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Show 1. t At Salt Lake; Wtfrc alarming has been practiced since 1865, the president of the agricultural college informs u$ that the average yield each altjcrnift v;car is eighteen bushels of .wheat,, 'or nine bushels per annum; . tjiat the yield increases for the first three or four years, and so far has maintained the aboyc mentioned aver- I age, but it is only a question of time I when some vegetable matter will have to be added to the soil in some way. At Cheyenne the consensus of opinion seems to be that where the rainfall is twelve inches and over, and the land otherwise suitable, dry farming cat) be made successful, provided the farmer far-mer 'first secures sufficient acreage i and has capital enough to enable him 1 to tide over a year of adversity where the rainfall is exceedingly scant. Governor Brooks recommends a change in. the land laws which will enable the dry farmer to take a homestead home-stead of not less titan 320 acres. The agricultural college last year sent out a circular to dry land farmers asking their views on certain questions among others the amount of acreage necessary neces-sary for success. The acreage given was 500. It should be borne in mind that dry farming contemplates working work-ing the land two years and the raising rais-ing of but one crop. It was further urged that no man should undertake dry far.ming for the purpose of raising rais-ing grain alone, ikit't in connection with some form of live stock farming Therefore we feel justified in saying to our readers' who contemplate coming com-ing into the semi-arid section ana engaging in dry farming, don't do it unless you can secure by purchase or otherwise at least a half section, unless un-less you have money to stock it and to perform the agricultural operation requisite, always bearing in mind that dry farming involves a great deal more labor than the farming ordinarily ordinar-ily practiced in the humid section's. There is money to be made in dry farming, as there is under irrigation, hut the besetting sin of both classes of farming is the undertaking to win success without sufficient capital. It goes without saying that no matter how much the capital at hand, success suc-cess even then can be attained only by following tlK 'atest improved methods, me-thods, and by plenty of grit and enduranceFrom en-duranceFrom remarks of Mr.-Henry Wallace, of-the Country. Life Cbnir 1 mission,, on -recent-visit .to Utah, i |