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Show DRY' FARMING IN WASHING- TON COUNTY. ' Some five years ago s.u Experimental Experiment-al farm was located, by direction of the State Legislature, at Enterprise, Washington County. Enterprise is located almost on the line between Washington and Iron counties, on the great Escalanta desert, some eighteen miles sojuth-w'est of Mfo-dena. Mfo-dena. At the time of the location of the farm there were prospects of securing se-curing water from the reservoir to I cover a number of acres in that vicinity, vicin-ity, and it was deemed .advisable to place this farm above the point at which the irrigation water wais to be brought out. In selecting the land 1 therefore, a rather high piece of land was selected, 'the land was cleared of sa'gic brush and fenced by the county commissioners of Washington county, operations were commenced in the way of dry farming, and the fifth crop has just been harvested. At our visit there the other day, Iwc were somewhat astonished ourselves our-selves to find such excellent results. The crops for this yoair have, in thi main, been harvested, but the yicldj arc not yet obtainable. However, it - is estimated that some of the plats I, will go at .least 25 bushels to the acre. Laist year (1907) the plats were in a most fa,vor?.blc condition, yielding yield-ing 34 bushels of wheat per acre. We found, not only wheat successful, success-ful, but oats, barley, rye, hemp, flax, bromc grass, and luccrn. , 4 . This farm litas been in every way a success-, though the fact that 'there are so few people in that locality, means, that there has not been much development along these lines. This I year, however, a new company os ' been organized, known as the 1n.v Castle Dry Farming Company, and this compiainy have begun operation some ten or twelve miles out on the desert. They have secured a new Best traction engine, a set of Spaiild-ing-Robbins disc plows, and are plowing plow-ing on an average of 32 "acres per day of mew sage brush land. There is , room for the organization of other , similar ' companies in this locality, amd it does not take tire eve of a wmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm prophet to sec in the near future, a great many thousands of acres of land in that vicinity growing useful crop.s. n |