Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1912-04-20
DRY FARMING POINTS.
Potatoes are Good Crop for Rotating
With Grain.

a system of rotation will produce
four crops in five years but the land
must be handled at the right time
and not neglected. The climate has
not changed, nor will it change, but
man has and will continue to do so
And why is he changing? Because
there are so many devoting their
lives to finding out facts and giving
them to the human race i'm con
crete form
Men like King, Campbell and Hill
gard and others, too numerous to
mention. have practically devoted
their lives to the building of new
agriculture. But for such men as
these. we would not be tiling the
deserts of the west and making pay
ing crops III years like the present
one Campbell, the great apostle OF
dry farming, is the first man tina
ever gave us complete set of rule,
for dry farming, and the writer wishes
to state that anyone who will take
his book on dry farming and apply
the rules laid down by him, will sue
coed, writes Norman T.. Holden, in
the Scientific Farmer OF course,
there are always local conditions that
will modify them
One of Professor Campbelrs rules
is to always summer till and have
two seasons moisture for one crop
The writer has found that system OF
rotating will produce four crops in
five years. but in rotating one must
be equipped to handle the land al
the right time and not neglect il
If one intends rotating, il it is a
grain crop, the disk should follow
Immediately behind the harvester
This should be done with summer
tillage. but il is not absolutely nee
essary as when a crop is to be plant
ed the following year After the
disking. the land should be plowed
packed and narrowed. The follow
ing spring it should be double disked
and narrowed sufficiently TO make
good seed bed
Potatoes are a good crop to plant
for rotating with grain. One should
plant an intcrtllcd crop after grain
Canadian field peas are good crop
II they are planted in rows and cult
waited. Corn is another and, where
II can be grown. is probably the best
Here is good rotation for one start
ing on sod: First year, plant small
grain preferably winter wheat or
rye); second year, the same, then
summer till the ground; next crop.
potatoes. then Durum wheat OF
course this rotation proposition must
be carefully looked into and if there
is not sufficient moisture in the
ground tn warrant a crop, il is bet
ter to summer till. The moisture in
the ground can be asccrtained by
moisture goes and weighing the same.
Place the damp soil in an oven after
il has been weighed, dry it, and weigh
again This will give the amount OF
moisture. 1t is not advisable to crop
unless there is AT least four inches of
water stored Another. and one OF
the most important OF all conditions
To be understood. is that the more
ideal conditions Of the soil for plant
life. the less moisture it will take TO
grow the crop.
That the year 1911 has demonstra
ted that dry farming is not a myth, is
evidenced by the results obtained.
The history of dry farming in many
sections has been course in which
something of real merit had all those
forces to contend with that have their
origin in self-interest, lack OF knowl-
edge, etc. However, it has been
proven to the most skeptical that dry
farming is something real, line OF
agriculture that is as safe to embark
in as the irrigation system. This is a
rather bold assertion. Do the facts
sustain it,