. A glimpse of Utah, its resources, attraction and natural wonders /by Edward F. Colborn . bout 22,000 farms in Utah andapproximately 100,000 people are engaged in farming and kindredcallings. The Mormons are natural-born farmers and do practically allof the farming. Their like for intelligence, thrift and industrywould be hard to find. In at least two respects the Utah farmerstands alone; he has solved without turmoil or litigation the prob-lem of the impartial distribution of irrigation waters, and he hasexemplified the value to the community of the small farm thor-oughly cultivated, over la
. A glimpse of Utah, its resources, attraction and natural wonders /by Edward F. Colborn . bout 22,000 farms in Utah andapproximately 100,000 people are engaged in farming and kindredcallings. The Mormons are natural-born farmers and do practically allof the farming. Their like for intelligence, thrift and industrywould be hard to find. In at least two respects the Utah farmerstands alone; he has solved without turmoil or litigation the prob-lem of the impartial distribution of irrigation waters, and he hasexemplified the value to the community of the small farm thor-oughly cultivated, over large holdings but half tilled. One of thewise teachings of Brigham Young was, that a man should not ownmore land than he can thoroughly cultivate, and so, from the verybeginning, the Mormon land holdings have been small. Fortyacres is called a large farm in Utah, and there are hundreds of thefive and ten-acre size. One of the results of this system is seen inthe populous character of the Utah valleys; another, in the almosttotal lack of unemployed land. To pass through one of these val-. Cathering Sugar Beeis near Lehi. A GLIMPSE O F u r A H page twenty-seven leys, is to constantly feel that you are in a straggling town—soclose are the homes together. Contrast this with the situation instates like Kansas for instance, where the farms average 160 acres. If we may count five to a family, a section of land in Kansaswould have but twenty inhabitants. In Utah, under the five-acrefarm system, if we allow the same number to a family, a sectionwould have 640 inhabitants; under the ten-acre farm system, asection would have 320,and counting the farmsat 40 acres, a sectionwould have 80 inhabi-tants. It almost passes be-lief that a tract of butfive acres can be made tosupport a family, and yetin Utah it does do that inhundreds of cases, and,more than that, provides asurplus to be laid by forgood farm stock, a pianofor the girls, a few sharesof sugar or co-operativestocks and a little acco
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