Show DRY FARM CONGRESS dry farming becoming more important as the country is settled up MEET AT SPOKANE WASH utah will be represented by some able dry farm experts i display displays of dry farm products from various parts of 0 the v eat to be exhibit ed ai at the ibe international exposition in connection with the uth fifth dry farming forming congles con gres 3 in spokane the week weel of october 3 will prove that the use of modern methods of tillage is beating back the drouth in the non irrigated dist districts ritts s eid 11 ll john T burns secretary of the C Gy gress greas in discussing crop conditions in utah and throughout the count country M tiding the dry I 1 r arming congress keeping in touch as closely as po possible sIbl with crop condition and ve e hae ari lve V reason to believe that mangron many artson of drouth and total losi loss of crops are are grossly exaggerated the only part failure is in some of the newer dry firming sections where the armetra do not understand the tho climate in conditions and hac hane not used proper methods thorna thomas 11 1 I burton of nephi utah reports two hundred thousand acre acres of grain will ba be raised by dry farmers of idab county this year we have a banner dry farming arming community and the gilld kid on the dry farina farms where scientific methods li uva va been employed will run from 17 bushels the acre acro professor merrill director of dry farming in utah reports the driest year sinco 1870 1876 lie ile tins had men wen 11 in all parts of utah diakine reports and finds from the he returns that on ground cropped every year and carelessly hand led the crops are in many ca caes cates tes burned up but on aemmer ummer fallowed land and on land bailif d accor dlug to the dry farming system almost ever everywhere good crops will be harvested the following examples of notable success in dry farming were given by bi prof merrill Merrl ll james whitney of mindon has his 40 cres of fine wheat estimated yield 35 bushels A peterson of newton so 80 acres on followed fallowed ground estimated yield 40 bushela bushels C W richards of oi fielding acres of wheat estimated Y yield eld 40 bushels in the vicinity of newton J E godfrey eugene nelson clark brothers and Ee Ec kuland brothers have several hundred acres of wheat that will produce from 45 to 50 bu bushels hels an acre professor merrill reports the same vein from cache divi BOA elder salt lake and juab counties I 1 crops on new lands and on those cropped very year bountiful crops on bummer summer fallow and carefully farmed lands |