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Show DRY FARMING RULES Past Two Years in Texas Well Adapted as Test. Sreatest Trouble Seems to Be That i Wind Blows In Sprir.g Each Lo- callty Must, to Large Extent, j Work Out Own Problems. We can better uudei stand the principles prin-ciples of dry laiming. if we t ui ider I .hat the soil is a huge fpohge. It j .akt-M In water In proportion to its j looseness and water is t-va orated I lioin It In the same way A wc'l-plowed wc'l-plowed Held l.ilon up a great deal mote water than a paMi re, if I lie rain is id nl ml duration I'.u' the g;ass roots will hold w.inr loin-er hail the plowed lid. I. unless Ihe lit Id lias In en treated propel l . A spolig", -naked III Water 1.1, 1 hung ill the open nr. will dry out very tpiichly. bit if 1 new paper (h tied round the sponge the water in I In; sponge will remain I heie a lolig t line 'Ihe underlying piinciple of dry! farming is to pin t-nmi t lung over the laud wl.i'h will ait as the newspaper does nrniiml Hie spoi.ge, and still not ilittifire with the growing ( rops It has been found tlat a shallow coal of finely pulverized, dry soil will do Ihe same work as the new spupcr does. 1 lint Is why one of ti e cardinal principles prin-ciples of dry farming Is "cultivate i-oii-tatitly " Another principle it 'I low deep before the r. litis i ome " The rca-ion Is easy to see ie- p plow llig loo-ens ihe light soil and allows it to soak up more water. The past two years ill Texas l.aiej been well adaplel totcllng dry farm ing niiiluds Past winter, fo;- ln-Kaiue. ln-Kaiue. ve had good rains and they cotiiiniiid in many sections w.-'l up Into the ' prltig tut the siimtni r was dry and hot. On land tliat had been prepared by deep plowing for the winter win-ter ruins, the moisture soaked In j deep, and when that laud wai fur- , Iher ptotoMcd by ((distant cul'iva I lion and the keeping of a dry blanket ' t)f line dirt over It, crops sent their roots down Into the moist soil under-' death mid produced yields In spile if the lack of rain No hard and fast ruli K can be laid lown for dry farming, any more than iiles can be laid down which will np-:dv np-:dv to any other kind of farming for (11 localities Writing to the Pry Farming Hull In. Amlers l Mordf of Cuytnon. (ikla., llMstrates this as follows: There Is a Norwegian colon v In IMnford county, Texas, brought In from the best st ttlemcnts of the north nd northwest. These men have adopt-I'd adopt-I'd Ihe dry farming methods as the only way to farm In this country, mid Ih'y Intend to keep this up regardless nf rainy or droughty years. As n result. re-sult. If they have n rainy year, they ran nfore avvav enough moisture to rnlre n crop that year and leavo r-noiiph to Mipp-y n second year when I hey add the ordinary rainfall to the ft'pply that they have stored away. The rreatoM trouble seepis to lie due lo the fact tbHt the wind Plows In the I ting Th- farmers have learned that Ihey cannot afford fo wotk the dust blanket too fine ns the wind In the M'ritiT season will carry iiK'lies of dirt lwnv from ci,e ti. ;, ov. r on another. If they P ;i. tin' field too lumpy there Mil be too many cracks and the evaporation evap-oration will be t.io lar.t-v We mip:t Ind a mi. Idle wn. There Is ah ii ill I'lllbl as lo whither or Il' t deep plow ng Is a good thing Some stale that Ive Inches Is n'l aiiMiie miif! plo at mv time. whi'e otlnrs claim that d"ht. ten and twelve Inch plowing Is it loo much. We are lis yet ill I he xp'rimetital stage, ati! It will take mmo time In fore we can do very mm h n laving down rules for farming. Fai'h locality must, to a large extent, !ve Its own dry faming pr.tldeiiH. : nit when we know thai ,rv farming , irodilces crops alongsl le tl, !,j th.n 1 in- barren wln-n cultivated In- other! nethii!-., vet ought to lie willing to! nake li e necessarv experiments in ' .r.ler lo thnl out the best prhn lph s or our respi i live liwiiities. Tin man ho call lo lp hltnseif ,v ,,y farming j md who will cling to oilier plans Is' taid.iig in his ow n light j |