| Show DRY FARMS OF DIXIE ARE LOOKING GOOD dry farm demonstrator visits this section organizes operative cooperative co Farms Prospects excellent J W dry farm demonstrator on of the utah agricultural college wag a st george visitor during the recent fruit festival he in from the eastern part of this county and kanc county where lie had been looking over do farms on the big between le tween rockville and canaan at short creek and he said he found the dry firms in most excellent condition considering the long drouth and the treatment which the soil had been receiving much better in fact alian ans thing he hid been in the northern part of the state under the bime the main fault mr finds is the fact that the people engaged in dry farming do not tor low arv farming methods most of them do not summer fallow their lands bummer fallow ing is absolutely necessary for good crops and the best results in dry land farming said mr the farmers arc too impatient and take advantage of the ground being in good condition to seed it instead of plowing tace moisture under and conserving it for the next year he found on this trip that when the land had been receiving proper attention good crops of corn and sudan grass resulted budan grass showing up especially well mr believes sudan gras to be one of the most successful and profitable crops that can be grown on the dry farms of the dixie connary con it is very thrifty and highly and must not be confounded with john eon grass which it greatly resembles johnson grass has a jointed root which sudan grass has not sudan grass is to the dry farm what alfalfa is to the irrigated farm the main forage crop mr also visited lower dolob which is coming to the front rapidly and gives promise of great development here he found good crops of dry land potatoes being grown the ground being more like garden soil than in any other localities cali ties visited mr says that some of the very finest and sweetest watermelons water melons lie ever tasted grown without irrigation an dolob the fall plantings of wheat and other small grains were verj good but the spring plantings were failures on most of the dry farms visited the evidence showed that beans make a splendid crop the main object of mr Pax mans visit at this time waa to establish esti blish cooperative demonstration farms fl herein the agricultural college takes absolute control of all the operations erat ions of the farm he has succeeded in establishing euch farms at the following places lower dolob acres farm of sylvester earl of virgin big plain acrea belonging to john R crawford of canaan acres farm of harold of spring dale kanab acres J S dal ley of kanab the purpose of these operative cooperative co tarius is to involve a system of that demon berates the lind of crops to growth bring maximum returns mr has permission to establish one of these farms at adjoining lower dolob and will do as soon aa a farmer is found w ho la ready and willing to co operate mr visited the fruit exhibit here and waa intensely interested te in the dry farm lie eaid small aa it ia it reveals alie wonderful possibilities of the dry farm sections in washington county according to mr Pax mans survey there are at least acres in eastern washington county that will produce excellent dry land crops if proper methods of cultivation and land care are pursued the indian exhibit also interest cd mr lie alie dry land budan grass shown in tins exhibit waa the equal of any ho hid seen an w here and the corn showed up very well indeed |
