Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1912-11-30
NEVADA DRY FARMING.
Prof. Howes Would Attract Attention
of Nation to Our State.

The International Dry Farming
Congress at Lethbridge is now mat
ter of history. AT that it will hold
no mean position as to record for it
has been voted the greatest of its kind
that has been AS an exhibition of
agricultural products alone it has
never been paralleled, and its scope
being international its influence is
were SO varied and extensive that one
was forced to pause and consider the
motive back of all this vast display
to entertain doubt as to whether the
motive was as educational as it was
commercial This means commercial
in its broadcast sense, of course, in
that the great displays, built up at
the expense of a great deal of time
and money, seemed primarily intend
ed to boost the respective States or
Provinces from whence they came. As
one prominent delegate said This
sort of thing will go just so far and
the inevitable reaction will contain
hope for improvement in the educa-
tional factor"
OF the addresses one cannot say
too much, and an example was set
which future conventions may well
follow. Instead of sparse audience
listening with bored expression to a
long recital of dry reports which have
place only as bulletins. Lethbridge
saw a crowded auditorium, the crowd
responding only as an interested
eminently practical addresses from
men of wide repute in the field of ag
riculture. For be it known the dry
farm congress does not limit itself
to the scope indicated by its name, but
essays to handle agriculture in its
broadcast sense 1t is true that some
few of the speeches were very much
like colonization boosts, but these
were exceptions, very few of the
speakers having IAN axe to grind. ;"
The most outstanding address was
one given by the Persian diplomat
from Washington. speech of won
derful eloquence and oratorical power
yet withal one of practical interest
in that the speaker carried his audi
ence to history of dry farming 5000
years old.
The fact that most surprised he
writer was that the delegates and
speaker did not handle the problem
of dry farming as those having
authority but rather as seekers after
knowledge Dry farming presents so
many varied conditions that any rules
laid down can only be relative. How
writer has some pertinent facts that
ever, from a host of witnesses The
may be of general value and interest
and worthy of publication.
Turkey red seems to be the favor
lite winter wheat for dry farming. 1t
should be sown on summer fallowed
idnt, lHICC pSSkS 10 lilC acre. vi Tue
spring wheat, the Durum type sue
ceeds best and may be sown on fall
low of the previous year, four pecks
to the acre. Other early spring wheats
do we'll when once established. Win
ter rye is pretty sure crop. Sow five
or six pecks to the acre. The follow
ing quantities of other grains may be
sown Spelt, five pecks; oats, four
pecks; flax, two pecks peas, five
pecks; alfalfa. six pounds. Whenever
practicable, drill sowing should be fol
lowed
The aim should be to break the sod
when it has the largest amount of
moisture in it, say up to June l. 1t
may then be broken deeply and with
a minimum of power. Breaking when
the soil is dry calls for increase in the