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Show GROWTH OF DRY FARMING The selecting of lands for entry under the Smoot enlarged homestead law devolves on tho United Slates geological survey. Since tho passage df the cnLirgcd-home.stead act in February, IflOD, the survey has recommended for designation 1S9,127.77S acres as thus subject to homestead entry in .T20-acrc tracts.' During February, Feb-ruary, 353,412 acres were so classified, as nun-irrigable. The designations desig-nations having been made by the secretary of the Interior, the lauds are then made subject to enlarged entry by the general land office. At first these dry-farm lands were not looked upon as other than experimental but today great areas, even in Utah, arc being reclaimed through the operation of the Smoot law and there is no j longer any doubt as to the success of 1he movement in such districts as Cache Valley, the country north of lOltnn, and in Park valley. I "Wherever the fall and winter precipitation equals that of North ern Utah and tho moisture thus placed in tho ground can be conserved con-served by forming a dust mulct to break up capillary attraction and make of the surface a non-conductor, dry farming will prove successful. That docs not mean, of course, all soils are adaptable to dry fanning, even where the precipitation is comparatively heavy The surface soil and sub-soil must be such as to retain the moisture. In northern Utah, last year, there was no rainfall after the l first of March, yet in many districts whore there was dry farming r, from 12 to 20 bushels of wheat were harvested- |