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Show three years mnre and it will he! the beauty spot fur this vicinity. Frank liei-kwith. hers that on an air line this farm of ('rum's is only about seven miles from the fruit orchards of Oak City, there is no insurmountable insur-mountable reason why fruit can't be grown there. Of course Oi'k City has the protection of the near-by hills which we out here on the flat haven't, but I believe fruit will be a real thing here eventually, and those who will prove this fact to us will be the residents of the north bench, for already Mr. ('rum has made a start that way, and will keep at it, and Mr. Soule. also has amuch more extensive beginning-. In the columns of this paper 1 have praised the work of Webster Web-ster with some pet levelling he had done near the reservoir, and I have now to mention that Crum has some acreage on one of his forty acre tracts that is fully up to the best anywhere to be found hereabouts. The dykes are models, well turned, ample, supplied sup-plied with cement headgates with galvanized shut-oft's, a proper pro-per waste ditch at the lower end, and all the marks of excellent workmanship. The work that has been done on that forty will certainly add materially to its worth. And, such work always brings results in crops. Crum has 19 acres of alfalfa that is a surprise to me. Down here in the heavy clay soil we find that it is almost impossible to get alfalfa started short ol two to three years. Crum has a stand of one year that is entirely satisfactory, and a stand or some that is two years old that is a feast for the eyes. The soi there is quicker than here. More sand, looser, and seemingly not so stubborn to subdue. I notice that contagion of good things is catchirg as well as measles and other afflictions. What I have in mind now is that the contagion of using good, durable, everlasting, cement headgates at each dyke is ; thing that has spread over al! the north bench farms I guest I'll lay the blame of starting it to Soule. Well, let it spread. No digging down a bank to let some water on a dyke, and dabbing dab-bing it up again; no wash outs from that cause; and an expense, that once stood, serves for all time. The Hill Folk are believers in trees lots of 'em. Soule put out 2800 on his place this spring Bender, Schulze and Crum follow suit, with how many I don't know. Give the North Bench Improvements on the Bench I ate some home grown winter spinach a week ago Sunday, grown here in Delta, and a delicious de-licious treat. It was grown cn the farm of R. F. Crum on the north bench, under the Sevier River I and & Water Co. system. sys-tem. On this farm of eighty "acres 1 saw some .other interesting thihgs: For instance, I saw a hundred strawberry plants 1 hope the frost doesn't get them; a young orchard, doing well, and bidding fair to thrive. Of course it will. It takes pluck and perseverance per-severance to get fruit trees established, es-tablished, but when one remem- |
