Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-07-07
THREE GOOD THINGS.

According to the Judgment OF hai'-
sas legislator, Representative Maa Ii'' I.
there are three projects which neeu
3 nusI,ing lust now for the benefit OF tra el
part OF the world. These Things ~
another good money crop" for tne
farmers. forestry and good roads. IN
All three OF these he has been WorRlns
with the Department OF Agriculltur
n II AS to the first. he reports that q
nartic,,Iarly promising variety OF harus
,,sa,fa. now being tested by the Pc :.
Z n II me,,t Of Agriculture, will prove q
i5s,.reat noney-n,aker for the bench lands
\ 81 southwestern Kansas, which are LOO
dry for ordinary methods OF cultlYa-.
L ton.
IL mis- alfalfa is being planted IN rows
and i,1owed like corn. Then It IS 70 pe
+,,reshed for seed The country, NJ adj.
son found, is demanding more a tlt
s seed and 1t was bringing from sly %
sig a bushei In the market. The DE-.
nart1nent was expecting from three 70
fonrgbushels of seed to the acre,
3T a ST year Mr.. Madison secured from rom
i the department enough Of the drougiie-
resisting, seed for forty men TO Pialie.
about 1--WE acres apiece. 1t was plant
cd this spring. He declares that that ~ tiils
y alfalfa half meets the expectations Oh
The department it will be great thing
Tor Western Kansas. "one GOOD seeu
crop a year would be profitable. An 10
II understand that the seed develops s
better 2on the dry uplands than n IN tne
moist valleys. A farmer is doing pref,
4 ~ we'll out there If he gets fifteen teen
bushels Of wheat to the acre " II he
could depend on getting even TWO
bushels. Of alfalfa seed at $40 to s1s g q
busl,el you can see what It would mean.
for him "a +.
This is a venture that should interest ''sst
Utah farmers. II the new variety OF
ia has not yet been tried here N y " 4
I should he experimental with at once
sjnicetit might do much better here than
in Kansas.
AS to the second project forestrs, ~
is being taken up In Kansas with tt, CHI '5lf
ford Pitiehot, chief forester. The kan
sans have shown to him the need OF
two additional nurseries to stock Ger,
TAIN forest reserve. Mr.. Pinchot has
promised that these shall be established
as soon as the type Of tree best adapt pr
id for the conditions shall have peen
determined on. He hopes that the
nurseries vii be begun next year year.
Here again is suggestion for Y tah h.
At this time there should be such n ill
series established in almost every
county here, in order to reforest the
canyons as an investment for the fu-
Sture greatness Of this state. little
has been done in this direction, but
the people are not yet really in earnest
about forestry.
The!tliird project, that of good roads,
has been forced upon the KANSAS
legislature by the fact that a. barrier
of sand hills on the south bank Of
the Arkansas, has long blocked the
towns along that stream from their
tributary farming territory to the
SOUTH The roads through the sand
hills were nearly impossible.
Representative Madison induced the
good roads office of the Department
OF Agriculture to send an expert last
year to supervise the building of roads
through the sand hills In this work
Editor Faxon was a most important
factor. He pressed II daily through
his newspaper at Garden City. The
business men took UP the matter after
the county had given financial help,
and sand clay road was built through
the sand hills. This road. once avoid
cd by everyone. has now become a
speedway for motor cars.
Here again is an important hint for
our own State, which has, in the south
ern part, many such sandy areas as
those Just conquered by the sand
clay roads of Kansas. In building
these roads, the sand is first scraped
out OF the road toa width of fourteen
feet and a depth of fourteen inches.
This space is filed with clay, or earth
OF any sort, and lis covered with sand.
The resulting road is said to be as fine
AS good macadam.
rIIr, REASON Or 1T