Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-02-11
llSO Something OF LaEmaking, EltC-
tions and Other Matters,
INCLUDING TAXES ON INCOMES,
Psll Tax, Projecting the Rich, lh'
Weather and Crops, and Other
Live Questions.
KINGSTON. Piute County, Utah ,
February Z, 1897.

friend Orange Warner of Moab. L sec
there is still too much careless farming
going on among us. When see our
farmers bringing their grain to the
grist mill, fnd great diversity in the
quality and clesnliness OF the wheat
brought to be ground into -four. Some
ia very clean; but the majority
shows carelessness In the seed sown:
oats (blaek and white), barley, black
seed, lucern, peas, weeds anu what
not is mostly the rule; and yet com, o +
them blame the miller for not giving
rs much flour to the bushel as IL their
wheat was clean. A few give him
blessings over the loft shoulder and
even call him q sneak thief, whereas II
they would coolly consider things they
ought to see that'they Themselves are
to blsme and are robbing themselves
by their careleBsDess and selftshness.
How much better 1t would be II they
would take the trouble to clean their
seed as thoroughly as can be- done,
remembering the weeds give forth ten,
forty, and even many hundred times
more seeds TO the plant than wheat,
and that when weeds grow in n Held
they take the nouriehment that should
go to the plants we wish to grow.
A good deal OF cerelesep ess IL also
apparent in the selection OF the beat
seeds. Here let me remind OF some
remsrks OF President Brigham Young
ON the subject, In discourse delivered
by him In the sixties, In tho old Tab
ernecle, In Salt Lake City. He SAID,
among other thiugs, that he used ~
20 with some members OF his family,
after first providing himself with an
apron In which was a large pocket,
and pair OF ocissou, they went
through their wheat tielu picking out
the best looking ears OF wheat and
carrying 1t home TO be dried suu
threshed by iteeli, TO be used as eeeu
for the next crop. He said they began
with wheat giviRg the oommou acre
yield Il believe twenty or twenty-five
bushels an acre), and by kerping the
same careful year by year he ended by
having teeu giving over ninety bushels
OF wheat to tine acre, at tue time he
made that discourse. What he has
done others can do, aud beat that, too.
But proper care and attention must be
paid to The buBiness.
Continuing on the same strain, L
Will relate fact which was told ms
by public officer Of the town OF st.
Biaise, In 5wnzsrlano, where 1 was
learning the trade or carpenter, in
1851. He told me he had q son who
went 10 Australia and from there sent
to his f.ther letter in which was
enclosed some grains of a curious Egyp.
tian wheat. Through hole Ia ine
letter most Of the grains were lost;
only about niue we're lett. These were
carefully planted by the window. 1t
proved to be q seven stalhed and
many .branched wheat. Each grain
planted gave nearly two thousand
grains OF seed. These were planted
the next seasop, but gave only about
from nine to twelve hundred sre1s
each. Some OF It was distribuled to
friends and neighbort; the balance
was sown broadcast and gave only
four or i've hundred seeds each. In
brief, that wheat was sown year bs
year I'LL ut last 1t gave less and less
every year and at last Eavs only The
same quantity as the common wnsat
used Ia my old country.
II seems to me the reaP6n was plain:
had they been careful about SELECTING
the beat and planted It away from any
other kind Of wheat, the result would
have been quite different. l am OF
the opinion that II some one were to
devote little more time to selecting
the seed IN careful manner, anu
planting 1t by itselt, nnd keeping on
year by year, the Results would be cure
10 astOnish even the most skeptiuaI.
nut that 10 net all; the land must be
cultivated, fortiIizsu aad enricaeu by
having added to II the elements that
constitute the plants we wish TO grow.
Our young generation have priv.
ieges ana opportunities that we their
elders and seuiors were wholly lacking
In. They have their high schools and
especially their agricultural colleges
where they can learn many things OF
WHICH we wers wholly ignorant, .such
az chemistry, botany and the science
OF knowing the elements and constitu.
lion OF the different plants, geology,
ete, How many times wheA L went
through my garden have | wished to
know OF what elements the ground
was composed. what were lacking ana
what were needed to DO rid or Wholly
Or in part In order to raise certain cropa
In peyiug way2 Truly knowledge
10 power when intelliseBtly applied,
still have found that "a lillle kpowI
edge ID dangerous thing, Decaute
when misapplied the results are often
discouraging and sometimes even dis
astrous. Still We need net be dis.
Outraged. "Exelaior'' must be our
mottu, as alsg, "ihere Is no ellencs
without labor" We ought to Study I'D
FAR rs ys can and compare results,
and not keep on In the same old RUS
Just BECAUSE others haVa run IL the
same groove se!0-e "a,
AS general .ole hsgeAbcut. very |
few of our farmers are taking care or |
even using their manure. They plow |
their land and raise crops year alter
year, without givlug back to poor
starved mother earth, winch they so |
unthinkingIy and cruelty rob Ui III.
elements which she gave 30 geaeI- |
Ousiy.
have also noticed that bard IL any
use their straw Tor Il bedding Tor thelc |
horses and cattle. Tney let them |
bianu on their own exofoment nil win |
lei, and when demonstrated with |
some OF them, they would grayeiy |
ussert that 1t would spoil Tie manure |
10 have IL NIX "a with ssInw. w heteas
IL Is The Experiences OF every practical,
sound.sense farmer thAt II makes TINS |
manure better Ny Keeping anu Ausltp. |
rug lhe volatile elements Hueu as /
: mmobia, hyGroAen, eTe. inside anu |
AseplnH AZ more moist IA Lnia ntv