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Show HARD WHEAT Of DRY FARMERS OF THIS STATE) Millers, Farmers and Agricultural Experts Agree on Recommending Turkey Heel to th Dry Farmers of Utah Millions ot Dollars Sent Out of the State For Flow Made From Hard Wheat of Other States There was a fairly good attendance attend-ance at the dry farmeis' meeting thtfl morning the second meeting ol the convention The addresses were not I varied, the question of wheat being the sole topic of the forenoon. It was stated by President .Veinli that a number of those who were on the program were not in attendance! and that the program would not Del completed. It proved an Interesting proprara. however and a great many, ideas were advanced that were en-tiielv en-tiielv new to the dry farmers Edward SouthwU of I ehi and Isaac Is-aac Grace of Nephi save brie! talks n the question of The Best Wheat on Dry Umds from the Farmers Standpoint." J Thev agreed that the Turkey red wheat" la by far the most profitable on dr lands because of its hardtne-; and Strength They had experimented experiment-ed in div wheat to considerable extent ex-tent hoth men being residents of the most extensive dry farming district in the state. . From a chemical puint of view. Professor Pro-fessor Robert Stewart o: the Agricultural Agricul-tural college at Logan suld that he considered the hard) and more sturdy ofltable lor the fanner and ihe consumer, including . the miller II was his opinion, hov. ever that I he soft and the hard wheats misbt be blended and used IO( u.jod advanume. He explained the bemlcal ingreuieuts of dry farm j grains from a scientific standpoint. Cor,-.mittee3 Named. Belore the close oT the forenoon session the rollowinn committees were i Appointed to repott to the convents conven-ts n this afternoon: Resolutions I W I'axman of I Nephi. Dr. H. G Peterson of Logan. David McKay of Ogden, C Z. Harris of Richmond and A. M Israeison of Hyrum. Nominations BdwBrd South wick of Lehi, Isaac Grace of Nephi. Dr F S Harris ot Logan and J. S. Carver, of Ogden. The most important speech of the morning was 'hat by President H. H.J BScod of the State Millers' association j on the subject The Best Wheat on Dry Lands from ihe Miller's Point of View,'' prhlch was as follows: Whiiit on Dry Farms. Henry H. Bolod. president QtaJh-lda-J no .MilUis' association gave the fol j lowing adiiress on "Best Wheat on I Dry Farms," from the miller's point j of view : I "The discussion of the kinds of wheat thnt should be grown on the :nrm lands of the state of Utah hus ,) en brought to almost the contru-l , ; kial Stage 'luring the last year, and infortunately there has seemed to be ,1 wide diff rence of opinion between th; millers of the state and the grain shippers, growing out of the varying interests of these engaged In thes ; q branches of the grain trade, '"he r'.tlc: have been conducting an ac i rs cempalgn for hard i heal produc-I produc-I tion. because they anquestionab need that kind of wheat for flour making, while the shippers have been in lined, especially during 1912, '.o regard re-gard with favor the soft, white wheals that were needed to fill an unprecedented unprece-dented demand In the southeastern territory, which had lost its usual supply of local conditions prevailing in the soft wheat states of the Mississippi Mis-sissippi valley. Conflicting Advice, it is not to be wondered a' that the fanners of the state have been perplexed per-plexed by the arguments used by these clashing interests. The ofii cers of the Utah-Idaho Millers' isso elation have been repeatedly asked for advice as to the kind of wheat to plant, and have consistently advocated advocat-ed the growing of Turkey red wheat on all lands suited to its cultivation , When pressed for a reason for the opposite attitude, and the contrary ad-j ad-j vice of the grain buyers of the state, 1 no explanation has been made by us j that there existed the past year a ; very extraordinary condition, one that Justified the paying of a higher price i than common for the starchy white wheats of Utah, but that. In all hu I man probability, the urgent outside ' demand for tha' kind of wheat would not continue year after year, and might not even be a factor In ihr making of prices next season. Utah millers ha. Telt justified in disregarding disre-garding In large measure the temporary tempo-rary demand for white wheal, because, be-cause, in deciding upon a matter of such far-rearhing importance is thej question of the kind of wheat a BtS should grow, the fluctuating demands ol the market, made erratic by top1 failure in the largest soft wheat ter-ritory ter-ritory of the United States, should not he given undue weight. It Is conceivable conceiv-able that a condition might arise In southern California that would open a market for ever) pound of Bllghtlj damaged, sprouted, frosted or mixed wheat the state produced, and at prices practically equal to the mar ket price of milling wheat, but the grain buyer who would go to the farmer and advocate the producing of off-grades of wheat because of that tempo rarj demand and who. through such advocacy, Influenced growers to adopt lax methods In the handling ol their crops, might be justly harp ed with working injury to the agricultural agricul-tural interests of the state. And the farmer who would lend an ear to audi counsel would be thereby forfeiting his right to be regarded as a progressive pro-gressive agriculturist Far be it from me to charge that any grain buyer would give such advice, having in view the buying of the off-grade grain at a sacrifice and marketing it at an enhanced profit, and farther be il from my thought to believe that any furmer In this state would be so foolish fool-ish as to accent the advice if it were given. But the millers of Utah ma perhaps be pardoned if they Dancj thej see a -alher close analogy be tween this obviously unwise counsi I and the advice to Utah wheat growers to plant, and continue to plant . soft j w heats on lands that are adapted to the growing of the admittedly better grades of hard wneat. In the production produc-tion of wheat, as In every other line of endeavor, the best is none too good The lands that nature's t!od has mad rich in the elements thai enter into the making of the best of I heal should not be thoughtly used I In the producing of grain that ia Inferior In-ferior in the qualities that make it j I valuable for human food Wheie to Grow Hnrd Wheat. "Fortunately our discussion today I has to do with the kind of w heat that ' should be produceJ on dry' farms j We are not here. I take 11 to con alder the arieties of wheat that Miould be produced mi the irrigated lands of the state. If the latter were under discussion, my argument would probably be far different than it will i hi considering the assigned topie My in 1 1 1 i it friends I hope will pardon me. and I am sure the advocates 01 soft wheats will be glad to do so. when I say that Utah should, and doubtless always will, produce abundant abun-dant crops of the soft white Btarcby wheats that have found such ready sale the past season But the semi-arid semi-arid or dry lands of the state are not the plate to grow s"h grain it is on the lower lands, where wale; is near the surface, and in the valleys having very heavy precipitation, or on the irrigated tracts that are he'nc brought under aucli high cultivation recently that these kinds of wheat should be produced. Under those conditions very much heavier yields can be secured Out on the higher lands where irrigaion is not possible, where prec ipitatiou is scant and where wheal of drouth-resisting habits hab-its is needed it Is there that the I. est of hard wheat can he produced , From these localities the mills of the state must look to set the kind ot i wheat that will enable them to meet I the competition ot eastern made flour ' The so-called dry farms ol this inter- mountain COUntrj must i;ive us tbe v. heat we need to place the milling in-dU8try in-dU8try OD a basis that will make it a 1 factor in the building up of the state. Wheat for Export "The millers have no objection to i tbe SUrplua wheat from the irrigated, Tarms being sent ahroaJ as wheat I Sufficient ot it will always be manufactured manu-factured Into flour to supply Bjjch home trade as demands thai grade Of flour. There Is no fear that OUT I 'tah market will be lnaded by the I importation of soft wheat flour It may even be possible to secure a market mar-ket lor flour made from Irrigated wheat In outside territory; something! along that line has been done ft'- j ready , owing to the ?oft wheat short age that has been mentioned Hut however great tbe market for soil wheat flour for outside tiade. there will always be plenty of that grade of wheat produced on it)'1 lands thai are not well adapted to the growing' of the hard, glutenous wheats A mac;-nificent mac;-nificent milling industry may bull I up here in Utah to supply that clasi of trade, and grain shippers mav find remunerative business in .eii.l ing abroad the surplus soft wheat f.om Utah irrigated farms to the outside out-side mills that need it. all to the en-1 rlchment of the growers and ot the : state generally. Keeping Money at Home But after all that is said, there is still' the pertinent question before U8 as io what we shall be able to do to beep t home the stream of money that has for years been going out Of this state In ever-1 n rea -. n . quantities to pay for bard wheal flc thai I tah trade demands I the Ar farms of Utah and outhern Idah. do not produce hard wheat the null era stand powerless In tbe manor V .. b' s! o. Hah soft whra. w ' " " laupplj the demand, it Is JtV? ,ion of milling, we Lave In tah aa Selling methods; our goods an ' '" v:zz "'"""V l"' ' no, , to discriminate " P'hhomeDroduct The who . galnsl tbe bomt p. milllating fae sttras x Utah th gJ.-!J2,t; unless tbe om?S?Jute w!ll ve ua the rarmen 'f ' competltora lr:,iuc!5ntOf the fl tna! CDt0" L have for, Kansas and N,hv OD tbo hard years enjoyed a .nionoj lntermoun. w lo s1 flour market in tain country. (Continued on Eight) I, I HARD WHEAT OF DRY FARMERS OF THIS STATE (Continued From race Seven ) Mills Have Stood Idle. "The spectacle bee been frequently presented of local mills standing idle while the milling companies them selves were distributing to their cue tomers Kansas or Nebraska or Minnesota Minne-sota flour I hat they bad been forecd to brine In 10 supply their trade Can you. sentlcmen of this convention wonder that under such a condition and with the demand for the outside product rapidly mercasinc. t he millers of the state felt Impelled to come 10 cether to consider ways and means to rheek this trend toward Industrial su icide'' Ilcr were fifty or more tftall mils representing an investment of probably 1 onlj put of the time under operation and frequently Idle because of lack of market, while Kansas and Nebraska mills were run nlng day and night and then products were feeding our people With such a state of affairs existing, it ceased 10 be a question of interest solely to the milling industry; It became n state matter With that fact in mind, 1 he millers appealed to the farmers to help them regain the trade that was Slipping I it 11 1 their grasp It whs tell 1 that in a large sense the interests of growers and manufacturers were mutual, mu-tual, and when the request was made that Turkey red wheat be planted on l inh "dry " farms it was with th belief be-lief that the furmers would lie great j ly benefited in the growing of that kind of wheat ;md with if the millers j ould be able to keep out the eastern flour. W this point, the question naturally nat-urally arises Here our hopes ami anticipations justified Turkey Red Acclimatized "First, as to t ho results in behaif or i the farmers There has not been lime enough to definitely soy what will be the final verdict when the Tur key led wheal has become accilmatiz ed. and when such care as should be given it is deDted to the selecting of good seed wheat But suffi'ient lutS been demons! rated during the past reason to justify the predictions oi the I'tah Agricultural college and its corps of workers that Turkey red wheal would be found suited to the i liniote ;nd soil of L tab "Reports that hare come from mam 01 the dry farms where white wheat and Turkey red have be grown side by side have been to the! Ierfe-t that the yield of TurI.ev red Ins exceeded that of the softer 1 Inds The highest yield on unirrlgatcl land that was reported in Davie conntv showed a irld of Tur! ey red of for- i tv-foar bushel.: sn acre, while white wheat planted beside i' produced ten bushels los an acre. Tt is of interest 1 note that tin's yield was produced fiom s-e I ;hit had been accllmat- I l.etl, halrg been from a strain grown i on r years in succession lu the same locality. Effect cn Millirg. rond as to the effect the mill- I ing of Turkey red wheat has had. j and is having, on the hard wheat flour I market in Utah A careful estimate o. the amount of flout that was Lm- : ported fiom eastern mills before t he I hard wheat propaganda was under taken In Utah placed the amount at clrse 10 60,00 1 pounds a day. This will seem ioo high an estimate to those vho hac not been made aware oi the fact that practirall every b;-ker in tlie large: cities oi the state had quit using Utah flour while it was being revde solely of soft wheat. Something like 10,000 to 60,-000 60,-000 loaves of bread daily is the output out-put of Salt Lake bakeries, and those oi ugden and the larger outside cities cit-ies would s.vell the total to 80,000 loave or mo e, so that th? estimate of 60,000 pounds oi flour a div would seem conservative This trade alone would b? sufficient to keep the largest larg-est mill in the state running dav and night continuously, it would require aliout 1200 bushels oi Turke;. red wheat daily, or more than a third of; S million bushels a yea: Rjsing the rot of the flout that used to be Imported Im-ported on thcii riec paid today for eastern flour, 2 7u per ioo pounds, It will be seen that (1850 a day, or close to (500,000 annually vas being be-ing Eent out of the state for a product pro-duct that we hsd every facility for I making nt home, if given tne raw product Another point to be empha- s7.ed in this connection is that the purchasers of eastern flour pay about r.' eents per 100 pounds more for the llcor than the softc;- I'tah artlele could be bought for. This serves to 1 show the superiority cf the imporier product in the opinion of the bakers. I Afternoon Session At the afternoon session there was an attendance of about 75, the time I o.' tho arrival of the delegates bin' rather late. Dr. P S. Harris of the state agn cultural college of Loan, addressed I " 1 I the convention on "Forage Crops on Urv Land for Livestock." The doctor stated that forage oi dry lands was the most perplexing question and he confessed thai 'v more than llkelj ibal no grasses will over be found that will thrive well on that kind of land On of tho treat questions with the dry farmer, Be declared, was how lo raise hay for the stock on the i.inn Livestock was necessr.ry on the dr farm as well as on the wet farm, be said, mil must he fed. The dr. I n I is no place ior hoy ar.J the Question IS what can be substituted. There are some plants ot the podded naMu that do pretty well cn dry lands 1 anion? which alfalfa is the most pro fitablc. He considered that alinll'a might he successfully used for silos Othnr feed for stock to he gathered Jirorn the dry farm is the poorer qualities qual-ities of grains which may he used In connection with Hie straw He stated 1 hat drv farm straw is much more nutritious nu-tritious than that raised on wet inri.H ;ind animals do fairly well on !t If they have plenty if good shelter and the feed is kept from th weather ex-Dosure. ex-Dosure. Another good l?ed. bo said, was the grain cu before it ripens. Corn also is of considerable value ar. a dry farm forape It however. Id small and BCruhhv on dry lands and I not much of it can be raised on an acre Other addresses to h piven during the afternoon deal with the question of ownership of lr last year's experience in dry farming in the vari-1 vari-1 ous dry farm counties. The e'ectlon of officers for th vrnr will take place before adjournment. adjourn-ment. The spssIoii of this cfiernoci Is the la6l of tho convention |