Show I GOOD GOOI FARMING PATI WINS Down near the states state's dr dry farm station station station sta sta- I tion In Juab county Farmer A. A has hasa a tract of or dry land exactly similar to that on which success with wheat ha hRS has been proved Farmer A. A plowed his ground and let It lie lie- lieThe The stat states state's s 's expert plowed his land Jand and then harrowed harrowed harrowed har har- rowed it Presently there was a lit littie little lIt lIt- tie tle rain and the expert harrowed the ground again Every time tune there was Vas wasa Vasa a rain the tho states state's land was harrowed Farmer A. A didn't take talie the the trouble He figured that the water had fallen on the land and would go Into the soil soli where it belonged The expert figured that it would go into the Iho ground and then It would come out again if Jr tho the crust formed on the I surface after aCter ever every rain not broken up So he broke it up an and pulverized the earth three or four Inches down from rein the top until that fine mulch prevented evaporation and retained all aJl the moisture that the rain had given sl In harvest time the states state's expert harvested thirty-one thirty bushels of or wheat Farmer Farmel A. A harvested two to bushels to the acre of that which he cut Most I of It he turned ed un under er with the plow Th lh There re Is one of the secrets The Themen Themen men who are arc learning to win at dr dry do- farming understand nd how to keep leop the goods the gods send them Moisture Moistures is is' s their most precious gift Sift And they take ake care of or it ft The They dont don't waste it The water waler will stay down doin there In Inho tho ho earth under that blanket of or pulverized pulverized pul- pul dust lust all through the season and will be a added ded to l by the rains o 0 or next winter And the expert farmer will vill calculate how much moisture he has from irom last Jast winter and this winter combined And on that he bases his expectation of or a crop For after aCtor all there is no such thing as dry farming fanning The plants must have ha moisture or the they will not germinate the they will uil not grow they will not make wheat l. l Moisture is e essential The Tho wonder of or the game is that these men whom tho the state has trained know how ho to catch all alland alland and keep it ft It is goo good farming that wins The careless man the shiftless the lazy the fellow s' who vho takes a chance do donot donot donot not win The They lose But tho farmer who learns his business as men In ever every other line must know their bushness business business busi bush ness to succeed succeed makes makes a success One thing thins the state has ha had to contend contend contend con con- tend with Is the sentiment that anyone anyone anyone any one can plow Which being Interpreted Interpreted Interpreted Inter Inter- means that it is useless to educate for farming And that Is the biggest mistake in the world No difference what hal line lino of or work a man manIs manis Is going to attempt he should study it He should know all about it Ho He I cant can't know mow too much And farming Is no rio ex exception to the rule |