Show = PRINCIPLES OF DRY FARMING Success Depends Upon Accumulation and Conservation of Moisture In Soil Although y larllling has been brought to tbs attention of the gee erul pUblic for only a few years yet It III a fret that there arc many farm ers In the west who have made for tunes out of It In the last 30 or 40 years llctwotn those old IllolOrs of dry fllrllllng there Is n striking slur lIurlly The y arc all deep plovers land these are the men that stayed through the dry years 9V cars of sr 9 I and It 11 quitters were those who scratched the ground a few Inches and they are probably spoiling good pasture omowhore yet making as Mark Twain says one blade of gras grow where two grew before writes g Il Parsons tn Ranch and Range Prof Campbell told us at tho Dry arm congress of some of his crop fall lures In Texas this last season Con trusted with this however we have I splendd news about Pof Carleton I also of Texas but this gentleman I Plows from 10 to ir > Inches and cult I vales with the double shovel This j Is exactly what we need In a dry count coun-t try deep plowing and rough cultlva I tlon for the iicciimulatlon of moisture moist-ure especially when the precipitation I comes In chunks This professor Is reported by the field investigators to have made a twothirds crop of everything Now If a man can do that In a dry year In Texas then taking one year with another he will made a remarkably profitable average Deep plowing Is very unpopular In the west and I am often told It does not pay In this dis trict or that locality but after visit Ing nearly every dry state In the union I am totally unable to verify this contention for some deep plowci Invariably bobs up who I find on investigation In-vestigation Is raising about twice as much per acre as his neighbors and pulling off good crops In dry years when they raise nothing Tho two basic principles of dry farming are the accumulation and conservation con-servation of moisture and the former Is Just as Important as the latter for how are you going to conserve moisture mois-ture If you havent got It If two pieces of land are plowed and fallowed for a season ono six Inches deep and ono ten at tho end of the year the ono plowed ten Inches deep will contain nearly onethird more moisture than that plowed only six Inches for It requires deep land to absorb the precipitation as It comes without loss or run off The man who plows 12 Inches Is bringing twice as much soil Into action ac-tion per acre as the man who plows six and about onethird more moisture mois-ture but in time of drought the crops on the deep land will stand about three times as long as those on the shallow for the reason that the top three or four Inches dry out much more quickly than the lower and even a ten weeks drought will not dry out the eighth to the tenth Inch In ordinary soil |