Show THE LESSON OF THE DRY FARMING CONGRESS Tile Dry DIr Farming Fainting Congress s now In session In Billings Mont Is at attracting trading the attention of farmers ill lii all the in lain country where lands can bo be dry farmed It Is related that a lame mule anile was partially for or the dry ury farmIng movement which has deol open Into one or of the biggest hornis hoon for th lie arid nest weRL that has hILs ever been promoted Ii H W Campbell it IL Scotch mait settled In what Jt Is now South Dakota years ears ago A couple of dr dry years cars nearly disgusted hint him and ono one day dar while looking over oer his wheat wheatfield field wIth the intention of It ho happened to In ala 1 he wheat brow gro auth V V large Being of a sort of inquisitive turn he examined the soil Holl and that where the tho mille had dOwn the ground ho wh wheat at was good led him him to the that there was some somo way war of oC confining the In the ground 1 Following this up tip with experiments he soon that whore the tho ground was packed the tho wheat grow well While Campbell was probably the dr dry farmer ho he was the tho first to turn the tho system to a commercial 1150 saw the thC o of lag Ing and soon put hImself in III tho fore ground ml ho bo saId saltI to h as I I f I I old oltI as the lulls hlll It Is known that In Palestine for fOl centuries there thore has lias been a successful following of the Professor J 1 D coil COli With wilh the lie New MexicO agricultural I tural college Js is authority for the tho statement that the tho In of Northern Ie ico have tel fot hewed tho thio plan plait for years ears with goot good success They raise tho b best st corn com that Is grown in any semi semiarid semiarid arid regIon men of the tribe say sayI that hat I the lie method liat helm down In tribal traditions for fOJ years rears Gcorge g l Farrell who sell settled led In Cache valev alle Utah In Iii 1861 applied the system of dry and Ito tho result Is that lie ho is harvesting crops of wheat wheaL that will run from GO to 10 I to the acre aCIo arc tI a dozen and more who ha have e ap applied I tilled plied the tite S system with willI great I There hero 1 are alo six ix or ni eIght systems of dry farming lout hul he lucy all hinge upon lIpon the lie sIngle Idea of conserving the moisture In the sol soil While ono torn tom well in Colorado another would be 0 a f failure Thia I Is a mete matter malleL of detail and hy by experiment it I iii 10 del which system Is bet lol I particular section of the lie and It 1 Is IU rl Sone demand Iemand deep say ten ln or 01 twelve Inches while another section will sIlI do 10 heat hiet with of less titan than six incites Inches lach plan Imi ha haits Its advocates anti and there is bitt on one oneto wa to determine the best l and that thatis V If is by experiment and ani a study of the soil |