Show FALLACY OF THE LARGE ARM good ven men get the error eror so firmly fixed in their heads they never can got get it out the error about the necessity ot of larger farms because of the dry country still goes the rounds good men get the notion firmly fixed in their heads and never get it out but if intensive farming Is needed in irrigation lands where there Is water ter to waste wast e then how much more inore Is it needed on land where all the water must be conserved president Mond ellof the dry farming congress in his address at billings said a good deal about the immense value of the larger homesteads in the dry country it 0 s unfortunate that he did not say more about the immense importance of bettor better cultivation of a small farm the notion that on a farm in the dry country more land is needed because a portion of it is required to lie ito idle each year Is the main reason for the thought that very large tracts are necessary but every farm especially every farm in the dry country must be well cultivated the assertion is made by the very best students of agriculture in the humid states that out in the dry country you must have hake at least acres of land it is because they do not understand the situation at all that they make such statements it is not true but the thing that will be most convincing will be the proof of success on small farms in the dry country sooner or later the fallacy about big farms needed in the dry country will be fully exploded |