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THE IRRIGA T10N AGE. 



solutely sure market and a fixed price. 

 There are many good farmers who have 

 faith in sugar beets, and have already con- 

 tracted so there will be many fields of beets 

 in the vicinity next summer and if these 

 are planted on suitable land and given pro- 

 per care we will harvest some splendid 

 crops in this section. But beet farmers 

 must not forget that beets must be planted 

 on good land and not on land that will not 

 produce other crops. 



If the people of this vicinity want a 

 sugar factory, they now have a splendid 

 chance to secure one, If they demonstrate 

 to the world they can grow sufficient beets 

 of the proper quality to supply a factory 

 then they can get one, but capitalists will 

 not invest their money unless they are 

 reasonably sure of getting good returns. 

 Walter L. Webb, in Greeley Tribune 



UTAH WHEAT IN EAST. 



Several weeks ago a few carlords of 

 Utah wheat were shipped East as an ex- 

 periment. Says the Semi-weekly Tribune. 

 It has always been claimed by Eastern 

 millers that the irrigated wheat of Utah 

 was not as good for flour as the product 

 raised without irrigation. They gave an 

 excuse for this the fact that there was 

 much more water in the Utah wheat than 

 in the hard wheat of the East. Bakers of 

 this city seemed to have become imbued 

 with this idea, too, and so they imported 

 some of the hard wheat flour of the East 

 to mix with the soft-wheat flour of Utah. 

 The result was a very superior quality of 

 bread, it is claimed, and this Utah wheat 

 was sent East to allow the bakers there to 

 test its worth in conjunction with their 

 own. The experiment has proven to be 

 satisfactory, and as a consequence there is 

 quite a demand for Utah wheat in places 

 where the result has become known. 

 "There are probably 10,000 bushels of 

 Utah wheat going out daily, " said a shipper 

 yesterday, "and it reaches points as far 



east as Connecticut and as for south as 

 Tennessee. The value in the mixtuse of 

 the two seems to be that the soft wheat 

 grown in irrigated countries gives a flavor 

 to the bread, when it is judiciously used, 

 that cannot be obtained when all hard 

 wheat is ued; and on the other hand, the 

 hard wheat gives strength and color to the 

 bread that cannot be had here without its 

 use. I look for very good results from the 

 experiment. 



KEEPING IN THE OLD RUTS. 



M. F. Jackson, of Pes Moines county 

 Iowa, writes the following to the Prairie 

 Farmer. 



We all know how hard it is to get a load 

 out of old ruts. It takes great effort on 

 the part of the team. So it takes unusual 

 effort for men to get into new ways of do- 

 ing things. We are prone to do as our 

 fathers did. We love to follow in the good 

 (?) old ways and tell of the profits made 

 when we were young. We read of the ex- 

 periments made at our agricultural colleges; 

 we wonder at the reports, but often fail to 

 profit by them. This can be said of many 

 farmers who read agricultural papers. We 

 are advised to harrow corn before it comes 

 up and after it is up, but many are sure 

 such a course would be disastrous; their 

 fathers never harrowed corn. Last year a 

 neighbor had corn up four inches high. 

 The weeds were showing thickly. He had 

 no help and said the weeds would get ahead 

 of him, he feared. I advised him to har- 

 row it with his three-section harrow. It 

 would cultivate the corn, and be death to 

 many of the little weeds. He could cul- 

 tivate the corn easier and better. There 

 was no trash on the field, but he was &ure 

 harrowing would cover up and tear up his 

 corn, doing more harm thon good. He 

 would keep in the old rut. Too many far- 

 mers keep their hogs in rather small en- 

 closures, while they know the hogs would 

 do much better if they had green feed, for 



