos most potent factor of at this cro to the tho tact fact that he turned his loose on that alfalfa and that the killed all insects They picked it it clean of t army worm cut f yorm or other pest In the Farrr Tureau News a short time ago Waford war ord from Nels L. L Peterson that he had found that where horses had rolled over oyer his alfalfa he got the best seed Mr 11 Blake corroborates this for says he where my turkeys had trampled this hay almost down waded waded wa wa- ded ov over r it and through it it and seemingly seemingly seem seem- almost ruined it It was where 1 J Jot ot the heaviest yield I had hael to slant ickle bar down the hay was that to the ground from being tram pl by the fowls So I attrib- attrib ute t in the main the most of this I crop to my turkeys He had put this year 1000 in wire netting to prepare for turkeys on the theland land and had of ot them His land landis is In Drainage District No 3 1 miles west of ot Hinckley and already alread an open drain ditch lies the east side of his land guaranteeing his permanency A brief capitulation of this crop cropIs cropIs Is as follows First cutting of hay I two tons to the acre sold In the field for tor 2250 makes 45 for tor hay of off the land seed returns chaff yet to sell and increase in cattle an anthe and the profit of Df of his turkeys and Joseph E. E Blake gets this year better than per acre oft off his land |