Show some dry farm figures 4 mr P F D farrell superintend dant of tho the nephi experiment farm gives the following interesting exhibit of the cost of producing wheat on dry farms far 1118 in in three counties of utah the figures figu re were oata obtained ned of farmers who were successful in growing dry land wheat U in their respective localities loca litie the figures represent the full cost of production from plowing till harvesting and threshing the crop names and address of farmer reporting average yield per acre and cost per acre grace brothers Brot liers nephi utah bu per acre per pear acre james jain es jensen collingston Colling stoa cach go co utah 25 2 bu per acre peter peterson Peters bor cache co utah bu per acre per acre john Q adams logon logan utah 27 bu per acre per acre average 2665 5 59 those figures show clearly that dry farming can be carried on at a nice profit even 1910 perhaps the most unfavorable year on record when the percia p citation f from rom january ast 1st st till july was only inches at the experiment ent station at nephi while the preceding year it was 9 28 inches which is close to i norm normal al yet under this ibis and other adverse conditions wheat fields in juab C cache ache box elder and millard cc unties yielded crops exceeding exceeding 30 bushels per acre cache C county has long enjoyed the reputation of being the king county in the matter of dry farming m ing results and justly sq for over two decades dry farming has bas been successfully curried on there and wide Publish ity given to what was accomplished far mers in in other sections of the the state are now giving much attention to this important matter and records of good result are multiplying annually next to cache county juab county follows where james E baylor 1 on levan ridge e harvested 51 bushels of wheat to the acre in 1907 and another farmer obtained bushels of potatoes to the acre 98 per cent of which were of marketable size dry farm oats reached a yield of 50 bushels to the acre there in 1908 rhile hile the average yield the same year was bushels per acre millard county is oe e of the largest in the state having baving au an area of 1 squar miles and we see nothing to fco hinder millard co in the course of time frood from becoming as as any coun county ty in the state here are the many malay thousand and acres of fertile awat ing reclamation and for irrigated land the main water supply runs in the sevier river that wonderful stream that seems to increase increase in bolum the more you tap it accordia according io official measurements and re reports lorts for the year 1909 that divor delivered adese feet of water at marysvale Marys vale and in spite of all the tapping between marysvale Marys vale and gunufson Gu nuison it produced at the latter point acre feet of water showing an increase of 60 5 acre feet this water will eventually all be appropriated capitalists looking for safe opportunities for invests investment i ent will not long overlook the chances offered in millard county provis ion ion for the storing of all surplus water will be made the much talk talked edof of highland canal will be constructed and every foot of lir iria gable land will be brou brought atun un I 1 tir p der cultivation the precipitation record for i 39 61 9 years gives averages in millard county as follows scipio 1525 I 1 oak city 1516 1515 fillmore fill more 1472 black rock 1001 1061 deseret desere t garrison inches the elevations of the different stations in millard conaty are as follows black rock feet above sea level dese rot ret oak city 4 scipio |