Show where dry Ia Is yielding fine RC returns tUrns I 1 county I 1 fist S V aboid returned fron from nepal early this week to which point lie he went with A G anderson with a band of horses where animal 4 were load loaded d on a car for nevada the men encountered but little snow via salina canyon an and d no snow in sevier and juab LOUnt counties les while in the latter county mr acord investigated the dry farming experiments for the purpose of requiring acquiring pointers for use here all the land in juab dog and cedar valleys lie he states is taken up or is being rapidly converted into dry farming the average yield of wheat on land will go as high or better than 25 bushels per acre the wheat the bof fold variety is ia of better quality than that grown on watered land and sells about 10 cents higher it a bushel crops are raised every other year only the wheat is drilled into the ground between august 20 and september 15 after it is up it is run over with big homemade home made harrows with six inch teeth thid its IB for the purpose of stirring up the land and letting air into the soil about the roots of the gram grain some p people eople would imagine that these big harr harrows owis would tear tile the tender plants out of the ground but on the contrary it does it good an and d besides no HO cultivates the ground as aa to cause a mulch to preserve the moisture below the same process is 13 re repeated once or twice in the spring until the stand of wheat gits gets so 80 large that the harrows would break it down rather than tear it out mr acord believes dry farming will be as successful in emery county as in juab woo |