Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-02-03
AN OPEN LETTER.
Questions on Agriculture by CORES
pOudent Who WAITS to Know.
PROFESSOR J. W. SANBoRN, Utah
Agricultural College und Expor.
mental Station, Logan City:

PROFESSOR J. W. sANBoRS, Utah
Agricultural College und Expor.
mental Station, Logan City:
Ny dear Sir-As sequence OF long
experience and many years. obserya.
ton, take the liberty to address you
the following aphorisms ON agriculture
In our Rocky Mountains,
l. There should be n oneness, n syH-
tenn through which state OF common.
wealth advances hnTmOniously In Ito
different channels Of progress. And
with farming Us our leading subject,
W. put II down as u maxim;
9. The ten acre farm Is the ideal and
the future farm. / hold II Ia the
farm OF new era before US, when ID.
Dor and producers shall have settled
with consumers, according 10 "the
writing on tho wall"
3. tho size Ol the future farm |
think viii be limited 10 what a farmer
and his family (without the help of
servants na general thing) can
manage with the best possible cuItivs.
ton aud care.
Z, a rightly developed white man,
and may he In particular the Anglo.
Saxon, Will reside under his own roof
anu be his own master. He will not
remain u servant. To Try 10 make him
dependant tenant, n teTf, n modern
slave, on shy kind OF ftudal reproduce
ton Of Horldom, will cause rulnous
efuptiOns. We arc on tho verge
OF an era when no degree OF Hetidom
will thrive. Fendal aristOufacy can
not be revived In any told or newt
form. The pr0vldentigi economy OF
time will not admit OF IL. Enlighten-
ment and unfair dominion, by any
means, do not agree. A public opln-
ion against tyranny In any form, based
on historical anu rational conclusions
are crystallized into set anu iIrevo-
cable verdict, that 1t shall not be toll.
Grated.
We want u moral. intelligent and
free population OF farmers.
We want the enjoyment to a full ex.
tent OF the fruits OF our own lab)rs,
without any cunning aud artificial
concentration OF Il In tho shape u
so-ralled capital, which altogether
with Its billions eau not make one
brick.
With this program, and for the ben.
Icing, / now lay down the following as
accepted data Ia advanced farming OF
the future:
solved We consider to be: Where IN the
limit for how much crop farming land
can produces in paying quantity? Or
How much Improvement or enrich
meut can be remuneraiive to apply on
the soil?
When that problem IL solved We are
sanguine,that the approximate ten acre
farm will be about the slze OF the ideal
and future farm, especially In Jour
mountain regions, where farming land
Ia limited, irrigation necessary, the
mountain streams also limited anI
costly, and only to be economical
within proportion to deep aud good
cultivation, and Herewith connected
arrest OF evaporation AMI underground
evenness OF temperature.
We therefore most respectfully tug-
gest to our agricultural colleges and
experimental stations, TO weigh and
conclude, N II would not be- Profitable
(within five years II possible) to solve
these main questions (ior the special
benefit OF our western slopt).
q. 10 Wuht tANenl WIN IL 10 Ienuu-
erative 10 increase the productlvoness
OF the soil? And ask for instance:
b. How deep blowing or under
ground l0Osening2
O. How much land OF what kinds)
OF physical and chemical enrichments?
d, How 10 execute both Underground
and surface cultivation, In connection
with drlll culture, for the Highest re.
sultt?
e.IWhat kind Of cereals, roots and
fodder plants are test adapted accord.
ing TO loealiiy2 And In toto2
What II the highest pro1uctivenoss
attalnable at profitable expenditures
thereon?
BY going farther into details there
are many more questions closely com
nected with the main question, and
with which your renowned ,oollege II
well acquainted; therefore these may
suffice for the present.
Very espectfully,
q. A. M.
GusSIsoN, January, 1903.