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Show HITS LABORERS TO PEP GREAT HARVEST F. T. Boise, agricultural expert ror the Continental Land company, has been In town for the past few days looking (or labor that be requires to assist him in threshing the bounteous harvest recently reaped by his company in Park Valley. Boise is- enthusiastic in his prulse of that section uf PoNeldcr county, and, al-thuuli al-thuuli the season was a dry one, lie says that the ury farms will produce aimost normal crops. The buzz of the thresher is heard in several different part a of the valley and the farmers are fast filling their granaries with Turkey Red wheat, ate. In support of the statement made by Mr. Boise lhat. the farmers are well satisfied satis-fied in that .section of the country, and in support also of his argument that dry farming is extremely profitable, he asserts as-serts that the area now being1 planted to winter wheat will be at least 25 per cent in excels of" the acreage planted last fall. Some oL' the farmers are trying to cheat nature by ilriliing in another crop on top of the stubble. So sure are they of the results that tbey feel it unnecewnHry to even cultivate the ground for the second crop. Mr. Boise, however, severely crit-ictsen crit-ictsen such methods of farming, claiming, as he dees, that, even though such farming farm-ing should produce a crop of grain, it would be from 2i to SO per cent less than it would have been had the ground been properly cultivated and placed in first-class first-class condition as a seed bed before the grai n hal been pla n t ed . The Continental lxind company reports several sales during the past week. They wore, however, entirely to ppoplc residing either in ov near J'ark Valley and almost al-most adjoining the property thev are purchasing. pur-chasing. This in itself proves tiint people are starting to appreciate the possibilities possibili-ties that lie at their very doors, and Instead In-stead of seeking pastures tlMt appear to be creencr they are content to remain at home and cultivate the virgin sagebrush sage-brush a'-rrs which the lasr few yearn ha,ve proven wiM produce abundant grain crops if properly cultivated. |