| Show FINDING FORTUNE IN DRY FARING Land that Will Grow Sage SageBrush SageBrush SageBrush Brush and Thistles Thistle's Can Produce Grain STUDY REDUCED TO SYSTEM State Experimental Stations Record of Results and Men In Charge Tile The problems of or arid farming funning 81 ate being hebig be he- ing big solved Dry Ih desert crt lands arc nrc bIns being be he- lug Ins reclaimed and ma made e Into green and null fruitful fields holds Where once on thousands thousands thou thou- sands salads of or acres th Iho thistle sunflower and amid sagebrush grew are v now mag- mag crops of wheat oats otts alfalfa and corn Sections o of they dry land hand In this state stale have laive produced J ns as I mon many na JUI D n bushels of oC wheat per pcr acre SI Zi j bushels of OUts oats M Ii bushels of barley and 2 25 bushels bushelA of or corn All 11 this luls Is being done without the lie help of or artificial l Irrigation Ji The scientist find nuil fanner rl with theory anti and practice combined found lint LJ b cultivation atlon by deep plowing and careful ti to tn crops tho the dl dry lands ands may muy bo be utilized and amid made to produce pro pro- duce lint But not all th tho lit problems of or arid acid farming arming have leave n solved On dry lands In iii n different parts of ot Utah HI are six ex- ex l 1 K i linen tal farms which were some sonic years ago for Cor the tho purpose if or Investigating and demonstrating the thebe lie be best l of reclaiming lie dry and arid lands of tilt the hi state lul New Now experiments ments In III plowing seeding cropping allowing ure nrc c continually being tried It t still remains a question as to lo what plan plants III heCt adapted to arid lands hands I r Of all the lie varieties of lit wheat It II is not hot cnown which variety vallel will give o the tue greatest yield with willi the lie least amount of or soil soli oil moisture TIll The exact time of plant plant- f I III ng Is another Important matter and amid I also Iso wh seeds s should bo ho planted two wo four our or five live Inches deep I JIll Hint Ilich IN 15 Needed Experiments are alsO conducted to ascertain the lie right ht amount of or seed i io to 10 o be lie sown on an un acre of oC ground Shall Shull It be one thice five n or six pt of wheat Shall corn be lIc planted two fOUl four six or 01 nine kernels t to l tile the hill hili Shall land humid hi be IH cropped every overy year eVer every other year ear or om ono or two years In Iii tin lit lit-cc eo These problems problem and many simIlar similar sim sItu ilar lIar ones have not been solved Thc They arc UfO belll being worked upon however er 1 by 31 experts ex cx- at the lie experimental farm and one being 1 by y ono one tho the difficulties are c conIC Tho rho matter of o establishing establishing- experimental c mental farms lute bad been discussed as ns early eaily as but no o action was uns taken until prior to the tile mooting o ol of the Iho legislature of or l 1003 In hl hs his message to o tho two houses Governor Holier 1 M Wells Veils A ui practical HU to 0 mo from lie tho director ot of the lie agricultural l nt station nt ot I Lo o- o gnu gan In iii reference to o the tho establishment und ind of or a a. number of or farms for or tho thu purpose of demonstrating dma dem the best Uko to which the present 1 dry DC I of C the tho state I may imy DC uc ism rust l experience III In th tile the there re reclamation re- re ne and KM HM ot or lands lundn hill helium r lc UK us us less lie belief lint the tho further agricultural possibilities pos pos- 8 of or thousands t of or acres in atie a scarcely dreamed of oC I by t tIm tho lU m majority of or our cur people Just what whinE these rhese lles Illes 10 would be tie be of or com so a matter of or ascertainment l by h- trial and nent ment Whether tho sagebrush and sun stun flower lower can be tue supplanted b by drought drought- ht- ht resisting forage plants that will yield at nt least one good crop a ye year r. r and whether In the lie economy of things the lie dry lands may be made lo to yield our Wheat supply of or the future leaving heaving the lie costly Irrigated lands for fOI more moro profitable profit proult- able crops crops these these are arc questions which the ho establishment t of experimental farm farms in different sections would soon answer Sti Males Male's tos to's Prompt C Acting upon uon the time suggestion of oC the thin governor tile the arid farm faim bill providing pro or Cor or the lie establishment all and amid J maintenance of six experimental farms was passed an and approved March 6 6 A committee commit commit- tee loc consisting o ot of George o C. C Dr 01 John A A. WIdtsoe and antI Professor LewIs Lews Lew- Lew LowI I Is s A A. Merrill traveled tra through thi UK state slate and selected the sites of or tho lie farms arms as follows One In non Iron county four four miles west of Parowan ono one in lii Juab six miles south of or one in iii San Juan county count six miles south of oC Monticello near neal Vcr Verdure ure one In iii r Se county IS miles southeast of Richfield near IlIr ono one in iii count 14 Ii miles south of or and 10 miles west of oC and ono Ohio in lii Washington ton county ty n at ut t Enterprise I 1 miles from rom coin l Io Modena i cnn The citizens of the above o named counties took great gleat interest In the Iho work donated the tile land cleat cleared ed it of und lid enclosed It with rabbit light fences In iii connection with the lie farm Juab county guvo s-avo the sum o of SOO O for forlie forthe the lie purpose of conducting The experimental fanus arms are now under undercharge undercharge charge of or Dr E. E D D. Ball nail director of the state experiment station assisted by Professor Professor Pro Pro- fessor J. J M M. a agronomist at the State Agricultural colle collego o These gentlemen gentle gentle- men arc are all alive to the that possibilities pf of f arid farming The numerous experiments the lie they are arc conducting are aio working wonders on the Hie desert lands TIle They have advance for COl successful arid farming three fundamental funda mental principles Deep plowing a adequate ade ude- e- e quate cultivation and careful attention to crops Deep Deell 1111 1110 Is 18 one of the most i lit opera operations connected with dry fanning Full lIeu IlIg luig I ls Is Ua It II has been found that 71 pounds o ot of wat water r are ore required to produce a poun pound of or dry matter So if H crops are to lo be bl grown rown tho ho moisture must be retained In iii Inthe Inthe the hue soil Unless the thin land Is plowed deeply loop deep ly Iy the he rain nn and melting snow run off ocr the of or the lie ground and aro are lost It Il lies has bc been n a qu question of or much discussion whether land should be bo plowed In Iii the thc spring or in the fall tall III lI have settled tho ho matter mailer Sam- Sam plea lilea of soil soli t I lint hut have havo been beer taken taleen and ami tested show that hat land plowed In the lie fall all contains more moisture than lurid lalli plowed in lu the Iho spring Although fall fail plowing may maybe maybe maybe be more difficult and expensive It Is b by far moro more b beneficial Frequent cultivation of or land Is also o necessary accessory to retain soil moisture The ground should be thoroughly hl packed anti and harrowed so tint that a n proper mulch mR may bo hO formed After the crolls have havo boen hlen grown rown careful careful care care- ful attention should be given to lo harvest har log Ing and storing Crops that arc itu-e harvested harvest harvest- ed for their seeds should be cut out b before they are arti rull fully ripe rill If Ie left too Lou lOll long lit to o Is a louis loss u of grain b by shattering shattering- when the crops are life being cut and hauled AM AMlo IJ I to lo the machinery to lo be used the lie header hits hns been found essential I enU If the grain when Is 19 properly stacked arid and I covered ered threshing ma faa may be bo delayed a. a 4 u a J convenient con l time hue whereas when cut with a binder nn and shocked there Is al always always always al- al ways danger cr ang-cr of or mold In lii the lie shock when the the fall Talus rams begin and consequently J C every farmer d desires his threshing threshing- done donL ii at al tho ho earliest possible opportunity Another Another Another An An- other advantage o of the header lies in iii the lie fact tint that only the lie heads of lie Iho grain are arc ed from the lie soil I leaving Iho tio straw v. which whit when plowed under r. assists In retaining re re- soil soli moisture and uni fertility 1 Ions to tn Furni Each year excursion loI 1 ie c conducted to tho various experimental tal f hi in r I that thai farmers from Crom surrounding di districts may have o an to see the re results rc- rc suIts obtained from Crom the Hie various tests all and of getting gelling In touch louch wIth Iho tho latest discoveries This year 1 two Iwo 0 excursions were held lucid ono to tho the county farmon farm on July 1 11 12 arid and the other to Juab county July Tuly 15 At both demonstrations great interest was manifested Tho Thio farmers were conducted over o tho the experimental farms and the different Jernt tests were d explained Qu Questions were freely Creehl asked and answered The Tle parly at al Juab I county lunty was conducted by Professor or Ho- Ho 10 that la Is Kenson In Iii II speaking of oC the Iho work being can carried led Oi on lie said The Juab county farm Is a acre W-acro tract divided luto Into liO plats In Iii ord order t to raise good crops half haI the plats are ure left each year ar The Tho remaining land landU landI I U Lt sown o n with wih seeds wheat seeds wheat t ont oats rc rye barley corn and aud With heat thes seeds w we are an conducting various tests tests- depth df of plowing rate of or seeding depth of seeding method of seeding b crop rotation rota rota- tion lon and anul fallowing testa All Al the lie seeds seed p pro carefully weighed as are aro Iho tho crops crup after har ct harvesting In Iii II general we ur nr meeting with good succors success lit iii II the lie various 3 experiments Corn orn hitis been bee found to b ba bo be boa bea a profitable dry turin farm crop crp With proper planting one ono crop crOf of alfalfa can be grown each year With WIh wheat and oats we are aN having haYing phenomenal success The outlook for or arid Car farming was R never nc cr brighter tur hir al mat 1 lre present CI t. t t S |
