The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-02-13
FARMS Of SMALL
ACREAGE WANTED
Many People Are Asking for
Tracts Suitable for Mar
ket Gardening.
BIG PROFITS REALIZED
CHINESE GIVE LESSONS ON
UTILIZING OIL.


made on small acreage farms for mar
ket gardening and poultry raising" said
NJ. L. Cummings Of the firm OF Andex.
son & Cummings yesterday. with the
increase IN value Of the big acreage
farms more people are turning their at
tentiOn 10 the smaller farms. This in
terest is due not only TO the fact that
the larger farms have increased Ia
price beyond the means Of ths small In
weston, but because It has been demon
strated that in the little farm, close IN.
/ properly cultivated, there is a good Iv-
ing for a family.
In many cases where land has not
the proper ingredients for the raising
of garden truck, the owners have In
[ stalled large chicken runs and have
made big profits In that way. Most OF
/ the land In Salt Lake county and IN
counties directly tributary IS very fef-
tile, and vegetables for the market NAV,
be grown with profit. High prices have
extended even 10 the vegetable line, and
the certainty of a good market, with
good prices for what is raised, has
caused many people 10 invest their
money in small truck gardens.
! Plenty Of water Is necessary for the
| raising Of all kinds Of garden truck.
! and az general rule there is all that
/ is needed in the district around SaIb
! Lake. During the past few years sclen-
} thc principles in market gardening
/ have been used 20 a greater extent than
ever before, with the result that greater
profits ave come from a given acre
/ age of grOund.
Chinese Are Good Gardeners.
Other dealers, in speaking Of the de-
/ nand FOR small tracts for market gar
/ denlng, We're Of the opinion that mora
people would take up this kind of work
Iof a living when the possibilities wers
better known.
1t is claimed by some of the dealers
VINO have had the leasing of land of
this kind that the Chinese gardeners ia
salt Lake and Weber counties get more
out of I'VE acres Of land than other
gardeners get out of seven or eight. or
even ten acres. The reason for this is
said to be that the Chinese have hack
Of them the experience of ages i'm get
ting out of land all that il will Dossf-
bly yield. Every foot Of land Is care
Tully cultivated and weeds are not AL
lowed TO grow, because they rob tbs
SOIL OF elements that might be utilized
In the growing of prOft-ma king cr0p5
Utah mas not arrived at the point IN
soil cultivation where each AGRA or
ground nourishes forty people. and vet
that is what is claimede for China and
Japan.
Professor 2. II. King Of Madison.
Wis, in writing on soil cultivation I'm
the Tar east in Farm and Fireside.
makes these interesting com ments:
1T could not fail 10 be a matter OF
social Importance to all nations were
1t possible 10 bring to them a. full
and accurate account Of all thOss
conditions and practices which have
made 1t possible for such dense popu-
lauons 70 be maintained so largely
upon the products Of Chinese. KO-
rean and Japanese soils. Many OF the
steps, phases and practices through
which this evolution has passed ara
irrevocably buried in the past. but
such remarkable maintenance eff
hciency attained centuries ago and
projected into the past with little an
parent decadence. merits the nasr
profound study, and the time Is fully
ripe when it should be made.
Limit to Production.
With our population increasing at
the rate Of nearly a million a YEAR
during the last half century. II il
clear that We can hardly learn too
soon or too thoroughly our probable
limit Of soil and crop production and
the best methods Of iusUrtng and
maintaining it, Probably nothing can
give a safer measure Of the mainte-
nance capacity of the farm and farm
eTs of q nation than the number "a
people they feed per unit area OF
cultivated field, and it is doubtful *
there Is better place 10 study this
problem than in China and japan &C
the present time
According to official statistics Dub-
lisEed in 1908, Japan has in its main
island, exclusive Of Formosa. and
harafuto, a population Of 4s.542. 73s
and the area Of its cultivated fields
Is 2l,S2l square miles. This is 2.275
people 70 the square mile, and be-
SIDES these there are also maintained
Z,6JO,OOO cattle and horses, nearly alg
Of which are laboring animals zi7J-
ing population Of 40 people and
seven horses and cattle to each FORTY
acres of cultivated field, a condition
sufficiently different from our 1osr
-ulIy occupied fOTty-acre farm to make
he busiest man among us stop and
10 some thinking.
The old farmer who permitted ma
% hold his pillow told my interpreter
hat there were twelve in his family
ana that he owned and was culti,
rating fifteen NOV Of land. which ia
Wo and One-hah acres, and that ba-
ldes his team-a cow and small don-
Aey-he usually fed two pigs. This
S at the rate of 1872 people, sixteen cows
lAteen uonkeys and thirty-two pigs on
forty-aCre farm; and q DonriafIo,1
iensity of 3,072 people, 256 cows S5s
lonkeys and 512 swine Der souars rntIs -