Show t I DRY FARMING TOOLS Implements Particularly Adapted to Arid Region Important One Most Needed for Destruction of Weeds So Plentiful on Summer Fallowed LandsHomeMade Article Does the Work No subject Is of greater Interest to the aria farmer ol today than tho securing of Implements particularly stilled to his needs said Professor logeiison In a paper read before the recent dry farm congress at Billings Implements that will keep his soil In the best possible condition for tho rapid growth of his crops One of the most needed Implements nt least down our way Is ono thnt will wIth a small amount of time and la bur and n smaller amount of money enable the farmer to destroy weeds that arc so plentiful on summer fallowed lowed lands These weeds If allowed to grow rob tho land of Its valuable moisture and plant food and thus do troy tho real object of fallowing tho conservation of moisture because wo I nay as well grow a crop of grain as n crop of weeds If tho principal object ob-ject of summer fallowing Is to con servo moisture tho weeds must be kept down If this purpose Is to bo uc ompllshod I have traveled along weedy fields of grain and fallow land front tho cast to the west and from the north to tho south and the titles Ion has therefore come home to mo very forcibly Can these weeds ho destroyed 7 The average farmer will I say No I cannot keep the weeds clown I harrow and disk and It only coins to make them grow faster I believe that they can bo kept down If the right steps bo taken and weeds should ho kept down If we have to get laws to do It Ono day last year while traveling through one of the most weedy ills rlcts of tho state of Utah I suddenly camu upon a genuine oasis In a desert of weeds a paradise of cleanliness and order as compared with tho weedy chaos surrounding No weary traveler In tho great Sahara desert ever gazed upon a fertile spot In the desert with greater thanksgiving that I did upon this farm Here In the midst of a sea of weeds was a farm where not a weed was to he seen The grain was ilpenlng pure and freo from tho encroachments of the enemy Tho ex teat was clean and smooth and loose ready with Its store of moisture to start tho new crop successfully along Its growth I naturally stopped and made liuiulrlcs as to tho methods used by tho owner which brought such splendid results so vastly different rom his neighbors The owner smilingly smi-lingly led me out to tho Implement shed where ho pointed to a homemade home-made Implement and said This Is the Implement that has done It all This Is my harrow my disk I my leveler level-er and my weedor It Is tho only thing that I use after plowing my land until I I seed It tho following autumn I liavo used It now for eight years and you see the results My land was just like my neighbors when I began now I have no trouble with weeds be eaiibo my machine destroys them 1 have no lumpy or uneven ground because be-cause it pulverized and levels it I hate no trouble with my land drying out bccaiihO a perfect mulch Is always formed which conserves tho moisture |