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Show an excess of which is Injurious, and the best of such land can be ruined t by unscientllic Irrigation. Thi! way In which the land Is ruin-I ruin-I ed Is by excessive Irrigation. The I water cannot ecp away us fast as It v Ia applied. It stands around the loots , of the fruit trees titid kills them. It j stands on the surface of the laud, 1 evaporates and leaves behind an ex-j ex-j cess of mineral salts which destroy vegetation. Only drainage can restore , such lauds. That there Is not nn excess of In-.. In-.. jurlous mineral salts In the soil of Mil f lard county Is proved by the follow-ing follow-ing analysis made last year by R. A. . Hart, in charge of the drainage Inves- tlgatfons in Ctah, by the V. S. Depart-, Depart-, ment of Agriculture. Eight samples of i soil were analyzed, taken from a depth r of Irom one to four feet from the ttur-lace ttur-lace on lands around Oasis, Deseret and Hinckley. The analysis of the samples gave Y .he follow ing alkaline contents: Hinckley No. l a, chlorides, .tiiiS per I cent; sulphates. ,072 per cent; carbon-.; carbon-.; '.tes, ,001) per cent. f No. 1-b, chlorides, .301; sulphates, 103; carbonates, .0 IS. , No. 2 a, chlorides, .047; sulphates, .12; carbonates, ,0X4. No. 2 b, chlorides, .0N4; sulphates, 1 .is; carbonates, .0.17. , Oasis No. 1-b, chlorides, .Oil.-!; sulphates, sul-phates, .072; carbonates, .oilii. f No. l b, chlorides, .0T; sulphates, .07; ,, carbonates, ,o.'i7. t No. 1-c, chlorides, .u74; sulphates, 9 .01)1 ; carbonats, .OOH. i No. Id, chlorides, 14; sulphates, 2'!; t calbonates, .n.'Il. , When we consider that these ete-. ete-. meats are injurious to the soil only , when there Is from one-half to one , per cent of sulphates, one fourth to , one half of one per cent of chlorides 1 and from one-twen:leth to one-tenth of . one per cent of carbonates, we can ten i that there is not enough alkali iu the soil to do any damage whatever under i ordinary conditions. F.xce.-w of water Is what did all the damage, and It will . :lc. It In any Irrigated land on earth. . Far more damage Is done by too much water than by too little. This is one j oi the things the new comer from the . Hast should learn. Hut think of the advantages of an irrigated farm over one dependent on laitilall! You always have water when ' you want It. You never have tin-' tin-' seasonable rains to spoil your crop. I You can leave your grain out till you are ready to thresh It. There are no insect pests In Millard. No cyclones lu summer, no blizzards in winter. Few -rmJ"v days. No prostrating heat. Hummer nights always cool enough for a blanket. Mountains all around you. Land an level as a floor and with just sufficient slope to make Irrigation Irri-gation easy. A supply of cool, pure, soft llthla water for domestic purposes pur-poses found at a depth of 150 feet and rising lo within 15 or 20 feet of the surface. Land cheaper than you can find anywhere in the West, because Ctah has had too many domestic and foreign "knockers," and the land, boomer hasn't yet got In his work. Then, our markets. 90 per cent of most of the farm products used in Ctah are shipped In from the Last. We can't supply our own needs, bo. cause we haven't enough laud. The Ixrd used up too much to make mountains, moun-tains, but he stored them full of gold and silver, and copper, and Iron, and coal, and so the mining camps of Ctah and Nevada provide a never failing market. There are mining camps within easy reach of Millard and Sal: Lake Is only a few hours away, ami that city always has an unsatisfied demand de-mand for Millard County products. We Invite the land hungry of the East to Investigate our advantages, and resources. We don't believe you cau do belter anywhere. Our lands will not long be held at the prices they are, now selling for. Desirable land at a reasonable price is becoming very scarce. Millard county offers you an opiortunlty which will not remain re-main open very long. Take advantage of It NOW. The Soil. The noil of thin whole region ha been formed by the alow wash of cell-turlea cell-turlea from the mountains and canyons. can-yons. It In a clay and aanily lomu, very retentive of moisture. It U of unknown un-known depth. A well mink at Omh .".dO feet fonnd no bed rock, h aa Hi mily a conulonicrate of sand and clay and gravel, ith strata of water at different depths. It U capable of ialiiK to perfection all kinds of grain, hay and vegetable. The land of the Irrigated region! have several advantage over thue of the Iitimld. The mineral and org.mlc constituent of the soil do not lp.ub out. They remain In the soil a food .'or the pi int. and succesxive plowing bring tie' food within reach. Such a soil require no artificial fertilizers. The occasional turning under of a leguminous le-guminous crop 1 all that is needed. We have seen land around I)eseret from which hirers has been cut continuously con-tinuously for IS years. Hut, of course, the returns grew smaller. It was .-uy (drilling and not the most profitable use of land. All lnigted land contains min-r' salt, which are highly beot-flrial, W |
