| Show DIXIE DRY FARMS MAKE GOOD SHOWING J W the state dry farm demonstrator is delighted with s the good prospects i editor ron mi diio lias revealed bome marvels to me as well as affording a round of pleasure ith hie honorable and genial david hirson as my guide and companion ve held five enthusiastic public meetings with the farmers at the following places hurricane virgin ville and erville ervil lc and was delighted to find the people w thoro interested on subjects relating to dry barmine far mine the old time simplicity the wholehearted hospitality and their keen appreciation of tho efforts made in their behalf 7 the sturdy qualities exhibited in their desire to develop the country the pluck and energy etith which the have grappled and subdued the stubborn condition and the unity of purpose have all combined in the rood people of dix ie to produce in me as well as many hundreds of others a pro found admiration and respect for them their many virtues that make for a patient and prudent people have drawn out my sympathies for them and I 1 am sure will make my labors among them both easy and pleasant through the universal acquaintanceship of brother hirschi with the people and the high esteem they manifest for him it was easi for me to ct t a good grasp of their bobial condition and their economic problems as I 1 visited among them agriculturally I 1 was much disappointed in finding 3 our irrigation areas so limited I 1 had that you had vast tracts of country upon which you could get the water at a nominal cost and when I 1 visited the settlements along the cpr npr and BOW what small farms had to meet the needa of the people and at what extreme coit it would be to get alie hater onto 3 our mesas my estimate of your possibilities in thih line of agriculture was considerably modified but then when I 1 investigated bour possibilities along my line of hork that of dry farming and baw the very favorable conditions prevailing eliat make for success in alna line of work I 1 felt that I 1 wanted to meet every farmer and tell him eliat there was a field large enough for all ins activities and those of his children for generations to come iving contiguous to or within cloe proximity to their old homestead sa field that with modern methods properly and intelligently applied will yield very encouraging cou raging results with some little of the rainfall couil ed with alic information I 1 was able to glean from the farmers and acquainted alio weather conditions tte can conclude with reasonable accuracy eliat the annual rainfall is better than 11 1 1 inches on your mesas there are no severe frost to threaten damage from that source in fact nearly all the w inter months the crops can make growth thus providing an early maturity of all the cereal crops so early that barvest can bo over before the liot days of summer avoiding another hazzard so prevalent in the northern portion of the state your land remark ably fertile as evidenced by the luxurious growth on a few areas which have received proper treatment the soils ol 01 thieo awas as well as the river bot arc fir rom being stubborn 01 difficult to they respond splendidly to the proper touch of the husbandman that is to sa the fertility in alie boila iced to alie action of methods and 13 readily forthe and tins is very lucli in i our favor from alie fact thit such ewh take lesi moisture to produce a crop than most of the ils in the dry land districts in the your climate while fio rable in many may not make for the quality in alip em ill licking in the chilli or cool to them and q but they freem to bo ideal for corn production and it is quite pro babe thit the future may find dixie fatten her of cattle on corn of lier own production and driving them to birket with double alie value they non have in them however for the present as the principal crop until vc cin feel oui way a little safer on the corn question all in all I 1 the good people in dixie on possibilities ties they leave in dr and hao no hesitancy in that conditions far exceeded my expectation pec tation there id no longer any doubt in my mind but what very profitable dry farm crops can be produced by the hundreds of thousands of bushela bua hela and pay as well or better than the irrigated farina for the capital and labor involved the dixie people should be encouraged and go to work at once and stop the impo rUtion of or alue annually for there is in dry and good money for thoe who will apply their energies of body and brain the right way I 1 bo glad to make visits I 1 often A ible and ew to farmers ind demonstrate mah them for I 1 hope bour carmera will be to with my collico and will eiger to know the right way I 1 shall do all I 1 can to help such I 1 am glad to see that the land in the bin districts and on coffer dolob and pro being aiken up theao ire rood arcis and the owners fco meday i be hippy in their will go the right way about their operations mr editor arain to ou and the people whose welfare QU are on the excellent that lie in conr mega and I 1 hopeau will keep before our readers from tune to tune the purpose of my office and eliat they can am e to it all timea JW pv statewide state wide demonstrator m dry farming for the U A 0 |
