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Show IS DRY FARMING A HAZARDOUS HAZARD-OUS UNDERTAKING? A great many comments arc running run-ning through the Eastern papers just now regarding the dry farming situation. situa-tion. We arc in full sympathy with n number of the better Agricultural papers, principally among which we find Wallace's Farmer, who arc advising ad-vising extreme caution in the matter of dry farming. These conservative papers tako'thc ground that this system sys-tem of agriculture requires special knowledge and skill, and that if people peo-ple attempt to rush into dry farming, many failures are likely to result. Tt is our opinion, however, based on a number of years of experience, that where the rules and laws already discovered arc intelligently applied. .. farming is just as safe a business as is irrigation farming. These laws however .cannot be violated. We have been, during the past month looking over very carefully results of experiments experi-ments conducted at six different lo calities in this state, whefu (he average aver-age rainfall js below fourteen inches. As a result of our study of the yields we are more convinced than ever that where the proper methods arc observed, dry farming is an absolute safe venture. It is not a hazardous undertaking provided there is an accurate ac-curate knowledge of the conditions and a strict adherence to the laws already al-ready discovered in ro'ation to this science. |