Bisbee daily review., 1909-08-10
DRY EARNING IN NORTHWEST
 Is MAKING GOOD PROGRESS

Alliance, Neb.. formerly professor in the university of thas state. who is spending his entire time travelling from village to village and from farm to farm in this part of the country teaching the people how to get the best results from their soil and their labor.
 Dr. Hunts salary and expenses are paid by c. A. Newberry, a dealer in agricultural implements and machin- cry at Alliance.
 Professor Hunt, who was com pelled to leave his chair in the univer- sity of Nebraska because of a partial stroke of paralysis and was warned by the doctors that he must live an outdoor fife if he wanted to live at all. bought himself a farm, dug out the science of farming and was so successful that Mir. Newberry induced him to go out among his neighbors and show them how. For the last ten years. therefore. he has travelled over the state teaching the best meth ods of cultivating the soil of semi arid regions.
 Experience has shown the best method is for a farmer to divide his land in two parts. cutivating the soil that he wants to plant thoroughly every year, but allowing one-half to lie fallow every alternate year in or der that the moisture of the two sea sons may accumulate. Second, by deep blowing in the fall. to create a water holding reservoir under the sur. face. and in the spring to prevent evaporation by shallow surface cul tivation Third, the soil should be covered with a pulverized dust to be kept loose with harrows. and after the plants begin to show the ground between the rows should be contirf- ually cultivated to keep down the weeds and allow the moisture to reach the roots.
 ultimately the wealth of this sec tion of the country will come from cows and hogs-butter and poultry. The man who sells butter fat off a farm takes nothing from 1t. but adds to it all the time; and the most prof table use that can be made of corn. alfalfa and other products of this zone Is to consume them where they grow and ship them to market in the shape of pork The demand for but ter fat is unlimited. and 1t never sells less than 20 cents a pound, while there is an equal demand for poultry and eggs.
 How much land should a man want
 "A successful dry farmer must have double the area required for ordinary farming:
 "1. Because there is a great deal of waste land in this arid region that cannot he cultivated at all.
 "2 He can't crop but one-half of the good land at any time.
 "3. A wise farmer will raise cat tie and horses in connection with cul- tivating the soil and must have pas ture for them.
 No man can succeed in farming Tn this part of the country on less than 320 acres That is necessary to make a living.
 Immigrants are coming into this section very rapidly. Five hundred ho;nesteads were filed last year in the vicinity of Lusk. Wyoming, which is one of the first stationss on the Northwestern Railroad west of the Wyoming boundary. They are near ly all from Iowa. Indiana and Nebras- ka. with a few from Missiouri and Illi- nois. Many Of them are sons of far mers from those states who have come out here to start for themselves. There is a sprinkl,ng of clerks and mechanics.
 "The rainfall in this section Is in- creasing. They are getting more rain and more snow and are having colder weather in the winter"