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Show DRY FARMING HERE TO STAY Many Farmers Have Proved That It Is a Success Thousands of Acres of Lan-i Still Available. Dry farming has come to stay. Many farmers have proved that it is a success.' suc-cess.' Some have failed, it is true, but their failure has been due to one of two causes either the land was poorly poor-ly adapted to dry farming, or improper methods of farming were practiced. There is considerable land in the semiarid regions that is not good dry farm land, and probably never can be successfully dry farmed. But on the other hand, there are thousands of acres of splendid land yet available which are capable of producing profitable profit-able crops under scientific dry farm methods. It is of the utmost importance, however, how-ever, to follow out these methods most carefully. Often a fence, or only a division line, separates the man who is dry farming at a profit from the man who is losing money. If you will study the difference carefully you will find that one is more thorough than the other in his operations. He plows deep and at the right time, he keeps down weeds, maintains a mulch to conserve moisture and selects good, clean seed of the right kind. |