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Show FARMERS' PROBLEM NO. 1. For Any Student of a Millard County School to Solve. . A staled Inst weekthe Chronicle will propose farmers' problems during the winter for students In the county to solve and we present the first one this week. A farmer on tbe west side has cleared and plued Ho acres of new-Ian new-Ian J. The ,lwo 4 lie tsst aud west of each other, and the raual comes to the southwest corner of the land. F.ach 40 slopes one foot to the north and one loot to the east, and the main road runs south along the west side of the land. Where would you run the Irrigation ditches on this land, where locate your head gites and checks? Make a plan of the farm shosing what crops you would raise and how many acres of each. Where yould would loca e the house anJ farm buildings; would you put out any trees; would you furrow or flood your land; how would you Irrigate to save the most time and labor and waste the least amount of water; when would you plant your various crops and ben Irrlgste them; what tools and Implements Imple-ments would be absolutely necessary for the farmer to have to cultivate and harvest bis crop the firs. year. He Is no millionaire and can't get all the tools he would like to. In your answers consider the character char-acter of the soil In Millard County, the general direction of the wind, that the land has a foot and a half of sater. Students ran consult books and bulletins, bulle-tins, their psrents and neighbors, but no; their teachers. Answers are to be sent to the Chronicle through the teachers not later than Monday, Nor 4 All the pajers will be sent to Professor Pro-fessor Merrill for his Judgment and comment. The person furnishing the beet plan and most complete answer to the questions will be given a cash prize of " by the editor and the plan III be published In the Chronicle. We dont know whether this will In- i erest the boys or not. Most of tbe : pupils In the county expect to be farm- I re, they probably have some Ideas ' ibout bat a model farm would be f ike. Here's a chance to plan It Boys i |