Parowan Times | 1915-12-01 | Page 5 | Reclaim the Waste Land

reclaim the waste land here is a story the state county agents are telling telline and you should know it A farmer living at benjamin utah had 4 12 1 2 acres of waste alkali land from which he received small or no returns he seeded it to sweet clover and harvested pounds of clover seed which he sold for 11 cents a pound netting him four and one half tons of hay were sold for making a total of the clover crop yielded large returns besides taking the alkali from the ground there are many waste acres that could be made to do the same thing thin ask the county agent about it he is the man who gath ers era facts about the best things that the farmers are doing and is always willing and glad to pass them on for every farmers benefit