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Show I I fR!D FRAMING H CHANGED VIEWS ON DRY H FARMING. B Wc note with pleasure the changed B attitude of our esteemed contempor- B . ary, Rocky Mountain Husbandman, on M the subject of Dry Farming. A year B ago wc thought it necessary to criti- B cizc that journal on its hostile atti- B tude towards this Industry and it is a B pleasure to note in a recent issue that B JVnas completely changed front, w B ef'1 sccn hm tnc following clipping: B s "While this paper has .never been B -' an advocate of dry land farming and B claims no credit for anything tint B has been achieved along that line, wc B are frank to confess that it is wonder- B ful to note what is being done along B this 'line. Old time wool .growers, B such as Hamilton, Rev. Jacob Mill". B and many others that wc know, assure B us that it is really astonishing to note B what is being done and the feeling of B contentment and happiness that pre B vails among the new home-builders B in the Judith and Musselshell region.;. B They tell us that these new settlers B are as proud of owning a homestead B of 100 acres as our old timers wouiJ B be of 10,000 acres, and these men who B have been skeptical these many years B on dry land operations say they bi- B lieve that fanning above the ditch ha- fl come to stay. The dry land farmer H manages to get a few cows or a few H chickens and pigs and makes a living B even though his grain crop is not the B best. Poultry is given a great deal H, of attention on the dry farm and the B dairy is also helping to pull the far- B" mer through, and the industrious- far- m mer really makes money often when H the wheat crop fails by making hay. H producing eggs, and selling cream. H' Two-thirds of the farmers in this ' county are dependent on cropping H land that has no irrigation, and while H they arc not rolling in wealth like tho H farmers of the Gallatin, they have H gotten on their feet and arc contented H and, in many instances, happy. And H Te take this opportunity of saying H that more credit is due ex-Senator H Paris Gibson for the suqeess of tU flfry farming than any man living. He BHM3 earnestly advocated the systerr oBjBe his advent the and his followers are everywhere and owe much to the example he has furnished fur-nished them on his own farm .near the city. And we take this opportunity of saying that Mr. Gibson is very proud of his record and is deserving of praise foi:his long and persistent efforts, and wc hasten to accord r him the great honor due." Wc arc not very much concerned as to whether Gibson in Montana or Farrcll or Salisbury in Utah started this new industry. The industry has conw to stay and wc arc glad to see though, would it not be just -as well to recognize that Utah is a pioneer that our contemporary has come to recognize this fact. As a matter of history and accuracy in the arid west in this new industry, just as she is the pioneer (of modern times) in the methods of irrigation on this western continent. n |