Show FARMERS AIM TO 10 RECLAIM REC Methods of Cultivation Without Irrigation Discussed at Convention OFFICERS ARE ELECTED k SCIENTISTS SCIENTISTS AND PRACTICAL MEN ADDRESS GATHERING 44 4 M M M M M A Merrill Logan 4 4 t First vice vicc W 4 4 I Nephi i 4 4 4 Second vice president George I L 4 4 4 Farrell Smithfield I 4 Third vice Ice president W C Lyman 4 San Juan county 4 4 4 An executive board consisting of ot otone 4 4 one member from Crom each county count will 4 4 be bo chosen at the tue th meeting today 4 when a constitution will also be 4 4 adopted 4 t 4 4 The Utah Arid Aria Land Farming F asso association so elation was born last evening and im immense Immense mense benefits are expected to accrue to the tue entire state from its efforts The Tue first convention of arid land farmers ever eer held In Utah began Its lt sessions yesterday forenoon in the Barratt hall There were three meetings yesterday t I forenoon afternoon and evening The Tha convention will close lose this forenoon All of ot the speakers at yesterdays ses sessions shins took teok the most optimistic view of or orthe the future of the time agricultural a rl industry in this state and other western states state their enthusiasm in the effectiveness of arid land hand farming Canning methods method was un bounded testimony was br that tha t there are hundreds of thousands of acres that can be successfully cult cultivated without resort to irrigation Next October there therl will be held in inthis inthis Inthis this city the Dry Farm Farming ing congress which w will ill bring together hundreds of men who have proved that farming without irrigation is no longer ioner longeran an experiment but a demonstrated fa fait t At that congress Utah will have hav an exhibit of its arid and land products that unquestionably will wm attract the widest attention A committee was appointed yesterday esterday whose duty dut it Is to stimulate Interest in the congress and to urge farmers to gather collections of the tile best specimens of ot their crops for the pur pus purpose pose of display Gets Down to Work The convention was called to order by Dr John A Widtsoe president of tho the State Agricultural college who was chairman of the committee chosen to tomake tomake make arrangements ments for the meeting He spoke briefly on the tho aims of the tha convention J G Dumn of qt Provo Pro was a chosen chairman and an F Lyman ati ari j jt j n r la t o i t I u gI c t n lion tion on the interest r st its mem manifested and predicted that lIme ilie work so auspiciously begun will con continue continue continue to bear fruit Soon he lie h said there will be bt scarce a sagebrush field fieldIn fieldin In the time state of Utah In Tn their place will be acres upon acres of golden grain and and where was a desolate waste before there timbre will wilt be cosy cozy homes occupied by the time families of pros prosperous prosperous farmers The chairman referred to the re ra remarkable results that had bean be n achieved In Kansas Oklahoma Shu ha other states of the middle west vest by the time application of oC modern methods of soil Foil 1 tilling and anti declared that what had h d been done there could and would be du duplicated duplicated duplicated and multiplied In this state stat Secretary Lyman said that he had in mind a J years ears crop fOp produced In Tooele county by arid methods that revenue to pay Jt for tor a forty acre farm and then some Governor Cutler Bids Welcome An address addres of welcome by Governor I II i John C Cutler was read Governor I Cutler CutI r began by extending a cordial greeting to the convention delegates He Ho said saidI I extend a most hearty welcome to you who represent the time movement of o scientific arid farming I Your assembling here is the commence commencement commencement ment meat of oC the solution of ot a problem which II has Imas confronted the people of this and surrounding states ever over since their fist first fi settlement It is one in which I have hae h always been greatly Interested and anti especially since becoming the governor of ot Utah This Timis problem Is the time settle settlement settlement ment and subduing and fertilizing of I the time vast tracts of land hand forming what has been known but butis Is known so no longer honger as the time Great Grent American Des Desert Desert I ert The Time problem has bean been a vexed lone one Because it has not been solved thousands of ot the young oung people sons I and daughters of the pioneers have I been under the necessity of leaving their homes and scattering to distant regions there to build new homes among strangers while hundreds of thousands of or acres of lay at their very ver feet Because of the problem not having been settled no end of difficulty has been encountered in securing homes and amid farms farina for time the many immigrants whose hopes have led them hither Compliments the Pioneers The governor said th the j dawn lawn of a brighter day is at hand and that the I problem which has so SQ long vexed the I agriculturist of the west is in a fair fairway fairway I way wa for rapid solution Governor Cut Cutler Cuther her ler said that tile the immigrants who come cone cometo coneto to our land need no longer crowd the cities The landless man is now with within in easy reach of the manless land he declared and both will profit prof by the union I Continued on Page 3 FARMERS AIM TO RECLAIM DESERT Continued from Page 1 The governor paid a high compliment to such pioneers In the arid land farm farming farmIng farming ing industry as George I L Farrell Isaac IsaacH H Grace John Q Adams Dan Han Hanson Hanson Hanson son J W V E H Snow and others declaring that the whole peo people people pie are arc indebted to them for their ef efforts efforts efforts forts in reclaiming the lands regarded as barren Urges Attendance at Congress The governor g vernor urged a record attend attendance attendance attendance ance at the th October congress Utah he said took a foremost part in the Denver congress and the papers read by Utah men there were of the first value Governor Cutler praised the energy of gr Fisher Harris president of the congress and secretary of the Com Corn Commercial Commercial mercial club and said that it was due to his indefatigable efforts that the movement for concentrated and systematic systematic matic matte arid farming has progressed as asit asIt asit it has Mr Harris accepted the governors complimentary remarks with becoming modesty and briefly referred to the th vast benefits that will come upon UDon the state and its people through dry land farming Prosperity rests upon the theland theland theland land he said If It the farms prosper the country is safe In Utah our boys have haye gone away to seek new homes and they were the boys with nerve to try a new thing and the energy to fight the land ana an subdue it We Ve need needed needed needed ed them here and we must learn how to keep them Irrigation can only re redeem redeem redeem deem 4 per cent of Utah land or at most if all an the tho possible canals were built less than 15 per cent cOlit When this movement creates the public sentiment it is entitled to have behind it the peo people plo pia of the state will help hel the man with the thc hoe out in the desert and the na nation nation I tion Itself will be forced by an Irresistible ble public opinion to sit fit up and take notice of what Is being done Weather and the Law Dr R B J Hyatt the th section director of the weather bureau quoted the rec ree records records of precipitation In various parts of the state Dr Hyatt proved by figures that the rainfall and snowfall over enormous tracts of arid regions is suf sufficient sufficient to produce bountiful crops The problem Is how best to conserve this moisture and hold it in the soil until It can be used for tho the germination of seed John De Dc Grey Dixon Dison formerly secre secretary secretary secretary tary of the state land board delivered a brief but highly valuable address on the land Jand laws Jaws Titles and patents were discussed in a manner that made many man doubtful points clear Large Yield of Lucern C W Yo Richards of Box Elder county discussed the growing of lucern He had had h experience in lucern production for thirty years ears twenty years of which time he had devoted a good portion of DC his time to the arid land method He found it satisfactory in every respect The soil solI In his region re lon Is of loose sandy sand character I r would w uld advise the use of ot the drill said Mr Ir Richards I r have tried the sowing of ot seed broadcast but it has been my m experience that the seed should be laid under the surface I have learned that two wo and a half bushels sown to the acre give better results than a larger spread spreading spreadIng i ing It has been my experience that a adrill adrill adrill drill to the depth of ot one inch is clout clent We c have had gratifying success with lucern seed as well welt as hay ha It Is a fact too that lucern forms one of ot the finest fertilizers This fact I believe is not generally known Principles of Dry Farming Professor ProCessor L A Merrill of Logan took for his topic the principles of arid land farming Professor ProCessor Merrill said that the extension of ot this manner of cultivating the soil soli was of the greatest value to the entire west The speaker drew a line of distinction dry dr farming and arid farming declaring that such sucha a thing as dry farming is impossible for water is an essential Professor Mer rills experience has been be n that excellent results had been obtained where the pre precipitation is only onh 10 or 12 inches the range is from GO 60 to 90 iO inches in eastern states The kind of ot soil soli we have hao learn learned learned learned ed said Professor Merrill is not of so o much importance as the depth of the soil sol Different crops require different amounts of If we could conserve 12 inches of water in Utah we could pro duce 25 bushels of wheat to the ncr acre With reference r Ceren e to plowing I will say that between 75 and 80 SO per cent of the plowing is now done in the fall It has been found that the results give g e us from 11 r 1 to 15 per cent greater yield than does docs spring plowing A Friend of the Harrow Professor ProCessor Merrill is a steadfast believer in the liberal but judicious use of the harrow He would use the harrow to break the caking that follows plowing The mulch thus created prevents the I evaporation of the moisture Is a tion to germinating grains promotes the capillary quality of the soil soli The use of the harrow after growth Is invaluable he said for it loosens the soil soli about the pant plant and presses it closely closel about the stems The statement is erroneous that moderate harrowing pulls out the plants With reference e to the selection of seed Professor Merrill said that seeds adapt themselves to varying conditions as a person does A case in point is brought to mind when I recall that at one time we changed a spring variety varlet of ot macaroni wheat teat to a 11 fall variety The first year car we realized only an insignificant quantity of cf seed the second we did much better and after four years the spring variety thrived splendidly as a fall variety The same is true of lucern and other seeds Urges Cooperative Plan Successfully Successful to carry on arid forming continued Professor J Merrill it is necca sary that we use modern machinery This is expensive and the cost is often pro for an individual farmer By co cc operating however it is I possible to tc vate acres with the same equipment of implements that is required for TOO roo fO acres Traction engines cn plow the areas as easily easH as the smaller drills drill harrows plows and other appam can be used on a dozen farms as well nell as on one You will ili readily realize the saving saYing thus effected not only on the original investment but as well It effects an immense Immens saving saing during the entire pe period nod of operation op ration for it keeps the ma chinery busy that would otherwise be lying idle What Constitutes a Small Farm J W v of Nephi told the conven tion Uon that a farmer and anil four head of horses could easily easil handle a farm of 4 acres and have six months of ot leisure time Mr said that harrowing in tha th spring could be done in three weeks summer fallowing allowing in seven weeks weel sum mer flier harrowing in two weeks harvesting and l d seeding in n two t weeks each and stub lilt C In m eight weeKs more making a total of six months Mr said sili s hi that after the land had once been sub dued duet SOO acres could be taken care of by a farmer and one man manWay manWay manWay Way Down South in Dixie George Whitehead of St George in the heart hart of Dixie brought glowing accounts of the results of dryland farming in that region At A Enterprise said Mr Ir White hear there Is from ten to fifteen inches of rainfall nearly as high as any part of or the state I believe that 35 to 45 bush bushels els ds to the acre is not too high an esti estl nate IT ate if conditions are fairly good We Ve have the finest corn without any ny tion at all aU and we have tens of thousands thousands ands of acres of or as beautiful soUas sollas one would wish to see Mr Whitehead said that the tion of the sagebrush tracts is like clear Ing land of timber Umber the brush is often as high hl h as a horse and rider J A Widtsoe president of ot the state Agricultural college spoke on the rela ens of Irrigation to arid farming Professor N Rich Porter of the Weber eber Stake academy delivered a brief address on Smut and Rust in which ho elaborated elaborated rated on the best methods of eradicating plant diseases Feeding Values of Arid Products Dan Hanson delivered an especially in instructive Instructive instructive I address on the feeding values of or arid farm products It had been Mr Hansons lot to discover that peas grown on arid farms were especially fine feed for hogs Last year rear I believe more than carloads of sheep were shipped from Utah to Colorado to be fed fedon fedon fedon on peas We Ve should do this feeding at home By a system s stem of movable fences fenc s hogs and sheep are arc turned into restricted areas of pea culture They feed read r ad ily II upon not only the pea alone but upon the vines as well This system does away with the expense of harvesting and arid threshing Flour Is Better You will wm find Mr Hanson that the flouring mills pay you 5 cents more the bushel on arid land wheat than they the do the grower on irrigated lands Mr Ir Hanson predicted that in forty tort years rears it would be difficult to purchase pur any land in the west so successfully would the methods of arid farming have hae been applied The discussion that followed Mr Han Hansons Hansons sons talk brought out the statement from the speaker that It ft Is far more profit profitable profitable able to use ue Q grain in feeding than it Is Isto Isto isto to sell it In the market I believe that the farmer will realize from 75 Ii cents to toi 1 i a bushel bu hel for his wheat It if he feeds it itI I to animals where now he sells it for 50 to 60 cents On of the interesting statements was made by a member of the audience who said eaid Id that he worked from to head of horses constantly and that he had received the best results from a feed of wheat mixed He declared that If he could not get wheat he would send east for corn in preference to using oats ex ox exclusively exclusively elusively He Me fed his animals as much muchas as they desired to eat His calculations showed that it required only sixteen pounds of a mixed wheat feed a ada day dav davas dayas as compared with pounds of f oats Another Meeting Today The meeting today toda will be devoted to ts t business affairs but a number of ad addresses addresses addresses dresses are arc also scheduled Among those who will speak are Howard F Cox on 0 the |