The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1911-08-03
SUCCESS Of
DRY FARMING
GOOD WORK OF NEPHi
EXPERIMENT STATION
Under the SUPERINTENDENT OF p. ".
Carbon. Experiment Farm Is Max
ing Great Head~ay-Are Trying
Many Varieties Of Wheat.

Nephi, July eff ones interest
leans little towards dry farming,
and. even IL only occasionally enc
lends an ear to the discussion OF the
problems connected with the prodnc-
ton of crops under such dry climatic
conditions as those which have ex.
listed during this and the last preCId-
ing seasons, then one will find visit
to the Nephi Experiment station more
than interesting, It will be highly in.
structiye And to one unfamiliar with
dry farming. such visit is an edu
cation.
There are being tested and success.
fully produced, grains which have
been introduced from places scatter.
ed over the globe-Russia, Sweden,
Austria, Bulgaria, Roumania, Algeria,
Australia and other countries. Nearly
100 different and distinct varieties of
grain. To see them growing, each on
| its own little one-tenth acre plat,
gives an inspiration which needs no
strengthening to make one see the
possibilities of dry farming, but an
! inspiration which is colored by the
explanation and instruction offered by
! the optimistic superintendent, p. V.
/ Carbon.
This station" he declares, has in
/ progress experiments which are ca
pable OF yielding astonishing results
Resides testing nearly 100 varieties
! of grain as TO their relative drought
| and disease resistance, their yielding
power, etc, we have in progress tests
| to determine the best time for plant
ing fall grains: the most favorable
rate and depth of seeding; the best
methods of cultivating both fallow
soil and grain crops; the best time
and depth for blowing; the best time
to harvest; the method of cropping
the soil and other tests equally as i'm
portant to the dry farmer. Then we
are working on the Improvement OF
the grain crops. If you will! look at
that plat over there you will see that
we are doing something along the
line of Improvement There Is plat
there which will yield at least forty
bushels per acre this year and 1t has
been selected and improved from this
original stock, which this year viii
yield no mere than twenty bushels pc
acre. OF course. this work is new a!
yet, but IL its promises are fulfilled, Il
will be of incalculable benefit to DIR!
farmers"
The Nephi Experiment station wa
established by the Utah Experiment
station in 1904, and was maintaine'
and operated until 1907. AT this TIM
cooperative agreement was entere'
into by the Utah station and the I'm
tied States department of agriculture
and since then the Nephi station ha
been run under cooperative aid an
instruction.
, The Nephi station is situated abou
six miles south of Nephi in Jua
, county. II lies in the heart of one c
Utah's most famous dry farming Sc
tons, and on all sides of 1t one see
. a wonderful stand of wheat. For mile
q around. the ground, which ten yeal
q ago was covered with sage brush,
n today yielding on an average of twel
ty bushels per acre Of the finest kin
OF medium soft grain.
1T is wonderful" says Superinten
( ent Carbon" When we realize TIL
these crops are maturing on Sc
which in the last year and a half h;
received totally, no more than thirtee
inches of rain, we begin to see the a
ricultural future of this state. The
=, are millions of acres still to be mat
to yield, and, through experiment
work, We are going TO find a way
p make such feat more easily pc
r sible"