Show gan grow good crops J M lauritzen Laun i progressive citizen who is interested in arriga tion projects has been devoting part of his time to dry tanning farming out in the canaan country and with in on darful success con sider ing the lateness ol 01 the season when he be did his plant ing he his clearly elearly demonstrated that the desert in the canaan see tion will produce good crops crop with out water and this should be en ell cou raging to those who have taken up tip land there the samples of bai bit lev ley and corn referred to by mr lauritzen Laun are remarkably good con si dering the conditions under which grown they can be seen at the NEWS office the following letter and arid the samples of dry I 1 md pro ducts were received at fhe the office on the evening of july 23 the I 1 1 avs are going to st greorge jeorge to spend the and in order that you might I 1 now something of what we are doing and the success vi e are having out here I 1 eliav hae e concluded to send you ou a sample of our corn and barley both grown without water getting out the water of short creel last winter tool more time than thin n we e had expected an and d inasmuch as a we ie had ordered quite a i ibell bill of nursery stool and wanted to plant considerable garden which we ine could not do NiAl without lout water we ine continued the on the ditch and flumes until they were completed when it was rather late to plant any kind ol 01 grain however on the of april aie w e planted about four acres of bar ley today just ninety days alter after planting much of it is ib still growing and most of the heads contain fairly good I 1 ennels I 1 am sell sending ding you a t sample of this bailey con the lateness ot of the eason when it was nas planted the poor con of the seed I 1 ed and the fact that there has been practically no rain since planting we consider that the results aie are very encouraging NN e have demonstrated we thiril that if grain is planted here in the fall or in the early spring there la is deiy little question about maturing a good crop had our bailey barley been planted february instead of april the results would have been vastly different ve ae have thirty acres oi of corn only i a small fraction of which his has been irrigated the sample simple I 1 end send you has been grown without water the corn ia was as planted about the 0 of f mav if we can get a little lain it will make mile a t goc go d crop the coin COID seed bed was the same as that of the barley it was not riot in first class condition at the time of planting the ground NN was as plowed last summer when it was quite dry and the plow left it lumpy we had no harrow at the time and the grout d vi was as nev er harrowed but once and that aias w as after it ii as planted if aie w e profit by the mista mistakes keb nie w e have made this season and the ex peri ence in we e are ire getting N e may rei rea expect good returns from our labors next year |