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Show -start germination at once, cans ing O.V.v of the seed to sprou the first season. The compan has secured one of these ma chines and will treat the seet they are to plant. They will alsi innoculate the ground witl Westrobac Nitrogen Bacteria. This material compares prettj .veil with the Alaska Indian's idea of the phonograph. After the invasion of the white mar into that country the Indian ame into contact with a great leal of canned stuff. And when the phonograph was played before be-fore him and he listened to one of the American stars warble for a time and then asked what ne thot the thing was, he said. "Don't know. Guess him canned can-ned man." These little germs are put in cans and laid away un til they are demanded for the in-iculation in-iculation of the ground in which slovers are to be planted. In the iistribution of this bacteria thru the ground, dark days or evenings even-ings must be chosen as the germ is killed by the rays of the sun. Ten pounds of seed will be used to the acre. In keeping close tab on this field one will be able to judge about what the benefits of these two methods of treatment treat-ment will be. In the preparation of this ground it will be necessary to construct something like "fifty miles of small irrigating ditches. Things In Delta Country Crops Looking Fine-Big Acreage of Sweet Clover.-Big Ditching Machines Here. Things in the "Greater" Delta country seem to be moving satisfactory sat-isfactory in all lines. Prospects are that this country will see much better conditions prevail for this year than in any single year previous. All crops are exceptionally ex-ceptionally good in all parts of the country and with favorable weather and conditions for the rest of the summer there will be an immense yield of grains and the country at-large will begin to take on a growth the like of which it has never witnessed before be-fore and will continue to grow rapidly from this time on. There .are many new homes in the country built on what last year was raw land and there is probably something like fifteen thousand acres in the valley under un-der cultivation this summer which was never farmed before. Many new houses have gone up the pa.t few months in the country and several in Delta, and there is a goodly number being planned for this summer. Delta alone will experience considerable con-siderable building during the summer from indications at present. Drainage work on the South Tract will be in full blast within the next two weeks and as a result re-sult of the drainage work there will be made some six or eight thousand acres of what will be the very best land in the state of Utah, available for settlement settle-ment when the work is completed. complet-ed. The Delta Land & JVater Co. has received some 20 cars of tile for distribution on unit No. 1 of this land, covering some six hundred acres. The Co. also has two enormous trenching machines on the gronnd and being tried out, each of which cost the sum of $5,0(H). These machines will excavate one hundred hun-dred miles of ditch during the summer, the ditches being from eighteen to twenty one inches wide and from five to seven feet deep. The value of the drainage J woi k to be done on the South Tract over undraincd land can only be recognized by being jcogitizant with the drainage work dune on irrigated lands of the northern part of the state or by making a study of the writings, relative thereto, by the men who have demonstrated the l great result to the world. Another , of the big things : which is being done on the South i Tract, and one which it would I pay all farmers to -watch closely, i is the big acreage of sweet clover which the Delta Co. it ' planting. Jones Bros., who have turned over an immense acreage of land on the North Tract the past fall and spring have their big caterpillar cater-pillar engine on the South Tract ' now and are preparing 2400 acres of the Delta Co. land for planting of sweet clover. The land is being- railed and cleaned after which six lOJ-foot drills will be hitched to the tractor, making a spread of sixty-three feet of clover seed across it. Behind Be-hind the drills will be attached corrugators and the ground seeded seed-ed and corrugated similtaneously. The treatment of this seed and its result is the one thing in particular par-ticular that the farmer of the valley should endeavor to keep in touch with. It is stated by experts that only about 17 of all the seeds of the clover family including alfalfa sprout the first year after planting and that only a certain per cent of these seeds sprout each year after planting for a period of four years. At the end of this time you are supposed to realize the full benefit of the seed 'which you sowed four years before, providing the seed is a perennial. peren-nial. But sweet clover is not of that nature and will stand only two years, therefore you would be getting only about 50 or GO per cent of your intended yield during your second and supposed suppos-ed last harvest season. In perennials per-ennials your fields would not come into full bearing until the fourth year. The reason Tor such big per cent of clover seeds lying in the ground for so long a time is that in forming them nature has provided pro-vided them with a water-resjst- . ing hull which is capable, in a j large per cent, of forestalling the germination process for from one to three years. To over-! come this resistance and prepare! the hull so that the moisture may I readily penetrate it, a machine has been invented which scourres the hull as the seed passes thru it to such an extent that the moisture can penetrate it and |
