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Show NEWS OF OUR NEIGHBORS Capered by tLe Editor in His Weekly Rounds THE EDITOR AT LEAMINGTON. Good Prospects for the Alfalfa Centre of Millard County. The edlior paid a visit to Learning-tun Learning-tun last week and found everybody imsy Irrigating- their farms. The farmers here have all abundance of water and with primary rights that will always insure a good supply eery season. Alfalfa Is further advanced ad-vanced here than In any oilier part of the county. It Is all In bloom on the sandy land lying south of town and rutting will begin next week. The old crop Is all cleared out owing to the big demand made by the farmers around iH'lta and as high as $19 per ton has been realized for some that went on the market last month. No wonder that everybody who raises alfalfa is prosperous. It Is shown by i lie new bouses that have gone up this winter. Among other we notice a fine brick house just completed for John Johnson. No place In Utah can beat Leamington for the amount and (luallty of Its alfalfa seed. It always command a little higher price than that from oilier parts of the state. For Instance, C. A. Johnson last year got $.too worth of seed from 24 acres, besides 4S loads from his first cutting of hay. John T. Johnson got $750 worth of seed and a good crop of hay from 20 acres, and A. K. Johnson sold $101) worth I rum 20 acres and harvested harvest-ed four tons of hay per acre. There seems to ,ie no difficulty In getting a good stand the first year. A. K. Johnson John-son has a field planted last August which will yield a big crop this year. Thv Llgtt . hay, producer, 1 tha. Mc-Intyre Mc-Intyre ranch where there are over I. ODD acres In alfalfa. The fields extend ex-tend on both sides of the river for several miles, Mclntyro owns hundreds hun-dreds of cattle w hich are fed here and sent to his market at Silver City. Leamington U equally famous for its fruit and wo saw some very thrifty looking orchards. Tiia best Is that of Andrew Olsen, who had three acres In 'pplen, pears, plums and peaches. Mr. Olsen Is an experienced fruit raiser, and his orchard shows It. The trees are well trimmed, healthy looking and every tree Is loaded with young fruit. He gut Too bushels last year and expects ex-pects to have at least J .000 liusli'iil this year. Last year some of his apples ap-ples were so large that 125 of them filled a box. lie has some fine looking look-ing pear trees and from some of them he will harvest, not less than ten bushels of fruit. He has 500 trees altogether. al-together. Ilo seems to 'be equally successful with alfalfa, and last year cut three crops and harvested 110 tons of hay from four acres. He prides himself that no wormy fruit ver leaves his orchard. Nexl week we will have a picture of Mr. Olsen's place. Jens Jensen, Just across the road from Mr. Olsen's, also has a fine looking orchard w hich show s the same careful attention and will yield a big harvest this year. We were surprised to see that these lands seemed to bo nothing but sand that had drifted In from the bluffs above, but the big crops proved their fertility. This soil al holds moisture remarkably well. Mr. Jensen also had the finest field of rye we have seen. It seems that potatoes do equally well, as Mr. Dutson raised 317 bushels from one acre last year. Mr. Dutson thinks, however, that milk cows offer the biggest profits. He separates the cream from his cows and sells It In Salt Inke am! realizes $2 per head from them. He thinks a butter factory fac-tory at Iamlngton would be a very profitable thing for the farmers. Tbeir hay would bring thera much more If converted Into butter, and they would then have the manure for their land, which owing to Its sandy character need more fertilizing than heavier lands. One hundred and fifty cows and the Investment of less than $2,000 In a factory would start them Into butter niaking. Are there not enough enterprising farmers In Ieamlngton to organize a company and start this enterprise? I;amingtou provides an Ideal pasture pas-ture for tinea, and Ucorge Hone at oishavw Junt'-iUi. la !iuU'tsjJijU. Ipf ' the season. They have also put out 1,000 hi amis at Uasls, 250 at Dcseret and 200 at Hinckley, They recently brought In 700 stands from California where they had been sent for the winter. Many of the farmers own land on the bench and all ware anxious to know when the Sevier Land tt Water company was going to put In the canals and complete the project thai I t to water all this 'bench land. When In Halt Lake the editor called at the office of the company to try and get some Information, but he did not learn much. He was shown the plat of the work. The water Is to be taken out of the river about seven miles above the town and brought to the head of Fool Creek Sink. Here It divides, one i-anal carrying the water east of the sink and one west. The eastern canal (ohm s to within four miles of Oak City, and the western canal about six miles of Delia. The sink will also be used as a reservoir. Their present, plan seems to be to construct these canals which will water about 12.000 acres of land which Includes Taylor's Flat, their best tract. Although an engineer en-gineer U now doing some work surveying sur-veying It look as if the company was In no great hurry to push the work. Alth nigh the work will be completed sometime, vie would not advise anyone any-one to Invest any money In the ex-pectailon ex-pectailon that the land will be under water very soon. As to the high line canal that looks like a still more uncertain project by this company. We cannot learn that they have any extensive water rights, any reservoir site or any Interest In the Sevier Itrldge reservoir. The Ix-seret and the Melville companies have ail these requisite and they are the ones who coulJ put It through. It would not be costly for them, and much of the work could be done by owners of land in part payment for the water. It will be a great thing foi this country when this project U completed, and some company with sufficient capital and nerve will yet take hold of It and make a good thing for themselves. |
