Show NEW ERA FOR scientific FARMERS ARTESIAN WELLS AND ALFALFA SEED MAH FORTUNES FOR MILLARD COUNTY FARMERS continued from lust last issue while alfalfa sued seed remained down around 7 cents a pound six and night eight bushels of 0 eighty pounds each or to per acre was waa a big but not a sensational return however tl ti was a cash crop and ami exceeded all other crops in ili that section in ili value it was the handiest cro athe small farmer had on oil account of 0 its tendency to bring cash and gro won salt grase greasewood and shad scalo scale lands where other crops did not do so well it meant pin pill money to abarge class ot of destil desultory de sultry try farmers who were persistent elit in ili clinging to tile the older crops area arcu B bands dut but tho the growing price ot of the commodity created the temptation to u L peri pediment ment and learn and about fifteen years ago the river bottom land area of alfalfa seed growing burst its barr barriers era and another millard county area equally as largo and potentially as great was discovered james al stewart of cf meadow entered the field of seed production in eastern millard county and inadvertently edged over onto tile tho great Pa livant valley sub irrigated area in eastern millard coun ty ile he planted forty acres below meadow to alfalfa and has successfully raised seed every year for fit teen years without irrigation with the exception of ono one year of failure mr aln stewart Is authority himself tor for the statement that during these fourteen successful years he has realized an all annual income of aioo an acre acra tor for tills this f orty forty acres ile he says he would not consider au an acre to fo athis forty acre mint next came the conspicuous success of almon robison Kob lson S beginning ten ayars ago hero here on sub irrigated land a acre alfalfa seed field has been built up in ten years that has steadily produced from seven to fourteen bushels per acre last year tho the crop was valued at 35 36 this year it amply sustained it growing reputation former employed on this tract who drew 40 a month have secured leases on patches of 40 acres or more each now they are arc on oil the road to ln hi dependant wealth for instance seymore brunson Dr unson one of the lessees lessels les sees raised bushels of seed tills this year and ana sold bold the crop for nearly jacob davies jas matchell Ml joo joe beckwith lewla lewis 13 brunson run and others of the lessees lessels who a few years ago were earning small wages realized thousands of dollars dollar as kentees ren tees mr robison in addition to drawing good rentals had it stipulated st that his drove of hogs have treo free range on the farm and the seed aced crop so tar far as lie ho was concerned was a byproduct by product during tile the last fifteen years the alfalfa seed aria anna in millard county has extended up the river past delta and leamington leavington Lea thirty miles over into deaver beaver bottoms and the extreme western part ot of the county and is gradually reclaiming the Bub irrigated belt in ili eastern millard county which extends from th of oak city town down the Pa livant valley to kanosh hanosh a tract at least thirty miles long and several miles wide where tho the subterranean water approaches within five feet of the surface at some points and within twenty five feet at other points here after the plants have sent down their foots loots as far as tho the moist ground you never have to irrigate your alfalfa field it grows from year to year and yields you a magnificent crop of collais without re planting cultivating and without any labor and care except the labor and care of a preliminary lini inary cutting about the farst of juno june and the harvesting ot of the seed and it if you dont want to bother with the preliminary cutting which pays the expense of raising the seed you just turn your cattle or hogs on it and use it as a pasture until about the first of juno june and then you watch it grow into a tat fat batik bank account tho the remainder of tile the season an 1111 Eni this immense tract has been made available tor for the extensive seeding by tile develop development nicia ot of grea tart ealan wells that extend in a line along tills this bolt from a point northwest of holden to a point eight miles southwest of and thoro there Is evory every reason to believe that tile tho whole valloy valley will bo be reclaimed by this method six of these wells throwing from to 1400 gallons of water per minute and some of them capable of irrigating a square nillo mile ot of land havo have 1 already I been developed they r range ngo in depth from to feet fee far on oil pago U NEW ERA DAWNING FOR FARMERS concluded from pago page 1 mers as tar far south as kanosh aro are waiting to make contracts with the of 0 tho the boring machines wh n t la is remembered that in this great bolt belt surface wells equipped with gasoline pumps aro are everywhere feasible U t becomes certain tha athis whole bract of acres will bo be shortly ac I 1 a aimed and that tire tho seed grower can air supplant tits his great sub irrigated crop with any additional irrigated rop crop ho he chooses that the figures gathered by the state stat lelan giving the average yield of alfalfa seed in Sl illard county in 1914 as ag bushels a modest in the extreme la is shown t I 1 the statement of mr haines the stati clan himself who in a signed statement to a well known land company in 1913 says tho the records of ou on rumeo are meager owing to the failure of the assessors of that county to see that our agricultural schedules are properly erly filled out from personal know logo based upon several trips to that section in the tall fall season during the past two or three years I 1 have found that tho the production of alfalfa seed ranges from six to twenty bushels por per acre this compare deith out our statistics from other parts of the state shows that millard count ads all other parts of tile the state i alfalfa seed yields per acre liston listen tor for hi stanco instance to these individual instances edward D B Bus bashnel linel asserts that ho he raised on sub irrigated lands near meadow in 1911 bushels of seed on 30 acres arid and in 1912 08 bushels on forty acres jacob B davies da vies declares that lie ho has farmed forty acres of alfalfa seed on tho the almon oil robison farm for ten years without a single failure arid and that tho the yield has ranged from seven to fourteen bushels per acre F C melville of fillmore says lie he has raised as high as twenty bushels of alfalfa seed per acre below Fil willinore linore on oil land W G cropper has realized an air acre from 63 53 aers of seed near deseret for twelve fl jacob hawley has made maclo from to a year tor for several years raising seed near deseret Des lie ho has ac cumulated cum curn a store a largo large hord herd of cattle anti and substantial interests in banks arid and lumber yards the rogers rogera brothers near deseret have been making from to a jear from seed arid and have acquired among other properties a thousand head of cattle rodney ashby of leamington leavington Lea realized an cre form ten tell acres in ili 1916 1915 bishop kimball of kanosh has realized a hundred dollars an acre from forty acres for live years cara on a tract of land between meadow and kanosh kandah the day brothers of fillmore are raising seven to ten bushels an air acre every year on high land above willmore milo warner raised near fillmore Fill moro this year eighteen bushels per acre of alfalfa seed martin hanson realized from a forty acre tract near fillmore this ajar between the min liburn and maximum yield of alfalfa seed in millard county taken in ili tion to the present staggering prices price which range from 16 to in somo some rare t instances stances li as high as 20 cents a pound lies an all empire of profits that constitutes a unique opportunity eunity fur the farmers of millard county one Ius bushel lOl of such a product at such a price is worth a whole acre of kansas wheat at present prices when a farmer gets ten bushels which Is coL common raon or twenty bushels which Is rare and one wa remembers that this Is pure pare velv after the first clipping arid and the straw has amply provided tor for all expenses one can readily understand why the alou sands of millard county farmers aro are at present dreaming dreams that heretofore only gold prospectors have been allowed to indulge in ili till THE UM |