Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-09-09
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WISE OLD BRIGHAM YOUNG.
Mormon Farmers Who Are Following His
Advice and Are Prosperous.

| Advice and Are Prosperous.
Wherever the Mormons live you will
find small, well-tilled farms. Brig
ham Young was one of the wisest a
we'll as one of the greatest men of thi
century. No one can visit Utah intel
ligently without observing proofs o
his great wisdom and farsightedness
which was Tapped over into Idaho ant
Colorado. He preached the gospel o
irrigation, small farms and diversified
farming as the most profitable, ant
people have long realized the value o
his words. The day of bonanza farm
ing is closing. The people of tht
northwest have discovered to thei
sorrow the folly of carrying all thei
eggs in one basket. The great bonan
"a farmer with 10000 acres in whea
is the ancient mariner of agriculture
Wheat at 20 cents a bushel, with fioul
at $2.4O barrel, is worthless to him
even when it harvests thirty bushel!
to the acre. 1t costs more than tina
to raise it.
The man who is making the mos
money by farming in this part of th'
country is the Mormon who follows
the advice of the Prophet Brigham
and has only forty or fifty acres undeI
the plough. This he cultivates like {
garden, usually with no other helE
than his own family can furnish. HI
isn't dependent upon the failure of tht
wheat crop in India for good prices
nor does he complain of the railway
company for robbing him of his profits
by freight charges. He has prompt
and profitable market in sight of his
own door for anything he can raise.
Ifhe has forty acres under cultiva
tion he devotes five or perhaps ter
acres to an orchard of apples, pears
peaches, plumbs, prunes, apricots
cherries, and other fruits; two acres
to vegetable garden-beans, peas
beets, cauliflower, celery, asparagus
lettuce, and other staples, for which
there is always a demand; five acres
to potatoes, of which this country
seems never to have enough; ten acres
to alfalfa, the never-failing Spanish
clover, which gives three crops year
and when properly baled or stacked
will retain its nourishment for five
years five acres to oats, which invari'
ably bring big prices in the spring
particularly in the mining camps and
the cities where many horses are
used, and five acres to wheat and corn
which can be sent to the mill and ex.
changed for -four and meal if prices
will not pay for shipping. The rest
of the farm, or as much as he leayes
off his orchard, is required as a winter
pasture for his hogs, COWS, horses and
poultry.
No matter what sort of a year il
may be, the Mormon farmer who fol-
lows this system, and the most of them
do, always produces at his own place
every form of food that his family re-
quires and sufficient surplus from his
several crops to take advantage of any
unusual demand in the market. II
alfalfa is high he sells his crops and
feeds his horses and cattle wheat, oats,
and corn, or vice versa. AS fast as he
clears the vegetables out of his garden
or digs his potatoes he plants turnips,
which are the best of fodder. He
makes his own butter, raises his own
hams and bacon, and the women folks
keep large poultry yards and beehives,
which furnish eggs, spring chickens,
and honey enough to pay for all the
dry goods and household articles they
need.-Chicago Record.