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Show & tototoo t gT (cue Christmas Tke Utah Dry Farmer Laughs, at the Drou .d I Farming Me ff:od$ and on lands on which no attempt had been mad rejoiced this year tn an abundant harvest. Out in e to' conserve the moisture, but reliance placed an- - - southwest Halt Lake county the yields were in ly upon the precipitation of the year, I ample portion to the amount of skill and knowledge used In producing the crop. The Juab valley did Itself evidence. s proud aa wa ahowh by the splendid exhibit at the The of the experiment station have visited recent state fair. Front 8ao Juan county comes the every dry farming section In the state during the assurance of renewed faith in dry forming year. They have been persistent In their studies 'of the causes of failure and reasons for success. These Forty acres of Turkey Red wheat on the experl- mental farm there gava aa average yield of better men have v tatted tile numerous forms and have Inters-than Tt bushels of wheat per acre. It should be viewed hundred of dry farmers and aa a result Of" remembered that tn Ran Juan county there are miltheir ktudiea and Investigation they have unanimouslions of acres of land that will do this and this ly concluded that the adoption of ' proper cultural methods, the selection of approved drouth, resistant fond today Is practically untouched. varieties of seed, and the use of a small amount of Among the factors responsible for the Increased on returns will the average seed produce profitable Interest In dry forming this year was the passage dry farm even In the face of extreme drouth. We of the enlarged homestead act introduced by Senator think It unnecessary here to cltindlvldual cases Smoot and the opening of thousand of acre of because this waa the universal experience and tt Is dry form fond. True, the call of ''back lo the farm ' so generally recognised that scientific principles of has affected n great many Ftah eitlsen and many of dry farming must be rigidly observed If success Is the professional and business men of the state feel to be expected, that any argument is unnecessary. that fond Is safe and profitable Investment; It is The famous Cache valley forms yielded practically probable too that the fact that there has been a aa good crop this year aa ever before and the waning Interest In mining ventures la responsible for Is in wa beat It an the known rather years. quality the diverting of some capital towards dry forming tn tn note to that this connection InterrMing thing Probably the moat potent factor In this situation Is la esse of wheat production the beat grain the grown the fact that the tong looked for year of drouth, preon the least ram fall. dicted by pessimists, arrived and successful crops I All of these factors taken together AbundanLllai vests Have resulted tn stimulating a very great Interest In this movement and the closing days of 110 see The former In Roxelder and Davis counties where hundreds of men from Utah villages and many from dry farming ha been longest successfully practised. come an acquired characteriMtc and hence the folly Jtl June and even to July Iowa war of eels, ting aeed grown under irrigation for the dry diatrht of LAKT tat aim man ttto the forming farm Cor thta reaann a auggeatton made by l)r saying. "1 told you VO " Wtduoe a number of year ago. to the effect that a March dry ; April drier and In Jan H a the year go by larger crop will bo grown with and during alt of tll atilt dry July yivt no the anme rain fall, la true- - Our dry farm plant are time pfypte mho worn opposed to the dry ftrolnf becoming acclimated and varletiea are being dehuMiUti Idea with They am tah-i-nf veloped for ue under arid conditions. a fnat deal of "unction to ttoll aoul and trer One of the eurprtalng developments of the year continually mrcaatUaBy remarking. You ar auto . hi dry farming la tba fart that tt la wot aaoentia! to' ly getting enough of dry farming thhi year We told have rain fall during spring months, aa a great many you that when the dry year entire dry fainting would people have heretofore believed that unleas the rains be abom n to be a 110011 farmer'' Ihmf) fame during the growing season of late aiming and - lately hare not aeen much of thrK mm; they early summer the crop would not mature. Thta have been biding their light under a buahcl Cerseason, however, over practically the entire dry farmtainty the year mar dry enough for even the moat ing area of the Mate no precipitation ram during opltmiatir dry fanner, not alnt ltd hat there Item these month at all and yet successful crop were auch a dry year, yet notmtlhetandlng that, excellent - crop have .been am and. From tellable aoun-eharvested wo gather the Information that In rome aeetiona I he Stormg Precipitation vropa this year hate been even belter than Ian year on the dryland. The theory long maintained that the toll aervea aa Of cooree there re a great many failure, there a storage rceervoir la thua emphaaiaed and tt la alwaye will ha. All Clair farmer do not follow the poeeible, by the adoption of proper cultural method, proper method and very few of them do a melt to More the precipitation of two and even three a they know. A conhnoouaiy cropped mm years In the ol for the UK of the prop. However, tn diaaeter thta year; poor plowing ahomed It the fact that good rropa wen produced during IBM effect to a greater extent than ever before, ualng m very little rain fall doea not mean that the crop too much aeed reautted tn t.rnl" crop Alt of there matured on tht rain fall at alt, but It almply meant - excessive rain i- tthing ha ve their effect and It mould he follt to tattnf 1X9 'assisted In bring that the groee return of thin year are aa good a In the lts crop to maturity Aa evidence of thta thorn of a year ago; but the farmer who did tt right the failure of the crop on landa cropped during 19 bla succeeded beyond expectation nnd now the farmer of Ctah are Jurtlllrd In feeling that dry farming has been established on a permanent haul. One of the striking exhlbtta nt the Mate fair waa a atool of wheat gTomn on dry land The Moot man of Che Turkey variety and had been taken out searching the hills of the tireen lliv.-with Its straw, roots and heads Intact Wa wonder If fur fossils and mammals, those who gased upon thia novelty realised that the tn what Is now the valley of that patnataktng labor of tao men for more than three river. Prof. Earl Dougfoa, of the Carnegie week waa required In ord- -r to get this plant In the roe museum at Pittsburg. Pa., came ledge of condition in uhtch It a a exntbited at the alate fair, broken strata tn whhh his eager ry espied, rom and more recently at the Irrigation exposition at portions of the petrified skeleton of a dinosaur," or, Chicago. terrible llsard. aa tha name Implies. This waa the This plant aboard roots extending down tn a depth largest animal that ever exiMed, and at the same of nearly right jfeet It a a taken from the dry time tb most highly organised In structure The land out on thj llld ye Thia ridge la five miles tn width and about If ,n!le long rnly a few specie constituted matfij varieties, of which only tao, the Brontosaurus andJ the Dlpbidocus. mill he re5 ear ago It aaa covered with aaxrbrush hut has now ferred to here. been converted in It entirely Into blossoming a heat Prof lvouglas made the discovery on Aug 17, tint, fir Ida. and in It day wa on the scene with three men furto begin the digging Deep and Fertile Soil nished with the imptemvnt Rime then. Kept !, 1X9, all the men have been conThe soil, like most of Utah soil. I drp and tinuously (hlactlng. but have not yet finished their fertile: the surface foot la dark colored cla bavin, task Mill they are chiseling, and stilt the dinosaur rich In humua. the u reeding foot Is a friable red remains unfinished. Unfinished, though some 47 loam In and thia continue the third and fourth clay boxes, ranging In aise from one and a half by three mixed to a considerable exfret but ben the roll and a half by five or six. every one containing a portent with gypsum which I effective In preventing tion of the monstrous skeleton, may be aeea la on the rise of alkali. The fifth and sixth feet are more plae at tha foot of the hill, on the top of ahlrb I sandy but Mill rod In clay, the seventh and eighth the deposit - Another similar heap of boxes, also are apparently a mixture of rod clay nnd aaml underand burdens, may" be bearing Ilk measurr-menllaid In the ninth and tenth fret by a bh e vlav, found on the other aide of the hill. Every box bears which has an exceptionally high water holding caVV. J Holland, provident of Carthe address. Dr pacity. It waa through Jj such roll a this that negie Mu im, llttaburg, Pa ;" and even box ta this root penetrated; there Is no doubt at all but that ready for shipment. they were going doan trio the soil to come In con (if I lose boxes, however, a few contain pwrta of a tact with the heavy blue clay, because In this masecond, rome hat smaller one, but ahlch la of llaslf terial targe quantities of aster are held m.mstrous beyond conception. Prof Douglas exDry farming crop an undoubtedly plains that Just before completing, as ho then thought where Irrigation water la supplied It la unnecessary (It Is not yet completed) the aork on the first, tha for the roots to go down Into the sol! and a a Brontosaurus, some of tha vertebras of the second the Dlplodocus, were discovered Indeed, he says that they are spread out near the surface In thw rase odry farm crops hoarver. If the rana do Jib!, bone of both are so Intormlngled that even h rot come the plants make a strenuous effort to surIwet time of their Individualities, and hs often fur moisture and vive and reach out tong diMa-i- c a subdued t lief that still other are distributed among Jhem, so varied and numerous aem thus penetrate the soil to a groat d- - pth. tbs pieces Al.-wcExplained lnhl dear nptlon of ths skeleton. Prof Douglas t U that the Brontosaurus measures between 7 and The writer ha vlrit.t dry farm a number of time 0 feet In bngth. from head o tail (tip of each) It I. ml the t 'up Here aptar with men who nui c resemble, or the tilplodneus how on exhibition In l In no lsurinni there hail Wti freen the Carnegie Museum at Pittsburg resembles, for all c of Hie --oil rain fur month anA the the world a monstrous serpent which waa wont to was entirely dry The is ctplatn-hostever, I" upon It belly"" according to ths ycrleMaatlral by the fact that the nyd if these plan! are not . Iirse. but who h. at some stag of Its rxIMenre Bear the aurfaie but tir x"hx doen In vrvn h eloped miniature feet, then legs, and three evolved of vrodMur msny feet tn the roll Into what finally raised the renter of ths huga body The root Ihet'-erv- e h,. purpor nf holding Ihe to tilth a bright wa would admit the larg-of exla place are found very forge'y in the surface isting fond animals to pats upright beneath It, f'vot During the past aeas-owing to the prolonged The larger rih of this Brontosaurus measured II drouth I he4 root In mny instance died and the Inchra arms the head and seven feet two Inches In waa plant very easily toppled over, yet h leaves If then It waa possessed of tho Menial riba length remained green and plump wheat waa produced. This aa others of Its klod see known to haw bin, and was due to the fact that tha moiMur and food If, these riba bore the asm proportions tn tba Mda supply cam from groat depths In the soil. rib that ths others tun done, then Ms glgantlo legs Thl habit of deep rooting form plants be-carrisd body It feet la depth, nr approximately X May iW n , I w-- 4 ' : -- f i i . i Lands Being Snapped Up - i t tertains a faint hope that the head, of this one may feet In tin umferrnce. Ths spinal rib of this animal be discovered. have not yet been found, hut" Prof. Douglas Is hopeThe digging of the fossil Is necessarily alow and fully wanhing every new ex pose re for them. The bone He In all direction and connumber about K The vertebrae of the Dinosaur expensive. In all. smallest at (he neck, near the head, and at dition. and must be chiseled out with Intense care the tip of the tall, and Increasing In alxe from these Only short hole can be drilled at a time for fear of striking the parts Very little blasting can be done; points to the body which Is about In the middle which necessitates the continuous a hero they assume a diameter of many Inches. scratching and The body occupies considerably leas than scraping of the rocks with a hammer and a chisel soon As as a portion has been disengaged It is well nf the total length of the anlmaL Of the remainder (he tall forma the greater part- - The enormous bones wrapped In burlap which has been saturated In of the body seem rather to be the parts of a huga ptaMer of Paris This Is wound about It until it Is enveloped In a coat of almost met cable plaster Often ' mag blue than of an anlmml. One femur of the smallsome bones can be only partly uncovered at a time er animal, the IMpludurua, measure 1 Ipibes across Thl Is due to the foot that they run Into the head and Is five and a half feet tn length. It is depths or directions which, for the time being, must not stilt partly lamented to the stone, on the under aide. Thia bon will weigh between 9 and 700 pounds, be disturbed. In such case It Is often necessary to coat the exposed portions with plaster to while the pelvis Into which it fitted, measure three prevent and a half feet serosa. The pelvis of the Brontosaudisintegration, A box is mad on the arena to fit each rus waa a foot forger atllL The foot of the animal 0 bone; Into this, aa soon as possible, the part u I said to have been three feet In length. The skelepacked. Prof. Douglas estimates tha coat of dig- at from three to four thousand dollars each. ton of the larger on taken from this deposit, ac- -' big The fossil now being dug by Prof. Douglas la tm-- cording tn Prof Douglas most reluctant estimate, bedded several soft aandMone, very neeo the top of tba asserts, howevar. qulb weighed low bills along ths river. It Is estimated that at one boldly, that tha live weight of the animal wa from 2 limn flve or alx miles of sediment formed a coverto SO ton, and hla miniate, he declare, a well within th range of nafety. ing for this Dnnosanr. and all his friends, during the , The head of the Brontosaurus eras not found. It prolonged sleep, which Prof. Douglas gives a not lea than eight to ten million years. He declares wa whlla following tha neck vertebra downward that this estimate Is conservative. for the hrad that the chlaetera found their Implefosalls an In rmnn ments the Morrlaon deposit, of which It is the bones of the Dlplodocus. tome 00 fm toy above them. Above the Morrison very difficult to dhrtlngulah between the remains of came the Dakota. The depth of this stratum U not' the two animals Prof. Dougfoa cherishes a doubtful Inclination to believe that even morn than two aernratety known, but It thought to be at least IM Individuals are mingled together In the deposit In feet; above this the Mowery shale occupied a thickness of about a hundred feet; next came the Mances which they are bow working. Tho neck of tho for 4.00S to 7.000 feet; tha Meca Verde, f,S00, the Dlplodocus also runs downward. Tho protaaaor en- Wasatch f.000, th Green River ,000, Ole Bridgrr I duo " the Uintah from 1,000 to 0.000 feet. This Utter deposit has not been measured through Its entire depth, hence the wide margin In th approximates Figuring with nil the smallest estimates, which, according to Prof, lhmglas. are all wslt within the realm of safety, I.P9 to ZJOO feet of sediment that collected over the graves of the Dinosaurs during the moments w'hlle the earth was Increasing her age by ten million years. There ta In thl also acme y for In one place In the region, near Dragon, th Uintah deposit overlies th Moca Verde, while In other parts of th district they are separated by the other strata, and by a depth nf from ttjOM) to 11,000 fset. This of course renders the determining of either age or original depth of the deposit containing the fnewil problematical. It Is a trip of 4 miles from Vernal tn the bed of the Murmurs and back. Eight of tha trochees of th Vernel rvntral school spent a recant Hsturdav In making tt. on th faivHatinn of prof Douglas. They wee Mrs Kata "alder. Miss Jlnra fuidee Prort Phillips. Harnt AMitoev. Margaret Im. 1 Burton and Messrs A. , Johnson, Mencer Calder. of Femur the ir' tn4 Chiseling tbn writer. John b, botfji. , Bahy Diploil ocus. Vernal, Oei. 11, 191k )r . WHIUti ) : T 'I.-- . la-va- . :f i '? i t 1 u! " - , t H1 -I- ik-- t e lun.lia deep-roote- '7! , fJ fl 1 , im-t-- r t r y- vt Jlat 2f h I , 1 i -v In-d- s at-th- cChe Min t ! I Out . Past Year On the experlm-- nt form at Kephl one plat yield MS bushels of wheat per acre. Thl wheel Ml eta markably good quality; It la rich In gltittff and TbiMJ sequrntly valuable for bread making, th wheat ha become to Utah dry farmer wbst Jonathan apple Is to th Utah orchard. It tshpl th beet wheat thfft w bars 9 ssd searing the hlghrot letdlpg powey; deep roots M In greatest by, the mlllhrs. Th only tlon ofTered lo the wheat I that It Is bearded bid ohjeetlon Is eevllv offset by Its msny The ("hrietmae News th wrriter In th moat emphatic planner, to emphasis th B dominance from evrey standpoint of this wheat th varieties generally grown In the dry farming d trtets. A number of farmers all over the stale s report yields much better than SO bushel per on the dry landa and this la ronaiderod rxcepllosw ly good Fpring grown crops did not this year snow'd well because of the drouth, line of thr varktle spring barley produced, however, on the ex perils farm 1C 4 buahela per acre, but the oats were rally a (allure. On variety of potatoes yleWd huahele to th acre; and M per rent of them marketable. These potatoes at Me per buhel producing mora'lhan 170 per aero ahd this (no that only a few years ago waa considered worth but II K per acre. drouth-rrsIMa- ' exceHeoc-Throug- -- " In Conclusion , ' vr - It has been truly said that Uncta Sam will ban but on crop of land and that this crop is rapaiiy being harvested. It Is extremely gratifying la tta connection to note ths fact that Utah dry form laak are being taken largely by Utah people. Hers eta dltlona for dry farming are Meal. In most of tht otter sections where dry farming Is being practM the former lias come out from th east and placM hla whole stoke on the dry farm. lie has bad k make hla home here and If failure cams ha sa financially ruined In Utah the dry forma as a rah It adjacent to the little community where intgb Hon la practised The Irrigation form VieldW1 crops, garden crops, fruit and ths neesstitles of Ufa The dry form Is producing wheat, barley, oats aat rye; tf It fails the former ha recourse to hit IM gated fond, tf It succeeds R simply adds to his is enue. In this respect our conditions a re eery and superior to those In other sections and fortunatalj we have had no boom of dry farming land. As s rule thorn who have located on these tank have studied and sought advice from those who experienced in this direction and by careful ma agrment It Is felt that a groat majority of thoM srla ' TIAVrth unslf fTTl plkli tf wrflrTucceSd uncer-talnt- d 4 Only the eye of a prophet can foretell th posdK tics of this Industry. There are millions of serss a land In this state teeming with wealth and this cm be brought to the doors of the careful and ensrfsdt husbandman. As the sagebrush disappear and lb 1 golden wheat fields coma In, the bread stuff Iff prosperous commonwealth can be produced her 0 our Irrigated lands expensive and profitable OT9 can be grown such as choice fruits, dairy product poultry product, auger beets, etc. The Italic-- ; belong to the realm of Irrigation farming. Th X d action of the bread stuffs belong to th land Ifhf high above the Irrigation canal. e Thee cheap lands can be profitably utilised l future destiny of this stats depend In forge measure upon the ability displayed Is Jugating these dseft lands. one-thi- a eg dij Future ' Chiseling a Dinosaur From His Rocky Bed r MHWW form lands -- t a tha larger cities earnestry seeking locations orth-er- J. mr am J mn Min hq Qychcu: :!ng pro-tir- nvar fjillffWM 111 I am glad to know that there la a general lion of the value of this dry form movement who are promoting lie Interests are supported Of people of tha stats; It Is humanity broadest sense to take a barren, uhproduillv and transform It Into productive and fruitful It la a miracle which only the genius and In of a splendid type of people can perform. i Much baa been done In the past In the definite hcltlevement aa la evidenced by the homes and fertile fields In what were fortoeclf ren, sagebrush (leaerta. kfurh jret remain ta 0 offinpllshed because th beginning ha mad and the oecompllahipenta of the ,rf an Indag to the possibilities of th future. 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