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Show DRY FARMING , OPPORTUNITIES THOUSANDS OF ACRES OF UTAH LANDS BEING CULTIVATED WITHOUT IRRIGATION. It Is an Indisputable Fact That Dry Fcfcmlng Pays, Failures Being Practically Prac-tically Unknown aa Result of Scientific Tilling of Sollo. Tho agricultural future of Utah must depend largely upon aild fann.ug. It matters not how many millions of money wo may spend on building irrl Cation projects and in conserving the wator supply of the state There aro million of acres of our land that can never be reached by tho irrigation canal there are vast empires of soil that will neer blosaora with anything but sage, groaoewood and cacti, except ex-cept they be redeemed by "dry-farming" methods. Of our 22,000,QOO acres of arable and legs than 3,000,000 acres can over be Irrigated the remaining 19,000.000 acres must produce, If at all, with only Buch moisture as falls directly upon them from the oky The Mississippi valley farmer would piobab.y wonder at such a statement His acres get more of sucn proclpltatlon than they need. Not so In Utah Here our desert des-ert lands are likely to receive ten and eeldom as much as twenty Inches of proclpltatlon In a year In order to coax from those parched soils a sufficient suffi-cient quantity of farm products to pay for tho troublo and yield a profit, scientific methods must be followed It (s not enough to turn the crust and plant the seed. The soil must first bo analyzed the seed must be tested and it must be planted and cultivated with duo regard to tho character of tho soil, tho average precipitation In tho locality being cultivated and the needs of the variety of grain being grown. This prospect is by no means discouraging. dis-couraging. President John A. Wids-toe Wids-toe of tho Agricultural college of Utah, 3ays In the profaco to his able treatise on "Dry Farming" in "The Rural Science Series." "The possibilities of dry farming are stupendous. In the strength of youth we may havo fell envious of tho great ones of old, of Columbus looking look-ing upon the shadow of the grentest continent; of I3alboa shouting greet Ings to the resting Pacific; of Father Escalante, pondering upon tho mystery mys-tery of the world, alone, near tho shores of America's dead sea Wo need harbor no envyings, for :n tho conqueet of the non-irrigated and non-Irrlgable non-Irrlgable desert are offored a3 flno opportunities op-portunities as the world has known to tho makers and shapers of empires We stand beforo an undiscovered land, through tho restless, ascending currents cur-rents of heated desort air tho vision comes and goes. With striving oyes tho deBert is seen covered with blossoming blos-soming fields, with churches and homes and schools, and, in tho distance, dis-tance, with tho vision is heard the laughter of happy children. The desert des-ert will bo conquered "Nearly six-tenths of tho earth's Burfaco receive" an annual ralnTall of loss than twenty Inches, and can be reclaimed for agricultural purposes only by irrigation and dry-farming A perfectod world-system of Irrigation will convert about one-tenth of this vast area into an incomparably fruitful fruit-ful garden, leaving about ono-half of the earth's land surface to bo ro- olalmed, if at all, by the methods of dry farming The noblo .system ol modern agriculture has beon con-Btrucd con-Btrucd almost wholly In countries of abundant rainfall, and Its applications are thoso demandod for the agrlcul tural development of humid regions. Until recently, irrigation was given scant attention, and dry-farming, with its world problem of conquering one-half one-half of the earth, was not considered." Tho necessity of hor peopje caused Utah to become the pioneer of tho west In the adoption of Irrigation that was in 1847. As early as 1S70 crops were grown successfully without Irrigation in Boar River valley. Cache valley and Davis county, In Salt Lako valley "During the 'SOs the thoughts of Utah farmers turned to the possibilities possibili-ties of the dry lands, for the growth of the population was more rapid than tho construction of canals. Many of tho conservative farmers began to realize, too, that wheat production on lhlirflf a1 In, trio nrtnolloplnir i Y n ntni water, did not return a fair Interest on the capital Invested. As a result some attempts at dry farming wero made In the central part of tho stato, but with rather discouraging results." Today many thousands of acres aro being cultivated without the addition of water by artificial means lu every valley in the sUto from Cache valley on tho north to tho Kanab desert and the Arizona strip on the youth, and from the Uintah country on the east to the Nevada line Failures are practically prac-tically unknown The proportion of yield has depended mainly on the Intelligence In-telligence used by tho farmer m preparing pre-paring his soil and planting the seed and the care used by him In cultivating cultivat-ing and gathering tho yield. Precipl-tatlon Precipl-tatlon and weather conditions have become of minor, If not practically negligible quantities. Tho pronts have varied somewhat, according to tho varieties of grains grown. Many farmers havo not heeded tho gratiB advice given out by the experiment station experts. They havo either plowed tho soil too deeply or not deep-ly deep-ly enough, have grown varieties of grain not suited to their soil conditions condi-tions and climate and have refused to abandon old and unprofitable methods. As a consequence thoy havo barely moro than paid expenses, while their neighbors have made handeomo profltB, , Arid farming cannot succelia on any other than a thoroughly sciontlflc plan. It does not hlvo the great advantage hat humid farming enjoys. (jlt prevent- ehjfr'w v',c,'! kv" iter. c::V- slightly overcome In all the centurtea of the past. It Is either an Jntrepld or foolish farmer, Indeed, who will undertake to wring profits frora an arid soil without duo regard to approved ap-proved and tCBt tried methods. The state of Utah Is doing a wonderful won-derful work along the lino of encouraging encour-aging the extension of dry-farming methods At each of the dry farm experiment ex-periment stations tests are being made In the open 1n the growth of wheat, oats, corn, bavlej', rye, alfalfa, potatoes, pota-toes, fruit and icgetablea and the results re-sults of these experiments are published pub-lished and distributed without charge to all who are interested Wo wish that every reader of this article could have for ready referonco -.ml for a study of dryjf arming methods, Bulletin No 112, prepared by Professor Lewis A. Merrill Mer-rill and publlslrod by tho Utah Agricultural Agri-cultural college experimentBtatIon It contains a report of seven-dears' Investigation In-vestigation of dry farming methods. The farmer who studies this and the other bulletins Issued from the experiment ex-periment stations and profits by the experiences ex-periences of tho exporlmonters will be able to make his arid acres ylold an abundance scarcely believable, thus assisting In the redemption of our desert empires and In enriching the commonwealth. And dry farming pays. That fact is indisputably settled. President WIdstoc 6ays 1,000 bushels of dry-faim dry-faim wheat contain as much nutritive matter as 1,025 bushels of wheat grown and kopt under humid conditions. condi-tions. Utah dry-farming wheat will gain 2i per cent In weight on-bolng shipped Into eastern markets. That significant fact is worth remembering. It is conceded by all that last year was a severe test to dry farming theories the-ories because of tho low precipitation; precipita-tion; yet the Utah yield was good and tho profits fair. This year, under somewhat more favisoro conditions a big crop was harvested. It Is eBtimatod that ten to -fifteen bushels to tho aero will pay the expense ex-pense of farming by dry farming methods, where everything is hired. Tnty bushols yield a fair profit, and forty bushols amount to a bonanza. A great boon to the commonwealth is soon In tho Enlarged HomeBtead or Smoot act. Hundreds of cltizons of the state havo taken up half sections and somo hundreds of settlers have taken up residence in Utah, but millions mil-lions of acres still brlstlo with sage and greaeewood, awaiting colonization. coloniza-tion. Homes for hundreds of thousands thou-sands of denizens of tho crowded east can, be mado in these now desert wastes It Is up to the stato of Utah and her people to lend encouragement to immigration and to diBpol the "prevailing "pre-vailing notion that new-comers are not welcome among us, and that here, under skies that are ever blue, and almost al-most perpetual sunshine, sheltered from the rigors of tho wintry blaBts ' by mountain ranges, which afford an abundance of fish and game for vacation vaca-tion times and Joy supremo for lovers of scenic grandeur, can be found opportunities op-portunities galore for comfort and wealth. Here they may build up communities com-munities that will revel In the good things of Hfo. Here labor may receive re-ceive Its full reward, Here may willing will-ing hearts and sturdy bands come Into their own. o Thcro U more Catarrh Id this section of the country tlinn ull other dlec-uscx put together, acJ until tho lait few yeara vus suipirtd to be Incurably. For a ureat uuay years doctor pronounced It a local dlcaitc and prescribed local remedies, and by constuntlj uIIIdk to cure with" local trcatmont, prooouncod it Incurablq. Sctcnco has proren Catarrh to b a csnitUullonnt dlifnp, and thcraiuro requires constitutional .treatmtnt, null's Catarrh Cure, aanufnclurcd rhy F. J Chcnej- & Co , Toledo, Ohio, (s the only Constitutional Constitu-tional euro on thu martet. It Is taUeu Internally In U05C6 from 10 drops to a tt-aspoonfol. It acts directly on tho blood and mucous surfaces of tlje Bjstem. They offer nno hundred dollars for iiy case it falU to euro. Bend for circular and testimonials. . Addrci K. J. CHENEY & CO.. Toledo. Ohio. I Sold by DragRlsts, 75c. , Tncw".i; Family rill for. conjtlpitloo. " V t y, .lfJ- -gJ:--,,-, ;; - - |