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Show EUlElOnW" IN FORM FARMER RECLAIM THE WASTE LAND Here is a story the State County Agents are telling and you should know it. A farmer living at Benjamin, Ben-jamin, Utah, had 4 y2 acres of waste alkali land from which lie received small or no returns. He seeded it to sweet clover and harvested oBUD pounds of .clover seed which lie sold for 11 cents a pound netting him $396.00. Four and one half tons of clover hay were sold for $36.00 making a total of $433.00. The clover crop yielded large re-, re-, turns besides taking the alkali from ! the ground. There are many waste i acres that could be made to do the ' same thing. Ask the County Agent . about it. He is the man who gathers j facts about the best things that the : farmers are doing and is always, will- ing and glad to pass them on for every farmer's benefit. LATE IRRIGATION Use excess water late in the sea-son sea-son in irrigating naturally dry lands and all areas where rainfall is light. It pays to irrigate such areas until freezing weather comes. Above all give the alfalfa an irrigation after the growing season is over. One such in the fall is. worth two in the spring. Water dissolves plant food from the soil while land that remains dry has no increase in plant food. This is recommended by Prof. L. M. Winsor, irrigation specialist for the Agricultural College of Utah, also by Prof. Homen as Deing especially espe-cially valuable for young orchards. IMPORTANT LECTURES FOR A. C. ROUND-UP. That the potato situation in Utah is getting desperate is shown by the fact that the Utah Agricultural College Col-lege will Have four potato experts to give helpftul talks at the State round-ups this year. They are A. U. Pratt of the XT. S. D. A.; Lon D. Sweet of Carbondale, Colorado, I where he has one of the most exten-j exten-j sive potato farms in the west; Mr. ! W. H. Olin, agricultural expert for the D. & R. G. R. R., and Prof. Geo. R. Hill of the College Botany I department who has made a special scientific study of the potato diseases and who knows by experience how to destroy them. |