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Show MONTANA DRY FARM RESULTS Conclusions as Arrived at After Six Years' of Experimenting Are Very Interesting. For the past six years the Montana experiment station has been conduct, ing experiments upon dry land, under the direct charge of Prof. Alfred Atkinson At-kinson and Mr. J. It. Nelson, auperln-tendent auperln-tendent of dry farm work. The results are to be published In bulletin No. 83. and may be had upon application to the director of the experiment station. sta-tion. Thn conclusions drawn from this work are very Interesting and are as follows: 1. That the precipitation during the six years, 11105 10, was very close to the normal precipitation as shown by all of the available records of the U, S. weather bureau. This applies to the total amount as well as to the distribution dis-tribution of the rainfall over the grow-Ing grow-Ing season. 2. That, of all cropa raised, potatoes, pota-toes, wllh an average yield of 105.32 bushels per acre, and returning an average net profit of $11.99, are the most profitable. Of the grain crops, fall sown or winter wheat gives the best returna. Kharkov, an Improved Turkey Had, gave an average yield of 40.41 bushels and an average net profit of $21.30 per acre. This was grown at the Fergus county station only. The Turkey Red, which was grown all years and at all stations, gavo an average yield of 32.45 bushels, bush-els, with an average net profit of $14.49 per acre. Among the spring-planted spring-planted grains, corn, llanna barley, alxty-day oats and flax, In the order named, were the most profitable; while alfalfa rod fodder corn were the most satisfactory forage crops. 3. That It Is decidedly more profitable profit-able to raise grain cropa under a system sys-tem of alternate cropping and fallowing, fal-lowing, or summer tillage, than to raise them continuously. 4. That tho first crop will be more profitable If breaking Is done the year previous than If the crop ts planted ' the same spring, Immediately after 1 breaking. 1 6. That more profitable crops are ' raised where the fallow Is summer ' lllled than where It is allowed to lie untouched through the summer. 6. That it makes no practical dlf- 1 'erence in the yield of grain whether 1 'all plowing or spring plowing Is prac- I need In the preparation of the pre- 1 cding fallow. ' t. That on tha average five pecks 1 ( seed Is the best amount to use In ' tedlng dry land grain crops. ' 8. That there Is positive loss from c cssened yield where fall aown crops ire fallowed In the spring. 1 9. That grains planted In the ordl-lary ordl-lary way, with a seed drill, give arger yields than grains planted In M ows 24 Inches apart and Intertilled p luring growth. |