Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-08-05

however; but scientific or mixed farm
ing, rotation Of cropa, The cost Of his
PRODUCTS, does not affect him much,
providing be ma. brcnI Tor bis family
luoern or hay Tor bis stock, and surplus
enough to meet q late season or provide
for sumo obligation or Improvement.
The latter two maS stimulate one here
and there IN bio labor, and maybe
crafty his ambition. The maiorii
care only to work, TO live hard ana
raise family to lust little beyond
this routine. Il may be salt that the
farmer generally Joos not read enough,
he does not think ensugh, he isseldom
original, nor does he benefit by the eK'
rerleneea OF experiment IT oihers.savc
as ho may notice this desuiiory efforts
made within his very limited oppot-
tunities Of observation.
Very few have become farmers from
choice. They tool Co the soil In early
days because oli occupations were not
here established; the plough was der.
MGR rcssort flrwhich neither nature nor
culture had given them any special
knowledge or prediction. They had
been workors ia iouudrirs, In coal
mines, factory hands, simple laborers
or mechanics. AMI % thcse may be
room for c1ngtntulation that the labor
Of more than hall lifetime has given
partial success and sunset Of life
without the clouds OF extra anxiety.
Wealth may he more abuud nuy theifs
than Il could have been under the Oh
World regime, bat many hard knocks
have been given without compensa-
tory results, and any amount OF labor
has been wasted because OF round
about methods anu unintolligent appn.
cation.
/, was said that the Lord laughed at
the days Of ancient ignorance, aud
not few have smiled at the question
as to (which COW gave the butter
milk" aud some have laughed cut.
right at sundry unsuccessful at.
tempis at bu,termaking, chicken
raislug, etc, which many a table has
been tcant because tho mysteries
Of vegetable production In the season
thereof had not become "iamiliar as
household words" such an onv In
the writer's employ, In years gone by,
wrote nn exultnnt letter, that he had In
ON excessive yet hali.ptaiBewor,hy
period Of industry planted an entire
box OF seeds, which has Just been 10.
celvcd from New York; hardy, half
hardy and tender had all gone IN
within week; peas, onions, radishts,
cabbage, beans, corn, squash, melons,
cucumbers ami tomatoes, quantity nt
once, variety at once, anu 70 "it came
TO pass" that seed anu labor alike were
thrown away.
Twas not OF these, however, grlcv.
Gus or annoying, that comment ask
OF wants an audience today. II II Ia
regard to the CtAh wheat product In
the raising OF which, owing 10 good
soil, irrigation aud experience our
fnfmets nave become somewhat Of
adopts. ~ much 10 that there is q Ger.
tain surplus Of more or less magnitude
every year. This surplus secured in
part by irrigation on small farms has
Deen gathered and shipped to Tgx4s,
to Colorado, aud past California
farms Of immense magnitude and easy
culture, 10 London, the metropolis Of all
the nations, meeting there aa oompetl.
tore those nearer the market, those from
plaoro where less labor Is always re.
quirod, and the old English farmer
also whose land is rented, yet whose
cropg are In excess OF all others on "a
common basis Of money value, bushel
for bushvl.
Remedies have been suggested from
time to time Tor the avoiiAuce OF this
decentralization Ia dlsposing OF excess.
The creation VI home industrics, fac
tories, ioundrles AMI mining have
been lauied a. the panacea for all the
fAtmer's ilIs. Non-producers, 1t was
said. would e usume at home all his
extra supply Of grain, hay butter,
potatoes and other farm products, anu
that then prices would (aS matter oil
oouIst) adyauce.
Wheat Is lower today In Chicago,
the great grain market OF our country,
than for many years, only sixty mt
per bush0l being the price ob,ainahlr,
for which many and diverse rea'
sons are given. There Is said Ia
DO double thequanlliyof visible surplu,
wheat IN the United States and Can.
ada that there was at the same period
last year. or about sevonty.hyo mil
lions Of bushels; aud this with grail
at sea Ia transit, and grain held In
Europe uuslll, aggregates little be-
yond mi. quantity, and thus makes On
asserted total Of more than one hum
bred aud Hly.Iwo million bushels eth
remaining from last years crop, or an
,xctss OF huy-throe million bushels "a.
held over on the same date last yeal
u the price NJ which this wheat Il
held excite, the attention Of the agri,
cultural world because OF Its lowness,
what shall We cay OF Utah wheat
which rarely gets beyond that prlc,