The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1911-08-29


of tomatoes, 40 tons Of sugar beets
and tons of alfalfa hay per acre.
One hundred years ago Great Brit.
aims average yield was about the
same for the above products as the
United States. At that time Roy
al commission was appointed to
stimulate agriculture and proper con
servation of the soils. Now England
produces 80 bushels OF wheat per
acre, Germany rs, The Netherlands
"a, and France 20. OF oats England
produces AZ, Germany 40, The Neither
lands 3d. Germany, Belgium and
Great Britain averages $50 bushels of
potatoes per acre, and notwithstand-
could be raised in Utah to supply the
United States, there was imported into
our country in 1909, S,3S4,OO0 bushels
Fruit growing as yet Is in its in.
fancy, but enough has been done to
show that its opportunities are un.
limited. Apples, peaches. pears,
plums, strawberries and garden truck
are all produced in large quantities
| The climate and soils here are . re.
markably well adapted to the produc.
tion of apples an dpeaches.Large com
mercial orchards are being planted as
farmers have found that a good irri
gated orchard is the mainstay of the
farm business and a peach or apple
orchard will yield from $1,000 20
$4,000 per acre. Utah peaches are
famous in Box Elder county; the Elber
Ia peaches are grown to most won
derful size. They are also highly de.
, veloped in Cache Valley. Weber. Da-
Wis. Salt Lake and Utah counties. It
Is demonstrated fact that the FL
berta peaches can be shipped to the
eastern markets and keep perfectly
for six weeks and find read ysale IN
competition with the best fruits of the
sections nearer the point of sales
We have all kinds of climate in
| Utah, from the semi-tropical to that
of perpetual winter in the higher
mountains. All kinds of fruits can be
grown.
Figs. almonds. grapes and pome
! granates and the finest cotton thrive
| in southern Utah, our Dixie land. The
products of this region are much
sought, though transportation is diff.
ficult The advent of a railroad is
only matter of time, for as the state
grows so must Dixie, for its climate
and soil are, equaled only in Southern
California, and the traffic from that
section will be enormous Something
of the future. as well as the present
magnitude of the fruit industry in
Utah may be gotten from the fact
that last year from the one-fifth of
its planted area that is bearing fruit,
1000 carloads of fruit, was shipped.
That surely means that when the en-.
tire planted area Is barring the output
will be 10000 carloads year. People
We must have in our state, We have
the room and the resources.
Although the dairy industry is
growing, Utah is still unable to sup.
ply the demands of her growing pop.
ulation. We have approximately So,
600 COWS in the state, or an average
of five cows to each farm, but we
need more.
OF the manufacturing industries
sugar leads. Utah was the first state
in the union to make sugar from beets
grown on irrigated lands, in 1889
There was $4,000, 900 pounds manufac
tured in the five factories; the value
of the product at liz cents per
pound at the factory was $4,920,000
People who live in Utah do not real
iZe the advantages of the state, and
the necessity OF placing these advan
tages more clearly before the people
of this county is apparent. Utahus be
lieve In and are loyal to their state
but in the hurry of everyday life
they do not always post themselves al
we'll as they should about home affairs
For example, compare Utah with New
England, which has 66,465 square
miles and 6,55O,OOO people, with New
, York which has 49.17o square mile