Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-08-05

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have recently been erected by Messrs
| Priest. Spanger. Davis and SEEK.
Bishop Brandley has As acres OF
first class spring wheat promising q
| bushels 10 the acre. Mr.. Grants and
| Mr.. ROmerlrs spring wheat are quite
as good. Mr., ROmeril has fall wheat
that will yield well and his whole
| place is a picture. His garden shows
| the work OF master hand Small
| fruit Is doing well here and the sugar
| beet Is flourishlng. Mr. Fawcett has
| a. acres under wheat and oats doing
well, but what's the use of specifying
| ] did not see second-rate crop In The
| place.
Perhaps there is nothing more note
worthy as demonstrating the pogsiblll-
| ties Of the country than Councillor
Giants garden. He has raspberries
making fine cane. Currants thriving
wen aud Strawberries yielding fine
crop this year and promising an ex-
eellent one next Peas are a splendid
crop, table corn strong aud healthy,
tomatoes n foot high and well branch
ed. and parsnips ana sugar bee,s in
excellent shape. lie Is also growing
trees both from seed and slip, for
wind breaks, two or three varieties Of
Willows, the Manitoba maple and a
Russian pea, which / take to be a
specie of acacia, all doing excellently
Not till this year ala any settlement
commence near Lethbridge There
are now over twenty settlers with 500
acres under cultivation, not one OF
which was broken In March last The
experimental farm. three miles out Of
town, IS completely fenced and an ex-
cellent house built on It. About the
FIRST Of last March the Irrigation COM
pany made arrangements with W, D..
Fairfield. who was then superintendent
OF the Wyoming Agricultural Ex-
perimental station iarm to take q half
section Of land near Lethbridge, on
which 10 carry on an experimental
or model farm The idea is 20 operate
a farm along the lines in vogue In the
best irrigated districts Of the states,
II viii merely be an object lesson TO
newcomers unacquainted with agrloul-
turc under irrigation. by going over
tho f.>m. they can see how the bitches
are made and where located, the
method Of distributing the water over
the land ana 80 forth An attempt
will also be made to have all field
crops which are likely 60 reach high
degree OF success grown upon the
farm each year, so that a comparison
can be made by the visitor, at any
time during the growing season, The
results aimed at In the establishment
Of the farm are demonstrative rather
than purely experimental All crops
are 20 be grown for their commercial
value only, No time viii be spent In
laying out drives or In making fancy
lettored stakes with which 10 mark
each crop, but the farm win be ober-
ated as any good farmer would do II
in an irrigated district
In considering the work done and
the results obtained w TO the present
time it will be OF interest 10 Keep In
mind the fact that 1t was the It'll az
April before Mr. Fairfield reached
Lethbridge. Up to that time nothing
had been done except to select the To-
cation and TO have about ten acres
broken during the week or ten days
just preceding. Thus Il viii be seen
that a settler can come here In the
spring, as several have done this year,
put In fair sized crop and get good
returns, more than sufficient for seed
and horse feed for the following year.
There are So acres In crop About IL
acres I'm wheat, 30 acres in oats, 10
acres In fax, 55h acres IN potatoes, be-
sides a small area IN beans and fodder,
corn and y an acre set In fruit. Tho
grain Is dark green In color and Is
very thrifty. one would not Judge
from It's appearance that II was grow
Ing on newly broken sod, but rather
one well-tilled land OF the East. The
flax Is looking exceptionally we'll Al
though II was not sOWn TIL the second
day Of June Il Is from TO 10 inches.
and more high ION July 18th. This
IL a crop which Is likely 10 be a god
send 20 the settler here for several
reasons. IL thriVes on newly broken
sod, II can be put In late after the
season for sowing grain and last. but
not least Il Il "A good money crop,
which is an important item to the new
settler. Mr.. Fairfield does not recon-
mend the practice Of growing fax con-
tinuously but merely the use OF IL UNI
III the farm ls brought under cultiya-
tlon.
On five and O half acres OF the
oat ground, alfalfa or lucern
was sown and an excellent stand has
been obtained. II win be great boon
20 Southern Alberta n this plant noes
well as there IL much likelihood that it
| VIII In fact II will give this district a
| handicap over the rest OF Canada
Where IL grows well, alfalfa produces
more hay to the acre than any other
| forage plant now I'm cultivation. In
| quality the hay Is very nutritious This
| plant thrlves only In an arid or semi
arid climate and reaches It's highest
development under Irrigation. hence
Southern Alberta will probably be the
| only district In Canada where Il can be
grown. II Is prophesied bv some that
| this Is destined 10 become the greatest
| feeding ground OF Canada. II can be
| readily seen that the farmer who raises
| alfalfa successfully on his irrigated
farm may enjoy advantages which no
| other farmer In Canada does. for ne
| can have an abundance 81 very nutrlti-
| Gus and cheap hay 10 fatten stock that
| has been raised NJ small cost on the
adjacent range, Il has been the uni
ycrsal experience I'm the states that
wherever alfalfa Is grown. farm lands
| Increase rapidly IN price II s sincere
| ~ To be hoped that alfalfa VIII prove a
success here and II gratlhes one 10
know that so far indications could not
| be better
Bronze grass was sown with three
| ana n half acres Of the oats. This
| came well and a nice stand has been
obtained. Five and one-half acres OF
timonthy was also with the oats the re-
suits being a thrifty stand. The rola.
tive yields Of these three hay crops
viii be watched with interest pota.
toes were planted, some on land which
was broken and pulverizel and then
CROSS plowed and some were planted
as the sod was being broken. the seed
being dropped In every third furrow
Both plots are looking well. At the
| present time u Is imnossp'- ~ state
which treatment Is producing the bet.
| ter results
| one half OF an acre was broken and