Show an encouraging offer for the guipo e of encouraging po tato culture in utah the national copper bank is offering a prize of and a handsome siler eiler tophy cup to the boy who will grow during the present year the best beat potatoes in the tate state prizes will be announced later for boys under eighteen who make tho the but beat showing in eath county the contest will be under ander the direction of louis F boyle consulting agriculture itt of the intermountain industrial association in announcing this offer the national conner bank points out ont the advant are aca to he be rained gained in culture on fixated lands landi landuit elt It is 11 shown hown that the airm farm value per acre in the state where potato a are grown to la larger than for any ny other crop ithe the reward being four times as a great per acre aa that from wheat the following fol iovine loving interesting table of farm alucs per cere accord ing ng to the crop produced as prepared by the state bureau of statistics is 38 being bent the national copper bank wheat 20 2070 10 oats 21 2184 84 barley 21 24 00 corn 24 08 03 hay bay 27 52 sugar heels beets 58 05 alfalfa kl falfa seed 65 31 34 potatoes 89 CS 68 the offer of arthe the national copper bank is ol of particular interest to the people of thib valley in if w of th the e work already being done in this local blocs I 1 it ui by the central utah farmers ex change an organization of farmers for the purpose of ascertaining the beat crops available for this soil and of securing fur the crops of the farmers the best possible pos bibla bible market farmers are awakening to the fact that agriculture is a business and a science ci ence to be successful the farmer must be a business man he must conduct his farm in exactly the same manner as tha the banker handles his business he must ascertain the tha cot co cn t of cf his bis crops and he able to tell what price his crops must orn mand to afford him a reasonable profit if ha be cannot secure that price he knows that the crops he is raisin gaie unprofitable and he must find something that will reap larger profits if as statistics seem to indicate indi cite potato nixing is much more profitable than wheat rai raiding ing on irrigated lands the farmer fanner should have no in turning to potatoes potato cc ibe HIP applies tion of methods to the farm cannot do otherwise than pron proe e of great benefit to tho the farmer and the farmers farmer of this ibis alley are to be congratulated on the progress they have already made the offer of the national copper bank should act as a stimulus to the bo 10 s on the farm to study various crops ind to determine by experiment the moat profitable A deflate inte business policy on the farm will do much to deter the farmer boy from sue BUC combing to the allurements allure ments of the cit |