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Show SOMF, FARM RETURNS ( The only reason the farm land - around Milford has not developed u;s'er. is the fact that there was so -nuch work in the big employment centers, and wages were so- good that men stuck to their jobs. Now from the vast army of unemployed, we ;iall expect some of them to start out and find new employment, and if we just tell them about the possibilities possi-bilities in this vicinity, perhaps some of them would come here and try our farms. Milford has thousands and thousands thous-ands of cheap farm land right at its toor. Xo better anywhere. Milford needs one thousand good farmers. Jo. Hickman out in the pumping belt, on suh-irrigated land produced 307 bushels of alfalfa seed on 30 ! acres. Or. P.ybee raised 350 bushels of ! potatoes per acre out in the shallow well district, south of town. Pota-. Pota-. toes are worth 85 cents per bushel. F. "W. Gospill's onions produced $500 per acre on land south of Milford1. Mil-ford1. Dan Smithson harvested 7S5 bushels bush-els of seed from 90 acres. Bert Ryssman raised 37 sacks of alfalfa seed on 15 acres. According to Farmer Smith, of the 1 Union Pacific, the ideal farm would consist of 20 to 40 acres with 20 dairy cows, 10 sows, 2 silos and some corn, lots of alfalfa, two acres in potatoes and 100 hens, one cat and a good wife j ' Chester Haskell, another success-j success-j ful farmer, renorts good crops of al-. al-. 1 fa! fn and potatoes. ; C-harley Baxter raised 3B bushels ! of first-ciass wheat per acre on his j j ranch south of town. I The best Golden Bantam sweet I'corn ever tasted, came from the demonstration dem-onstration farm. - C. TV. Pates matured Yellow Dent ; corn on his place on the state road. Melons, water melons and casabas, at Charlie Baxter's place. Ask the : M. I. A. if they were not good. i C. C. Sloan's alfalfa seed averaged J6G0 pounds to the acre. i A four-inch pump and a six-horse j power mo-tor is ample to irrigate 1 fifty acres. C. G. Haskell says that water for irrigation by pumping is no longer a o.uestion it is a certainty. Cows, more cows anil more farmers, far-mers, is what is needed here. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Bowen of Salt Lake City, came to Milford on business bus-iness S;-,nday and returned Tuesday ovcniittr. Mr. Bowen used to be a rr-si,v.nt of Milford and is a brother of Leonard Bowen. and Ernest Bow-en. Bow-en. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Ra Sutton of Hammond Valley. Friday November Novem-ber fuh. a fine baby girl. Mother and little one are doing nicely. A |