Show A DRY FARM cheaper than Iril irrigation gation because no ditches required and has other advantages dry fa farming Is cheaper than irrigation and andin in addition has some de ceded aided advantages over the latter tern tem in the first place no ditches are required and no subsequent repairs needed and no laborers aro are b hired fred for foi irrigators Irrl gators and secondly it Is a demonstrated fact that dry farming Is the better proposition of the two when practiced on a large scale one man it Is estimated cannot farm profitably more than 50 60 to 75 acres of irrigated land while under the dry farming system large tracts can be handled bandied especially when small grain and alfalfa are sown the state agricultural college of utah at logan in one of its recent bulletins says the cost of producing a crop of wheat oats or barley should not exceed per acre after the land has haa once been cropped when the farmer uses his own implements and team the cost per acre would be plowing dis cing a total of when the work Is s let by contract the cost would be per acre but the cost of farming in one section may differ from that of another an expert dry farmer in the vicinity of denver furnishes the following table 64 acres at 22 per acre plowing and seeding 2 2 per acre harvesting jit at 1 1 pe per acre kofl hauling to market ac per bushel GM COO 00 hauling to market ac per basliel bus liel total cost including Investment 00 30 bushels per acre bushels at 1 per cat cwt cat 11 llo I 1 20 00 not net income first year i 65 moo |