Show SPLENDID RESUL IS ISARE ARE NOW OBTAINED WED WEDIN IN DRY fAR lING Interesting Deductions Are Drawn From Experience by w Well n Known Man Paul A. A Droubay one of ot the most successful suc 11 dry farmers of or Tooele county Is It Jn In Salt Rait Lake City t today r t the Ku guest u it O of C. C B. B Stewart with R whom boom ho he Is I In consulta consultation tion on business relative to the farming and sheep business Ir farm farmIs Is near I gNa While Mr Droubay does dos not follow strictly time the methods of of dry farming prescribed pre pre- scribed by the experimental farms fanus his success In the time has been remark remark- able Six years fars ago he lie was a comparatively comparatively poor man mall and toa today Tie no h has s no 11 lia liabilities ila- ila 1 a dr dry farm of ot 2300 acres foi rOI which he lie paid th the state 12 per pel acre and sheep on hi his hili ranges langes Ho lie estimates esti- esti mates that his sheep p pay him every ever yea yeat I the equivalent of or 6 per cent nt on per pcr I Iacre acre for the entire e acreage te of ot his s farm In dry farming his wheat Mr Ir Droubay Droll Drou ha hay bay plows pious In Hay or June and does not nol disturb the time Ian land again until August At that time or os even later latI If Ir delays are mire en encountered encountered encountered en- en countered the time ground U is harrowed harro once buco or 01 twice tn and Is III then drilled From hall half halla halfa a bushel to throe fourths of at a l. l bushel of wheat Is sowed owed to the acre The Th seed wheat does loe- loe not miot sprout out until rain falls fails 01 oi snow melts Its and no imo further r attention Is 15 given Riven It until harvest hol time Under this timis process the farm yields IElds thirty bushel buhell to th the acre of or well developed wheat with full tull heads and amid excellent quality It The alfalfa crops ar are good In this sec see tion One crop IOp It averaging from thieo to four tons per acre Is secured and a second see sec ond end or seed crop later in the sea season on which averages average's 50 o PP per pi acre In seed The Time alfalfa thrives best In the low lands land ly lying lying ly- ly In ing Immediately above e and outside the area of ot the time alkali beds While fruit truit culture cul ture tore has not been n extensively Ely followed on the time fat farm such suh fruit trees as RII have been reared produce product an aim especially specially fine flavored orel fruit of or good appearance and generally high quality As an aim adjunct to the thc dry farm Sir Mr r. r Droubay has lias sheep The lamb crop this year yar was per cent of or the time original orb orb-I- nal nai flock There are many man flowing wells 1115 In the district and time the flow now of or water H is exceptional A two inch pi pipe pc gives gl out more than gallons gallon per minute throw- throw Ins inn Inthe the water nearly nearl three feet higher th than n time the outlet tl point A n number b of Y Interesting observations have been bletl made by bv Mr rh Droubay in prosecuting his Investigations as to tl th best methods of dr dry farming I ha have noticed many times that while the centers ceo cen ter of some some- ot of time the wheat fields were We toy eov- ered with excellent crops with full heads and apparently having plenty of moisture the edges of or these fields were sparse in their vegetation with shriveled heads and scanty crop rop I figured it out that this was caused by the time hot wind Inti coming to the time edge of ot the field and picking up the time moisture from the tile wheat This effect was as not apparent in any case caRe where timers thero was any considerable amount of or ve vegetation surrounding the wheat field thus conI convincing con con- I me t that t the C shrinking I of the crop l froc J tl 1 m was caused u e by time the 1 heated air scientific n Investigation atlon has shown that fun fully SO per percent percent I cent ent of or the plant food is obtained from the time air When hen the vane valley becomes becomes- more thoroughly cultivated the average yield per acre acre will ihl be much mU greater ter than th-an I It t is under present Where t the wheat h cr crop is poor as It Pg li r was four years ar ago giving but eight bushels to the acre I turned my nu stol stock k kInto into the time fields fields- The animals ate te the stalks voraciously and analysis showed that the time stalks were ere heavily lIy with charged saccharine matter This was e especially fine and fattening feed for fot both sheep and cattle and the animals nibbled the stalks close to the ground |