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Show INTENSIVE FARMING SHOULD BE THE RULE HERE IN EASTERN UTAH. The Sun desires to say to the farmers of Eastern East-ern Utah that no feature of present day education educa-tion is more potent for good to this country than that now being accomplished by the various agricultural ag-ricultural schools and experimental stations and farms. Twenty yearA ago the "book farmer" was looked upon as a visionary by a large percentage per-centage of our farming population, and is even yet so" regarded by some, though happily their number is small. Now the man who intelligently studies his soil with a view to determining its needs is coming to the front as an authority on matters agricultural. And the reason this is so is because his theories have brought forth fruit In fnrf. Nothing is more certain than that this country coun-try is woefully behind in farming efficiency. For years our farming experts have been pointing out to us the fact that our lands nrc not producing pro-ducing a half not even a third of the crops that bountiful nature intended they should yield. One has only to cite the case of Germany to see the full force of this statement. Germany is not aB large as the stnte of Texas, yet Germany today to-day is supplying her civil population nnd her vast armies almost entirely from the products of her own soil. But Germany and other old world countries have for years practiced intensive inten-sive farming, a system that is only just beginning begin-ning to prevail in this country. Instead of being merely an experiment, intensive in-tensive farming should be the rule. Nothing more fully demonstrates tho truth of this statement state-ment than a glance at the results obtained by the many corn clubs of the United States. From all directions come reports from these organizations, organiza-tions, where the enormous yield of two hundred bushels nnd more per acre has been attained. Not only this, but the reports coming from all sections of the country nre proof that almost any of our soil is susceptible to such improvement. improve-ment. Then there is another important feature to theso big corn yields. It has been shown thnt they can be produced at a substantial profit over and above tho cost of preparing tli land for their production. Careful records have been kept of all expenditures, and in almost every instance the proceeds have. much more than pAid the cost of bringing the soil to its present utnt.i nr r,.ftttiit. 'If these results enn be obtained from an acre, or two or three, why not from ten or fifty or a hundred acres? If they can be obtained from a patch, why not from a field? Why not from nil fields? The deplorable truth is that too many of our farmers aro "necessity" farmers. They ask themselves, "How much do I need?" anil then proceed to satisfy that need, and no more. They should rather ask, "How much can I get?" nnd then get nil they can. it hns been estimated that America could feed the world if all her soil were mndc to produce to ita full capacity. What that capacity is, wo arc only just beginning to discover. |