| Show I 1 SOIL OF SEMIARID SEMI ARID BELT naturally rich generally free from objectionable admer ably adapted to farming everyone knows or ought to know that the soil of the semiarid semi arid regions la Is naturally rich and generally tree free from objectionable traits and of a texture admirably adapted to the best farming it has haa been demonstrated beyond the peradventure of a doubt concerning farming carried on in those regions under scientific soil culture that it care be taken to conserve the moisture and not waste it that Is it if the soil be so BO treated that its fertility be made available plowing packing seeding and cultivation suited to existing conditions farming becomes an exact science and the raising of large crops a certainty A great percentage of the vast plains of the west Is admirably adapt ed for ideal farming quite free from boulders arid and stumps dry farming is cheaper than irrigation and in addition has some decided advantages over the latter system in the first place on ditches are required and no subsequent repairs needed and no laborers are hired cpr for irrigators 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 can not farm profitably more than 50 to 75 acres acres of irrigated land while under tho the dry farming system large tracts can bo be handled especially when small grain and alfalfa are grown |
