The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1895-12-27

pork i1st the same What the hay and
The seed will bee worth is o. shallow
view Co take ui TIE alfalfa question. u
Us Do. meat producing power that gives
DO .fs value Meat will u.wuyl Dec val-
unbl aud whatever crop w.Il produce
t1c most meat per acre viii bee the
most valued % .cupaut OF The ground
sam Mesuer last winter turned "a
drove OF hog. intpu stacE yard where
They ate the sineits down little Uy lit
tig. every straw. all through tuc win
ter and kept Zoo good condition without
% mouthful uf grain now. % may be
said. if all these Things are true about
this new clover why b. there not "a
green spot on every Nebraska farm
can't answer that cannot ex-
plain why Nebraska farmers aud all
other farmers and all other people viii
spend their time and money and mind
force In reaching out Tor reforms that
can come only by evolution, that are
beyond the reach Of the individual,
while those practical reforms which are
within the reach Of the Individual are
overlooked and neglected from year TO
year aud from generation 90 genera
ton. IL has always been true not only
among farmers. but among all classes
q new system that changes radically
the detail OF their business affairs. or
the everyday routine Of their lives
u you ask me TO prophcsy as 10 when
all the farmers OF western Nebraska
will be- Initiating these alfalfa farmers
OF the Republican and Beaver valleys;
when they will shake OIL the environ
ment OF Decent corn and 5O.ccnt wheat
and innugurutc In their stead q system
81 meat production that will lit every
mortgage and put every farmer on his
feet financially. then I say. knowing as
] do the indcfatigablc grit and the pro-
rrcssivc spirit OF Nebraska people.
knowing that tho record OF this farm
ing state Ia the last twenty years for
progressive development, Is not cqualcd
by more than one state In the union,
and 10 not cXccllcd by any community
Of farmers in the world. IN ten years
from now our valleys will all bc green.
our upiands will all be subsoilcd. and
our $50. 600 900 bushels Of annual corn
yield will be- consumed and converted
into meat ON the farms where 10 Is pro-
duccd. Tho campaign against the
grain spcculutor Is already begun, not
by the blathcring politician, not In the
brawls OF political jealousy. but at the
MONIES OF inuusirluuN, ncnccsloNluN men,
where cows give rich milk and where
white honey from the alfalfa meadows
is ON tho farmers table,
Now / can't talk alfalfa. ! don't
know the points ! am only student.
| am trying TO learn about 10 and Ia my
Investigations am simply recording
results rs lind them where the indus
try has been inuuguratcd. ain not a
fnrmcs and do not presume to lecture
farmers or give them advice. liut |
love Nebraska and believe Ia Is fu-
turc. believe that every man who
has farm home In this state and who
holds onto 1t, will see the day not far
Ia he future when there will hc plenty
Of buyers and few sellers OF Nebraska
land aud when the farmers here will
be surrounded with such conditions of
comfort that they will Feel amply re-
paid for all the anxiety OF these hard
times. la my next letter from this
point | will relate the results ofalfalfa
according 20 the experience Of the DALI
brothers and the Ashton brothers here.
and / will try 10 give AZ have received
from them, some Of the practical de.
tails necessary 10 success IN the raising
OF alfalfa and In making money on
western Nebraska land.