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Show fRD FfRMlNG 1 ARID FARMING IN IRON COUNTY. The writer has just returned from a, visit to the. State Experimental farm at Pa rowan in Iron county. It has been currently reported that the farm there this season was a failure, owing to the long- drouth and the small amount of rainfall during the growing season. We were very glad to find that the report was not entirely entire-ly true. It is true that the farm is not as successful as it should be, but this iis accounted for by various cir cumstanccs. Last fall there was a change m the management of the farm, this change taking place so late in the season that the new management manage-ment could not get the crops in as early as they should have been. However, How-ever, there arc many plats of wheat thcr that will yield at least ten .bushels .bush-els to the acre. The bromc grass is of good height, and though it has burned considerable, there is no doubt but that if it had1 been cut at the right time, it would have mS.de a good crop. The luccrn is in (splendid condition. There arc a number of spring planted crops which are mak-mg mak-mg a very good showing. Especially interesting is a plat of potatoes that notwithstanding the drouth, is making mak-ing a splendid growth. The vinos are green and vigorous, and the prospecto arc that a good crop of potatoes will be produced.. The farm is in good condition, and our visit, after a laps--' of some four ycars convinoed the writer more than ever, that arid farming farm-ing can he made a success under average av-erage conditions in Iron County. It certainly seems a misfortune tint the people of Tron county should not take more interest in the matter of arid farming. Eight or ten bushels of wheal per acre means more on Inn I worth $2.50 per acre than thirty-live or forty bushels on land wonth $75.00 to $100.00 per acre. Then tQo, there arc the possibilities connected with the use of the irrigation water at sen sons of the year when it is not used on the valuable lands. Below Baro. wan there are thousands of acres of land, as fertile and level ms any that can be found in the west. There arc seasons of the year when the water used on the Parowan fields is allowed to go to waste. Why not use thin water on these desert lands, fill them with moisture, properly plow and I cultivate the soil, and! secure a good I harvest? We. can see. no reason fo: t I the apathy of the people of the south I cm counties. The farm has been successful in demonstrating the possibilities and -i j would seem to us that the young men in that section should be kept at home raaid assisted in getting a start on these unused and fertile acres. Down in the south end of the county there amc- a number of farmers making a success of dry farming. It is rcport-cd rcport-cd that at New Harmony there are some splendid crops of wheat, while at Odar we were told) that MV. F. W. Middlcton has some splendid wheat planted in April. He claims that the heirs arc well filled, the kernels of excellent size, ai:d that none of the wheat on the three acres sown has shrunken. ITc estimates thait his yield will be 35 bushels per acre. Mr. Middicton Mid-dicton will go into arid farming on a greater scale next year. Wc visited a field! belonging to Mr. Lchi W. Jones-, west of Cedar. This field of wheat is producing a volunteer volun-teer crop, it has not even been harrowed har-rowed since the last crop was removed, re-moved, and yet we found a crop ol ten to twelve bushels to the acre of as fnc, plump wheat as it Iws been our good fortune to see. A'rid farming farm-ing will be. a great industry in Iron j county some1, day, but from present , appearance there will have to be an jj earth tjv.ake to bring the people there I to a realization of their possibilities. I |