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Show iWAS NOT A FAILURE EVEN THIS YEAR Threshing is about over in the big dry farm district west of this city and it is possible now to estimate as to the I profit or loss portion of the industry. While as a rule this year's crops have made their owners no money, have cost them something rather, it has hardly been a year from which safe conclusions can be drawn, for two reasons. First it has been uncommonly dry and all crops have suffered very much because of that fact, and second, because of this having been the first year for most of the land used in this section for dry farming, and expenses have been higher high-er than they would have been had the land been' older. i On the Niels Larsen farm of 240acres, ! 2.600 bushels of wheat were raised this : season, with different sections of the ; land averaging from 6J bushels to as high as 15. The turkey red variety has ! brought easily the be it results, it having ! been the 15 bushel to the acre kind. The above from the Mt. Pleasant ; Pyramid shows that although they have not made money this year the dry i farmers have raised enough to encour-I encour-I age them to plant again. If they made j it go this exceptionally dry year they ! ought to do well on an ordinary year. |