Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-12-01

have come thoroughly to understand
that such designation implies the cx'
traordiuary success OF ono crop only at
the sacrifice Of one or all Of the others
without undertaking TO say, at this
moment, which particular cereal OF
vegetable may claim the houors Of
/ yield and excellence Tor 1893, we ore
ina position 20 cay that the home 81,
grovUliug, earthly, yet Of some times
succulent and NJ all times nutritious
potato. most certainly can claim moth.
ing. Perhaps IL decided b. res. on Do
laurels a season ortwo,or through sheer
exhaustion from successive and caay
| previous tfiumphs hos decided 10 go
into voluntary retirement TO give the
others a chance. or perhap. we make
this suggestion iu fear ani with hes.i1-
tion-its hard. ban led aud clOar.htl 'Hi
growers have come TOO nearly Co the
condition Of flock Of ahCrp-Hlnlly
following the leader whereby when
one farmer plants potatoes ali NO like
wise, and when the over production
thus created proves unmsfEcablr,
every one flies to tho other extreme
and plants none ntn all.
The fame o. the Utah tubur has been
20 great that tho news of material
shortage In the local crop ish real dis
appointment The co iiuOus under
which our potatoes me-. aud vauquishul
all competitors have nOi changed iOr
tho worse since that proud moment
The sad truth that We have in large
degree Lose the supremacy us i1qlalty,
aud aro even away behind iuquauiiiy,
admits, therefore, OF but one sxplaun.
ton: our farmum have become careless
In cultivation, negligent in the study
Of markets, and inB CCufate In cstimat.
ing needs, acreage, certainty aud local
ity Of demand, aud probable source Of
supply.
Perhaps The following figures may
furnish a text Tor some hard thinking
on the pattof our agflcullurls,s. Taking
the estimate of the department Of agfi'
culture Of the yiod ON a basis Of 100
bushels TO the acre Tor a foil crop for
the entire country, We nni that Utah
this year produces only IS bushels,
or only little more than the average
for tho whole Union. our nelghbO.i
have beaten us 10 this, our own favored
crop, almost out of sight Montana
shows up with l8s bushels per acre;
Wyoming with lai; Nevada with ls2;
even Colorado with ~; while Idaho is
tho banner state Of the Union with 1853.
We do manage 10 beat ArIzjnn, which
ylelis 20, and are equal to spmo Of the
southern states, while Kansas api
Nebraska trail along In the romoios.
rear, each with q bushels per aero.
The department declares that the
acreage last season was July equal T.
former years, which Ia probably not
true 20 FAR as Utah In concerned; and
II attributes the shortage 10 dry weather
during the late summer aad early fail,
which In our case ~ no excuse at all,
since there has been no particular lack
OF Iss,tnting water, which makes "a
indcpJifmtuf droulh.
Confronted with general doHcit Of
90 bushels les to tho acre than the
county produced IN the excel.
lent season Of 1891, tho poia.
to eater this winter will turn
his hungry eyes towards Scotland, Ire.
land and Germany. From the former |
country, where the crop has bcon |
good, large shipments have |
already begun; ana New York import |
ors assert that In order 10 supply the |
demand, the inspirations viii con.
tinuu until the middle Of June, when
the now crop from tho South will
begin 10 como 10. II Is not likely that
In this far.dlslant Territory we shall
be forced 20 humillate out tables with
foreign "mealics;" but 10 viii be
neither Inappropriate nor Improbable II
the farmer folk among ua, every time
they ttIck a fork into a 6tonmlng speci.
men, shall reflect on the discfcditable
showing tho Territory has made in
this ono line, and how regular aud
active, aud lucrative an export trade
We might build up by attending strict.
~ " business az in the olden time.