Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-12-19
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the soil. There IL room here for a 1T
tie experiment.
WHEAT on DRY LAND.
The crop that has proven most sue
ccsaful IN drv land farming Ia winter
wheat, though spring wheat has also
been quite successfully grown. An I'm
portant consideration In either case W
u wheat that viii mature carly. There
IL. perhaps. also some varieties ~ wheat
that VIII do better ON dry land than
Others though on this point I have no
conclusive data. In every case good
plump seed should always be Hown.
WHERE DRY FARMING HAS Sue
cEEDED.
Perhaps tho most successful dry land
farming In the State In now practiccd
In Cache. Boxclder. Davis. and Touelc
counties, nad TO limited extent In
others. Financial success In dry land
farming IL In n measure dependent up
on the economy practlccd In handling
the work. The greatest profits per acre
given are reported by those who have
the capital 10 handle large farm. or
where the people combine to attain the
same end one Of the most successful
dry land farmers am acquainted with
always uses four horse team and
doubles the capacity OF his machinery.
Thus one man can do as much Ms two.
as farms are generally handled.
The rapid extension Of dry land farm
ing In Cache county during the past
four years has really been surprising.
but not moro No than the success that
has attended tho practice. one year
ago. one OF the most successful sea-
sons Tor dry farmers, WIS told Of Sow
cral yields as high as forty bushels per
acre. and the average crop over thou-
sands OF acres In Cache Valley could
not have been very far from thirty
bushels per acre. The past season has
been most unfavorabie one for all
kinds OF farm crops and yet | have
heard OF several crops OF from ten TO
fifteen bushels Der acre ON dry land.
ROOM FOR EXTENSION.
I have followed with interest the
growth OF this line OF the farming In
tercstE both Ia Cache valley ANA over
the state dur 1s TIE past threc or four
years have seen MANY places In
| other counties that seemed to me To be
AZ well adapted TO successful dry land
| farming as In Cache county. and have
| said so through the press ON more than
one occasion. During the past summer
had an opportunity 10 confirm my
| thought upon this point M found dry
land farming successfully followed IN
| Junb and Willard counties. and rapid
extension OF Ii In Toocle county. AZ
Levan IN Juab county I met farmer
who said that he had farmed dry land
| for sixteen years and In only one
year Of that time had he failed To- get q
! crop, and that year the irrigated crof
wnn almost failure. outside Of THU
his lowest yield was twelve bushels ~
acre. and he hnd received thirty-ilvo 1,
forty bushels His average would b'
| over twenty bushels. He said; II have
been in Cache county and have looked
| over the dr.' land farms there and w
can do Just as well with the dry lhns
farming here M they can there " W.
cultivate our land right" And then
thought OF the hundreds. aye, thou
annds of ncrca Of waste land which
noticed stretching away on either sid
OF the rond na drove through Junb val
ley from Mona southwark. To chang
the miles OF aaHe-bush and sunflowor
into a crop OF wheat would mean thou
sands Of dollars added TO the wealth o
the state.
Az / Travelled over the State and no
tlced the land and the climate IN man,
counties In Willard. In Beaver. In Iron
in Snnpetc. In SEWER and also Il
Wayne and Garfield. I have been Yer
much Impressed with the great nnturn
richness of the soil. and yet how yer
small proportion OF II ls cultivated
or for which IRRITATION water could b
provided. have often questioned
IL were not possible TO make q success
~ dry farming on much OF this noN
barren land.
EXPERIMENTS SUGGESTED.
II has seemed TO me that there