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Show MAKE SUCCESS ON DRY FARM Governor Brooks of Wyoming Makes Timely Suggestions to Home-Seekers In Semi-Arid Sections. Governor Itrooks of Wyoming makes the following statements which those who .live in or perhaps Intend to go to dry farming sectlous should carefully care-fully observe and be governed by them: First: Those who occupy these lands should go with some means in hand by which they can sustain themselves them-selves independent of the product of their land until such land can be made productive. This Is a fact that we have observed In our going through those sections. The dry farming area is quite different from areas that have heretofore been opened by the settler. set-tler. When our prairie sod Is turned over It la ready for a crop of some kind tho first season. Not so, as a rule, when the sod Is turned In these dry sections. Now and then there are exceptional seasons thut will help the occupant of that land to get something some-thing from that first sod, but it Is not safe to depend upon It. Dry fanning should follow well established es-tablished rules. Most of those rules are now well understood by those who have made it a study and have worked It out upon the land Itself, until it can now be said that something is know n ' bs to successful detail In the handling of dry land soils. Wo w ill not Mop to outline those rules here for much has been written and said concerning It. There are experiment stations that nro doing good work in these dry sections sec-tions which will constantly illustrate the value of what Is called dry farm ing methods. Let the farmer In those sections keep In touch with what they do or not do at those places and be governed by their successes or failures fail-ures as the case may be. There Is much evidence -now thai some lands that were called worthless by reason of the lack of rainfall can be made to sustain good comfortable homes when that soil Is handled in ways which are now understood but which were not known a few years ago. The general opinion from those who are good authorities, is that when any one settles west of tho With meridian on good land which cannot bo irrigated, irri-gated, such a party should own bis land outright, cither by purchase nt tho proper price or by location under government authority, lie th"n should plow deeply as soon as possible In order or-der to make a cistern in w hich to bold the water that comes in limited an;ounts from rains and melting snows. Keep tho surface of that deep plowed land very thoroughly .cultivated .cultivat-ed so that the moisture which ho has already obtained shall not escape, but will be eventually used by the crop which he wishes to grow. In all probability continued experience experi-ence will demonstrate that a man so located should cultivate one part of his land one year, and summer fallow the other part that year, which means to keep tho top part very thoroughly cultivated after every rain or deposit of moisture, so that when he grows a crop on that field the following year he will have the accumulation of two years' water to aid him In his growing crop. |