Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-07-24
Y w YHAT irrigation has accom-
pltshed for the west is soon
WV TO be duplicated in scientific.

" VIZ YH.AT irrigation has accom-
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dry farming. BY this is not
meant that the produce from dry farms
will ever equal In quantity that of rri-
gated lands but it does mean that the
millions of acres of lands which have
lain for all time in the past only as
b sagebrush wastes are to be reclaimed
by the intelligent farmer and made to
yield bountiful returns for compara-
lively small expenditure of money and
effort.
The six experiment stations being OPP
B Grated by the state are demonstrating
this.
A visit was made Monday to the5e X
pertinent station near Ncphi in Juab
county This station is operated jointly
by the general government, through
its department of agriculture, and the
K state, under the supervision Of DR.. u.
ID. Bail and Prof. Lewis A. Merrill.
agronomist 1t is under the efficient
eyes of r. D. Farrell, Il graduate of the
Utah Agricultural college, and Stephen
Boswell, an expert farmer TO whom
Z much credit is due for its success The
& party visiting the station Monday was
composed of John G. Sharp and John
x g. Evans of the board of trustees of the
i III. A. O., Senators Badger. Stookey and
: Marks of the state legislature. and DR..
Ball and Prof. Merrill with press rep
resentatiNes. President j.. Paxman
or 3Juub stake, unsuccessful dry farmer,
and Isaac Grace. declared to be Utah's5
best farmer, mot the visitors at the
experiment station and conducted them
to their own farms nearby. State SEN
ator Alonzo Hyde of Nephi also ac-
companicd the party to the experiment
station
EFFECT OF DRY FARMING
AS to the Industrial result Of dry
farming, a statement made by Senator
Hyde while the party was driving to
the station is OF great Significance.
After the panic and just before, I
Z believe Juab county was in worse shape
than any other section of the state.
Many homes. We're placarded With for
sale and for rent cards, people we're
moving away in search of employment,
& especially the younger men, business
houses We're doing scarcely any volume
Eof business and u spirit of depression
was general among all classes. 1t was
soon after that that the results of the
state experiment station attracted the
attention of farmers and young men
here and the T'aXman and Grace farms
and many others We're begun. 1t seemed
rs If someone had worked miracle.
No sooner was the sagebfush grllbbed
from the wide stretches of land, the
pillow and harrrw at work, crops in
and then sprouting, than all was
changed. Our young men returned.
Thousands OF acres of land We're re-
claimed and prosperity seemed to de-
Scend upon us. Now after three or
& four years Of dry farming there IS not
n home for sale in this entire city, not
Z home that can be rented and instead
We see on almost every hand a cottage
8sprlnging up for some newly married
couple or some family which has
emerged from it's former poor condition
and Is now prospering and preparing to
enjoy the fruits of this prosperity"
Senator Hyde's remark was warmly
agreed to by other Nephi citizens as re-
necting the actual conditions now ex-
8ist.ng which are ttaceable to dry farm
ing.
PIONEER DRY FARMER.
DR.. E. D.. Ball declared in warm
admiration of Prof. Merrill. There is
: tho man who first conceived these
experiment stations, the real father of
dry farming. despite claims of others.
ana the man to whom all credit is
due for overcoming an obstinate pre-
JUDGE against this method OF agri-
culture. Many failures were: recorded
before Prof. Merrill showed how to
achieve results by introducing scienti-
j fic methods, now If these methods are
followed. success awaits the dry
farmer In no less degree than the man
who brings water to his farm and
cultivates it with thrift and industry.
We do not claim that dry farming
should supplant farming byirrigation,