| Show A arid ri d Far mingIn iron co county u nty it may be of interest to at least j S some of the readers of the ret cord to hear what is being done in this locality in regard to the much talked of but little worked at subject of arid or dry farming as it is commonly called lang before professors widtsoe and fr c merrill came to iron county and located the experiment farm sonie some of the citizens had advocated the theory that certain crops could be raised without irrigation and one of the crops mention ed was alfalfa for pasturage rag ge and seed but the idea was ed at by y a mai majority as it was held that it could not be started without N water to irrigate but when the j experiment farm was vas established it was demonstrated how easy it was to get a stand without arri gation gallon and it has produced good pasturage every year and would have produced good seed with the exception of one year or it possibly I 1 two when late frosts injured it some of the results of arid hermin farming i g by individuals here might be given to in a measure justify our conte contention antion that crops can be profitably raised here without irrigation in 1906 wm T morris raised 45 bushels of sonora wheat sown in tho the spring and the same year raised ten bushels of rye to the acre in 1907 lie he raised f from rom a 20 acre acra patch of rye elou enough ii to buy the land upon which chic h the crop was raised at 3 50 per acre to clear and plow it at cost of 4 per acre to seed the land bar vest and thresh the crop when asked what he would do with the stuff if he could raise it ische he sim simply lily answered til ill show you and he did 11 he e sold all he had to spare for 1 35 per hundred and wintered ed ill all his stock on the straw and chaff which chichis chis is much better feed than the best oat straw raised by irrigation in 1907 joseph F holyoak raised lofthouse lofthous wheat on dry land at the rate bushels to the acre but the I 1 will say these were unusually unus ally years S so 0 they were but but tha crops were raised with one years mois enols di ure and taking the ave average kage rain rainfall fall for this sec section I 1 ion and V wit u t in la it JL 1 A 4 1 1 r m bis n t N wo others who are takfong an in it merest erest in this industry are the matheson brothers who have 20 dacres lacres acres sown to to rye ry e and wheat charles adams jas and wm adams expect to have into th the e hundreds of acres plowed this season aad get g efa it prepared io i 0 raise arid farm crops wilford wil fd rd day johnt mitchell and others will have land cleared and brok en up as soon as the steam plow ing outfit can get et around abouna to them one of the most profitable crops for this section will be corn as it can be raised almost any season and always grows large enough for feed and an eighty acre patch of nice corn would be a splendid batice to turn a bunch of lambs to fatten foz for mar market Icet or to feed dairy cows when we get our creamery established the poultry business can also be mado made a paying addition to the th e dry farm but not if you take eur eggs gs to the local stores and sell at 10 cents a dozen but a pum ber should go go into the business busi bess the more the better and get into the market for the beat prices the possibilities for making good comfortable homes at are e within our grasp if we would but take hold with a determination to succeed I 1 iron ron county record |
