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Show Common Sense Principle Colorado Springs, Colo. It is all very well for scentists to study and delve and dig for the ultimate salvation of the farmer in the dry-land belt, but first tell him and do it quickly what to grow that will bring in money. This, in effect, was the common-sense principle voiced at the International Dry-Farming Con-gerss Con-gerss by Prof. ,W. M. Jardine of j Kansas. "The farmer isn't concerned' about fertility and nitrates and inocculation, and things like1 that," said Prof. Jardine. "What he wants is a living and he wants it now. We must help him to get it. Show him how to do something now; tell him how to ieed his family, hrst, and then . he will be in a position to take up and study the more technical problems of farm life." Prof. Jardine told the farmers ; to raise potatoes, as one of the surer means of getting an im-' mediate living on the dry lands, j For seed, he said in brief, use j selected tubers, hand-picked. If not too large, plant single tubers j with only one or two eyes. If I large, cut in halves. Two eyes are better than six in seed potatoes. po-tatoes. Plant in rows three feet apart, and two feet apart in the rows, four inches deep. SubsoiJ-ing SubsoiJ-ing is fairly satisfactory. Plant Early Petoskey, Irish Cobbler and Early Ohio. "These varieties do not give! the largest yields, I admit," said the speaker, "but they are the earliest and, therefore, the most r advisable because the farmer may need the money." "Only three crops on the dry-' lands are making jnQngyJJgroLi. Jardine declared: "Wheat, milo and flax. Why not add potatoes , to the list and increase the income?" |