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13 (27 acres), his problem is simpler, as with 22 to 24 crop acres he 
can retain alfalfa in his rotation and still concentrate on beets. The 
manure supply in this section is not specially large and many men 
do not care for the labor of hauling it in the winter, preferring to 
grow the forage crop. The alfalfa should be plowed up at intervals 
of not longer than four years to give fresh land for beets and thus 
minimize the danger of beet diseases. Whether the alfalfa is grown 
or not, it would pay to disk the stubble land as soon as the grain is 
stacked and sow a suitable green-manure crop, to be turned under 
late in the fall or in the following spring. 
The small orchardist has a more difficult proposition than the gen- 
eral farmer. He is usually located on the benches, where the sugar 
beet does not take as kindly to the soil as on the richer bottom land. 
Many orchardists are turning to other enterprises, but this is not 
readily done when a large proportion of the land is in bearing fruit. 
The men who are striving to change are primarily the peach growers, 
as pears are distinctly a profitable crop with a fair yield and good 
care, primes are next to pears for profitability, and apples usually 
are well ahead of peaches. Some men in a position to do so would do 
well to put in a small area of strawberries and raspberries, as these 
crops are largely supplementary to tree fruits, and give a good re- 
turn per acre with a moderate yield (250 or more crates per acre). 
(See PL IV, fig. 2.) There would be something of a labor conges- 
tion before May 1 unless part of the orchard were summer or fall 
pruned, but on these small farms this labor conflict would not be 
serious. Any man setting out small fruits should take every precau- 
tion to secure healthy plants. It should be borne in mind, however, 
that the logical market for small fruits in Utah is in the intermoun- 
tain country itself, and that overproduction would follow a marked 
extension of the area in these crops. 
The peach grower would do well to cut out alternate rows of trees 
rather than chop them down indiscriminately, and set out prunes or 
pears in their place rather than small fruit. Should he desire to 
eliminate that part of the fruit area, and the farm were well situated 
for the hauling, he could profitably crop the intervals with sugar 
beets. With plenty of manure the yield is good, and half or more 
of the former orchard area could be in that crop. The beet harvest 
does not begin until the peach crop is gathered, and there is no labor 
conflict. With other tree fruits there is a conflict, but on these small 
farms this is usually a matter of small importance. Tomatoes also 
could be grown under the above conditions in spite of a labor conflict 
during the two weeks of peach harvest. With the labor of women 
and children as plentiful as is the case here, the only difficulty lies 
in the hauling, but judging from the experience of men who grow 
limited areas of both these crops on small units, this would not prove 
