The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-07-27

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Agriculture at Washington for throwing
cold water on his recent achievements in
the transformation of plant life. BE calls
the governments experts -low browed.
narrow gauged and pinheaded.'
yield will run from ten TO thirty five
| bushels. and In Cache county from ff-
| teen to forty bushels Reports from
southern Idaho are that wheat. oats. al
falfa and fruit will considerably surpass
the crop OF last year and that a most
| hopeful feeling prevails among the far
| mers,
Fruit Growing Pays.
Fruit growing in Utah has been rapid
~ increasing. and many valuable prizes
loT tne size and flavor Of fruit have been cen
years. Each year finds more orchards
coming into bearing and more acres put
IN orchard. The state horticultural In
1911: Apple trees. ass. 1856; peach trees.
2d2222 cherry tres, 5475e; pear trees;
prune trees. 14.10l. total. 7s2129.
1t is estimated that the 1911 fruit pro.
duction will run as follows: 700 cars of
Of all other fruits The The light ' yield by
reason OF early spring freezing Will be
more than made up by the increased
that, more. scientific methods are being
employed in bringing the tres TO earlier
and. and increased rc bearing, me educational
llege Is bringing big results and the losses
this year from parasites will be small be-
cause Of this work. Freezing Is to blame
for most of the damage done,
The best year in many past" Is the
opinion OF those who know about the beet
sugar industry In Utah and southern Ida
ho. In this region two mammoth com
panies are operating. They have under
contract 53,50O acres of land. as against
$4,000 last year. The yield is expected 10
tO1lNn ip 10
acre, or 66S.250 tons for which the farm
ers will be paid S5;3il.25O. The freight
located at Lewiston, Ogden. Logan. Lehi,
Garland and Elslnore In Utah, Blackfoot,
Sugar City. Idaho Falls and Nampa, in
Idaho; and % La "a Grande, Oregon. Will
OF the Utah Idaho Sugar company, is not
to, be operated this season, but Its place
lat Elsinore in Sewer valley. which viii
take care OF the beets from 5000 acres.
II has been built at a total cost OF $780,
900 and will employ 225 men in the fac
tory proper. The two companies VIII en-
ploy this year at all OF their factories a
total OF thrty-three hundred men and
running seasons the sum of 81 33T 900.
These companies maintain 2l2 weigh
Ing stations outside their factories. The
Utah-1daho company maintains two cut
ting stations. from which tho beet juice
is conveyed to Its factory at lehi by
pipe lines, distance of 2S miles. The
this purpose and so miles Of railroad for
the hauling Of beets to IT'S factories. The
seed for planting is purchased In Ger,
many by both companies at an annual
cost of sl05, 900 They pay for taxes
SIP 900; for coal, Sl60 600: for the bags
which they use. $l6oooo. and SS7o.6o0
for the 10 miscellaneous items used
about their factories. Their ten plants
have daily capacity Of 1900 tons. Twen-
ty-nve per cent of the output is marketed
in Utah and Idaho. The rest goes east
of the Mississippi river TO bring millions
lof money back 20 this mountain country
for the development OF our other Indus
tries and for distribution among our peo-
pie. Only citizens are employed and
most OF them are from the adjoining
farms and villages. The cunning % season on
lasts from sixty TO seventy days-a pc
rlod when the farmer aud his sons can
be absent from their fields.
Apiaries Prosper
We hear very little of bee raising in
Utah. yet there is probably 81 600 900 in
vested in hives. honey houses. and other
, aPiary equipment There are 90 900
colonies OF bees in the state and they
have a farm value OF $25O,0O0, AT one
; time the industry had more Of foot
. hold in Utah than a, present, but many
t thousand colonies were Destroyed few
, have recovered from this setback and are
$ rapidly Increasing their colonies and
equipment for handling honey. The state
Legislature has enacted favorable laws.
I thus greatly encouraging the Industry.
9 The honey now for 1911 viii be cXcep-
= tionally good. except In those regions
( where the weeyN ruined the alfalfa crop.
Utah county leads In the production of
q honey. The other counties produce in
the following order Emery. tintah.
5 Sanpetp, Davis and SEWER The value
! OF the 1910 product was $500 0N0.
Alfalfa bloom honey Is said 10 oe The
= best found on the market today. Utah
= has been able to take a good lead In the
: growing OF alfalfa, hence the opportunity
y Is offered TO further Increase the profits
= OF our farmers in the raising of honey
e bees. Market could easily and prohtahly
: be found iOr one hundred times tho
t amount OF Utah honey and wax now
produced. We should encourage the. ece;
= il eats only the material tUr which no
$ other use has been found, Is grCa,
Il pOllculzcr for fruit, and brings GOOD
2 return on the necessary investment q
I successfully handle u: one cnterprisinG
n grower in Utah takos his colonies tu
I | California In the winter and turns them
:. out on tho alfalfa Ucds there: then be-
= returns them 10 Itah In the spring and
Il turns them out on tho Alfalfa Aclds %:
< | our valleys. thus producing two crops
J.: a year with them. This plan protects
Q them from the winter chill which 80
l often destroys whole colonies. and 81
@ saves great quantities ot honey ON which
: they would have TO feed If kept in Utah
: the year through,
: In years past the financial interests OF
. the country took comparatively smul
:, account q crop conditions until the gen
% oral yearly balance sheet was made uD
= They regarded Il largely ms a negligible
= Item, Todu" IL Is without question tho
largest and most important one. The
: wealth and the report OF a bumper
> crop" iOr 1911 IS most gratifying. II
. gives ample reasca 10 be nl!ed With
s hope Gor the future
c Cannot appoint Deputy.
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