Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1904-08-13
SATURDAY, AUG. 10, 1904.


moist, and the weather unfavorable
for harvest work, to pillow a few
acres of ground for patch of arid
grain. It's no use waiting for the
railroad or for the iron mines, they
will be along after while, but in
the mean time there is opportunity
for our farmers to increase their
income by raising a few acres of grain
without water. OF course, this Is like
planting an orchard, to some extent,
although you will not have to wait so
long without returns, as it will only
be about two years in the case of the
arid grain, while the orchard will
require four or five, at least.
A number of our most wide-awake
farmers are talking of making a joint
enclosure in some of the many
favorable locations that exist here
abouts, for the special purpose of
raising grain without irrigation. E"
In general way, the idea is TO
make a field sufficiently large to give
room to cultivate half of it each year
aud fallow the other half, enclosing
the whole with rabbit-tight fence,
and supplying themselves with suit
aole machinery, in the shape of plows,
harrows, harvesters, etc, and erecting
suitable shelter for the machinery of
the farm there on.
Nothing definite has been decided
upon yet, but an enterprise of this
sort is certainly as practicable as a
combination of effort for the estab-
iishment of creamery or sugar fac
tory, or any other of the business en-
terprises that are successfully laun-
ehed in various parts of the country,
aud the success Of such such bust.
are more frequently advocated. Az
we have said before in these columns
the starting of an arid farm is not n
poor mans proposition; but num-
Der of poor men can combine arfl
carry it into effect, and this is pro-
badly the way in which it will be
commenced.
The fact of the matter is that it is
up to us to introduce sumething to
better our financial condition. II
- evident that the supply of irrigation
water is not sufficient tosmake farm
ing in the manner in which we are
accustomed to follow the business in
the arid west a paying proposition.
even i all our conditions we're favor.
able, Which they are not.
Fruit culture has been spoken of as
partial solution of the difficulty.
aud it Is possible that by selecting
special localities, under the direction
OF experienced horticulturists, il
might be made profitable, az it is
possible that there are localities
where the early frosts would not
destroy the blossoms, but the chances
to take in this enterprise seem to us
20 be much greater than those that are
likely to be encountered In the MT.
tempt to raise crops in this climate.
under the advanced system of agricul-
ture without irrigation. 1t is becom-
ing more apparent every year that
some new departure must be made
IN order that we may be able to make |
R living in this part of the state and
keep our Young people about us.
The range does not furnish sustenance
FOR cattle, and although there are a
number of sheep on the |
range it is evident that it will not |
long continue to support them.
Every year our stock men are put TO
It To find feeding grounds for their
animals, so this means OF making a
livelihood, which has been so common
and so lucrative, is fast passing
away. Men who have cattle and
sheep are buying the wild lands, or
leasing them, and there is no chance
OF the small owners to increase
heir holdings, as they used to do.
u really seems that the only chan.
'et here is for the young people that
re growing up among us is to bring ,
alto subsection, under the rules of
rid farming, the many acres of good I
grieultnral land that our valley (
ontains, or TO do as a number of !
heir elders have done within the ..
ist two years, emigrate to some 4
her part of the country, where