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Show I EDITORIAL j DRY FARMING PAYS m II During tho lust score of ycais 1 Kg I thcro has probably been a greater de- U ji vclopmeut In dry farming than In H nny other branch of agriculture with- jf In the arid regions. The term "dry Rfi H farming" has bcun adopted hy most lii (I of tlio Kuropcan countries as a word I In thulr own languages. In most piirt3 if (r of tho civilized world Its meaning Is juli understood. ffilji Dry farming does not imply that BU ngrlculturo can ho conducted without I ill water, hut its methods aro directed I Bjff toward using a limited precipitation III economically In tho production ot 1 . Kvcry plant requires a ccr- ijyjj ' tain amount of water for Its growth m , and tliu nim of dry farming Is to pre- j 't vent all unnecessary loss ot water !t so that the greater part ot tho pre-9 pre-9 I clpltatlon will bo used for actual ij f j plant production. I j Tho effectiveness of tho rainfall va-HI va-HI 4 ries considerably In different regions, Ri , depending on tlio tlmo of year it IPJI comes, tho condition of tho soil, tho ijjjj amount of ovnporatlon and n number, ij of other factors. Twenty Inches of Ijj rnlnfnll may bo no moro oftectlvo un- it j I dor ono condition than twclvo Inches j under anothor. In general, however, Km ,1 dry farming Is dcllned as tho produc-Ijj produc-Ijj II tlon of crops without Irrigation In jj i regions lecolvlug less than twenty jjjlf inches of precipitation during tho WW year. Whoio other things nro lav- f t orablo crop production Is often succ I ' eessful whero tlio precipitation is j f twelvo inches or less. With this small J amount of moisture however, ovory j effort must ho mndo to conuervo it or I li Biiccess Is imponnlblo. II Thcro is nothing mysterious about dry farming. It is simply good farm- lug under hdvorso conditions. Tho principles of good husbandry tfiat ' havo been understood for gpueratlons l ' nro applied In helping to rnalto the 1 i ono limiting factor of water short-ffi short-ffi j ngo less sovero. i I In selecting u dry farm tho first li tiling that must bo kept In mind is !j'! to got In :i region uhero tlio rulnfafll jij is sulllclent for crop production. It Hi I Hliould bo nt least twelvo Inches dur- I lug tlio year, and much better results 1 j may bo oxpected it it is eighteen or B twenty inches. Tho rainfall should wj ho distributed In such a way that it II will bo fnvornblu for crops. Tor ex-HJ ex-HJ Mnplo, if it n'l fell in a few torrcn I j tlnl rnlus in tho fall of tho year tho j j greater part of It would he wasted h i hy running off the surf.co and hy ! ' evaporation from tlio soil before tho 13 I noxt year's crop could uso It. ; 1 Alter being Hiiro thtit tho rainfall 9 Is fa orablo tho soil bliould next bo ' carefully examined. A good dry i farm soil must be deep in order to ' " store sufficient water. A soil that is only ono or two fcot deep underlaid with coarse gravol can nover ho sue- 'ijj eessful. Tho soil should also he j ot lino texture. A coarso sand can K" j ' hold but a small amount ot water, j . so it Is advisable to solect a loam or ; clay loam. A bo 11 that Is too heavy y is not good, as It Is difficult o till j and successful dry farming requires I a great amount ot cultivation. Tho natural vegetation Is ono.ot the best ( 4 methods ot Judging a soil. Such qucs- i tlous ns nearness to market, tho avail- I nblllty of water for huiry purposes Jj and for uuimals mi always bo Kept, HI In mind In mulclng a cholco. Si Tho prlco of success in dry farming J' ' is thoroughuesa in nil operations. Tho plowing, harrowing, seeding and weed yQ t ing must nil ho dono with great caro. !' .. r""" ru '" 0 l',ls nlay mcau talluro of ciops. It is a good thing to break up tho land a year before it Is to bo seeded In order to accumulate sufficient suffi-cient moisture In tho soli to rulso a crop. Tho hasty Beedlng of land immediately im-mediately after It Is brokon has ro suited In very many failures. Tho virgin vir-gin soil Is likely to bo so hard that It docs not absorb tlio rnln as readily read-ily as nftor being plowed. In planting a crop, the mistake ot using too much seed Is often made. Experience has shown that, where UiOro Is u good seed bed, only about half ns much seed should bo used as under Irrigation. When tho stand is too thick tho plains use all tho moisture whl'o young hud there Is nono left to mnturo tho crop. Tho practice of leaving tho land fallow every alternnto year to accumulate accum-ulate molsturo has been found necessary nec-essary In regions of BCimt precipitation. precipita-tion. Summer fallowing Is especial ly successful whero tho greater part of tlio precipitation comes during Mtc winter months. Tho fallow should ho kept freo from weeds which uso Sis much molsturo ns a crop. Deep plowing, plow-ing, tlio uso of good seed, tho keoplng of a good mulch on tho soil and numerous num-erous other details must bo looked after to Insuro success. The future of dry farming' Is 'nil of promlso. The past hos recorded failures fail-ures as well as successes; but these failures can bo used to mark dangor points and to help In finding belter methods. Millions of acres of land In the arid regions will yet be mad" to raise profitable crops by tho uso of dry farming methods, Frank S. Harris. I 'h I4 LET US GIVE THANKS Wo havo moro to bo thankful for than any peoplo on earth. - Let us remember our manifold blessings. Wo see tho nations of tho world nt each other's throats In a hellish Mid fratricidal war. Wo nre most blessed in our removal remov-al by the wide ocean from tho scene of that conillct. Wo nro a united nation na-tion of fifty States, speaking a common com-mon language, understanding each 1 other, having no enmities of one State agaliiBt another. No other people havo such a blessing. Wo nro so accustomed to it that wo can scarcely scarce-ly understand tho anxiety of Europeans Europ-eans as they scan tho sky for airships, air-ships, gnzo out over the sea for war-uhlps, war-uhlps, and listen for tho trampling of Invading hosts. On our north lies Canada, a peoplo llko ourselves, peaceful, friendly, no less our fellows than nro our brethren breth-ren or our sister States. Wo may well bo thankful for tho fnct that along the great frontier from Maino to l'uget Sound wo aro In need of not n slnglo fort or a slnglo soldier. No European nation has such splendid splen-did neighbors as tiro tho Canadians to us. This Is tho most beautiful fact In tho political geography ot tho world. 1 On tho south we havo Mexico, tur buyout, torn by i evolution, and often ' u vexatious and undcslrnblo nolghbor. Hut wo may woll render thanks that by patient forbonranco wo havo put nsldo tho danger of embroilment In I war with Mexico. Wo pity tho Mexican Mexi-can people, nnd hopo that they may set their feet now on tho ladder which lends upwurd to tho lovol of pcaoo and stability nnd prosperity which wo hno gained. I Wo should bo glad that our gov-eminent gov-eminent has so acted that we nro froo from war with Mexico nt tills tlmo especially. Othorwlso wo should bo In greater danger than now ot bo lug drawn Into tho awful vortex ot tho world war. Woro wo now nt war Mexico might easily bo encroached upon by somo of tho warring nations Mexico might bo able to mnko nn al-llanco al-llanco with ono ot them. Our possessions posses-sions In tho Pnclflo might bo attacked. attack-ed. Wo sljpuld thank God for pcaco with Mexico. Wo should bo glad, too, that the policy of making' friends with Argentine, Ar-gentine, Chile, IJrnzll, Colombia, and by our biond-mlnded trentment of tho right ot passiigo through tho l'nnnma Canal with tho commercial nations of Kuropo nnd ABln, wo aro bettor friends with tho whojo world than wo havo been for years. Wo should bo thankful for a government gov-ernment of such flnnnclnl strength that It can tako measures for the. safeguarding of tho nation against financial fi-nancial panic, nnd that wo havo n business system strong enough to ward off from us all tho ovlls ot war, so far as they can bo, warded oft. Wo should bo glad of (ho solidity solid-ity and calmness with which government govern-ment and banks tiro 'confronting a situation which threatens clvlllzntlon Itself. Wo havo no kings with amblt'nns llko thoso of Hnpsburg, Homnnoffnnd Ilohonzollern. Wo nro glad of that. And ot nij things In this dreadful tlmo, wo should bo thankful that wo havo a peoplo educated In common schools, ablo to read and write, and Intelligent enough and moral nnough to bo sorry for tho wretched peoples of Kuropo nnd to wish them a good dcllveranco from tho tortures they aro enduring. To bo an Amorlcan Is a good thing, Let us never forget that.1 Farm and Fireside. J. .J. v OUR DUTY Our country stands well nigh alono among tho groat civilized powers In bolng unshaken by tho prcsont world wido war. For this wo should be humbly and profoundly grateful. Wo ot tho United States have a twofold duty In this crisis. Wo must profit by reading aright tho lesson writ in flro nnd steel before our eyes, and therefore wo must safeguard our own future against tho onfall ot nny similar sim-ilar disaster. Moreover, we must not only stand ready to act as an Instrument Instru-ment for tho achievement of n Just peace If or when the opportunity nrlses, but nlso do whatovor wo ctin to formulato and secure adhesion to a kind of international agreement whereby tho chances ot tho recur renco of such world wido disaster sha'l nt le:iBt bo minimized. To servo thoso Various ends we, all of us, without with-out regard to party differences, must stand ready loyally to support tho administration, ad-ministration, asking nothing except that tho policy bo ono that In truth nnd In fact tells for tho honor and Interest of our nntlon, and In truth and In fact Is helpful to tho causa of a permanent nnd righteous world pcaco. i Of courso peace Is worthless unless un-less it serves tho causo of righteousness. righteous-ness. Peaco which consecrates militarism mil-itarism is ot small service. Fence obtained ob-tained by crushing tho liberty and life of Just mid unoffending peoples Is as cruel as the most cruel war. It should over be our honorable effort ef-fort to servo ono of the world's most vital needs by doing all in our power pow-er to bring about conditions which will glvo somo effective protection to weak or small nations which themselves them-selves keep order and act with Justice Jus-tice toward the rest of mankind. Thero can bo no higher International duty than to safeguard tho existence and Independence of Industrious, orderly or-derly states with a high personal and national standard of conouct, but without tho military force ot the great powers. Theodore Roosevelt In Tho Outlook. I- 'I HIGH SUGAR AND LOW BEETS In commenting on the object of a high protective tariff, our local con temporary says: It Is noticed that Just as soon as foreign sugar was shut out, tho war acting in the snmo way" as a prohibitive pro-hibitive tariff, tho price of sugar was raised sky high, and tho Utah factories set tho paco. Nor havo wo heard that either tho farmers or factory hands havo shared tho, profits of tho extortion. That Is tlio trouble with tho system and Just what tho peoplo of Cacho County nro complaining about right now, and if our Iemocrntlc brethren will Just sco to it that tho prlco of beets are raised In proportion to the advance on sugar tho farmers will bo satisfied, and tho democracy Ingratiated Ingra-tiated In tholr hearts as "a thing ot beauty and a Joy forever." "High Sugar and Low Heets is not democratic democrat-ic in tho genernl sense of tho word, so our democratic brethren should "got busy." I ! i DON'T STOP AT THE STATION DESPAIR Wo must trust tho conductor, most suroly; Why, millions ot millions boforo Havo mndo this snmo Jouruey so- I curely I And como to that ultlmnto shore. And we, wo will reach It In season; And nh, what n welcome Is thero! Ilellcct then, how out of all reason To stop nt tho Station Uespa'r. Ay, midnight nnd ninny n potion Of bitter black wntor havo wo As wo Journey from ocean to ocenn, From sen unto ultlmnto sea, To tho deep sea of seas,' nnd all sllcnco Of passion, concern nnd of caro That vast sea of Eden-sot Islands Don't stop at tho Station Despair! Go forward, whatever may follow, Go forward, friend tied or nlone; Ah mo, to leap oft In somo hollow Or don, In tho night and unknown Lonp off llko a thief; try to hldo you From angels all waiting you there! Go forward, whatovor botldo you Don't stop at the Stntlon Despair! Joaquin Miller. J. $. q. Aftor praising tho wlno they sell us vinegar, bus runs nn old Spanish proverb. 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