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Show !,' DRY FARMING IN CONNECTION WITH IRRIGATION. Dr B T Calloway, chief of the United States bureau of plant Industry, Indus-try, created a sensation in the irrigated irri-gated west when ha 6tated that, so ; far as he knew, "there never has been I any long continued irrigation In a, j 6eml-nrid climate anywhere In the! world." Now John T. Burns, secretary ofi the International Dry Farming con-fralt, con-fralt, confirms Mr. Galloway's state- ment. "The danger which he describes," I, says Mr. Burns, "has long been rec ognized by many students of soils There can be but one remedy. Ubs j less water, Conserve the rainfall I through deep plowing and surface cul tivation Add only that amount of I irrigation water necessary for the maximum production of crops. Increase In-crease the duty of water by adding : labor on the soil All the fertilizer In the world will not serve as a sub- stitute for the plow, the harrow, and !' the disc with An intelligent man be-1 i hind them. The wise lrrlgatlonlsts I I already know, and all IrrigationlBts are 1 I coming to know, that the principles of dry farming form the basis of all I agriculture. Irrigation Is merely la adjunct to good farming." I All successful irrigators will ad- I tnit that the plow and harrow must I 1' be used, and there must be a careful I I use of water, If the land is to be kept . from Bourlng or becoming coated with jj alkali. They will alBo acknowledge that the more the methods of the dry farmer are copied, the greater will be the returns from the soil, but as , j to the broad assertion that irrigation I must lead to failure is being refuted by the oldest irrigated farms of Utah, on which intelligent energy has been ' expended |