The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-03-01


naming irrigated countries of the
world support more than 750, 000 00t
people. And with all the knowledge
accrued by this vast experience, the
matter of a just distribution is still I'M
settled.
1t is largely regarded as an axiom
that air, water and sunshine, being the
free gifts of the Creator, are equally
free for the use of man. AS water ear
be controlled and diverted, it is con-
tended that irrigating water is ex-
cepted from this general rule.
The speaker called attention to the
difficulty Of satisfying all claimants OF
water rights, especially when there
1 were first and secondary and even re-
moter rights to the irrigation waters.
As soon as the volume of irrigating
| waters of the states were determined
I by correct measurement, then would
follow the determining of the rights of
appropriations and users of water,
whether they were first, second or
third rights. This has yet to be done
in this state, and the speaker said an
act was now pending before the legis-
lature which would lay the foundation
for this great work.
The lecturer then illustrated, by dia-
grams and models and instruments,
the various scientific methods of meas
uring streams Of water and dividing
]
| and equitably.
Book Farming was the subject of
an address by Mr.. J. H. Parry. editor
of the Church and Farm.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
An address on Irrigation Problems
for the Experiment Station to Solve -
was delivered by Hon. ]. B. Miner of
Provo He said that the true question
of the use of irrigating waters was
not how much but how little could be
made to suffice for the production of
profitable crops. In this problem were
offered subjects worthy the deepest
consideration and most careful expert
ments of our agricultural colleges and
stations.
Professor James Dryden then fol-
lowed with the following high
ly interesting paper upon
THE POULTRY INDUSTRY.
That the poultry industry is worth con-
siderinS, 1t is only necessary to know
that the farmers of this state are out at
the end of every year, on one PROPOSE
ton. clear hundred thousand dollars by
their neglect of il. That is for poultry
and eggs shipped in from outside states.
More than that; not only could they Sc
cure this sum, sum that goes into the
pockets of farmers and poultry keepers
in other states, they could also by the
neighboring states and territories as much
poultry product as is now being shipped
into the state. An additional income for
the farmers of $500 900 year, is not after
all very small business. All that is neces-
sary is a little education, and we can
just as easily be making. with the assist
ance of the much-abused hen, $500, 900
pocket money as the poultry men of
Kansas and Nebraska. The average
family man in Utah has probably just as
many children to buy shoes for, as the
there is no reason why our children
should not wear as good shoes as the
Kansas children, or as good as any chill
dren. If our people would only devote
little of their unemployed or leisure time
to making the old hen work and you
know the old hen is happier and healthier
when she is working and producing eggs.
As it is. it has been estimated that
about half the families of this state buy
their groceries with the products of the
hen. That is something; that is no small
business. But if that can be done while
the hen is allowed to secure her living
on the dunghill. what may there not be
done by treating her in a half-cfvilized
way, by giving her a little substantial
food and decent quarters to live in
The total agricultural products Of this
state are valued at some S,000000 year.
That includes all that is raised on the
farm. Now, if we can by proper care and
a million dollars year, which could
easily be done. that would be no very in
significant industry in itself
In case you think I am overestimating
the possibilities of this industry, let me
tell you what is being done in other states
and in the United States. l have the
figures for the state of Pennsylvania.
That one state produces each year poultry
and eggs to the value of S22 600. 600. That
is three times the value of the total agri-
cultural products of this state. The
poultry and egg products of the state of
Missouri amount to between S10.000.090
q n a =
much as all the products of all the Utah
farms combined are worth. The total
value of the poultry and egg product of
the United States. according to a recent
estimate based upon the last census.
amounts to S343. 100000 per annum. That
is about 90 per cent more than the wheat
crop is worth in the United States. 1t
shows that when the raw materiaf goes
through the hen factory the product is
an article worth double the value of the
raw material. The poultry product is
only exceeded in value by the corn and
hay crops. So you see there is nothing
small in the hen business.
One of our local newspapers sometime |
ago commented editorially upon the fact !
that Mr. I. r. Jones of Salt Lake had !
paid out $500 for turkeys brought in from |
eastern states to give his employees for |
Christmas dinner. though he would much !
preferred to have bought the home prod |
uct If he could. Then the editor asked: |
rs not this. a reDroach to our farmers?" /
/ think it is. Where food is cheap. where |
lanQ Is plenuluis where ldDOr seeks nom Il
est employment. where the farmers sons
and daughters are complaining of a l
scarcity of pin money. there is something |
wrong when one man in Salt Lake City |
had to send $500 TO eastern states to pay
for what could have been produced just /
as easily right in his own county
Then there is not dignity enough in the |
business for some people. That is the
kind of people generally who cannot af-
ford to send their sons and daughters to
college. With a little less dignity and
more of something else. they could make
enough out OF their poultry on their
farms to keep member of their family
at college. Talking about the dignity of
the business. The Queen of England. the
most dignified woman in the world. has
a poultry establishment of yer own which
furnishes her household with fresh eggs
and poultry.
The lamented Bill Nye. it is reported.
said not long before his death that he
chickens than he did from his lecturing
Governor Morton of New York, who was
once vice-president of the United States
has one of the finest poultry esta blish-
ments in the country, and in spite of that
fact he was nominated and elected gov
srnor of the state of New York and no.
body ever said that Levi P. Morton was
not dignifed man. The rich Vanderbilt
has poultry establishment that cost
'25, COO.
Now, then. there must be money in the
business that annually amounts to over
800. 0000 600 a year; and ii becomes a oues-
ion how the farmers of this state can get
slice or a larger slice of that business
ran said TO me in Salt Lake City the
,ther day that IL would be easier to find
successful practicing attorney in that
,.ty that TO find man in Ut.cl who
Understood the business of poultry raising
I'D of making a success of it.
We all want to know. of course he