Show wr t tei i 7 principal of dry farming w while the possibilities of dry farming aro are doubtless overestimated etc by many aud and it will yet yec be that in most efti d sert regions it it cannot do what ilfe hasteen has been claimed and hoped 1 fr for ty from it these dry farming meth 0 d s are every day becoming L ino more re and more popular along v with irrigation and in parts 1 filore anore the moisture is often too uneager meager in the last named parts y where at first business men mid and y r pu especially boosters boasters bo boomers and land men inen rapidly fought it on oil lya tile the ground that it gave a bad impression of the country it is api iy ay n now 1 ow being looked to us as tile the great ly 14 j f 1 I 1 edt ea boom that chat evor ever camo cacno to 1 make inake uncertain regions almost s s bure aare crop producers produce rs to fe ora who have had ample witter water A J and so foolishly used too loo much t f f 1 i 2 r t of it till their lands tire are beconi becom ff L MIT ming sour and soggy with r sub ab y t v fc n irrigation ari gation it i is s pro proving vincy a 1 I great t blessing ind and to I 1 those li oso who must w irrigate but at ti times 1 ines lack ample gi water epply it is proving pr t i hapy the greatest blessing of all y t says the dak dakota lota farmer in much of our mountainous M reg region ion there is is tin an over supply ok of water when tile the snows aze aie s K f going off in the spring C but tin an T equal dearlie of it when once the iv y m snow water is gone cone these hoople peo plo are finding eluding out that by vy ry deep plowing occasion occasionally lill y X an proper surface tillage after y ward very much of this early surplus of water cau be retained far into trio gro growich season this is meaning much in fact everything in in some pa pai 1 la te therease Ther eare other wide irrigated so chioni that are opening up c more acres than the old waste sw ful methods can supply but iny stead of discouraging the new W acres all ali tire are urged to conserve the water taken ly by frequent IA surface tillage lil lago and other meth S known to up to to date dry farming this in some cases coming under tinder our notice has more than i jr doubled tile tho acreage possible in california in colorado and i in the western pal part t of the da kotas and all along the rivers in fe montana and wyoming we have K seen un an increase of acreage uns dor this treatment that formerly would not have been thought i po possible sible ija 11 7 V K 1 l r w t r t f borig nor is tho dic i increase n ere ase 0 of f possible acreage 0 the 0 only 11 ay gain gaill f fiam ro ill this source it 11 it found that better belter crops both in ill quantity till and quality cuti can be grown where tillage takes tile the place of too much wittering watering potatoes Pota es espee pec tally are greatly benefited by this the old timo time water soaked spud in no way compares with tho the potato grown by two w at 1110 I 1 ho most and proper sort of tillage it is founds found that oven even shilds can cal be over i irrigated ari gated and that a small amount of judicious harrowing row ing and even disking can cail bo be made duade to take the place of to tile the general betterment terni ent of the ilay hay crop sug ar beets also tell I lie the same story its as do nian many y other farm farin products A great many close students of ef the situation greatly question and rightly in our mind the he p possibility of this E system y stem doing very for parts of t the lie country admittedly desert but no one at till all acquainted acquaint kl with its possibilities questions ois for a ili m nt that it is going to be tile the means of adding great ly to the certainty certainly of crops throughout I 1 tile ho vast and other wise productive region rf to which is now so often discouragingly cou ragingly uncertain deep stirring of the subsoil if only every third abird or fourth year more plain planted ted crops yell well tilled more cuore early we well corenor reNor ca cured for summer fallow more early maturing crops such buch as winter rye and wheat barley etc in more 0 re harrowing ban har owing lowing M of small grain and disking of alfalfa and other sods and last but nut not I 1 least more deop deep rooting roofing alfalfa and clover with stock to consume it means much in dry farming and to us |