Show REAL DRY FARMING RESULTS In SemiArid Regions Everything That Cannot Be Irrigated Is Placed In That Category One of the greatest drawbacks If not menaces to getting at actual facts and results In real dry farming Is the seeming determination of all tho people In the semiarid and oven slightly dry sections of our country to designate everything not grown by Irrigation as being grown by dry farming There are spots In Montana Idaho and Washington for Instance and a good many of them In western Dakota where many seasons the rainfall Is ample some times so ample as to be detrimental for maturing crops not only without Irrigation but without any special attention to conserving the moisture by special Ullage or otherwise other-wise Crops grown on such lands at such times are now almost Invariably referred to as dry farming products In conversation with William Buckley horticultural inspector for the Coeur dAlene district of that state we were told that the word Dry Farming Farm-Ing above his exhibits at the Seattle exposition more than half the fruit and vegetables under his charge was simply used to designate all crops grown without Irrigation At the same time Mr liuckloy claimed and truthfully truth-fully without a doubt that where most of these socalled dry farming products prod-ucts grow the present year and nearly near-ly I all other years there was and Is ample rainfall to mature crops without any special attention to tillage for that purpose |