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Show 11 j DRY FARM CROPS BETTER ' j THAN AT FIRST REPORTED Prof. Ij. A. Merrill, dry land expert, I declares that the reported heavy loss of 1 crops on the dry farms of tho state has been far overestimated. He states that he has received a number of letters from various representative dry land farmers 8 which prove the truth of his declaration. 5 ' S. L. Chlpman of American Fork, who S J has a big dry farm at Fairfield, reports jj thai, without a. drop of rain since March I a crop of from fifteen to twentv bushels I "-o the acre of Turkey Red wheat has 1 been harvested. It Is now in the stack I 9iid will bo threshed next week. P. V. Cardon, superintendent of the experiment ex-periment farm at Xephl, says that tho 1 farmers on the Levan rldgo have hnr- I vested good crops. The yields wure bet- l ter than expected, j T. H. G. Parks of Nephi reports that I he has had better success at dry farm- j Ing this your than ever before. ISIgh- V teen stacks of wheat will thresh out Sf about 2700 bushels. |