Show FARMERS sum AIM TO I Methods M of Cultivation Without Irrigation Discussed at Convention OFFICERS ARE ELECTED SCIENTISTS AND MEN ADDRESS GATHERING M M M M t 4 4 f President L A Merrill Logan 4 4 f First vice W 4 4 I Nephi 4 4 Second vice president George L 4 4 Farrell Smithfield 4 4 Third vice lee president W C Lyman 4 4 4 San Juan county 4 4 An Au executive board consisting of or orone 4 4 one member from each county will 4 41 he be chosen choron at nt the tile meeting today t 4 when a constitution will also be he 4 4 4 adopted 4 4 4 4 The Utah Arid Land Farming asso aSIo association association was born last evening and im immense mense menso benefits bl are expected to accrue to the entire state from Its efforts The first convention of arid land farmers farm erg ever held In Utah began its sessions yesterday esterday forenoon in the Barratt hall hail There were three meetings yesterday esterday forenoon afternoon and evening ev ning The Tho convention will close elme this forenoon All AH of the speakers at yesterdays ses sessions sessions took the most optimistic view vi ow of or orthe the future of the time agricultural Industry in this state and other western states their enthusiasm in the effectiveness of or arid land farming methods was un unbounded Unbounded bounded bound Id testimony was brought that there are hundreds of thousands of acres s that can an be successfully cult cultivated cultivated without resort to Irrigation Next October there will be held In Inthis Inthis inthis I this city the Dry Farm Farming Farming Farming ing congress which will bring together hundreds of men who have proved that farming without Irrigation is no longer longeran an experiment but a demonstrated fact At that congress Utah will have havo an exhibit of its arid land and products that unquestionably will attract the widest attention A committee was appointed yesterday whose duty dut it is to stimulate interest in the congress and to urge farmers to gather collections of or tho the beet boot specimens of f their crops for the pur purpose purpose pose pole of display Gets Down to Work I 7 The convention was caned called to order by b Dr John A Widtsoe president of the I State Agricultural college who was wasI I chairman of the committee chosen to tomake toi tomake i make arrangements for the meeting He lie spoke briefly on the aims alms of ot the convention J J G Duffin of Provo was chosen chairman and F M 1 Lyman jr of Salt Lake secretary I Mr 11 Duffin congratulated the conven convention tion on the interest its members had manifested and predicted that the work so auspiciously begun will con eon continue continue to bear fruit Cruft Soon he said there will be scarce a sagebrush field flaM flaMin fieldIn in the state of Utah In their place pIa co will be acres upon acres of golden grain and orchards and where was a n desolate waste before there thore will be cosy cozy homes homs occupied by the families of pros prosperous prosperous prosperous I farmers The chairman referred to the re remarkable remarkable remarkable I results that had been I achieved in Kansas Kamas Oklahoma d dI I other states of the middle west by the th application of modern methods of or soil I tilling and declared that what had h d been heen done there could and would be du duplicated duplIcated and multiplied in this state Secretary Lyman said that he ha had In 10 mind a ft 1 years crop produced In Tooele To county by h arid methods that yielded sufficient revenue to pay pa for a forty acre farm and then some Governor Cutler Bids Welcome An address of welcome by b Governor John C Cutler was read Governor Cutler began by extending a cordial greeting to the convention delegates He said saidI I r extend a most hearty welcome to you who represent the movement of scientific arid fanning farming Your assembling here is the commence commencement commencement ment mont of the solution of or a problem which has confronted the people of this and surrounding states ever eyer since their first settlement It is one In which I 1 havo hayo always been greatly Interested and especially since becoming the governor of or Utah This problem is the settle settlement ment mont and subduing and fertilizing of or orthe the vast ast tracts of land forming what has been known but is known so no longer as the Great American Des Dee Desert Desert ert The problem has been a vexed one Because It has not been solved thousands of the young oung people sons and daughters of the pioneers have 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 o acres of ot unoccupied land hand landa lay a at their very feet Because of the problem not having been settled no end of difficulty has been encountered in securing homes and farms for the many immigrants whose whoso hopes have led them hither Compliments the Pioneers The Thc governor said the dawn of a Il brighter day Is at hand and that the problem which has so long hong vexed the tile agriculturist of the west Is In a fair fairway fairway fairway way for rapid solution Governor Cut Cutler Cutler Cuther ler her said that the tIme immigrants who come cometo to our land need no longer crowd the cities The landless man is now with within in easy reach of ot the manless land hand he ho declared and both will profit by the union Continued on Page 3 FARMERS AIM TO RECLAIM DESERT Continued from Page Pane 1 The governor paid a high compliment to such pioneers in the arid land farm fann farming fannIng farming ing industry as George L Farrell Isaac IsaacH H Grace John Q Adams Dan Han Hanson Hanson Hanson son J T W VT V E H Snow and others declaring that the whole peo people people pie are re Indebted to them for their ef efforts efforts efforts forts in reclaiming the lands regarded as barren Urges Attendance at Congress The governor g emor urged a record attend attendance attendance attendance ance at the 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 Fisher Harris president of the congress ss 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 arid farming has progressed as asIt asit asit It has Mr lr Harris accepted the tile governors complimentary remarks with becoming modesty and briefly referred to the vast ast benefits that will come upon the state and its people through dry land farming Prosperity rests upon the this theland theland land he said If the farms prosper I Ithe the country is safe In Utah our boys bos have gone away to seek new homes and they were the boys with nerve to try a new thing and the energy to tofi fight fi ht the land and 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 the possible canals were built less than 15 per pr cent When this movement creates the public sentiment It is entitled to have behind It the peo people plo pIa of the state will help the man with L the hoe hoo out in the desert and the na nation nation nation tion itself will be forced by b an Irresistible ble public opinion to sit up and take notice of what is being done Weather and the Law Dr R B J T Hyatt the section director of the weather bureau quoted the rec records records records of precipitation in various parts of ol the state Dr Hyatt proved by figures that the rainfall and snowfall over ovex enormous tracts of arid regions is suf sufficient sufficient sufficient to produce bountiful crops The problem Is how best to conserve this x moisture and hold it in the soil until I it can be used for the germination of 01 seed John De Grey Gre Dixon formerly secre seere secretary secretary tary of the state land hand board delivered I a brief but highly valuable address on or orthe L the land laws Jaws Titles and patents were discussed irTa In In a manner that made many r doubtful points clear c ear Large Yield of Lucern C W VT Richards of Box Elder Eider county discussed the growing of oC lucern lucerne He had r had experience In lucern production for thirty years twenty years ears of which time he had devoted a good portion of his time to the arid land hand method He found it satisfactory in every respect The soil soli I in his region is of loose sandy character r rI I would advise the use of the drill said Mr oIl Richards I have bave tried the sowing of seed broadcast but it has been my rn experience that the seed should be laid laii I under the surface I have learned that tha th two and a half bushels sown to the acre acie give gie better results than a larger spread spreadIng ing It has been my experience that a adrill adrill t drill to the depth of one inch is I I dent We have had llad gratifying mece I with been lucern seed as well as hay ha It is 15 a f fact ct too that lucern berm forms forma one of the finest fertilizers This fact I believe Is ii not generally known Principles of Dry Farming Professor ProCessor L A Merrill errill of Logan took for his topic the principles of arid land farming Professor Profesor Merrill said that the extension of this manner of cultivating the soil soli was of or the greatest value to the entire west The speaker drew a line of distinction dry farming and arid farming declaring that such sucha suc suca sucia a thing as dry df farming fanning is Impossible for water is an essential Professor Mer Me Merrills Merrils rills experience ep has been that excellent results had been obtained where the pre precipitation precipitation tion is only 10 or 12 l inches the rang range is from GO 60 j to 90 00 inches in eastern states The kind of soil we have learn learned learned learned ed said Professor Merrill is not of vo o e much Importance as depth of oC the th soil Different crops require different amounts of wat If we could conserve concern 12 inches of water In Utah we could pro duce 25 2 bushels of wheat to the acre With reference r feren e to plowing I will say s that between 75 and 80 per cent of the plowing is i now done In the fall It has hax 3 been found Cound that the results give us from 1 to 15 Iii per Iler cent greater yield than does spring plowing A Friend of the Harrow Professor Merrill is a steadfast believer in the liberal but judicious use of the harrow He lie would use the harrow to break the caking that follows plowing The mulch thus created prevents the evaporation of the moisture is a tion to germinating grains promotes the capillary quality of the soil The use of the harrow after growth is invaluable he said for it loosens the soil about the th plant pant and presses it closely closel about tine the stems The statement Is erroneous that 1 moderate harrowing pulls out the plants With reference e to the selection of seed se 1 Professor Merrill said that seeds adapt themselves s to varying conditions as a person does A case in point is brought to mind when I 1 recall that at one time we changed a spring variety of macaroni wheat to a fall variety The first year we realized only an insignificant quantity of cf f seed the second we did much better and md after four years the spring variety thrived splendidly as a fall fail variety varlet The same is true of oC lucern and other seeds Urges Cooperative Plan Successfully to carry carryon on arid forming continued Professor Merrill it Js is necca sary that we use modern machinery This is expensive and the cost is often pro for an individual farmer fanner By co en however r it is possible to vate acres with the same equipment of implements that is required for acres Traction engines cn plow the Jerger areas as easily as the smaller drills drill harrows plows and other can be used on a dozen farms as well as on one You will wll readily realize the saving thus effected not only on the original Investment but as well ell it effects an Immens immense saving during the tho entire p pe nod of operation for it keeps the ma mi chinery busy that would otherwise be bc lying Idle What Constitutes a Small Fart Farri Far FarJ J 3 W VT V of Neph told the conven tion that a farmer and four head of ot horses could easily handle a farm of MO acres and have six sir months of leisure time Mr said that harrowing In tha th spring could be done in three weeks summer fallowing In seven weeks sum mer harrowing in two weeks harvesting ard and seeding In two weeks each cacti and stub ble Ide plowing In eight weeks more making a total of six months Mr 11 said that after the land had once been sub dued SOO acres could be taken care of by l y a farmer fanner and one man manWay manWay k kWay Way Down South in Dixie George Whitehead of St George In the heart b of oC Dixie art brought glowing accounts of the results result of dryland farming In that region At Enterprise Ent said Mr White hear thera ther is from ten to fifteen inches of oC rainfall nearly as high as any part of the state I believe that 35 3 to fj 45 4 bush buh bushels tic els to the acre Is not too high an ecu estl n ii ate If It conditions are fairly good We e have the finest corn without any t tion lion at all and we have tens of thousands thousands thousands ands of acres of as beautiful soil as one would wish to see Mr rr Whitehead said that the tion lion of the sagebrush tracts is like clear Ing land of timber the brush is often orten as high as a horse and rider J A Widtsoe president of the stat Agricultural college spoke on the rela reJa tens of irrigation to arid farming fanning Professor ProCessor N Rich Porter Porte of the Weber eber Stake academy delivered a brief bricf address on Smut and Rust In which he rated on the best beat methods of eradicating plant diseases Feeding Values of Arid Products Dan Hanson delivered an especially In address on the thc feeding values of arid farm products It had been Mr Hansons lot to discover that peas grown on arid and farms were especially fine feed for hogs and sheep Last year ear I believe more than carloads of sheep were shipped from fr m Utah to Colorado to be fed fedon fedon fedon on peas We Ve should do this feeding at home By B a system of movable mo be fences hogs and sheep heep are turned into restricted areas of pea culture They feed read lIt n upon not only the pea alone but upon the tl e vines as well This system s stem does docs away with the tine expense of harvesting and threshing Flour You will find continued Mr Ir Hanson that the flouring flossing mills pay you 5 Scents cents more the bushel on arid land wheat than they the do the grower on Irrigated lands and Mr Hanson predicted that In Jn forty tort years it would be difficult to lo purchase any land in the west so 80 successfully would the methods of arid farming farn have been applied The discussion that followed Mr Han Hansons Hansons Hansons sons talk brought out the statement from the speaker that it Is far more profit profitable profitable able to use u grain Brain In feeding than it is isto Isto Isto to sell se it in the market I believe that the farmer will realize from 75 is cents to Jl 1 e C bushel for his wheat wb at If I he feeds it to animals where now ho sells it for 50 to 60 cents One of the interesting statements was made by a member of the audience who said that he worked from to head of horses constantly and that he had received the best results from a feed of wheat mixed He lie declared that if he could not get set wheat he lie would send east for tor corn In preference to using oats ex cx exclusively exclusively elusively He 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 day dayas as compared with pounds of oats Another Meeting Today The Tho meeting today will be devoted to t business |