Millard County Chronicle | 1912-04-25 | Page 4 | Dry Farming.

DRY. FARMING. j Thn unusual amount of pnu-1 p! r a-I a-I loa (lie pant winter and HpriiiK In niukliiK the dry farmers feel cheerful, A larKely Increatied acreaKe will be put under cultivation thin prlng around Holden, Fillmore, Kanonh and Meadow. It ban been demonstrated that the land U extremely fertile and that It In ei.ual In every particular to the land, aboui Nephl. The eaut bench land In covered with a denno Krowth of unKcbrush and the hoII In fertile. That Kpleiidld cnipM can be rained by the dry farming pro-cens pro-cens hii.t been demonstrated time mul time again, In fact 20 to 37 bushelit of whtat to the acre are rained, Had from 13 to 25 buMbeli of rye, while (n alfalfa the farmer have made fnin f.'iO to $110 jkt acre on It, Precipitation in that Keetion U within one fourlli an Inch of that of ("ache Valley. For five yearn It ban been lS'j inches and the record abowa that for nineteen jearn. ItKiudliiR the drouih, It bait averaged fourteen and rteveu tenth IncheK. The elevation la about 5,luo feet and the climate Is de-l.Kll'f'il.