The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-02
SCME GOOD ADVICE
TO CHANGERS

Logan Journal: Time and again has
the Journal called attention of Cache
valley farmers to the fact that they
are apparently making no effort to
supply our home market in certain lines
While they are OVERRIDING themselves
in others. Our complaint of too much
wheat raising will hardly be as APP
prOpriate this year as heretofore, but
we must remember that India will not
suffer a famine every season nor is
the Russia wheat crop liable to fall
short for several years again. There
fore we reprint as a word of advice,
the following editorial from the Trib-
une:
A good many people are complaining
of hard times. and justly so. Still, the
day before Christmas, one firm here
disposed of thousands of turkeys
brought from Iowa, Wisconsin and
other states of the old northwest. Is
not that a reproach to our farmers?
There is man. a farmers boy II
many a farmers girl in Utah that
would lave been glad to nave had $40
to spend on Christmas day, and there
is not one of them who could not last
spring have secured 80 turkey eggs,
and have raised at least 20 turkeys,
at no apparent expense and only-a lit
tie trouble, and they could have had
those birds, if of good stock, weighing
10 pounds apiece@Son Christmas day,
and they could easily have realized $25
for the dock; and hat would have been
S25 less sent away TO pay some boy
or girl in Nebraska for turkeys hat
he or she was thoughtful enough to
raise. We believe that Mr.. T. +.
Jones paid 5000 for foreign born" tur-
keys to give TO his employees for their
Christmas me Now Mr.. Jones
is not partial TO eastern turkeys. If
he had his choice he woul rather IA
the money that he pays for turkeys go
to the boys and girls Ef Utah han TO
boys and girls of Illinois. But the boys
Inc girls of Utah were not in evidence
with turkeys. 1t may be said there is
more corn in Iowa than in Utah, but
people ate turkeys a good many thou
sand years before corn was known TO
civilized man. They raised urkeyfs on
wheat and barley, and S~unfloWerS n
bugs and locusts and no end of other
things that turkeys eat with avidity
and digest without difficulty. We be-
lieve that any earnest man or
could go II jump one of the islands
in Salt Lake, or hire a patch of one
of the islands big enough to raise
what turkeys would want to eat, and
could, unassisted, in a summer, raise
anu III lOl Ildl hcL dDOul ANt SIOSS
of turkeys to be a capitalist on Christ
mas day, and sing the turkey song in
'Fatinitza' for amusement all sum-
mer long.
While the turkeys are being sold.
barrel after barrel of New York, Ohio
and Michigan apples were sold here on
our market, although il is true that
in old days, until the people neglected
their trees and let them go to the
bugs, there were no finer apples in the
world han Utah produced. Now, if
a sound apple is to be obtained, an
apple of a known grade, it has to
come from Idaho or from New York,
Michigan or some other eastern state.
The men who buy dried fruit Will
give more for Utah dried peaches than
for those of any other part of the west,
and yet the amount of California
peaches eaten in Utah every veal ag-
| gregates thousands of dollars.
Milk and butter are % per cent
higher in Salt Lake than in Boston.
New York or Chicago, and yet every
pound of food given TO cattle in the
east is costly, while here there are
thousands of acres of range that is
free to all. We do not object to the
price here. but in addition TO what is
supplied. thousands of dollars worth
of butter and cheese are brought from
the east every year. 1t is the same
way with pork and bacon. A good
many people have Kansas City beef
right here in Salt Lake. Besides the
turkeys. chickens. eggs and geese are
brought here in large orders from the
eats Tor this market. And 81 Utah
pays out thousands, tens of thousands
and hundreds of thousands of dollars
every year for articles that could be
raised of better quality right here at
home. And if the money thus paid out
could be put in circulation right here
at home, it would be better for the
merchants, better for the state, better
for the people themselves. The sum
of the whole business IS that while
Utah is peopled by an Industrious, ION
est race. theJ are not half as thrifty
and broad minded as they ought to be.
There are thousands of farmers in Utah
who believe that they waste nothing,
and yet every veal enough goes to
waste on their farms to raise all the
turkeys. all the chickens, all the eggs
needed for this market; and if they
would trim their orchards, spray their
orchards, have the trees that now raise
only worthless fruit grated and then
cultivate the soil around the roots OF
the tree, they could supply all the
fruit needed here except such as Is
wanted before the Utah fruit natures
in the summer.