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Show I, mmmmmmmMmmmmmmmmtjmmmammmmmmmmmmmmmmmmwm DRY FARMING CROPS Method to Become Important Adjunct to Agriculture. Possibilities Widening With Each Successive Suc-cessive Year Extensive Expert ments Constantly In Progress Prog-ress Shed New Light. That dry farming is destined to become be-come nn important adjunct to American Ameri-can agriculturo la a conclusion no longer open to serious doubt, says Or-ango Or-ango Judd Farmer. Its possibilities aro r widening with each succeeding year, and Iho cxtonsivo oxpcrimcntB con-Gtnntly con-Gtnntly In progress aro shedding new light upon tho wholo broad question of agriculture To tho averngo farmer tho proposition propo-sition that moisture can bo conBorved In tho soil against a day of need for weeks and months Indeed, carried over from one season into another, stems tho most absurd folly; yet that it can bo done has been amply demon-stinted demon-stinted and tho plan is in actual op-, op-, cratlon upon hundreds of farms '' , throughout tho west Dry farming is not altogether now in tho United States. Tho Indians of i the southwest havo raised meager crops of beans and maizo for centuries In sections where tho rainfall is nl-most nl-most nothing. There aro many things to lndlcato that tho prehistoric races of tho southwest woro farmers, and unless great climatic changos havo taken ta-ken placo, they must havo raised supplies sup-plies for largo populations in a land whero tho rainfall was very llttlo. Dry farming has been a fcaturo of agrl-j agrl-j culturo In California since tho first i settlements. Oats, barley, corn and 1 many varieties of fruits and vege- 1 tables aro raised with rainfalls vary- lng from G to 20 inches yearly. It Is 1 a land of hot, blazing sunshine, yet i evaporation is arrested and tho soil kept moist and hoapltablo to tho grow-:S grow-:S lng plant if Perhaps no country In tho wond, 1 savo that of tho actual desert sand, 1 seems less calculated for agriculturo than tho wind-swept plains of Now Mexico and Arizona. How can crops 1 So raised in that land of poronnlal jfj drought, whero tho rainfall, in many places, registers less than eight inches M a year? Dry farmors say that it can H be done, tho secret or system being . merely cultivation. In seotlonB whore '$ tho rainfall Is least it Is proposed to Ji storo and conserve tho molsturo dur- lng ono year for, use tho next, thus JB . only attempting a crop every other n year. M In thoso favored localities where tho rainfall averages 15 Inches or over m yearly, a crop each year may bo Bafely attempted. The plan Is to grow somo M quick, summer growing crop, such as m kaflr corn, Egyptian corn, mllo maize w or beans. Tho planting should bo 'M timed so that the crop will bo in full fl growth when tho greatest rainfall is )9 expected to occur. As tho rainfall In- B crenBcs, wheat, barloy and oata may S bo safely attempted. B Dut whero tho tatnfall Ib less that S . IB inches, nothing remains for tho B venturesome husbandman but dry S farming or tho most Intense sort. He jB must look 18 months ahead for his lH crop. Industriously and constantly pre- H paring, tho while, his flold for tho ex- H pected planting. Tho plowing should Bj tako placo during tho spring or early i Htf summer, allowing tho ground to Ho B fallow throughout the Benson. As fall B approaches cultivation must begin. H Usually a disk Is used to break up tho H crust and light sod which may have H formed. Should rains fall during the H fall and winter, cultivation must fol- H low each. And, In any ovent, cultlva- H tion at intervals must take place. Tho V&1 ' soil must bo kept loose and not al- H lowed to pack, as that condition Is fa- H tal to tho storing of molsturo. Cultlva- H tion must continue up to tho tlmo of H planting in April or May. BJ If tlie cultivation has been rigid and |