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I 4 THE DESERET TARMER Saturday, September 12, 1908 I I THE DESERET FARMED I (THAT BIG FARM PAPER.) I Combined With "Rocky Mountain H Farming." Established 1904. H Official Organ of tbr I Utah State Poultry AsHociatinn H UUh Horticultural Society I Utah .Otate Dairymen's Associntion I Utah State Bee Keepers' Association I Rear River Valley Farmers' Protec- H tive and Commercial Association. Utah Arid Farming Association. T Issued every Saturday by the Dcs- H crct Farmer Pub. Co., Salt Lake Sc- curity & Trust Building, Salt Lake City, Utah. H Entered as second class matter Dec. H 27 IO5' at tnc Pstou'cc at Salt Lake City, Utah. H Subscription price $1.00 per year (Strictly in Advance.) Discontinuances. H The publishers must be notified in H writing, at time of expiration, when H discontinuance of subscription ist dc- H sired, and all arrears must be paid. H Advertising rates made known upon H anplication. The right is reserved to H reject questionable advertising. B All communications and rcmit- m tanccs should be addressed to "The Descrct Farmer," Salt Lake Sccun- ty & Trust Building, Salt Lake City, Utah. H Lewis A. Merrill Editor P G. Peterson Asst Editor J. H. Harper Business Mgr. H Salt Lake City, Utah, H Saturday, September 12, 1908. B Look out for our Fair Number It B is going to be the biggest nnd best B Agricultural paper, ever published in B the West. Our manager has promised B to distribute 40,000 copies of this is-B B The Farmer's Institute season does B not open for a few months yet, but al- B ready requests arc coming in for far- H mcr's ; hools and institutes. While H the work wws entirely successful last H season it promises -even greater rc- H suits for the joining yean Utah far- H mors arc alert to their opportunities. H The Descrct Farmer now, as al- B way?, stands for a genuine Agricul- B tural College, not the kind that trains B away from the farm, but such a one B as is found now within the borders of B this state. The Agricultural College B as at present directed is just the kind B of an institution that this paper has B persistently fought for for five years. 'flic Descrct Farmer is certainly growing. The paper is going into twice as many homes today as any weekly paper published in the West WANTED: "Descrct Farmers." Vol. 2, Nos. 1 to 21 inclusive; 29 to 39 inclusive; 43. Vol. 3, -Nos. 4, 7 18; 22 to 51 inclusive. Will pay reason able price. E. G. TITUS, Logan, Ut. e PRESIDENT THOS. JUDD. President Judd, of the State Board of Horticulture has just returned from a trip abroad' and speaks most inter estingly of his observations while away" He was particularly interested in the intensive system of cultivation followed on the farms of the old world. Mtany of these lands have been cultivated for u thousand years or more and the farmers find it neces sary to pay just as much attention to the manure that goes on to the land s to the crops that arc taken away. The manure is carefully piled, kept . moist and precautions taken to sec that every- particle is returned to the soil. In the fields no weeds arc found and every piece of ground is kept under cultivation. He was especially pleased with the sugar-beet fields of Germany where the fields arc all kept in a high state of cultivation, and where the average fields arc -as good as the bast fields in Utah. England leads the world, in the production of strawberries and gooseberries, and Mr. JudU was -as-toulshcd at the quantity as well as the quality of these products produced on the farms of England. When it comes to fruit President Judd says that neither in si7,c, flavor or quality did he find anything to compare with our western grown product. In the farming districts of Germany, France, Holland and Belgium, M.r. Judd did not find any animals on pasture. The forage is cut and hauled to the barns where the animrals arc fed, this being another evidence of the intensive sys tem of farming followed. In England a greater effort than ever before is being made to supply her large alios with milk. Mr. Judd saw a long train of- cars loaded with milk each morn ing, making its way into the cities of the mother country. Mr. Judd is glad! to be home again and is already busy preparing for the exhibit at the Irrigation Congress in New Mexico. NEWSPAPER . HEMORRHAGE. We clip the following from our us ually sane contemporary "The Inter Mountain Republican." Wc cannot blame the Republican entirely cither, as a large part of the stuff they run is just stuff they get by the job lot, and they have no time to look into its tru hfulncss or sec whether or not it constitutes common sense. Besides they have possibly been in the news paper business long enough to have ibecome blind to both of these un common elements. Here is the clip ping: Man With the Hoc Not Needed To Harvest New Potato Crop. Watcrbury, Conn., Aug. 16. Some experiments recently conducted suc cessfully by Manuel Wilson of Wol cott, in which he raised potatoes un der and above ground on the same vine or bush, arc destined to revolu tionize the potato industry. New York City alone consumes more than a million bushels yearly. Mr. Wilson is known as- an inventor of fertilizers and has won a name as ia farmer of wide information in regard to veget ables. ITc has the new potatoes growing above and below ground, the one not in the least diminishing the other. Next year he promises to go exten sively into the culture of the bush variety. Mr. Wilson sr.ys the new po tatoes will cut the cost of the tubers in half to poor people. In future the potato, he says, will be grown in the backyards or indoors like roses, a- room growing enough for a small family. The new "product may be boiled .in five minutes and baked1 in eight minutes. The potato is a cross between the Beauty of He bron and the Delaware. "In order that this new hybrid may be protected from the burning rays of the sun, nature has givdn it an extra thick skin," declares Mr. Wilson. "It is well known that such a potato without a thick skin would be prac- tically useless because of the strange taste which underground potatoes af ter being burned by the sun have. Mine arc finely flavored and should give to the public the most ideal po tato we have ever yet had." Just now in addition to his bush-raisc-cf potato, Mr. Wilson has on ex hibition a field of hybrid corn, the union of two, which exceeds the best early corn by about a fortnight in fruition and which possesses all the superior qualities of both the hybrid parents'. Another curious product B which he has this year raised on his I farnn is a combination tomato and po- tato plant, the spuds growing as us- I ual at the root of the plant, the tops 1 of the vines ibeing covered with large f and beautiful ripe tomatoes. I The farmer is a devotee of Luther Biirbank, the California hybridist. Wc hardly know where to begin. The article is so plainly "newspaper science" that it hardly needs answer ing. The article hails from Watcr bury, Connecticut, and it has all the earmarks of a brand of timepiece wc have learned to associate with "Wat orbury." Wilson has .not got any humanity saver, he has got some cheap newspaper notoriety, and that is what he probably went after, so the "potato" has served its purpose. It is about the most useful purpose it ever will serve. The potato is an un derground stem and is different from stems that grow above ground be cause 'the sun is kept from it. It is made valuable as a food because of I its difference from stems that arc ex posed to the sunlight. When the un derground stem gets above ground it immxxfiatcly begins to partake of the characteristic of other above ground stems. When it begins to do this its value as a fo'bd is lost. Wilson clev erly says that Mother Nature has pre vented this change by giving to it a thick skin. She would have to wrap a blanket around it to prevent the change. His claim is manifestly im possible. He is going to have it grow in back yards and flower gardens like the rose. Wc hardly look for the day when this will happen. The po tato is not a very beautiful plant. We hate to sec the rose bed pass. Wc don't want to see the day come when the parlor will be adorned with a pot of nice, big, husky looking Rural New Yorkers, or when the dubantee vill waft herself into the ball room v 1 a large spud pinned in her hair. Wil son's dreams are merely mental dyspepsia. FOR SALE OR LEASE, Four hundred and sixty acres of land in Emery County, Utah Good grazing land, partly fenced. Fair house and sheds. Address UTAH IMPLEMENT - VEHICLE COMPANY, Salt Lake City, Utah.