| Show DRY FARM SUCCESS NEAR CAMP FLOYD company hai has learned how ilow after two erthree or three failures wheat now looks fine what may be done in dry farming on a lar lare e scale is being demonstrated down in cedar valley utah county 42 nellei southwest of salt lake city by tie cedar valley land improvement cc company tho principal owners of which are C S 8 burton J will Claw clawson soto and and ani C 11 II carlquist of lake ahe company owns acres of ground in this once famous old camp flo flod d district a fruitful valley eight by 30 mile miles with an average altitude of i about 41 feet or about feet higher than salt lake the soli soil is a red sande loam loarn washed down out of 0 the adjacent hills this is the fourth attempt at dry farming by the company oie olle 0 of f the principal owners dc dcuna ung that our failure for three successive years was because we know how but now that wo have adopted the scientific system instituted by prof al men arill ill and prof widstoe at the nephi experiment exper imen tal tat farms everything is going right and the prospects are that our acre will average 20 to 30 bu to the acre this season that will total between 60 4 aid and bushels and this too tn an exceptionally dry reason with a df clency rainfall of 3 29 inches we have had no moisture since feb 22 20 nearly three months yet by our system of incessant cultivation by which we retain all the moisture in the ground for the benefit of the tender plants the entire 20 acres is in splendid shape hero ie is a sample plant 21 inches high with 39 strong healthy talks all heading out yu seldom see finer grain than this from irrigated lands and mind you those 39 heads all came from one seed and each head averages 40 grains or a total of 1560 grains from one grain in one dry season on extremely dry farm that ia Is multi plying a thousand fold our system syam is to plow deep in the fall hardow hanow and disk well early the following spring and plant the hardy turkey red wheat in september by frequent e cultivation the moisture Is not only retained in the ground but the surface is in a receptive state for all n chances to fall we lue va ill grow a crop only every atter alternative ter native year but now we know how we are about as well assured of as if we had sn an ample irrigation stream nt t our o 0 beck and call |
