Bisbee daily review., 1908-10-16
RELATES EXPERIENCE WITH
 DRY FARMING COVERING MANY YEARS

or less here and there without irriga. ton aRd with a scaat rainfall.
 would not presume to give prac.
 ticnl people, such as you are, many
 of ,ou versed in the science and prac-
 tice of dry farming much better than I, a lecture or extended advice on the
 subject, but there are some general
 propoists0s which have come under my observation that may possibly be
 useful to you. The first of these is that the successful growing of certain classes of crops on lands which do not
 contain too great percentage Of clay is with a limited rainfall and without
 artificial irrigation has long since ceased to be an experiment Second,
 that so-ca1led dry farming under req aonably favorable conditions and by
 the use of proper methods is but
 little less certain and satisfactory in it's results than ordinary farming Tn the average country of heavy rainfall, and much more sahsractory than III many regions of heavy rainfall with
 poor soil. My personal opinion is
 based on quite extensive observation that the most satisfactory results will be obtained in most regions having less than eighteen or .wenty inches
 of annual precipitation by biennial cropping and summer tillage. I be- lieve that in the ruLhing of the years the farmer will get more dollars per acre per annum from his farm y this method than by annual cropping and with less labor and expense. The only exception I should make to tnls rule is in cases where a cultivated crop like corn or particularly pota- toes or other roots is followed by a
 grain crap.
 No one who has had any experience in dry farming needs to be advised that in every dry farming region adap- ted to the growth of winter grain such crops are the most certain and satis- factory, neither does any experienced dry farmer need to be told that ground should be plowed in the fall to produce the best results and that it must be pIowed deep is so funda- mental a proposition that the veriest novice understands it. Above all. Tn season and out of season, and between seasons, the drying and baking sur face must be broken.
 The success of dry farming under proper conditions $ the hope of the semi-arfd west, for 1t makes possible the settlement of the vast areas that otherwise would produce only the scant forage which unaided nature provides. In it's development 1t will double, possibly treble, the cultivat- ed area of the so-cailed arid states. It is the hand maiden and supplement of irrigation, for s time passes ana population increases in density, the high priced irrigated lands must be used exclusively for the growth oI crops of large value per acre, thus rendering the entire western country dependent for it's cereals and certain classes of forage upon the unirrigatea lands
 Dry farming will also prove a help ful aid to the livestock industry, tor after the last word has been said ana the last acre tEat can be profitably ir- rigated and can be successfully dry farmed in our western country, has been brought under cultivation the major portion of our inter-mountaIn territory will still remain as a perma- nent grazing region interspersed with the irrigated valleys md the dry up lands anu forage mich relieves the stock industry of the dangerous ele- ment of chance and makes possible the improvement of our livestock and its finishing at home, so that we shall become the producers of finished ar- ticle rather than of raw material, thereby securing tls profits which now goes to others.
 As the representative or the people of Wyoming I made every earnest ef- fort last winter to secure what I con ceiyed to be a more nearly adequate dry farming homestead than the pres ent homestead of 16O acres. An eDer, getic dry farmer who has a sufficient amount of stock can care for more than 16O acres of land If he crops only half of his land each year, he needs more than I6c acres. In any event, he ought to have a little past ure and under the average conditions he must have a greater acreage than 1G0 acres to be assured of success. | While the legislation we sought passed both the house and the senate, it failed of enactment into law by req son of the insistance of Senator 1 Shoot upon his nonresident pTovis- l ion and the refusal of the house to l