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Show Merrill Talks Oh Dry Farming Spokane, Wash, July 12. "Dla-playB "Dla-playB of dry farm produots from various parta of the west, to bo exhibited ex-hibited at the International, cx-posltlnn cx-posltlnn In oonnootion with the fifth Dry Farming Congress In Bpokano the week of Ootober 3, will prove that- tliy uub cf moderu ' methods of tillage, la beatlbg! haqk "th drouth hi thouon-lrrlgBted'dUtrlots" said John T. llifrus, secretary of tho Congrese, (n dlacung' crop ooudltlous in Utah and thronghont tho country. 4,ThomasH. Rurton of Nepbi, Utah, reports: 'Two hundred tbonsand acres of grain will bo raited by dry farmers cf Juab county this year. Wo have a banner dry farming, community and tho ylold on the dry farms, where soientillq tnothodB have been employed, will run from 17 to 20 huBhola tho aoro." Professor' LenlB A. "Morrill, director of dry farming work in Utah reports tho drlost yoar sinoo 1875. Ho Iirb hud men In nil parta of Utah making reports nnd lluu from tho returna that on ground oropped every year and.vgaroleaely.hand.led the crops are itrmuny casos burned up, but on Bummer fallowed Jrio'd- and on- land handled aooordlng't tbe dry, farnilng syBtotn ulmost evorwyboro good crops will bo harvontod. "The fo)lowing examples of notable 8uooo88 In dry farming wero given by Professor Morrill: "Jamoa Wbitnoy of Mlndon bus 40 norea of flno wheat; estimated yield 35 bushels; Andrew Petoraou of Newton, 80aorca of wheat on fallowed around, estimated yield 10 bushels; 0. W. Richards of Fielding, 125 acres cf wheat, estimated yleUI 10 huehole. In tho vlolnlty of Newton, J.E. Godfrey, Eugeno Nolson, Clark . .UrfltherBand.J2aklund brothers hnVe several hnndrei aores of wheat that will produoo from 15 to 50 buahols an aoro. "Professor Morrill reports in tho samo vein from Caoho. Davis, Box-elder, Box-elder, Suit Loko and Juab oountloa poor crops on new lands end ou those oropped every year; bountiful crops on summer-fallow und carefully farmed londa. " |