Show NET PROFIT more than net profit on a era crop P of affairs wed sped grown on a forty laforty acre tract was the return to R B ashby of leamington leavington Lea last fall the slat statistics ettes on the remarkable crop and the adaptability of utah soils for the growing of alfafa aleafa seed was we given to fred J leonard manager of toe cullen hotel I 1 in a letter received recently from bishop ashby bishop ashbia ashbys statement of his emp crop and the return made shows that the forty acre tract yielded bushels of alfafa aleafa seed weighing pounds which sold at 14 cents a pound just as it came from the thresher thrasher without cleaning bringing him a total of 50 there were seventy tons of chaff after the seed had been taken which sold for far sa 7 a ton bringing an additional or a total return from the tract of 60 the expenses for cultivation and harvesting the crop amounted to divided as follows watering 40 cutting and hauling 65 threshing sacking and loading 50 leaving a net profit of 60 the seed was taken from the second crop of alfafa aleafa the first crop harvested earlier inthe in the season from the same forty acre tract netted a sufficient return on hay bay alone to pay for its cultivation and taxes on the farm for the jear ear in closing his letter to leonard bihon ashby some crops in this district brought heavier returns than did mine leavington leamington Lea is 16 located in milard county along the line of the salt lake route ex |