Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1908-07-09
Dry Land and Farming.

applleu 10 lana is Ulle SOulCS "a
all wealth.
Brigham Young said that
water and labor applied intelli-
gentlyto desert land would some
day be Americas greatest
source of wealth.
That Brigham Young was
genuine sure, enough class A
prophet no one who visits Utah
will doubt.
There are thousands Of acres
of farming land around Salt
Lake that are worth two hun
bred dollars and more per acre,
simply because the land pro-
duces sure returns on that sum.
Brigham Young was the first
man in America to tackle the
matter of irrigation in a scienti-
fic way.
He said to his people, "Most
miners die poor; but raise grain,
fruit, vegetables and cattle, and
feed the miners and you will all
get rich"
Brigham Young was a planter
of trees. He knew that flowers,
trees and vines are civilizers.
The Mormons have colleges at
Salt Lake City, Logan and Pro-
DO that are radiating centers of
inspiration. In order to produce
men these Mormons raise fruit.
"Less hell and more hogs" was
the advice of a great Southern
statesman to his constituents.
There are over five thousand
students enrolled in these Utah
universities. The system of
teaching sets pace for Christ
endom. For instance, at Provo,
when the president of the col
lege wanted a sewer dug a mile
long, he staked it out, selected
twenty boys as foremen, called
for five hundred volunteers, and
10! the job was done in half a
day.
The students plant trees, lay
sidewalks, make roads and dig
irrigation bitches by the same
token. Cooperation, youth,
strength, good cheers system!
Provo produces men and wom-
en- of quality.
in our pupils the health habit,
the study habit and the work
habit, we have given to them the
key to every good thing that life
holds" l think that | saw this
proposition in the Philistine, but
just where | got it, | do not re-
member. However, merely ex-
press the ideas of many good
people.
AT Provo lives Senator Reed
Smoot, insultingly homogeneous, |
"a plain, practical, thrifty man
who runs bank, real estate Of
lice and coal yard. He owns a
farm, has a fine family of boys
and girls, and l helped him wat
er his nasturium and gave him
a chance to say things about
Washington, ID. c., but he only
had kind words for everybody. |
Right here | want merely to
speak about two very big ideas
that the Mormons are working
'out. There is no copyright on
either one of these, and neither
was original with them. The
same ideas are being exploited
in many places, but the Latter
Day Saints have them by the
scruff.
The IDEAS are these: The value
of summer fallow, dry land
farming and the economic value
of dwarf fruit trees.
The first idea is practically
the Campbell system, which con-
sists of utilizing the arid land
by raising a crop of wheat on it
every other year. This system
simply consists in blowing a fur
row from eight to ten inches.
Attached to the pillow is a blade
that penetrates the ground ten
or twelve inches. At the bottom
of the blade is a bulb, similar
to the old blind ditch scheme,
which leaves practically an
opening in the soil, say twenty
inches below the surface.
When the rain comes the wat
'er trickles down through the
soil, following the opening made
by the blade and fills this little