Show DRY FARMING SOILS Careful and Proper Tillage Insures In-sures Success with Cereals and Vegetables Large Areas of Land Popularly Supposed Sup-posed to Be Worthless Except for Grazing Purposes Converted Into Prosperous Farm Communities By CONGRESSMAN F W MONDELL OF WYOMING Experience extending over a long period of years hits demonstrated beyond be-yond a question of doubt that with careful and proper tillage all of the I cereals and a large variety of vegetables vege-tables may ho successfully and profitably profit-ably grown In loam soil where the average rainfall does not exceed It to 1C Inches annually The dry farmer should select a loams loam-s li Personally I should select for such purposes what might ho called a sandy loam and this being done success suc-cess with the rainfall Indicated and thorough tillage Is reasonably certain My experience with dry farming extends ex-tends over a period of 20 years In which time I have seen areas popularly popu-larly supposed to be prndtlcally worthless worth-less except for grazing purposes converted con-verted Into prosperous farm communities communi-ties Some of the crops I have seen raised have been phenomenal Where the location has been carefully selected select-ed and the cultivation has been thorough thor-ough I recall practically no failures It Is my opinion that there are very large areas which arc still open to homestead settlement quite as good as those which have been settled upon up-on heretofore My own experience In dry farming has been under the ordinary annual crop system but I am firmly of tho opinion that ultimately this land of limited rainfall wo shall adopt the biennial system now so successfully practiced elesewhore This system consists of cropping onehalf of the I farm each year and summer tilling the remainder Under this system dry farming so called Is safer and iJt tJA w > NHst L i i > 1 i t < t J < r t > < j 1A < 1t < > r < i > u1 i Zit h > f i < i rt < vw 1 i L Ai t t t i4i j i t t r ot Vffi < t i t j I r1 ii < l5j + 4i X 1 > v R > t > t > J < i t FI > < < > h < I > r ti f > > v l 8t < < j M < I f 11x < 11r I x r t > < o 1 On a Dry Farm more certain than crop raising In many localities usually having an abundance of rain and under this system much land still open to tho homesteader will produce as many bushels of grain In a given number years as much of tho high priced wheat lands of tho country Biennial cropping while It gives tho farmer as high as double tho yield per acre which ho would otherwise obtain ob-tain calls for a larger farm as it reduces the number of acres under crop and It was to meet this condition condi-tion that we secured the passage of the 320acro homestead bill |