Show I DRY FARMING EXPERIMENT Juab Ju b County Count Station Under Patron Patronage Patronage Paton To Prose Prosecute Prosecute age of Government Pose Scale cute cut Work on Large Lare Nephi April 4 Few of the farmers of the state Apri of Utah know of the Important Investigations and experiments s that the United States bureau of ot plant Industry is benefit of or the undertaking for the rapid arid farming Industry of this state The Juab county count experiment sta eta station station tion state is fortunate In being the only one In Inthe Inthe inthe the state which receives this great aid from government the F D Farrell Farel expert ex expert expert pert In charge char has Just jUt returned from Washington and also from a tour of in I of or the most efficient experiment experiment ment stations In the east and has plans for making the Juab county station staton one of the best The Te work best In cereal testing and Improve Improvement improvement ment which was commenced last lat sea season season season son will be continued during the present i year wI and ad b a large number of or additional experiments will be Inaugurated The cereal experiment work will wi be extended by b the ad addition additon dillon of or about wl two hundred varieties and strains diton of ot wheat oats corn sorghum and barley Varieties of these grains gains have hae been Imported from Europe Europe Asia South America and ad Mexico cico and besides a large number of selections and strains have been obtained In various sections through throughout out the United States A machine for planting small smal quantities of these seeds has been added adde to the te farms equipment The authorities of the Utah experiment station and the United Unie States bureau burau of plant staton Industry plan to make this the most mst extensive dry land e c cereal eal eaton station In the Intermountain states There will be some extensive experiments exper ments In wi dry land crops other than the cereals The he cooperators will wi endeavor the to make possible a greater diversity In crops mae ot of the arid lands With this In view the station staton will wi conduct experiments with wih a number of varieties and strains of ot peas sorghums grasses gases In addition to those already aready being tested on the farm vetches and rapes rape It is hoped that some of these will wi develop Into profitable crops for forage for ge and grain gan Twenty varieties s of potatoes which have ha been fairly successful in II the te arid sections of South Dakota will be planted here this 11 panted spring In sections of at Colorado and the Dakotas Dakota where the rainfall Is no greater geater than it Is here potatoes have developed Into a Valuable dry dr dr land crop the tha th tubers tubers being shipped to the lands where they are ar used use as a seed I c The Utah station has lias already raised some po pa potatoes on the th farm f and arl I ft Is be believed believed that potato P U growing r maybe may be made quite profitable The experiments now being conducted Id Ir alfalfa Ilala seed aeed production produCtion tion being will be ba be augmented by about seventy regional strains of pf alfalfa aI lt from torn differ different different ent parts of this country and a d from other countries In l addition Jo the work here suggested there ther will I be experiments with millets miles milos buckwheat buckwheat flax fax mios all hemp and grope crops rop al ad with a hope of bringing rIngIng about abut a wider di diversity diversity verity In our arid farming system I Besides the Ute our work in n crop production and Improvements improvement the cooperators are plan planning planning ning somo some extensive ex investigations In soil sol bacteriology soil sol physic and ad meteorology ogy A station founding is I now being og to provide te te labora laboratories lara laboratories tories for fot f t t his tile tle regular work In Ia crop technology It I wilt will 1 also provide store room for the farm products product and for tor forthe forthe the machinery machler and apparatus used at the station staton The T e regular spring planting and soil sol cultural work vork Vork will wi be le commenced as a soon soon soona as a the weather w ther p permits S |