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Show uu ELKO RANCHER MAKES A SUCCESS OF DRY FARMING J. M. Fulton, freight and passenger passen-ger agont for the Southern Pacific company, who has returned from an official visit to the eastern part of tho state, brings word of a very successful success-ful experiment in dry farming, says tho Reno Gazette. The experiment was performed bv J. T. Sweeney, a rancher living south-cast south-cast of "Wells A year ago last fall he fenced In an acre of arid ground, plowed tho soil deep, sowed and roll-" ed it. There was little moisture ddringtho winter and practically nono the succeeding suc-ceeding summer, but from the ono aero Mr. Sweeney cut aud threshed forty-five bushels of wheat. So successful was the experiment that this fall he put COO acres in f shape for a wheat crop next season Thero aro no irrigation ditches noar the property and practicnlly all the moisturo Is supplied by thYj sub soil There aro a number of other rancherr In tho vicinity who aro experiment-lng experiment-lng in dry farming. |