The Springfield herald., 1915-05-07
A Weekly Talk
On Dry Farming,

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A precipitation such a. we had thi,
last season comes only once in fifty
years: but it makes little differ, nee II
it never comes again for crops my b.
raised every year II the farme, know
how.
| 1.-The above text, taken from the Denver West
ern Farm Life, We shall keep at the bead Of thss'
talks for the volume Of fact that 10 boiled down
in the few words there IL in iii.
We shall close these talks thii
week with a general survey o1
some adjuncts in the successful
accomplishment of home build.
irg in the high and dry west.
1t is rather striking that while
in the east farming is always
supplemented with important
money making side lines, and
doesn't pay without them, a
great many of those who come
from there and know the fact do
not supplement their farming
operations here, where side lines
are needed for certain success at
least not less than in the rainbelt.
OF course the one side line on
farm is always stock in some
Of it's various lines.
A man may here make money
solely by farming; but the facts
are that, in this land that is new
and strange, and radically differ
ent in humidity, there is great
er certainty of failure in that
lone direction than there is of
certain success.
1t follows that those who are
here for homes want to get into
stockton a small scale.
Before anything else of course
is a good flock of hens. There
ought to be 200 to 800 hens on
tile roost in the fall of the year,
with OF course the right kind of
a house to put them in.
From one to a dozen hogs to
fatten each year will go long
ways towards providing either
meat or money, -,--l-
1t doesn't take a heifer calf
long to grow. into a COW, and
from few cows it doesn't take
long to grow into a nice bunch OF
cattle, something like twenty to
fifty head of which ought to be
on every farm.
If you have mares, raise colts;
and if you haven't the mares,
you should have them. The farm
er who has some horses to sell
each year, along with other stuff,
isn't going to fail in Baca coun-
ty.
We believe that dairying Is the
one salvation of our present set
tlement, aud we know it's the
one salvation of the present set
lement's prosperity. Some of
those who are here will stay any.
way, and of those who stay few
will do fairly we'll.
That's one picture. Another
picture is the maintenance of our
present settlement and the add
tional settlement coming; one or
more silos on practically every
farm in the county; practically
all the farmers in the county
well equipped, well fixed, prosper
Gus, with good fat wads in the
bank.
There is just one more thing
lin this western highland home
building. We are mentioning il
here last, but it's the very first
thing in short-grass economics.
That's the garden and the or
chard.
! A good garden can be made
to go long ways toward u liv-
ing. However, there is vary lit
tie as a rule can be done with d
/ garden without a reservoir, and
very little that can't be done with
one.
A ten, twelve, or fourteen foot
windmill is what is wanted, with
a reservoir anywhere from fifty
to one hundred feet in diameter.
This will end our dry-farmine
talks at the present time. They
have been along the line of ex.
pe-iences and observations in the
short grass west, and given tt
be of service particularly tt
those of our new settlers who
are not acquainted with eithel