Show L U pd S great many of settlers have little or no capital k arid country gradually settling up and present time difficulties will be overcome by adopting modern methods 14 farming arming conditions in the dry country are far more from being settled as they should be and it is too true that many have had only failure or partial success one reason for discouragement and failure is that the great majority settling on the frontier have little money to make a start writes john burtson Ro robt artson in campbells scientific ri farmer armer few have anything left after building a small house on their claim and buying a few necessities and then must live somehow for aboud about two years before getting any returns from cultivation of the soil those who do not leave the country profit from the failure of others in that they can buy their improvements etc F for a small email per cent of the actual acqua worth this is a condition of affairs in which we find a survival of the fittest f many of the first settlers who re bained turned their attention to stock raising letting their stock run on government land and are now in good circumstances they have become so accustomed to plenty of land J that they have started to cry A man cant make a living on acres of land which accounts for the various bills for the enactment of a law allowing acro acre homesteads there may be localities where it would add to the prosperity of the state to allow acre homesteads but for the ma arity bority of the western part of the state tt it would be a mistake it Is not more land that Is needed but better farming many are land poor now one great drawback is the scarcity of water and in many localities poor bater water wells are very uncertain and a poor man cannot afford to pay for the drilling still as time goes oes on the country will gradually settle up until all the land is taken and pres ent time difficulties will be overcome y by adopting methods that best comply with natures laws for overcoming the drawbacks existing in the various localities cali ties in time more will be pro deuced from 40 acres of land than is y now from acres h it is hard for the man who comes from an eastern state to realize that there are lands here in which there fis no in the subsoil available for crops if one digs a hole on such land even after one of our wettest seasons he will come to soil as dry as though it nevar never had been wet all we have to depend upon Is the rainfall which Is uncertain many claim that as the country gets settled and land is cultivated the seasons will change and we will get more rain this hope is a con consolation but per I 1 have little faith in the theory we have been experiencing i more favorable years lately but the dry years will come again so let us plan to accept conditions as they have been study the nature of the 1 country and by adapting ourselves to conditions overcome the difficulties from experience I 1 have learned there are four main principles to ob serve in making a success of dry land t farming namely first deep plowing second planting homo home grown seeds or those adapted to the particular 10 lo 9 ica calaty call lity ty third planting farther apart or only about two thirds as much seed J to the acre as on wet land fourth f thorough cultivation in hard soils a 12 inch inch plow Is large enough for a team weighing from 1200 and 1400 pounds each it is a good idea to use a plow with an extra heavy beam say a 14 inch plow beam v in a 12 inch plow wo we cannot all afford big horses nor even enough of r small emall ones in some borno cases so where a 0 nian man has only ono one team eam of bronchus bron chos w weighing hing say 1000 pounds each and maybe a 14 or IG inch plow he cannot loosen the soil very deep and will got get results accordingly good seed Is of great importance if possible got get seeds of some one in the locality who is making a success and has varieties which are adapted observe this rule especially in seed corn |