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Show UTAH TO HAVE GREAT FUTURE No Better Place for Agriculture, Dairying and Hog Raising While the acreage in the valleys of Utah is considered rather meagre when compared with the vast unbroken un-broken stretches of agricultural lands in Iowa, Nebraska and other groat states of the Mississippi drainage drain-age system, yet the expert agronomist agrono-mist and practical farmer maintains that what Utah lacks in size nature ungrudgingly makes up in depth, and richness of soils. Accordingly Utah's valleys enjoying normally equitable climatic conditions are expected ex-pected in the near future to attract thousands of desirable farmers with the result that the state may directly direct-ly take its place with the exporters in place of being on the list of importers im-porters of foods and provisions of all kinds. Recently an agricultural college field man made the statement that while Utah today is yielding annually about 7,5 0 0,0 0 0 bushels of wheat, that this might readily be increased to 100,000,000 bushels. Telling of the dry farm conditions, he stated that although today there were not more than 800,000 acres of dry farm lands under cultivation, that there is sufficient of these desirable lands still open for settlement to raise this to S, 000, 000 acres, or ten times the present acreage under the plow. Another hint to Utah farmers is contained in an advertisement that appeared the past week in a Utah county paper from a leading wholesale whole-sale merchant of Provo in which he declares that he wants to contract with farmers for the raising of 2,-000 2,-000 acres of specified crops. The requirement re-quirement called for 1,000 acres of potatoes, 250 acres of onions, 100 acres of tomatoes, 250 acres of cabbage, cab-bage, i00 acres of assorted vegetables vege-tables and 250 acres of celery. This is the requirement of one business man only. From long experience in the fruit and vegetable business, this man knows he can get quality in Utah. This is considered only a forerunner hint of what Utah may possibly, do in the future. Utah should have a bounteous fruit crop this year, in the Opinion of W. H. Homer, chairman of the state horticultural Commission, who has just completed a tour of a greater great-er part of the state. He says that owing to the continued cold weather wea-ther the buds have remained tightly closed, and will probably not open until all danger of frost is practically over. In some parts of Utah county however, tender apricots and peach bud tests, are yet indefinite, some fearing frost losses. Raise More Hos "Raise more hogs," is the advice issued by Prof. J. C. Hogenson of the Utah Agricultural College. Prof. Hogenson emphasizes the fact of the present meat shortage and states that Utah is admirably adapted to hog raising, as he points out with the state importing $2,500,000 worth of pork and pork products annually from the east and with $5,000,000 worth of pork passing through Utah annually for the west, it is clear that the farmers of this state, are assured assur-ed a good market for their hogs. The worth of the crops raised on Indian lands in the Uintah basin in 1916 was $349,463.22, accordingly to a report made out recently in the office of Superintendent Albert H. Kneale. Ttje following from the Lehi Banner Ban-ner shows that Utah is an ideal place for successful poultry operations: "John Green got 101 eggs from his hennery Monday. He says that this is about an average of what his chickens produce every day. He has 190 in hs flock. Most people's hens have been on a strike for the last two months and the ordinary farmer's farm-er's wife thinks it is because of the zero weather. Last April Mr. Green purchased 300 baby chicks from Petaluma, Cal. They cost about 8 cents each delivered deliver-ed here. When the cockerels weighed weigh-ed one pound each, he sold them for roosters and cleared up enough to pay the purchase price and all the feed for the entire flock up to thatl date. i "The Green chicks are kept in a warm coop with an open front. The curtains are dropped during the nights and the coldest days. they are given lots of straw in which the feed is thrown. This makes thorn work, and young chickens that work will lay. A secret in winter eggs is to get chickens that are born early enough to commence laying before winter sets in, but not too early, else they will moult when they should be laying." Edward Scherer, manager of the Provo City Bakery, is in receipt of a letter from the Royal Milling Co.. of Great Falls. Mont., in which he is advised that a higher price for wheat is imminent. The letter also gives facts and figures purporting to be the range of prices of wheat during important wars of the last two centuries cen-turies of which the following is an excerpt, says the Provo Herald: In 1775-6 during the American Revolutionary war, wheat rose to an average of $2.18. the highest mark was $3. 1815 Nepolenic war, $2.S5. 1854-56 Civil war, $2.28. 1S76-78 Russian-Turkish war 51.76. 1S98 Spanish-American war $1.85. 1904-5 Russian-Japanese war $1.21. Today, May wheat is $1.93. Business failures in the United States for the week ending January IS, according to Bradstreet's were 335, which compares with 3S1 last week, 421 in the like week of 1916, 551 in 1915, 434 in 1914 and 36G in H13 General Conditions Relative to general market conditions con-ditions of the country, Hayden, Stone & Co. say: "This week's market should prove a good test of its new position, if, as we are inclined to believe, stocks have for the past few weeks been going into stronger hands, this new incident of the sinking of a score of ships will have but a very slight and temporary influence. So far as reports received at the moment mo-ment of writing go, there is nothing of a radically new character injected inject-ed into the situation. It does, it is I true, revive the threat of drawing this country into the conflict, but only very faintly. While the market has superficially accomplished little in the backing and the filling of the last three weeks, we are rather of the opinion that its position is improving. im-proving. There has been, it is true, not a very great reduction in loans, but still the movement has been in the right direction and the menace that existed in this direction six weeks ago has been largely removed. The psycological changes in the speculative atmosphere are among its most interesting features. A month ago men's minds were made up that peace was coming in six months and its effects were universally univer-sally discounted. It is still not possible pos-sible that this may come about, but it is more probable that this point of view does not take into sufficient account the temper of the combatants, combat-ants, particularly of the Allies. "Now the idea is gradually beginning beginn-ing to grow that the probabilities are that we are in for another year of war prices. If it be true that companies are to receive present prices for another twelve months, even admitting that after that they must come down, the price of a good many securities are not high. This is particularly true of securities representing the producers of raw materials. They will benefit rather than the producers of manufactured goods, which Europe is every day getting in better shape to supply. This brings us to an incident of which a good deal has been made, viz: the submitting and acceptance of a bid for shells from England at lower prices than our manufacturers would undertake to supply. There is, as a matter of fact, nothing in this that is either new or surprising. If our memory serves us correctly, it was not so very many years ago that-this country was horrified to find that equipment toward the Panama Pan-ama canal could be procured much more cheaply in Europe than hero, but 'patriotism' prevailed and the supplies were bought in this country. "The truth is that there has probably prob-ably been no time in the last twenty-five twenty-five years when government supplies which come in practically free of duty, could not have been bought more cheaply abroad. How much more true it must be now. when our labor is the most highly paid and most inefficient in our history, and against this is matched European labor, la-bor, where the wages, it is true, are above normal, but which is probably more efficient than at any other time. "The one big factor in the situation situa-tion today is I he return to an enormous enor-mous accumulation of gold. This, with the great corporate earnings, was the underlying factor in the bull market in 1915 and the last half of 1916. The tendency toward gold inflation in-flation is as pronounred loday as it was then with the flotation of another an-other big loan, whose proceeds will 1)0 spent here, we shall at least have one of the most important factors making towards higher prices. "We do not look for any surh big broad movement as took place either in 1915 or 1916. There are uncertainties uncer-tainties present today that were nnl present then, at the momenT. more over, it is quite evident that speeu-!a:ive speeu-!a:ive leadership is larking, anil for the time being, so far as stufaee con ditions go. all that we look for is the usual eld. and f!e.. W'e are in-rlined in-rlined to think however, that under these apparently meaningless fluctuations fluc-tuations the market is gradually gelling gel-ling into he'ter position, and unless some unforseej! development ari.-es. we fold it hard to believe that there is any dang--r of a severe bre;.i; in sight in 'he face of iiinmiit's. acou-mulatjou acou-mulatjou of liquid assets." |