| Show A FARMERS contributed during tj the e roundup city there were some very cry timely instructions given by indisputable authority on n the arid and farm problem th that atwould would be well to be heeded in this section of the country by president palman paiman the best authority we have in the state we were told of the great advantages that obtain in this section for the pursuit of this laudable enterprise in iron county and the result to be expected if the proper methods are am followed every advantage to be wished for are here hem in abundance and all that is lacking is the grit to tackle it some argue that we enough rain fall in this county to mature a crop under dry form farm conditions but this isa is a very lery weak argument as it il has hasteen been proven for years year that the annual precipitation is greater in this county than in the counties farther north where this method of farmin farming tris is curried carried on successfully fully ou Our seasons are just as long the soil is unsurpassed the productivity of the soil is as good if not better and A hy by then so much and what is skepticism but a lack ot of faith in our opportunities 7 9 if we ate aie going to be skeptical always in this matter some day not far distant someone is going to come in and show us that we have been asleep for a great number of years and ad have let the greatest asset lying right under our noses go to waste mr told us that we could not long afford to raise cereals on this high priced irrigated land but would be forced to raise our cereals on the dry farm plan and produce more valuable crops on these irrigated lands landh flow loop will it be before we are raising sugar beets in the thousand ton lotse one may say when we get a railroad in to this section dont worry about that why not prove proe that sugar beets can be raised profitable and economically and produce enough stuff or prove that it c cm in be produced here and the railroad will not be long in finding the matter matte rout out what inducement have ve a to offer for a railroad to come in here now when we are not producing enough to bread us ua from one I 1 ear to another let alone the idea that we are ready to ship anything out occasionally we hear some farmer say there is DO use in plantings planting a lot of grain as there la is no market and what is the use of having a lot of surplus on hand let us ask these same men this question Is there any surplus of any commodity on hand in this county at the present day and if so where is it ita Is it not a fact that nearly every summer there is several car load lots of flour shipped into this county to meet the demand and would it not be much better belter to keep that lot of mone money Y right here at home than to send it off to some northern or eastern concern for a commod commodity I 1 ty that could just as atell ell be raised at home we have had this thing dinned dinnee in our ears for the past years and yet we are in practically the same rut that we were i sears ears ago there is a great cry going up among the merchants especially about this ordering of goods from the mail order houses and yet we let thousands of dollars go out every year for flour from one of the best farming districts in the united states where atut it is an easy matter to raise grain in abundance and have an abundance to exp eap instead of importing look the matter squarely in the face fellow farmers and see if we got hold of the wrong end of the string but the argument is put forth that we cannot raise wheat nearly BS cheaply as some of our neighbors on the north and we cannot compete with the them we will grant that under our present wasteful irrigation methods that ou on are right but there is a solution and ad a feasible one in the matter of dry farming that cannot be duplicated in the state of utah as we have bw beba shown re repe peaty atly by actual figures n and demonstrations do you know that it is a fact that there is a great deal more water wasted than is it utilized bliz 1 in this r coun u ty pretty broad statement you say but let us look at the matter candidly for 1 a mon moment t and ad convince ourselves oura elvea take a case in point on some same of our higher bench land that is steep and has a good drainage a certain man has a forty acre tract of land with thirty five of it drawing water star he continues putting that stream of water on that same mine land all during the irrigating season rod and thinks it needs it and a short abort time after the ground seems dry and needs more water one third of that amount of water put on some of the lower land will wil water twice the number of acres as has been proven beyond a doubt and produce jut as much per acre with half the labor which is the most t economical Is it any wonder that at our wheat is 13 a costly investment 7 why not then take a part of this water down on some of the lower langsand land lands sand and cover two or three times the amount of land and thus thu provide homes sad and farms for a lot of our young men instead of letting them go off to some other section of the country by this means eo we could add build up a commonwealth that would the pride of our fair state and bring in wealth untold lets apostatize just a little from the old mossback ideas and admit to ourselves that there are men in th this is state who know a little more than we do ourselves and show the state of utah that iron county is 13 proud of its farmer citizens let us profit m a little by the things that jehae we hae been taught in the roundup the past three leara lears and not be two hidebound to pick up a good thing when t is lying at our feet this county 1 has unlimited facilities for dry farming lets utilize them and make for a bigger self supporting commonwealth mon wealth |
