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Show DRY FARHlWAN ASSURED SUCCESS Expert Discursos Subject and Refers to Success in Utah lor Past Two Years In view of the past two years of drought and the resultant failure fail-ure or partial failure of crops, some doubt as to the feasibility of dry-farming in Wyoming has been expressed. It is a noteworthy note-worthy fact that in those states where dry-farming has been practiced for a period of 40 years, the past two years of scanty precipitation have been followed by no especially d;Foc-trous d;Foc-trous results. The reason tor this is not that they are more favorably located than Wymoing, but that they have reduced their dry-farm methods to a science. In fact, the State of Utah, for examplehas a lower annual precipitation pre-cipitation than Wyoming. Then, too, the larger part of this precipitation pre-cipitation comes in the winter, while in eastern Wyoming 75 per cent, of our mojsture comes when wo need it most that is, during the growing season. The past two years in Utah have been exceedingly dry, and yet comparatively few crop failures fail-ures have been reported. To the contrary, yields of winter wheat ranging from 20 to SO and even 40 bushels to the acre were very common. This ability to secure good crops under adverse conditions, condi-tions, however, has not been acquired ac-quired without severe losses in the past. In fact, former droughts were the school-masters that compel the dry-farmers of those sections to adopt the very best methodsJn their farm practice. They learned that dry-farming dry-farming was safe in regions where the annual precipitation averaged 12 inches. Some years it might be more; some years it might be less. When moisture came in excess it was stored up for future use in time of drought, and when the drought came good crops were raised. They learned, too, that deep soils were essential essen-tial to dry-farming and that the summer fallow and careful cultivation cul-tivation were vital par s of fthe practice. Thus they have secured se-cured a reputation that was world-wide and that brings each year from other nations scores'of investigators who study their methods of dry-farming. During the past summer in Wyoming striking examples of proper and improper systems of tillage were evident. Small giains on fallow land, or following follow-ing corn or potatoes, gave good yields, while in adjoining fields the same kind of crop, disced in on oa.t or wheat stubbles, was burning up. In such cases drought is a severe school-master, but it will nevertheless bring to a knowledge of the truth those who insist upon following methods common in humid areas |