| Show D dry ry land crops spokane wash july displays of dry farm products from various parts of the west to bo be exhibited at the international exposi i tion in connection with the fifth dry farming congress in the week of october 3 will prove that the use of modern methods of tillage is beating back the drouth in the non irrigated districts said john T burns burng secretary of the congress in discussing crop conditions in utah and throughout the country adding the dry fanning farming congress is keeping in touch as closely as possible with clop conditions and we have cery i cry reason to believe that many reports of drouth and total lo ios los s of crops are grossly exaggerated the only part failure is in some of abo new cr or dry farming sections is here the farmers do not understand the climatic conditions and have not used proper methods thomas thoms 11 II burton of neplir utah reports T 0 hundred thousand acres of grain n will ill be raided by dry farmers of juab county this 3 car we hac han c a banner dry farming community and the yield on the dra dr farms ni where here scientific methods have been employed will run from 17 to 20 bushels the acre I 1 ss professor lewis lenis A 31 errill director of dry farming work in utah reports the driest scar ear since 1876 he ile has had men in all parts of utah making reports and finds from the returns that on oil ground cropped every year and carelessly handled the crops are arc in many cases burned up but on summer fallowed fallowes land and on land handled according to the dry farming system almost good crops will bo be bari harvested ested the following examples of notable success in dry farming were given by professor merrill james whitney of mindon lias has 40 acres of fine wheat estimated nield iced 35 bushels andrew peterson of newton 80 acres of wheat on fallowed fallowes fall owed ground estimated yield 40 bushels C W richarda of fielding of estimated meld 40 bushels in the of newton J E godfrey eugeno eugene nelson dark clark brothers and ecklund brothers hae hale several hundred undred li acres of wheat that will produce from 45 to 60 50 bushels an ail acre professor kerrill reports in the same aln from cache davis box elder older salt lake and juab counties poor clops on nev non lands and on those cropped every year bountiful crop crops on oil summer fallow and carp care fully farmed lands |
