The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-08-06
DRY FARMERS
OF JUAB COUNTY
Continued From Page One.

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is black oat that originally came
from England ten years ago. 1t was
propagated by Stephen Boswell of this
city and he has raised fifty bushels to
the acre, his crop averaging forty bush
els. There is also shown wheat known
as winter Emmer, grain little known
in this country, which resembles barley
and the heads arc black. 1t weighs
about thirty pounds per measured
average 42.49 bushels. The cost Of
raising wheat on dry farms varies, but
Grace brothers,, who are among the
large farmers here and whose average
crop is thirty bushels per acre, esti-
mate tho cost per acre at $3.50; this In
cludcs cost Of marketing.
Farming on Large Scale.
The Grace brothers have farm of
| 500 acres. Other large land owners
are j, w. Paxman, who has 1900 acres,
and William Bailey, assessor of Juab
county, 500 acres. Tho average size
of dry land farms in this section is 100
under cultivation each year, the other
being in fallow.
The Grace brothers. who are re-
garded as the most successful farmers
in the Juab valley, have discarded
steam and gasoline in running the Ma
chlnery upon their farms, and now use
horses. Tn the harvesting of their
grain they use a combined header and
thrcsher drawn by twentY.slx head OF
horses, and the machine cuts swath
OF eighteen feet This. however, is a
digression, for this dispatch is about
the dry farm exhibit.
Splendid Potatoes.
In the exhibit is shown pototocs,
grown year ago on the farm of
Thomas Il. Smith, on the Levan ridge,
| that are AS firm and smooth as a bone.
| They are of the White Elephant va
! riety BY the side of them are pa-
tatoes of the same variety grown this
| year that arc beauties Then Mr..
Smith shows Hubbard squashes and
| beans that are as fine as can be grown.
He has sixty acres under cultivation.
James d. Paxman shows splendid
grain. spring wheat OF the. Red Chafr
variety, planted In April of this year.
| His crop was unusually good, and cX-
animation of the soil showed that the
grain had drawn moisture down for
three and one half feet. Last year. on
new ground, his yield was twenty two
| bushels per acre.
Exhibit of Apples.
An exhibit of apples is made by
| Orson .Howarth, who has five and one
half acres in apples. His orchard is
on the bench. adjoining Nephi. He
| has two varieties, Ben DAVIS and
Jonathan. and those he has on exhibi-
| tion. while Of course not fully ma
tured, are beauties. They are smooth,
solid and free from worms, The apples
he shows arc from siX-year old trees,
| four years from planting. His trees
have never been watered. and there is
moisture enough now in his orchard to
grow crop of grain. For three years
l. ,,f1 l.
| tween the rows of trees,
Thomas Broadhcad, son Of the
founder of dry farming in this region,
who has four acres Of apples on his
farm shows some fine specimens of
fruit His trees are planted twonty
| four feet apart. Mr.. Broadhead de-
clares that if there is a ten'inch pre-
cipitation during the year and nothing
| else is grown in the orchard, that Il
crop of fruit is as sure as the sun is TO
rise. These statements are given to
show the faith that dry farmers have
in dry farming,
Some Nephi Hustlers.
The exhibit has been arranged under
the direction of r. II. Burton, secre
tary of the Commercial club, and it is
due to him that the demonstration has
been made. The display is, us said,
most credtahlc, the grains being ar
tistically arranged in the sheaf upon
tho wall and tho threshcd grain dis
plavcd upon tables extending around
the room and in the center On the
walls arc many notices, some of which
follow:
Flowing timo saves tmo.
More be produced In one crop after
summer following than in two or three
consecutive crops.
Conservation of the moisture is of the
first Importance Use all possible means
TO prevent It's evaporation.
Harrow the grain In the spring until
IL is six inches high
Harrow after every rain and when
ever a crust begins 10 form.
Science and diligence Will quadruplc the
harvest.
Use only the best seed. select varieties
and we'll cleaned,
Forty-fve pounds is sufficient to plant
lSa7- -l9lO-sage- brush and grain.
Use drills that pack the earth about
the seed.
From seven to ten inches of water can
be saved for the crop by timely cultiva-
ton.
From Experiment Farm.
In addition to tho exhibits made by
private individuals and firms there is
also an exhibit from the state expert
mental farm which is located on the
Lcvan ridge six miles from here. This
OK hibit demonstrates, rs do the others,
what science can do in the way of
farming and of tho wonderful good ac
complished by the experiment farms to
which can lac added the meetings held
on those farms when experts from the
Agricultural college talk with tho farm
crs upon the growing of crops
This experiment farm or substation
comprises 102 acres of land and the
farm is G000 feet above sea level, The
average amount of precipitation is
14,I3 inches, although the present yoar
will cut this average very materially.
Other Exhibits.
Besides the exhibits of grains and
fruits and vegetables there were dis
plays showing the product of Juab
county exclusive of any mining cx-
hibits from tho Tintic country,
Among the exhibits was one from
the ,luab Mill and Elevator company,
whose mill, run by water power, has II
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