Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1905-06-10
oDRY PARTING" IN THE WEST.

enough in Western streams to redeem a small
fraction of the arid lands The great problem
lis how to make the rest contribute their part
to the support of the human race.
Luther Burbank is doing his part by con-
verting the cactus into an edible and nutritious
plant. For some years past few farmers in
/ Western Nebraska and Wyoming have been
experimenting with what is called "dry farm
suits that the country is getting excited over it.
City boards of trade and business associations
are raising money to make experiments
"Ihe railroads spending money literally
! to test the method on their lands, owners
| of big cattle ranches are making tests for them
selves and great number of small farmers
and ranchmen have entered into agreements to
devote five acres each to dry farming under the
written instruction of experts and report the
results for publication. It is said that thirty
five bushels of wheat to the acre and equally
large crops of alfalfa and sugar beets have been
grown by this method without irrigation on
lands heretofore thought useless except for
grazing.
"The system is simple enough. It is used
/ every other year on lands that have small rain
very deep and left in loose burrows which re-
tans what little rain falls. The surface is
loosely stirred to prevent evaporation from the
deeper soil The next spring crops are planted
and harvested as usual, the moisture held by
the deep blowing being enough to bring them
to maturity.
of this meteod should be successful every
where in the semi-arid country shall have
sharper competition between agriculture and
grazing for these lands and perhaps a rush
of settlers to the West We hope this will not
result as disastrously as that of the eighties,
whose abandoned farms are still visible in
Western Kansas and Nebraska.
"Those settlers were deceived by cycle oil
wet years into taking up land that would pro-
duce nothing in the following cycle of dryness
Persons who experiment with dry farming
should study the annual precipitation, to be
sure that apparent success is not due to a re-
turning cycle of wet years, which may not be
permanent Minneapolis Tribune.
Someone ought to get out Minnesota
edition of "Who's Who" 1t would aid out ex-
changes in proposing candidates for governor.
!
"The name of Ray W. Jones, formerly of
"Frazee" having been mentioned by the Granite
Falls Tribune as suitable gubernational tim Der,
Sam Gordon of the Inter-Iake Tribune remarks
that Mr. Jones would have about much
chance of defeating johnson snow ball
would stand in the internal regions. In fact
Ray W., is a dead one politically speaking
and there is danger that the republican party
of this state will cucumber the ticket with
such dead and down timber as he in the future.
The next nominating convention of the party
will demand men with clear records from
governor down to the last place the ticke1
and no timber thieves need apply."-Starbuck
Times.
The Benson Times in commenting on the Il
large number of names suggested for the Re Il
publication gubernatorial nomination, says l
that it can dozen others who can defeat 4
johnson "if they had united Republican party 4
behind them" That's the vital point of the Il
whole controversy, and the next thing is to
find man that the party will unite on. For
one, this paper would like to support man
the enemy of the railroads, or tax dodgers or
timber thieves. We would prefer to be de-
feated IN supporting man like Jake Jacobson,
or Frank Clague or Sam Lord than to win out
with some such "fller' as Ray w. Jones, or
Peter e. Hanson or Sam Iverson at the head of