The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1921-03-08
40 AXIS OF DRY FARM
EXPERIMENT RE-
PORTS
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much in their adaptabllty to dry
farm conditions. In the tests thor
oughbred leads with an average
lcld of ~ bushels while individual
years run as high as 116 bushels.
The lowest yielder was Market Prize
with an average Of 80 bushels.
TWO CROPS IN THREE YEARS
MOST PROFITABLE
The authors state that two crops
In three years has proven to be the
most profitable dry farm practice at
Nephi. In experiments extending ov-
or a period Of sixteen years the two
crops in three years practice has Civ
en- net return per acre per year OF
$3.50; the alternate cropping system
anne second with net return per
acre per year OF 1894 The authors
state that the alternate system is in
the long run considered much safer,
however.
TESTS SHOW MOST PROFITABLE
TII4LAGE METHODS
Extensive tests reported In the bull
ietin show that at Nephi spring piow-
ing Immediately followed by harrow
ing. with one wedding and another
narrowing Just before fall seeding
has proved to be the most economical
method OF preparing the seed bed for
fall sowing under alternate
OF cropping. Disking dry farm land
in the fall Immediately after harvest
ing was not profitable The best
depth to pillow according to the auth
ors appears to be between and 10
inches. Spring cultivation OF winter
wheat was done at loss. Winter
wheat yielded best when sown at the
rate of about six pecks to the acre.
BEST YIELDING VARIETIES OF
SMALL GRAINS
Winter wheat. according to the
tabuators in the bulletin, has proven
TO be by far the most important dry
farm crop. Crimean. Turkey. Belo-
gina and Bulgarian varieties OF win.
ter wheat have given the best aver.
age yields over long period of time
ranging from 26.7 to 215 bushels
per acre.
| Spring wheats have proven to b.
useful sometimes where winter wheat
has failed to give satisfactory
stand. The best yielding varieties oil
icommon spring wheats have beer
IChul. Saumur, Early Baart. GhirkS
and Koola with yields ranging from
1874 down to 10,s bushels per acre
The best yielding durum spring vari
cites have been Kubanda. Adjini, Mo
manned Ben Bachir and Velvet Don
Barley ranks next to wheat In yiel'
OF grain on the experimental DIR,
farms. Bulgarian and Turkestol
+ winter varieties have shown grea
|, promise, Oats and spring barley
i have not yet yielded satisfaetoril
on the experimental farms,
FARMS OPERATED IN sEvEl
OTHER COUNTIES
Il In addition 10 the farm at Neph
a the results on seven other dry farm
which have been operated to test IN
. possibilities of various sections ar
q reported in the bullet'n. The farm
o In San Juan. SEWER, Tooele an
Washington counties have been abar
doned. The San Juan farm demon
strated very conclusiyoly that tn
= area was well adapted 10 dry farm
!, ms and while crops were secured o
i, the SEWER and Tooele farms IN
yield in most cases indicated ths
the sections We're not very promisin
for dry farming. The washingto
county farm was used largely In III
production OF pure strains OF see
and was later brought under irrigI
ton at which time Il was abandoned
The farms now in operation are
Nephi. Cedar City, Kanab. and Via