Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-04-09

day Is ut hand, The problem is In Il
fair way for rapid solution. The new
era Is at our doors. So Ear as our
great and wide spreading inland empire
Is concerned. there need no longer he
'the andless man" There Is no long,
er need that our young people shall
scatter from tho parent home 10 dis
tam tracts, In order 10 find the man.
less land on which to make home,
There is no longer need that the 1nirli-
grants who come to our hospltable land
shall add 10 the crowds and poverty
and s1ualor OF the cities. Though they
come here landlcss aud almost penni-
less, the land that has stretched for
ages under the burning sun, proiitess
and barren, staring pleadingly to ths
sky OF brass. now welcomes them with
it's promise of fruitfuIness. To quote
Thea words OF the leader of great and
heneflcent world movement, '"rhe land
less man Is now within easy reach OF
the raanless land And both Will
profit by the union.
FRUITFUL DESERTS.
The deserts of the arid west are very
fruitful Therefore. they are not des-
erts. The land is rich and productive.
All il needs is something to produce
II it has suffered from barrenness IN
the past, IL is because it has had moth
ing TO bear ] am reminded of the
story of the tramp, who approached
a syrnpathetic lady with tale of woe
What is the matter with your she
asked, Madam said he. IL am
suffering from Indigestion" Poor fell
low.'' she exclaimed, how can ! help
your well, lady" he replied IF
you'll just give me something TO d.
gest. it'll cure me I'm five minutes Ills
indigestion resulted from his having
nothing to digest 1T is so with the
land. It is barren merely because II
has nothing to bear
GREAT PRODUCER.
But even in its so-called barrenness.
Utah's land. as IL to rebuke men for
not giving II better crop to raise, has
been producing crops OF sagebrush.
grease wood scrub cedar, etc, II Is
so productive that il just can not help
producing something. And 1t has been
producing these crops without cultiva-
ton. What, then viii 1t not be able
to produce In the way of crops or grain,
alfalfa. etc, with cultivation Just
ask the score and more OF successful
farmers of arid land in our state, and
they'll tell you II It We're not for
making some OF the other dry farmers
envlous at not being mentioned by
name. | would name George l.. Far
rell Isaac H. Grace John O. Adams.
Dan Hansen, j. w. Paxman. T. H.
Snow. and a few others who have gone
at the matter in such way as to show
us what can be DONE
BRIGHT FUTURE.
can see wonderful future for this
branch of industry New scientific
IDEAS OF dry farming are being com
tinually brought out by our splendid
Agricultural college, the experiment
stations, the arid experimental farms,
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ing movements NOW in operation In
different parts OF the state and the
intermountain region generally. with
the help of these ideas, exchanged and
discussed at such gatherings as this,
there is no doubt that excellent crops
o. cereals and hay can be produced on
land which UP to now has produced on
ly the useless and the Improbable, n
these useless things are adapted to the
arid land there can he found useful
plants fully as well adapted 10 H. When
7 have travelled through tho state. and
seen sagebrush towering over my head
in mute witness that the land is not a
desert. hut a fertile field, ] have often
thought that the ingenuity Of man
would discover a food product as Well
adapted TO the land as the sagobrushs
and that men would also find method
whereby yearly crops OF such q pro-
duct could he raised. TO supply the
nftls VI DIt1'ul anu btlltHA-
tfons, And now I see tho partial fTu-
tlon of this hope. with tho promise OF Il
greater fruitlon in the future.
NO LIMIT TO GOOD,
There Is much hope In the thought
thar from now on the most scientific
and up-t0-date methods OF arid farm
ing wll, be used, When this State AS
ISOLATION OF Day Farmers gets into fnll
working order, / can see no limit to
the good 1t can do, In thesway of help
ing the agricultural prosperty of the
arid west. we have In Utah and The
nelghbOrlng states some Of the most
learned and practical opponents of dry
farming TO be found anywhere. | do
not need 20 mention them by name. The
names ~ some Of them are already
household words among the farmers as
sernbled here II WIN not he long before
they are household words wherever arid
farming Is attempted. And when they
meet together for the interchange OF en-
periences ana Ideas their work will
make for the prosperity and advance
ment OF this Important Industry. far
beyond our power to understand.
PRAISE FOR uTAII.
wish 10 commend most heartily the
movement which resulted. last fan In
tho organization and commencement of
the TransmissoprI Dry Farming COM