Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-12-19
WHERE DRY FARMING HAS Sue
CEEDED.


WHERE DRY FARMING HAS Sue
CEEDED.
Perhaps the most successful dry land
farming in the State Is now practiced
in Cache, Boxelder Davis, and Tooele
counties, aad 20 a limited extent In
others. Financial success In dry land
farming Is in n measure dependent up
on the economy practiced In handling
the work. The greatest profits per acre
given are reported by those who have
the capital 10 handle n 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 a four horse team and
doubles the capacity Of his machinery.
Thus one man can do as much as 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 more so than the success that
has attended the practice. One year
ago, one Of the most successful sea-
sons for dry farmers, / was told Of sew
eral 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 n most unfavorable one for all
Kinds OF farm crops and yet | have
heard OF several crops Of from ten 20
fifteen bushels per acre on dry land
ROOM FOR EXTENSION.
1 have followed with interest the
growth Of this line Of the farming in
terests both in Cache valley and over
the State during the past three or four
years. / have seen many places In
other counties that seemed TO me TO be |
as well adapted TO successful dry land |
farming as is 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 as | found dry |
land farming successfully followed In |
Juab and Willard counties. and a rapid |
extension Of 1t In Tooele county. At |
Levan IN Juab county | met a farmer |
who said that he had farmed dry land |
for sixteen years and In only one
year Of that time had he failed 10 get |
crop. and that year the irrigated crop |
was almost a failure Outside OF this
his lowest yield was twelve bushels an
acre. and be had received thirty-hye 20
forty bushels. His average would be
over twenty bushels He said IL have
been IN Cache county and have looked
over the dr. land farms there and we
can do Just as we'll with the dry land
farming here as they can there II we
our land right" And then |
thought OF the hundreds, aye thou
sands OF acres Of waste land which
noticed stretching away on either side
)f the road as | drove through Juab val
ley from Mona southwark To change
The miles Of sage-bush and sunhowers
INTO crop OF wheat would mean thou.
sands Of dollars added to the wealth of
he state.
As travelled over the state and no.
iced the land and the climate In many
counties. in Willard, in Beaver, in Iron.
n sanpete, in SEWER and also In
Wayne and Garfield have been very
much impressed with the great natural
richness OF the soil, and yet how very
small n proportion OF Il is cultivated.
" for which, irrigation water could be
provided. | have often questioned II
[ were not possible to make q success
u dry farming on much OF this now
larren land.
EXPERIMENTS SUGGESTED.
II has seemed to me that there Is