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Show Dry Farming Reals Old Way. H Tho proooss of aultlvntiug ngrioul- BBfl turul lnud known ns "dry fnrmiug" BBBI Ib attracting much attention through- BBBJ out tbla section of this stato nt the BBBJ prosout timo. That method of farm- BBBJ ing has long sluco pnseod tho oxpori- BBBJ mental stago uud is now recognized nt BBBJ being absolutely cortnin of exoollout BBBJ results. It Ib tho ouly means by BftBJ which thousands of acres of tho arid BBbj land iu this vnlloy ouu bo brought BftBJ under cultivation, nnd consequently BftBJ any data relative to what bus or can BftBJ bo dono by tho system is of exceeding BftBJ Interest to residents of1 this locality. BBBJ The Pyramid has dovoted aon BBBJ slderublo space In tbo pust to state- w.BBb monts of results aohlovod in othor BBBb Boctious by this method of raising Y&YJ grain without Irrigation. This week BBBh la dutu, absolutely reliablo, of what (BBBB is bolug dono In this valloy by that Bftlfl moans. And it ia pleased to say that .., BBBl tbo suooesa of tho homo farmer bus -s -wmwj been greater than thut of nny of bis BBBJ noigbbors, sq far as reports that have BBbj roaohod horo aro oouaorned. BBBJ Swon Olson, n succoEsftil local BBBJ farmor, ia probably outitlod to tho BBH distinction of the biggest arop of BftBJ wheat, raisod by this moans. On ono BBBJ six-nsro Hold cultivated by tho dry- BBBJ farming process this year Mr. Olson BBbj raisod 210 bushols of wheat, or forty Bfl bushels to tho acre. Tho wheat waa BBbj full, lnrgo nud plump first class BftBJ BBbJ Another roport tolls of n Moroni BBbj man who rniscd an uvorngo of thirty- BBBj fivo bushels of wheat per noro on u ,BH pinoo of laud muoh larger. In Fouu- BB tain Green n ton-enrolot ronchod vory .Bpfl oloso to tho forty-acro murk aho. BBpj Tho olnim that this baB boou nn ex- BBBj oeptionnily good yeur for dry farm- ing, on ncoount of tho mnuy rain BpB storms, is disputed by eonio who have iBBBJ studied tbo method iu detail. To BBBl dry furni successfully tho soil must rl bo nlways looso on top, that it may BBVJ absorb nud bold nil moisturo in the VBB ntmosphere. Wbon rainstorms aro BBB froquout tho eoil oauuot bo kept soft BBB aud it bunions nnd cracks and the BBB moisturo escapes, BBB An nverago crop of whout by dry BBB farmiug is twenty bushels por aero. BB Rut as thoro is moro profit per bushel BBB in that kind of grain than in the irrigated varioty, tho lessor yield is lAYj nlmost ns remunerative, nftor all. BB Grain raisod without water soils for BBl from fivo to ton cents moro per bushel BBB than docs tho other kind lu raising it tho heavy expense of irrigating BBi und owning tho water is avoided, BBa also. Thuso two points make con BBl sldernblo didoreuco whon profits aro ABJ finally figured ou. Mt. Pleasant BB Pyramid. BB |