Show I Ij C L it j I It i f I I S r 41 Jt i r j r rI r r rt riS riSt t I 4 i l 1 I t V tI tIr W i fP i C i i v vi I 1 i 1 t tI J I h I r 2 j M I r r I I i i 8 nn 1 1 9 J v N C N x w 1 Mf m d p i a y 1 i l r z h ten j yu b k 1 J f r i z J T 1 pt r b Y t y t 0 dy a e r r y ri t n 4 pros T r lY x a tr a R n h x xa xh t y h rr sw f eya e f Y ei pr 1 lw J Jt if Y lI r rI I 4 J iI t e 0 rj d t d f R ti A r rat 1 I r t tt A J t I 1 11 f 1 r 1 fri A ij I I if ifA 1 l b I S I 1 r ij f r rn I If y J n r 1 a Z q yd I I I I a d e 1 tr s r y dr dad a an r r f r b it r a t rt tir rt 1 r ra 1 aS y F f I I j 11 1 R I IR II f 11 i i l a aJ J 1 I i h Yi i ii l fb fbI t I I i it m I t c lt t I I 7 Jd i Y M j IM J tJ 1 G 1 i u ur j r hand f Jd f j r tt 1 J i l 1 1 i e r ri i RID farming is tl the c the thes s A Vu Q sciences r It In a quiet way vay it it is accomplish accomplishing accomplish i t fug ing more than any Y single t agency in the thc making m king of a new Utah Because y its are performed 1 in silent sagebrush saie rush ash valleys v far from the eyes of investigators and writers not especially interested very little littlelight littlelight light has been thrown upon its work works As s a science it seeks the thc development through evolution of a grain so hard and drouth resisting it will grow as sagebrush grows grOys in hn any waterless soil For the soil it its seeks s ks a method of treatment that that saves to toi through i it the hot summer a maximum per percentage perc percentage c of the winters snow and the springs rain rain As a factor of Utah industrial life in five seasons it has increased the value of thousands of sagebrush acres from Iso per acre with no takers to 20 or more per acre with ith a lively demand where land laud can be bc had hadin hadin hadin in large tracts The place it is taking in the new industrial Utah is suggested in the fact that with but a afew afew afew few years of experimenting behind it it has already redeemed more miles of Utah des ICS desert ert rt than has irrigation in all the GI 61 years of its constant use Dry fanning farming as the art formerly was k called was developed dev loped into a science in Utah byi Dr John A Widtsoe now president of the Agricultural Agri college His Dog Valley experiment was what sent interest in the science ence on fleet wings over southern Utah To all who inquired he told the secrets fall plow plowing plowing plowing ing soil culture and aud seed selection on which results depend and he lie exhibited these results in the terms bushels and pecks to toI I I those who came to his desert farm in the thc kyan hills lulls innocent of all suggestion of f That was five years Cars ago ann At it the time the only land in the th dry section s of Juab valleys southern s portion that tl t had been located upon was the piece on which stood stood a switch house He Inc had lapsed his rights after making nal ing the first payment p ym nt This land now l could not be bc bought at 25 per acre and produces JUC S good goad interest upon a sum larger lar er than this f I rEh The kind of wheat used for arid farming fanning farn ing has ha hanged changed each cach year with new Hm develop 1 The hc farmer can no longer afford to toa a pass ass over the work of f the t IC e perin l OrS and a college investigators in and the th farmer far h puts Punts pt ts in a crop of wheat this fall without first 15 g out Olt what wh t was the latest result hi iti ex cs x will probably pr ba Iy pay ii a n decided ded ed penalty y next summer in un results s from fro ll his liis possibilities r Utah Uta JI ref f t I A Merrill has lias been bt cn f fI closely elY identified dc from irom fromi i its very beginning In tn responding to an i l i v Hon iff fr dm r l the News N ws to discuss the Ue re ref f i 1 l is year he luc h has thrown much 41 i light i ion n l what Shat t has hass heed been l lone l J and d indicates ii i i 1 i l j f i j the tile lines where wier e the present slate state of experimentation rests Ai Aa similar si nilar article written a year year from now may tell nuil th that t is new wJ for forthe forthe the science c is il lt isy in 0 I I F 6 O NE of or the results of or the tho th second e session se slon of otI V the Dry Farming congress held in Salt Luke Lake L tko City last January was a are renewed re renewed interest in the practise ot of ry farming fanning throughout the state During the tho past season there has been boen much greater activity along ulong these tines lines Hn s than over ever before practically every over county count in hr inthe inthe the state participating in this renewed effort Arid All farming is i resulting In the reclamation of or thou thousands thousands sands or of acres of or our sagebrush lands that could not possibly po under tinder any ally other means bo ho brought under cultivation At the several experiment stations established by b the state tho the results of ot the seasons work worl have havo been very satisfactory especially is this true of oC the tho farms located at Tooele county Nephi Juab county and Enterprise Washington county On each of ot these farms the tho yields Ields obtained have hwe been boon 35 5 bushels per acre aero on those plats Where the tho con conditions conditions have havo been been made m do most moat favorable The Tho yield has been as us low as a S 8 bushels per aero acre on those plats where improper cultural methods havo have boon been used This grout great distinction in tho tim yield em ou emphasizes tho iho importance ot of proper cultural meth methods methods methods OX ON O A FIRM BASIS Tho writer is in receipt of or a number of ot letters from prominent dry dr farmers throughout the tho state stale from Cache Cuche county on tho north to Washington county on tho the south and these reports all nil in indicate that arid and farming Is established on a a firmer basis than over before It Is true truc that there have havo been many man discouragements s but In tho the main these difficulties have been overcome and the total results of the tho years ears efforts Is a distinct en or encouragement to those who are arc attempting to sub subdue subdue J due duo tho the desor el During the tho early spring there thero were two months of ot extreme drouth but in ht every case where tho the tholand tholand theland land had been summer a mulch kept kept during tho the previous season the fallowed fallow cd land Janel tho the crops had no difficulty whatever in withstand ing the drouth In a number ot or instances where an attempt was made to grow grow glo two successIve crops tho the long period ot of drouth routh resulted in a II dismal failure for these crops and tho the lesson taught to tho arid and farmers farmer of or the stat was that if It success is to bo be attained there thero can can be but little muo deviation from tho methods already alread outlined by those thoo who who havo have made a u study of or this subject THEN AND NOW OW During the tho summer the tho writer had the privilege of or visiting ono ere Held field fiel of acres in Juab county The Tho wheat was of clr uniform height in full head and ready rca y for tho the harvester The Tho last timo he visited this lids field Held some five years ago it was cov covered covered covered ered with heavy sagebrush and gave little pro miso of ot what tho the future had Imd In store Tho The sight was most beautiful and an inspiring and an would certainly bo ho an object lesson to those who have havo boot boon pessimistic regarding the success of ot this move moe movement movement ment mont Two hundred h acres of or this field yielded 35 bushels per acre tho the average a of or tho the whole Hold field being 31 bushels bushell Mr Isaac II IT Grace Graco manager of or this farm has hM adhered adhere strictly to the proper methods moth a brief outline of ot which is s herewith I given Iven Mr fr Grace race gives his stubble land adeep a Y j plowing in tin tho fall fait the tho land lanu Irm Is ts then left letl rough Vf during the Wintry winter and Il in the spring as us soon as us tho the volunteer wheat wheal has started lia he 11 goes foes on on the tho land again this time limo using f disc c plows with four OUI horses whereas in ht the fall he ho housed heI used I a to dl sc plow p I ow with w I th five horses 1 The Tho e i t spring plowing is done just lust as shallow as it is possible to do o it thus turning under all of or the tha growth harrowing hat rowing immediately after during the Ai samo forenoon or 01 afternoon an as the tho case caso might be b 1 and thus preventing the tho escape of any moisture i The Tho ground is harrowed several tunes times during durin the tho 1 summer season in order to keep tho the mulch that has been established It Is then ready for far seed seeding seeding lf K King ing and ancl along In September or October Mr MI Grace Grac i t goes goos on tho the land lan with his press drill and an seeds at atthe n the tho rate of 45 46 4 pounds of or seed to tho the acre The Tho I wheat grown this year ear was of or the tho Kofod variety l f l but Mr Grace Graco evidently has hus considerable faith in to inthe n the tho Turkey Red lied variety since Inee ho hl has Just seeded some somo 40 acres of or this wheat and nod proposes to give ho i it a fair fall trial along side with his Kofod The Tho method followed by Mr Grace enables him hilt to keep the land freo from weeds and amI volunteer wheat y He lIe is satisfied that ho lie stores two seasons pre precipitation for tho the uso use of oC ono one crop which method t practically Insures a R crop lIe He feels too that p phere Where here tho the land is plowed mowed and left loft loose in tho the fall fall tho freezing and thawing during the tho winter sots sets freo free plant food toad that would otherwise be bo inert The Tho writer has visited other fields In Cache Cach j Boxelder Davis Iron Washington and ad counties where the tho results have been as satis satisfactory satisfactory j t factory as ns those on oft the farm faun referred to all of ot NI Y G l which Indicates that where the tho farmers have gono gone at this matter in earnest that there thore is every rca rea g 1 son for encouragement HORSES VERSUS CATTLE CATTIE rh The rho years experience in dry dl miming farming has r brought the question of ot machinery Into enco ence en co again Thoro There are many who argue arguo that the tho hi greatest success is Js attained whore where the tho plowing is f done dono by horses or cattle calli Mr Jesse Jesso M III Smith of ot Davis county advocates the tho use of ot cattle for plowing plow plowIng Ing while Mr Grace of ot Nephi finds that tho the use usa of ot horses is most satisfactory Others contend that I tho the plowing can ho bo done ilone Just lust as well and moro mora i t economically by h tho the use usa of steam engines It Is la still an open Question and from all of the ex experience f that the tho writer has been able to gather i iho ho feels reels justified In urging extremo caution to 1 I lt those tho e who are aro about to In dry r farming c Certainly it H would bo ho better to proceed cautious cautiously ly l with rIth rs as is little machinery ns us is necessary n anti and andus antias as us tho the land nl is brought under cultivation the moro expensive Iu machinery run can bo he had c jl HARVESTING MA II In Iii harvesting there theN is no nn question lu ton concerning J tho the success of oS ho lire 1 1 tenet nd thresh thresher sh er or Three ot of these the e machines have been added to k the tho resources of this industry during the past pa season and this in addition to the combined outfit oared 01 by tho the Utah Arid Funn company at Nephi makes mak tI four of these machines in operation Two of or these machines are arc drawn by steam engine the tho ma WD machine machine chine being driven by 1 an auxiliary engine at attached to lO the tho side ot or tho the harvester which receives its Ils steam steno power from the tho traction engine Two Tw o of these the e machines are drawn by somo 32 3 horses and the owners owner of ot these 0 machines express entire satisfaction with their the uso use vW i Tho The work on the state experimental arid farms f fj is resulting in great benefit to o the thu people of the tha tn 5 state In introducing new varieties in ill developing I Ithe now cultural methods and in demonstrating to the people in the various localities that the tho Indus Industry Industry try tn is lit a feasible one ono The season Just closing has 1 1 brought out again tho the fact tact that in the Turkey Red Re variety tho the station officials havo have found a A F dj s1 wheat wheal that Unit will withstand endure II drouth and keep from shelling better than any an 5 ate other variety yet et tried The Tho county farm 1 1 has been beet seeded for Cor the tho th corning season with this i variety varlet alone and an it Is ts the tho hope of ot the tho station iJ 11 d officials that in ht a 11 very ver Cow fow years all of ut the dry i farmers of ot tIll the state will be growing that variety S SAt At tho the recent state stata fair fall these the e farms had a It 1 splendid exhibit e of or wheat oats barley sugar i beets bt t potatoes po no s hemp and flax 11 all grown g on the tho deserts de c miles away lC m Ilia he Irrigation 0 w Tim The exhibit was a very Yer Instructive one and from fron d sr inquiries received it is evident that thousands th m of nC 7 k y farmers expect soon to add somo some of ot the sagebrush land to their the farming area and un it is 15 s tho the dream of the tho converts COli verts to this industry that the into timo is not act J Jr Gr r distant when ben three i r e percent per pe cent cultivable l larea area will be Increased Increase to at ht least 50 per le cent c I t W tiff ji jit I t j 1 i ir i r |