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H 4 THE DESERET FARMER Saturday, august i5, igos. I H THE DESERET PARWCER B (THAT BIG FARM PAPER.) H Combined With "Rocky Mountain H Farming." H Established 1904. H Official Organ of the H UUh State Poultry Association. " H Utah Horticultural Society. H Utah State Dairymen's Association. H Utah State Bee Keepers' Association. B Bear River Valley Farmer Protec- H tive and Commercial Association. H Utah Arid Farming Association. H Issued every Saturday by the Dcs- H er-ct Farmer Pub. Co., Salt Lake Sc- H curity & Trust Building, Salt Lake M City, Utah. H Entered as second class matter Dec. H 27 1 1905, at the PostofTicc at Salt H Lake City, Utah. H Subscription price $1.00 per year H (Strictly in Advance.) H Discontinuances. H The publishers must be notified in H writing, at time of expiration, when H discontinuance of subscription is dc- H sired, and all arrears must be paid. H Advertising rates made known upon H aoplication. The right is reserved to H reject questionable advertising. H All communications and rcmit- H tanccs should be addressed to "The H Dcscrct Farmicr," Salt Lake Sccuri- M ty & Trust Building, Salt Lake City, H Utah. H A H Lewis A. Merrill Editor M P G. Peterson Asst Editor H J. H. Harper Business Mgr. H 7 " H Salt Lake City, Utah, H Saturday, August 15, 1908. H H H EXCURSION TO THE AGRICUL- f TURAL COLLEGE. - H On September 7th the farmers pl M thc$north,crn part of the state; wilra H have an opportunity to see " Utah's i H graTt industrial school, the grounds, H 'farm, livestock, conservatories, etc. , H A special excursion1 train will leave - M Salt Lake about 7 o'clock a. m. on j M September 7th, and as this is Labor j H day a legal holiday, it as expected H that a largq crowd vill be in attend- H ance. The, excursion oaainot help but m be a most instructive one. The train P H ill imas through some of the finest Q orchards ami most fruitful fields, m Davis, Weber, $ox Elder, and Cache IH coupue& The Cache Commercial I CluJL' will taike the visitors in charge, L3 andj" free transportation will be given M to lhe College. At the College the H excursionists will Ijc taken in charge H by the officials, and a free lunch :on H will be served. The party will be H shown around the grounds, -buildings, H etc , and a "booster" " -meeting will 1 be held in the Logun tabernacle, and GfTohcj county twill show hcr,,SppJfcSia-A tiou of the grcatk State Institution locac'dJlwitHin Micr bordkfrs, fgi thisjb occasion. Xhc fare for thc rounds f trio from Salt Lake CJty will only! t be $2.25, and there will be no otherj expense. Everybody should accomp-i? any the. excursionists to the A'gricul tural College on September 7th. I o m A VISIT OF INSPECTION, f ' ' I The writer of this article has just completed a tour of inspection ofa Sj$mc 0f the state and farms in com- pany with Dr. E. D. Ball, Director of the Utah Experiment Station, Dr. , L J. Briggs and Prof. W. M. Jardinc of the U. S. department of Agricul- turc. The parties spoilt a day on the, state farqi at Nci)hi, another day on the farm belonging tQ 01C Utah Andf larm Company in Dog-VaJlcy, an- l V other day 01 the Tooele county ex- , perimcntal fapn, onc,day.',in Saltf Lake county, several days in Sevier county, and some time in Cache coun-, ty. Everywhere the pospects of dry , number of new companies have been formed, large tracts of land arc be ing brought under cultivation, and the outlook is most hopeful. Prob ably the best field' of wheat'scen dur ing the entire trip was that of Grace Brotlwrs nt Nephi, where an average yield of probhtoly 37 bushels to the acre on the 300-acro yield, will be secured. Dr. Briggs was very much gratified wUh the conditiow found here and with the development that t has been made. ' IN SEVIER COUNTY., 3L ' I The writer has just returned from jfa trip to Sevier county where he went to inspect the State Experimental J farms located some twenty miles southeast of Richfield. This farm is at jvn elevation of some seven thousand feet. At the time of the visit the wheat hod not yet matured, but there was sufficient moisture in the ground! to insure its perfect de velopment. A number of the plants gave promise of yielding at least 18 bushels per acre. It would be a splendid thing if the farmers of Se vier county could be brought to real ize that to. yield of this kind is equiva lent to 45 to 50 bushels of wheat on irrigated land. Especially gratifying, 1 , T4l , 'however, on this farm was the con dition of the grasses. Of these tcfts Bromus Incrmis gives the best prom ise. The grass seeded under the i writer's direction there five years ago, stands knee high, covers the ground . well, and Mr. Fairbanks, the fore man in charge reports that this grass ; is most desired of Ml by live stock. The form is kept in a splendid con dition by Mr. J. W. Fairbanks, the cfTfcicnt foreman, amd the results al ready secured- show beyond any ques tion of doubt that the desert lands of Sevier and Wayne counties will be untimatcly reclaimed. 11 0 ' ''lh BRIGHAM CITY tEACH ,DAY. v . Since oiir last issue, plans have , been -crystnli'ing looking to the erec tion of stands and l)ootli6 on the square north of the court house. Mr. Funk was over the grounds last Tucs ' day estimating the amount of space we can utilize to advantage there , with a view io providing suitable ) quarters for exhibitions of frivits and novelty stands, etc. We shall be in position very soon o receive applica tions for apace. Wc moft si'necrcly believe that ev ery man, wonian and child Svill take such an intiorcst in, this celebration that everything wc have .planned shall pan out entirely satisfactory. Show everybody the cheerful face and extend the glad hand. Send out your invitations, everybody, every where, so that all may know. Then when our friends come let us isec to it that every mother's son of them and daughter, tpo, gets some of the very best peaches wc can produce. Before very long, the special boxes for Peach Day will be ncady for dis tribution among the multitude of growers 'round about. Each grower will take ia delight in filling the boxes with good peaches that will fit snug. This year there will be no such tiling as one person getting credit for the good work or the good fruit put up by another, but each will receive ls proper credit. A neat card will accompany every box upon which the contributor 'will tsign his or her name. ThUs each 'person who leccives a box will know just where it came from and where to look when good peaches arc Wntcd hereafter, either this year or next, September 16th js the day, and """don't be backward about giving out the good word. ft Dr. Ball of the Agricultural College I at Logan was visiting the State Ex- E periment Farm in the Washington 1 field the latter part of last week. He was here on Pioneer Day and! was out collecting bugs, in the evening when Ivc was caught in the heavy storm and got a good bath. Washington Coun ty News. It will be a matter of much con gratulation to Dr. Ball's many friends to know that he survived the bath alright. Ed. m , ' DRY FARMING. X i , - Hitf IflJ ' Kenarra , to the Front.,-, t Last Tuesday Wm. C. Reeves of Kanarra came into the office and brought with him samples of wheat that he has raised without water. lie said he had read several articles in the Record about arid farming and the success some were having in the raising of wheat without water and decided to bring a few samples to show the Cedar people that Ranarr.i was not behind her sister town. The samples Mr. Reeves brought were taken at random in his field and arc beauties. One sample of common Touse that is raised usually only with water will go about 20 bushels to the acre. A sample of Red Chaff was also brought in that Mr. Reeves sayis will easily go 25 bushels to the acre. It has been thought by a number of people in Cedar that this place was the only one in which vas to be found men who had faith in arid farming, but from the remarks' of Mr. Reeves, Kanana is away ahead of Cedar or any other town in Iron County. Not in the matter of pro duc'ng more to the acre but the amount of land under cultivation. Kanarraitcs will go more extensively into ths busimess next year and the readers of the Record need not be surprised if the citizens of Kanarra lead them in arid farming by long odds lion County Record. n - WHY HE DIDN'T SEE HER. Siie, 'I saw you in the street car the other -evening, Mr. Saxby." 5 ire--"Drd you? Why, P clidiW sos , . j f i)i li1- , 1 Shc'I supp'osc nof. I was sftand- I ing up " Exchange. ft