Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1891-03-19
PRACTICAL TALK TO FARMERS


farmers plant or produce, that wihphy'
The farmers now work harder than
any other class OF people. Many, u Is
true, idle their time away aud let the
summer pass, not having produced
enough TO keep their families nom
want. living twenty years on n place
with not rod Of fencing around their
stacks. orr fcw trees that they could
call nn orchard.
The time has now come for planting
trees. Ifyou have not money enough
TO purchase trees 80 TO the canyon and
get them, sol them out around your
farm. the firAt year sixty feet apart;
in year or two you can purchase three
10 four barbei wires aud nail them TO
the trees. the next yvar you can set OUT
trees between the other trees, aud No
on. Ina few years you will have your
farms 10 yourselves.
The farmer should use his mind as
well IA hia hands. There are now
Hundreds Of papers In the United
States that tnat on stock, farming,
fruits. hogs, chickens, dairics, and
everything else, and many eau be had
from 81 TO $3.50 year. By reaching
and getting tho study and practice OF
succcs.liil men, you will save many q
dollar and make many more. l have
met many conceited numbeku who
woulIsay TO me, "What DO those East.
crn farmers know about our country"
10 them I have replied, aud say those
experienced farmers know more about
farming than all the doughhcads will
ever learn TO pmcticc.
The farmers own lifc and TINT Of the
community depend on him. Then
should he not study 10 make the most
out u his business Almost every
tliing will pay II well attended 10.
Anything viii grow and thrive In this
fit soil aud climate, where you can
m Ike II r,in when other States cannot.
let the farmer plant out an orchard,
say p,ars, peaches mud cherries. Who.
ever saw the time That they were
n drug In the market? They can
bc canned and preserved. rhous-
ands Of dollars that are now spent
In importatlons and frcighis can be-
saved. The grape can be grown on
every farm, aud what nice thing n
bunch Of grapes Ia, TO say nothing OF
the wine II makes. The time will
come when grapc.nislng viii he n
lucrative industry from Cache Valley
ON the north 10 st. George on the
south. The bench land, where there IN
nothing growing now, will he TILED
up 10 tie very rocks, away up Into the
canyon,
"What nextgv The hog. Now II
tho time 10 raise him by raising la
cernc. How would you do II? Put In
more luc.rnc, and now IL the time by
breaking more ground and sowing IL.
What others can do. 80 cau Won. Not
many wears ago the Grecly settlement
was established In northeastern Col.
orado. Here Ia what one OF the settlers
aid 10 me:
"When we came here we planted
wheat. corn and oats, We could make
no Roadway, NO we went 10 Utah aud
uIrcha.ed iuccrn seed by the car load,
and planted IL. Next we went 10 the
east and purchased young hogs, nut
rings In their noses, divided the fields,
or made portable fencing. When a LOT
was eaten out they were turned then
ia the other, and No on, until winter,
when we put little corn or wheat In.
10 them to finish them, then they
made bacon.v
He asks one 10 come with him and
see the county fair which was then on
at Fort Collins. Many were the pens
Of hogs, fat aud sleek, that hal had
nothing hut lncern. Said he: ave
are nov making bacon aud getting
more for II than the eastern practice
viii bring" The fair, all through,
was finer than our last years Terri