Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-07-31
GFIURIA ARE TO BE OPENED up.
BY AMERICAN EDUCATORS.

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4 old Texas lenghorns. They have large
but not heavy frames, ana on that ac-
count they would form an ideal cattle
to cross with our Herefords. He says
their meat is excellent, resembling tho
compact flesh of the grass-fed cattle of
Montana, but not at all like the corn
fed bullocks of Iowa. The best markets
/ today are those Of Russian Siberia.
\ tVladivostock takes considerable meat
and there is 9 packing plant here with
4 aminorliarcoolers and concrete floors.
| About 5000 cattle are consumed q
month ut Hardin, and droves are sent
1 overland to Blagpvestchensk on the
4 Amoor, and also to other Russian sta
lions with large military forces.
NdANCHURIAN HOGS.
| As to the pork of Manchuria, no
foreigner eats that if4he can possibly
help 1t. The hogs are the scayengers.
| They are seldom fed and they root
| about through the mud and filth, eat
| ing all sorts of vile4stuff AS ga result.
/ they are blackbristled, Questionable
| ed, srnall-hanmed, hungry loolstns
| animals. They are much like our razor
backs, but their flesh is by no means
/ SO good. They are very prolific, hag-
ing from twelve to fourteen pigs at a
| litter. and by cross breeding might
| De turned into excellent stock, ;
| .4' ] !.
THE BREAD BASKET OF ASIA.
As the result or long conversations
with Messrs Parker and To1nhave,
| ana from my own travels over Man
churia. i am forced to- the conclusion
] that one Of the greatest and most
valuable sections of undevelopetl-f farm
! lands of the world lies right here. T fe
| Wholeof Manchliria has 81 climate
| and SOjt fiffn1 erpr f,,i1t fxyoti
| and twill raise inconceivable sup,
! plies of Wheat. corn and all sorts Of
| hardy, grains, The soil of the greater
part of the province is lust like the
| prairies of the Mississippi valley.
Much Of it compares we'll with the
best parts of the wheat belt Of
Canada, and not a little in its fertile
| ty will surpass that OF the Red River
valley. The country has some noun
famous regions, but there are wide
valleys and rolling plains, so rich that
| they need to be only tickled with the
pillow to Taught with the harvest
The southern half Of Manchuria is
| now fairly we'll settled. Above Muk-.
den the farms are widely scattered
and there are huge areas of govern
ment land which the authorities arc
thinking of throwing open to imnf-S
grants The two American agricultural
experts tell mo that they have travel
ed Ior3 DAYS overland as rich as tflat.
of any part of America, which is now
practically waste. They say the farm;
ing methods are so crude that If en-
ployed In the United States they
would produce practically nothing
Nevertheless, the Manchurian land
yields from thirty to fifty bushels of
sorghum seed per acre, and twenty
bushels of wheat. It produces about
fifty bushels of corn. and with improve
ed seed and cultivation similar to ours
it would probably yield as much maize
on the average as the corn belt Of
the United States.
WHERE THE WHEAT rs HOED.
All crops here are planted in rows,
just as we plant corn or potatoes The
rows are about eighteen inches apart
and the land is thrown up in burrows
each year. In the spring the grain Is
sown with the hand In the old fur
pillow is then run along the sides to
Prov Is then run along the sides to
cover 1t. 1t is tramped down by the
feet of the farmers, and ls@plowed
again and again Throughout the sum
Ener. In this way the grain has to
start from the hard ground, which its