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Show V yj r - ARID FARMING. A Word From Egypt. H. A. White. About eighteen months ago some of the citizens of Beaver got together and organized themselves into a com-prny com-prny for the purpose of carrying on dry farming operations. We went into Modern Egypt, which is about five miles northwest of Beaver Oity, secured something like thirty-five hundred acres of land, bought an engine, en-gine, some plows, and started operations. oper-ations. We got some steel rails, broke forms brush, auk plowed and scede! about 300 acres of land. Now Egypt is situated in a narrow valley about one and a half miles wide by five miles long, with the river Nile (Indian Creek) running through the teqnter of kifi vaJfey. One side is sandy loam with large sage brush growing on it, the other h heavy clay with shadsaale and g isewood on it. Many experienced farmers who came ro visit us would look at the shadscale, shake their heads, point to the sagebrush land and say, "You can raise grain on that land." Wc commenced drilling in Koffod wheat about thc&oth of October, using us-ing 30 pounds to the acre. Wc seeded- about 80 iaicrcs of the sandy loam then seeded some of the shadscale land; then went back and finished the sandy loc.ni land, drilling the first of it Thanksgiving day. The first we planted came up, and looked fine for some time after wc planted it. The gnain sowed on the shadscale land had only come up about one inch when winter sct in, and has been cut down several times by the frost, but w notwithstanding this fact, and the unfavorable un-favorable season, (the first rain coming com-ing to us on the 26th of July), we arc going to raise a fair crop. We will cut about 100 acres and it will be ripe now in about ten days. We also have some corn and potatoes which arc looking fine. Considering all, we feel quite encouraged vith our'prospects. 0 |