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Show MILFORD VALLLEY IS BEST IN COUNTRY SAYS . SEED BUYER BEACH George E. Beach, the big alfalfa seed buyer, says people don't know a good thing when they see it, especially es-pecially if it is right at their door. He says that lie has traveled over many states, has seen some of the most noted agricultural areas in the land and that to his way of thinking, there is no tract of undeveloped land equal to the land around MHford and Minersville.. And as a proof of this statement he sights the fact that one farmer north of Milford sold 45,000 pounds of alfalfa seed from 70 acres ac-res this year and the present price cf seed was 15c per pound, or $6,750 Besides this one crop of hay was cut valued at $1,000. When one considers consi-ders the minimum amount of labor needed to raise a crop of seed, it will he found that the above farmer received a recompense which per day excelled the salary of the President cf the United States. Several other farmers north of Milford sold 10,000 to 20,000 pounds of seed at prices ranging from 12 to 15c a pound, machine run. The total number of pounds bought by Mn Beach in that section of the val- ley amounted to about 150,000. To the south of Milford the threshing thresh-ing ;s not nearly all done, but several sev-eral farmers estimate this crop at from 40,000 to 50,000 pounds and the crop for the entire valley is es-t es-t mated to exceed 300,000 pounds. The land surrounding Milford appears ap-pears to be especially adapted to the culture of alfalfa and the soli is just right and the water level is exactly at the proper place to give the best results. The land is cheap and the living conditions are Ideal. Good schools, plenty of water, electric power, good market, telephones, good roads and railroad transportation. Los Angeles and California have just become awake to the fact that Southwestern Utah is destined to become be-come their great source of food supply, sup-ply, but in order that Utah shall do its share, it must have settlers, real farmers, not agriculturalists, and the great question is not one of soil or climate, but how to get the money and the men to develop these vast areas of already proven lands. |