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Show moisture FRUIT AND ALFALFA iH0LDING th. sail van. I Among Easiest Crops toiRaiss I ion,' old thU tifm and uttf ou'd on Dry Land, Says Expert. soil 2X2X2 Rainfall Should .Be .Coaxed .Down Into Subsoil Where Roots Will Co After It. BACKACHE- -A late years mueh has been written about the conservation of moisture, which is a very old story with a Of V . Well Known Western Horticulturist new name. of years crops have Gives Reasons for Stating They been raised by hand hoeing and culCan Easily Ee Raised In tivation with very little precipitation, n Arid Country. but in a country like ours, where we considerable rainfall and It often have At recent the f Dry Farpi congress, comes in chunks when It does come, a held at Hillings, Mont., Mr. E. It. a well known Colorado horticult- farmer must catch it first and conurist, who has made dry farming a serve It afterwards. Some of our agricultural writers close study and has been quite successful, gave.; an interesting talk. have curious ideas on this point, which It Is well to explode at the "start, Among other things he said: ' "It may surprise some of you to writes Prof. F. Knorr In Ranch and know that if axy man were to ask Farm. One, for Instance, states that me what I considered the easiest ( It is a good idea to pack your gtound on to raise the farm, my so as to hold the water near the surcrops dry , ' answer would be fruit and alfalfa. face. Tbls is very bad advice, for If Trees and alfalfa are both deep it stays near the surface it dries out rooted, and this Is half the battle in quickly, but If we can coax it down On my ranch we into the subsoil, the roots of almost fighting drought. ' inches for all any crop will go down three feet or ten from twelve to plow our crops, In order that their roots more after It and then we get a bar may get down as deep as possible in vest worth talking about.' A man may plow six or seven inches the shortest possible time. "We first secure the moisture for and if the subsoil is dry, the roots will fruit trees by plowing a year ahead go down only that six or seven Inches, of time and digging holes in the fall and no more, but after a very wet before planting and with two or year, when the subsoil is wet and the three feet of moisture In the ground roots go into it a shallow plower may we do not care whether a dry year raise almost as fine a crop as the man comes or not. At the last congress I that plows ten or twelve Inches, and explained how to handle an orchard this often leads to the belief that shalbo that no loss could possibly result low plowing Is the thing, but .where he from drought, and I wish I could say gets only one good crop once In the same of winter-killing- , but though awhile, the man who plows j deep we cannot actually prevent this, we makes his crops every year wet or can almost eliminate it by careful dry. Packed land is very much like choice of tested varieties. In differ- a haystack that Is well settled, the ent parts of the world, even in des- - rain does not go into it much, but , erts, we find trees growing iwie-time- s when the hay Is loose the rain may where nothing else will grow. go almost through It, the same with "In the dry orchard the farmer can the land. give his tree almost as much water as the irrigator, if bo wants to. It Is WINTER WHEAT ON DRY LAND simply a question of area, the greater the area he larger the supply of mois One-Hal- f Amount of Seed Required for ture and the roots will penetrate alIrrigated Lands Answers for most any distance to obtain this moisDry Farming. ture and in a very short space of time. "When the trees are young it is imf Field and Farm says that possible for them to use up all this the amount of seed required for irrimoisture and the surplus Is stored in gated land will do in dry farming, add' the subsoil for future use, and when ing that 35 pounds to the acre is all we have our trees standing in 15 feet sufficient in Colorado and that, in one of damp soil, as is actually the casto Instance, at least, 62 bushels of good In my dry orchard at the present wheat to the acre was grown in this moment, we care little or nothing for way last season. dry years. This seems to us pretty thin seed"The trees in the dry orchard sel- ing, but we do know that where there dom winter-kill- , because they do not ia lack of moisture, it will not do to become too sappy. You can not fill bow too thickly, and as weeds take an iron or any other pipe with water more moisture than grain, it just will ' and expect It not to burst when the not do to tolerate weeds at all in dry frost comes; so with trees. Thou- farming. sands of trees are killed in the west A number of new settlers In Monevery year by late Irrigating, and I tana have complained to us that their want to tell you that in the deadly crops the present season would have winter of '98 and '99, when thousands been much better, one says as good , of apple trees were lost in the irrigatagain, had they not listened to the old ed ranches, we did not lose one. Now, settlers and seeded lightly. If it were not for the warm spells, In this particular season, or last, the which cause the sap to rise, this would new settler may be right, for most of ;.not happen; in Canada, for Instance, these complaints come from men who jit does not matter how wet the trees admit that the rainfall has been much The south side of the tree greater than usual the past two or j become. suffers the most because It Is the three years. With the regulation dry I warm side. Montana seasons, however, we look for "some or our agriculturists ana ex- more converts to tbln seeding. We perimenters tell you not to plant al- shall be glad to hear from some of falfa on sod; they know too well how the experienced upon this phase of the sod Is usually plowed In this country subject. Dakota Farmer. three or four inches deep like ribDrought-Resistinbons spread out to dry. Crops. It requires many years for crops "But you can, raise alfalfa on sod, and on sandy land will do better than from humid climates to adapt themany other way. We never wait for selves to arid conditions, hence we sod to rot, we rot It with the disc. should, take advantage of any strain We start in the first wet day and disc or variety which has already acquired Homequalities. It and cross-disIt, cutting It all to drought-resistin1 pieces as deep as the disc will go, grown seed should always be given then we plow it eight Inches, turning the preference but on this point we I It completely over and disc It the oth- - are a little weak when It comes to ci piui uh ii n u i iv it. as mic as uiu getting really good seed. We now land before planting. Fall plowing have varieties of wheat grown in the and spring planting are best and the intermountain region for 25 years or seed should be put in during the wet- more and these are thoroughly acclivatest period of the year, about half an mated. While our home-growinch to an inch deep. There Is always rieties are good, they are often disa certain risk of sprouting and dry- placed by valuable acquisitions from ing out be'ore the next rain comes abroad however. Many recent introwhtn small seeds are planted during ductions have been grown. In arid the heat f summer. The press drill regions for centuries and the drought-resistinhabit thoroughly fixed. Such Is much better for' this work than the are the Kubanka and Turvarieties disc drills. I am not much in favor of rolling or packing except for seed key Red wheats and brome grass, all of which have proven especialgermination, my experience being that three the first good storm will pack your ly valuable when grown on the high land and settle It more than you plateaus and in the mountain valleys of this region. could do it In a week's work. 'This crop is of vital Importance to Dry Farming Not New. the diversified farmer, for with the While the movement same amount of work he can raise has received Its greatest Impetus dun twice as much feed as is possible Ing recent years of agricultural develwith any other crop." opment In the west, It Is not a new science. The Chinese have been apWinter Care of Poultry. a system of tillage similar to As the season advances and hues plying which we call dry farming for that and vegetation become things or the more than 2,000 years, according to past, do not forget that you are still F. N. Meyer, foreign exploration agent playing that It Is summer in asking of the United States department of your fowls for cold weather eggs, and In Palestine and northuiai you must wnoed'e them Into the agriculture. ern Africa, very dry regions, crops idea that it Is the pioper laying sea- have been raised for centuries withson. To accomplish this, you must out Irrigation. In Turkestan. Thesca-lonlca- , Keep up mo supply or egg producing on the steppes of Siberia, In 'oods in addition to the heating foods in South Africa, in the Hungary, to keep them warm. desert countries of Australia, In Mex(Jive them something: in the wnv of ico in South America and in north"tiiuiul foods to take the place or west Canmln (he methods of the dry jbngs, beetles and insects. Beef Bcrap, farmers of the south and west have I'Irled blood, blood meal and green cut been applied with success. .bone are all excellent for thin nnrnnan ;'if you vnry them and do nol give one Deep Breaking Best. The Idea seems to have v.uuwmiuuBiy. ah or tne above are rich in the protein that is needed In egg "caught on" with all the western exmaking. periment stations and A bulletin bulletins are numerous. Alfalfa Supplies Protein. from the Mexico station pays deep Alfalfa supplies protein in abund- breaking of the sod Is ono of the ance, and is cheap because It Is home secrets of succeed In dry farming. It grown. If It Is cut at the proper time, opens up a volume of soil sufficiently uerore tne stalks become woody, and thick to catch and hold the heavy cured with the leaves on their stems. showers, and also provide room for it contains the necessary food ele- the development ot plant roots. ments to feed the unborn foetus In a Turning the sod over flat retains the way to insure strong, vigorous off- moisture better than when it Is lurt . spring. rough. -- A WARNING THAT MUST NOT BE IGNORED If this timely warning is ignored, kidney disease silently fastens its deadly grip for kidney sickness first shows itself in pains and disorders in other parts, and the real cause is too often hidden until fatal Blight's disease or diabetes has set in. 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