The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-09-15
RICHES COME SWIFTLY
FROM IRRIGATED SOIL
Farm Products of State Reach Total Value of
Millions Each Year
Opportunity and Homes for Thousands of Husbandmen Awaiting
Them--New Ideas Put in Practice

Without the aid OF an artificial
water supply, agriculture and hOrticul-
turc would be impracticable II not
wholly Impossible within this arid. in
tcrmount1iu region. IT is true that
there Is some dry farming" or what
may be expressed as taking charces Of
the season, but IL dependent u that
Utah would not be able to make such
showing as il can at present, nor
even be considered at all rs an agri-
cultural state.
The soil is very rich as "A rIIe. al
though to. some extent deficient in
humus or vegetable mold. With luceru.
however. one of the most profitable
crops the farmer can plant. that def
cheney may be rapidly supplied without
apDrecisble cost Unlike the soils
where the rainfall is under no control
and where the fertilizng elements ar
washed away TO the rivers instead of
being drawn from the rivers and dis
tributed over the land. they are not
subject TO exhaustion. II cultivated by
Il rotation OF crops which includes lu-
Germ il will become constantly more
productive a feature Of vital impor-
lance.
The products OF Utah farms last year.
.oats. corn. barley. rye. potatoes, hay.
sugar bectS. orchard products. honey.
beeSwaN. alfalfa seed. etc. and rs
finished products" butter and cheese.
wool and mutton. cattle, poultry and
eggs. swine and the increase in value
of animals. amounted to SIS 49, .346. cit
will no noted that this is just about
equal 20 the mineral prOduction) II can
not. therefore. be saisf that these in
dVStries are not thriving. or that the
people engaged in them are not pros
porous. What we do undertake to say
is that the limit is not more nearly
reached in this direction than in min
inr.
Nor are the opportunities which ifri
tine present water supply. The observ-
ance of a few simple principles viii
show astonishing results. First. stop
the waste OF water. in distribution
when in many instances is deliberate;
second. store the flood waters. third.
change the senseiesS system - deliver
ing water from the canals on time
schedules. which Compels the farmer 90
set his O. ops to suit the water supply.
instead of having the water as the
crops may require: fourth. level the
land to permit even distribution: fifth,
drain TO prevent over washing: sixth
cultivate oftener and water less fri
Uueutly: seventh. plant such crops as
yield largest incomc-gct out uC tho
ruts. eigkah study your soils and con
stantiy experiment that YOU may inn
prove; ninth. study your markets and
adapt your paintings to them: tenth
give your boys and girls an education
that will permit and cause them to en-
joy their vocation. so that they viii not
hurry away to the cities off the farm.
If half these suggestions be needed
the same number OF IabOreIs. with no
larger acreage. will produce more than
do BILE the present value
Looking a little in detail into the OPP
portunitics here for general farming
First assuming stockraising III its diff
ferent branches to be the purpose oi
farm production Grass and hay are
the irst requisites. Without irrigation
these lands produce almost nothing. II
viii require the growth on thirty acres
as It averages to support a COW. In
rainfall sections a yield of two tons Of
hay per acre is about the maximum
Tt viii half support q cow. An acre
here under irrigation comparatively
chosen as maximum viii produce eight