| Show utah ats h dec 29 1933 the rhe editor of the county news As we near the beginning beg ining ol 01 another yeas I 1 am wishing you a prosperous and happy new year may I 1 have a small corner in in our paper for a few items aich andy mayor or may not bein tees teles ng I 1 an interested in the largel growth crowth of some of our cardcci ind fi field cid crapa pota pol oes for in in tence I 1 remember some time lime agg age your paper had an article to the effect that we mig it expect some favorable results from the use ot ol commercial fertilizer being devel aped from the alunite mines milles ol of marysvale Marys vale that row trea ed ad with that fertilizer liser were out growing the loa oa oca so much that it looked e courage caura ing for the marysvale Marys vale valc product since that tinie time I 1 have bearc not nota i g more about the prodoc wl when en i 1 read the wonderfully wonder full pro of potatoes in some parti part 0 our country I 1 order aonder hw aly obtain petain these ic results alts in sl aies v we e fiad the aid of fertilizer fer tilzer prope tillage bring the he re stilts jults I 1 believe it is minnesota th that athas hao the tha four hundred club which aich mearis means a farmer cusp produce fur hundred bushel of pot aloes per acc abc before he can be 1 mer member liber gf ef that club no nov 01 ol goes them two hund hundred rea bett better r and they have a six hundred club we understand thai clula club has a membership of i nort mort han 70 farmers who have reach d tiie goal gaal of six hundred bushel per acre acar here is is our own mr pugh of kanab who has given us another example of what can be dons done in atah I 1 happen to have been ili id cedar city at a farmers round jp when r nr r kant kane r arra ara ked 1 I see lv r pugh who aho took the in potato bield is present vve ve are going coing to ask him to tell as ashow how he made that wonderful production of nine hundred bushels per acre mr pugh responded by saying when he learned a prize was be ng offered he deter ml ened ined to ty try for it as he had fairy good results in potato growing te fie put barn ard manure on a acce jece of ground at the rate 01 01 itty aty loads per acre and then bs be la ja r 11 working the manure into the ground tro nd by loy continued diskin disking gand and narrowing aara wing unil the soil sail and man manure re were vere mixed leiai i kro knowing oving ving tho soil was ruffic leibly e itly stored with fertilizer he planted much achs asi r than usurp vohen lie ho plowed plowed the potatoes hs he ground could hardly be seen or p potatoes so much for potatoes now about alfalfa wt w are all subject to the hays hay fever especially when the hay is gone and the winter not half over we licar of the slogan a i hay makes the farm pay even ven jim jefferies the ex champ ton on fighter fichter when lie he decided to change his job went vent to nevada and brought an alfalfa farm and when a reporter went to have a prize r ficht talk with hiim hi in he jd ci lie get jim away froni he al alfalfa fa if a subject then heie ethcie is alfeda alfalfa bill I 1 tont know how that dynamic I 1 governer io ov verner erner of 01 oklahoma dahoma caine by itle but some ways I 1 think the aegan log in alfalfa hay makes the arm pay had something to do vichit it alfalfa has ben classed as the ing cing c ct f fora forage ge crops and I 1 be the tittle as a rule holds but butwin wim wi m wa some ields that would hardly produce ne ton per acre anve wonder if t a fa farm m will pay where the farrier ha hs s many amny acres of alfalfa with plenty of water where parts parla nay be changed to other crops tle the poblet p eblem is not hard to solve but where the water arid and land is limited it is different I 1 am britting writ ting from the high albit utes tes 0 of f garfield county and some vill say you ars are toot to high for fawe cant altogether get rid of he question of altitude alli tude we learn flint in southern rn utah where the iha climate is ideal for alfalfa some of these nelds fields have become so y that they have tried commercial fertilization with such results that I 1 understand a ordered last spring it would be interesting te ei to know the results and what baity of fertilizer was used by the courtesy courtr sy of mr C A Hymas the th county agent a ant I 1 secured d a small an aunt of fertilizer arid and tried diton it on three chort rows ros in the middle of an unthrifty piece of alfalfa A As s it rained I 1 soon after I 1 expected to see very vary soon scon but after watching from spring till fall with no results I 1 was r cady to call it a failure but started th the I 1 ashoo as coon n as growth ext spring it waa was easy to see the fertilization had taken hod and the same care as the untreated those three rows rons gave per cent increase over the untreated rows this suggest it maybe bet continued on page 3 continued from front page er to apply it in the f tall all to get he ebene benefit fit in the next spring growth D W woodard |
