Eastern Utah advocate. [volume] (Price, Utah) 1895-1915, 1914-07-30
BIG FARMERS DAY PREDICTED
Agricultural Demonstration Stewart
Visits Many Farms.

Aftef spending one oay ethch Win Il
the farmers Of Price, Huntington.
Castle Dale, orangevilie. Ferron.
Emery, Cleveland, Elmo and Wei
Ilngton. visiting cooperative and
other farms. I am glad 20 predict
that Farmers Day" IL the begin
ming Of a new epoch in Carbon and
Emery counties, which at no dis
tant date viii be a day looked for
ward 70 with much interest by the
farmers and business people.
yet have Green River TO visit.
and then the larger farming dis
tricts Of the two counties will be
pretty we'll visited with this kind Of
trip.
Farmers usually become 80 busy
on their own farms that they give
too little time 20 the visiting q
other farms in the neighborhood.
In Huntington an enthusiastic
crowd of farmers Joined me. and
we spent the day visiting eome CO.
operative and other farms. aud
without a single exception all ex-
pressed themselves AZ being we'll
recompensed for their days time.
We visited alfalfa fields. cat fields.
barley fields. wheat fields, truck
gardens. orchards, potato fields.
beet fields. etc. and discussed In
the field from practical and scienti-
&c standpoints many problems. such
AZ irrigation. drainage. seed selec-
tion. preparation Of seed bed. culu-
walton, crop rotation. etc.
In Price a fair crowd OF FARMERS
and business people got together
and visited fields down the Price
river valley AZ far a. Wellington.
the big Austin ranch and new farms
south OF the city Although short
In numbers. yet the enthusiasm was
good and all felt pleased with the
excellent orops grown by some Of
the farmers. some OF the bcat hav-
ing been grown with much cultiva-
lion and little or no irrigation.
In Castle Dale tho crowd was
very small. Whether OF not she
people could not avail themselves
OF this opportunity. cannot say
We visited some farms whore great
results had been attained, and those
who did go felt well repaid for the
time expended some very fine gar
dcns and grain crops can be found
there.
Aiso In orangeyilIe the crowd IN
attendance on "Farmers' Day" wa
very small. This was explained BY
one member present "a probably be
ing due 70 40 many on that particu'
lar date being on the mountain
Some right good results are TO BE-
found on some OF the farms thorc.
In Ferron n good showing wa
made by some right good enthusi'
aatic farmers. We travelled by au-
to and were able 10 visit many
farms. During the trip we visited
some water logged lands. some nj
falfa fields. whcat. oat and barley
fields, orchards, potato fields, otc.
many OF which showed excellent ~
I suits All told we had very pleas
ant. profitable trip.
The Emery people turned out An
quite large numbers and deserve
much praise for their great interest
taken In the movement, The day
was spent in visiting cooperative
!, and individually operated farms
apiaries. etc. and although the
. crowd was very good one. next
time Il win undoubtedly be stnl
larger.
Tho llttie town OF Cleveland came
out 20 Farmers Day" In goodiy
numbers. the number reaching be
tween thirty and forty. and though
Il rained occasionally during the
day. yet the crowd was 80 enthusi-
as,ic that the majority visited the
day out. We visited many good
fields and gardens OF the different
crops and dealt with many prob
lens.
Elmo Is small In numbers. yet FOO
!, It's size a. did pseh proud. We
spent very profitable day VISITING
! from field 10 field, The prospects
are very encouraging there this yea
for some excellent crops. especially
with the cereals,
The manner In which the Wei
'ington people got behind the move
nent was also very encouraging
and right good crowd assembled
La ,ylrli 'l,.'ss.ss, ait Utensils
nk including Stoves, Tables
~ Show Cases. 2Lar6e lie,