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Show SCIENTIFIC FARMING. The advise given by Secretary of Agriculture Wilson, when here recently, should impress many of the young men of this state. Real farming is a science and should be studied as thoroughly as any other science, The thought 1ms always been tM anybody could bo a farmer, Aibody can work on a farm, but that does not make a farmer. The thought has always been that farming is only for people who have not obtained an educa- tion fitting them for other and higher work. Thin B idea should be put aside. To be a real farmer jB as much learning is required as is necessary to make a success in any other calling. With that' B knowledge acquired, no other calling carries so B many delights with it to the contented mind as B the pursuit of agriculture. All its branches have B their enchantments. To improve a herd of live B stock, to add to the loveliness of a flower; to B produce perfection in a fruit orchard r to make fl pictures through the growing of trees and flow- fl ers; to bring out the constituents of different fl soils, are all triumphs which carry with them do- H lights. Then on a farm a man is brought face B to face with nature and carried away from con-' jB tact with what is repulsive among men. Over B all the real educated farmer can command the B very highest salary paid to an employee. Places B are waiting for him, not only at home, but a B dozen foreign lands need his work. M The so-called learned professions are pretty M well crowded. There never can be any crowding M for the real scientific farmer. M The dry farming which is now being in many M places resorted to on the arid belt in western B Kansas, Nebraska and the Dakotas, and which B it is proposed to introduce into Utah, is known B as "Soil Culture" and is the outcome of experi- B ments made by a South Dakota farmer liamed rt. B W. Campbell. His plan is to plow very deep and B by means of specialy constructed implements, B pack" the bottom of the furrow. Then after fl planting the crop, to keep up almost constant B cultivation of the top soil, approaching as close- jfl ly as possible to making line dust all over the B field, the purpose being to form a blanket of fine B soil above the seed bed and so retain to the'end B of the season a greater portion of the limited H rainfall of that region. The results are won- B derful. In Western Kansas no rain fell in 1898 M from October to June, 1899, but Mr. Campbell M raised without irrigation on high land eighty fl bushels of potatoes to the acre. The ground fl rain to keep the ground thoroughly pulverized.) fl After planting, the harrowing is continued until M the plants become too large, then the cultivator M is substituted. Mr. Campbell began his experj- M ments in 1894, an exceedingly dry year. In that B year he astonished his neighbors by harvesting B a crop of potatoes averaging 142 bushels four B and one-fourth tons to the acre, on 32 acres, B while the crops of his neighbors were mostly fail- - B ures. The plan has now been extensively adopt- B ed, and is extending rapidly, the Idea being that B what rainfall comes will sink to the packed bot- fl toms of the furrows and that the dust above" B will prevent its being evaporated and all its vi- B tality be given to the plants. fl The idea came from the fact that where fl coarse sand had been scattered over a bit of soil. B the soil below it remained moist in the very fl driest weather. The conclusion was that if the ,1 spring rains could be caught and held by the ; fl packed furrows and the soil on the surface be ifl kept something like coarse sand by 'cultivation, ifl the moisture would be retained where it couin yl do U'o most good. The first year of Mr. Camp ! bell's experiment his corn crop was 42 bushels II to the acre, the second 82 bushels, the third 93 I bushels. A pear tree grew from 4 feet to 10 feet I high in a year. Farmers in Utah who have good I land with no means of irrigating it should in- I vestigate the method and adopt it, at least on a H smaller scale. It would not be a great task to I prepare and plant a couple of acres to fruit and I give the plan a trial. After a couple of years' I cultivation the trees should take care of them- I selves, It is being extensivojy flfjopfed beypnfl fl the Itocky Mountains, fl |