Show DRY FARMING IN Di UTAH On another page of this paper will HI be found an article detailing the work of the state stat of or Utah In the interest of or dr dry farming It wilt we believe elic bo be O read lead with wilh a good deal of interest Irrigation has done much for the lie arid and region and will do vastly more The culmination of to that at work worl can be reached leached only when all the water that falls on hill or mountain or 01 plain and all that comes from the melting snows has been utilized In blessing the soil with moisture But there will still remain a great area In this wide T Western st rn country which tho tine waters can not possibly reach Tho The demand will always be greater far greater far greater than the supply In this residue the one salvation must bo be dry ry farming And the men who have havo devised means of producing producing prou pro pro- u ing crops without tho the aid of or irrigation have done dono a service to the state slate and the whole mountain country that can never nevel be e expressed Tho The lesson Is not yet et learned Under Unel direction of the tho Agricultural college experiments arc are making all the time The rho sort of seed best adapted to tho the soil soli the Iho manner in which that seed sI shall all be c planted plante with the quantity that will pro produce uce greatest results the tho best method of cultivation I tion llon the best method of harvesting all harvesting all these are problems problems l lems ms which tho the of the state stale aro arc trying to solve e The They will have the answer some da day and every rood of Utah's Ulah's soil soli will hill be reclaimed and productive Side b by side with thIs goes another question Can Can an artesian wells ravens bo be secured in Utah The They do not yet et know An n effort was made mae to ascertain that fact by b- the legislature last winter but ut the project was wad wal killed un un unwisely wisely as wo we think It is worth while for fOI tho the state to know if It water can be he secured by sinking a well a 0 hundred hUndred hundred hun hUn- dred or two hundred or five IKc hundred feet If H it can be secured even at great depth then the tho whole state will willbe willbe willbe be blessed For FOl dry farming fanning does docs not provide pro trees It leaves the tho idea Mea of or i ome incomplete It makes residence on the dry ry farm difficult if not impossible But if It an artesian well weB can be secure secured then the homo home is assured the land will all be utilized and the state will become aa at populous as Is Pennsylvania as productive as the Wabash valle valley in Indiana and as happy happ as human beings are permitted ed to lo be be Some burden of obligation still rests on the state The legislature will have to provide e means to continue continua these 11 dry farming experiments and to solve 0 the artesian well problem lem too It is not noL a waste of or mone money It is a means of or defense a measure of war with the tho elements clements a process process pro pro- ce cess of ot marching from our scattered villages In the shadows of the hills to tho the conquest of or every acre of ot soil in Utah It means tho the making malting of this slate state the foremost in the tho Union In productiveness In variety of ot yield leM and in modern day providing progress progress providing water Isto is isto isto to be found below tho parched surface and provided tho the splendid promise of dry farming can bo be realized It Isone Isono is isone one ono of or tho the things the legislature must attend to And wo we believe the tho next legislature will attend to it and that all Utah will go So forward from Crom that action to a position unmatched in the Iho record of or American States stales |