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Show STRAWBERRIES IN OGDEN VALLEY. Why not raise strawberries in Ogden Valley? That is a query n prominent Ogdeuite put to us this morning. lie called attention to the success won by Steamboat Springs which is now shipping strawberries to New York by the carload. The berries are raised at a high altitude, arc firm and, therefore, excellent shippers, and enter the market when there is no competition. "When the street cars run to Ilunstville, beginning this coming season, Eden, Liberty and that part of Ogden Valley should load the electric cars with berries, following the example of Steamboat Springs. Wly not make the experiment? PROGRESS IN FARMING IN WEBER COUNTY. Fruit trees without irrigation and sweet corn without artificial watering are two of the achievements of Chas. J. Adams of Riverdale. Mr. Adams is known as a successful fruit grower. He works his head as well as his hands. Sixteen years ago he acquired 25 acres of raw land at Riverdale. At that time he was a photographer who thought outdoor life was essential to his health. He began a study of fruit culture, resolved to raise the best fruit. That he has succeeded suc-ceeded is attested by the beautiful exhibits of fruit he has made at county, state and national fairs, and further proved by the fact that he has prospered, having just completed a $7,000 reinforced concrete home on his place at Riverdale. Mr. Adams is a believer in the Campbell system of dry farming. He has read Campbell's magazine and has practiced the principles therein set forth. Applying the system to his orchard, he has succeeded suc-ceeded in demonstrating that peaches can be grown without irrigation. irriga-tion. He also has shown that corn requires no irrigation to bring it to maturity. This spring he planted 407 peach trees and three acres of com above the line of the Davis & Weber Counties Canal compan3''s waterway. water-way. He has lost but two trees and has raised all his corn to the highest state of perfection. He did not attain this success without intelligent in-telligent effort. After the early spring storms, he disked his land in order to break up the surface soil which he later turned under with a plow.. The object of disking is to make the top soil uniformly free from lumps which might interrupt capillary attraction when turned under. Then the plowed land is rolled to increase capillary attraction, attrac-tion, and, finally, the surface is gone over with a spring-tooth harrow until a dust, mulch is formed which makes a blanket that prevents the moisture underneath escaping. The water in the ground is drawn up to the roots of the trees or other plants, and is held there. Later, when the tender plants get rooted and must not- be dislodged, dis-lodged, Mr. Adams breaks up the surface with a "weedcr," a machine ma-chine which he has used this season for the first time. When his corn began to appear above the ground, he drove over the three acres with his weeder, pulverized the surface which had baked after a rain and in so doing he did not injure his young plants. He says that with the weeder" he can cover 25 acres of ground in a day, using one horse, and he looks upon it as the one indispensable agricultural implement on his farm. We asked him if the weedcr could be operated to advantage in the beet fields and he replied: "Yes." If so, then the weeder soon will be a part of the equipment on every farm in this country. What Mr. Adams is doing at Riverdale others can do. He is leading lead-ing the way in scientific farming and the advancement he is making should be studied by others. |