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Show EXHIBITS FROM THE DRY FARMS. We trust that all Interested In farming farm-ing in Utah and especially those who have bench lands, took the opportunity, oppor-tunity, of viewing the exhibits which Professors WIdtsoe and Morrill had recently in this city, from the State experimental dry farm in Juab county. This farm is one of six provided for by the last Legislature, to test .what could be done in dry farming In this State. - Tho result, as shown by these exhibits, exhib-its, will go far to convince the people that much success will attend dry farming in Utah where it is skillfully conducted, after a careful selection of seeds adapted for the purpose. The samples shown from the dry farm in Juab county are of wheat, oats, rye and barley, all headed out well', and the crops practically assured; there Is also alfalfa well rooted and of thrifty growth, and sugar beets well started, with good prospect of coming to a satisfactory sat-isfactory maturity. The successful results achioved In these farms, provided they are confirmed con-firmed at all the localities, or enough of them to amount to a demonstration, and provided they are repeated other years so as to prove that no special or temporary tempo-rary cause brought the success, must mark a new era In farming in this State, and when we say that, we may as well Include the whole arid region, In this line of production. What is it, though, which brings such results so contrary to the common experience, ex-perience, so different from other efforts that have failed? We have the answer. Jn part by tho explanation of the gen-, gen-, tlctncn who have these exhibits in charge. First, they say, selection of seeds Is important, and superiority in this item will no doubt, they agree, be increased as the dry farm crops produce pro-duce seed In their turn, these seeds becoming be-coming more and more adapted to the dry farms. Then, the ploughing Is deep; the seeding is deep comparatively; the cultivation is frcqucnL To this of courso should be added thorough and expert equipment, and scientific oversight. And yet, the latter lat-ter Is by no means difficult, or hard to learn. Tho whole process, from first to last, Is easily within the reach of any farmer who is ordinarily forehanded. The lesson of the experiments thus fails fai-ls of the very highest practical Interest, and bids fair to open an entirely new epoch in tho farming Industry in Utah. Its aucccss cannot fall to attract universal uni-versal attention, and coming at a time when the movement is so promising for the utilizing of all the Irrigable resources re-sources of the. State under the National Irrigation act, it may be within reason to hopo that the day Is dawning when tho valleys and the bench lands of the State may all be made productive farms, easily supporting a population quadruple that which would be possible! possi-ble! under the old and present conditions. |