Show ABOUT DRY FARMING IT MEANS THE conserving OF MOISTURE IN THE SOILS ultimately do be the mean means of t a ung three fourth of i pled agricultural lands in the western states the study of the principles at 0 dry arming as expounded by the most ax pert farmers and agriculturists ot at the world at the last congress have brought out the fact that these are also of at great assistance aasta tance to the farmer using water for irr irrigation dry farming la Is not farming without water but simply conserving all the available moisture that fall falln during the entire year in the boll soil and making use of at it for crop growth says a writer in country gentleman Goat Gent loman these same principles can just aa as well be applied to the who has a limited amount of at water thus creasing both tae quantity and quality of at his crop dry farming Is g tto tio mere experiment it has has been practiced in n all the western states state by ranchmen men according to their own ideas with success tor for the last nt fit teen to twenty year years it ie Is only during the last three years that an effort has been madak to gather all available information on the method practiced and to crystal crystalli crys lse them eatn a 0 certa certain I 1 a bet set of scientific rules raids that may be fol lowed by the inexperienced farmer it waa was for thin purpose that the three an nual dry farming congresses cong ressee haya baye been held and the success of the one recently held at cheyenne wyo proved beyond a shadow cf ct a doubt that this wil be oe means of ultimately cultivating three fourths of the unoccupied agricultural lands ot at the western states otates dry fanning farming has his been in ure ups in ar ai AP 7 VA v f S w 4 7 i cultivating between peaches and cotton china for years in california for 30 years la in utah for 20 year and ie to now being practiced by over byer 1600 farmers within a radius of 40 milos ot of cheyenne wyo api and with marked success dry farming products at the al XI N bf international biffl irrl gation congress won the highest awards over products product a by irrigation this Is in all interesting says thereal the reader but will jou you tell sl me precisely what dry farming Is in it ian t of course farming without water but it U Is farming without water enough to farm la in the usual way it Is practicable where here the annual preci pita tion Is 18 as us low 1 I ten inches naturally natura drouth resisting rope must be grown such much as oats barley rye native grasses and alfalfa suppose or dry farm farin to consist of acres it Is divided into two main field fields of P crea each one field Is summer fallowes fallowed fall fallow owed cd while the other Is in prody cr a crop in this way halt the lard ie in lying over dyer every year in order to tf store up two years moisture to produce a crop the main product Is wheat other crop crops being grown principally for feed fall plowing ie to gen practiced so the soil moll will be in better bettey shape to hold the winters win terO precipitation the plowed ground Is cultivated during the summer with an ordinary disk or smoothing barrow to bold hold moisture in the soli soil and prevent the growth of weede weeds A large an a en Is necessary to success eucce ea as are low and the crops must be handled ha at t the least possible expense no regular rotation of crops Is s followed followell while dry farming has ben been practiced in this country for half a cea con tury fury it la Is only on since 1301 1904 that it haa has been adopted as a profitable industry gradually attention began to bo be attracted to the success of a number of at farmers in the so called arid region where irrigation was impossible prof it 1 I campbell Camp boll of Ne nebraska braka bad been conducting a series of experiments in north dakota and had succeeded in getting good results under trying con dillons these theme results became known to J P pomeroy of colorado springs spring who owned several thousand acres of land in western kansas and prof campbell was quickly installed on an experiment farm at city the demonstrations of the first three years fixed the status of dry farming and alho e redemption of many thousands thousand of dicres acres of desert land la in the semi arid rid regions of the ant followed |