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Show oo DRY FARMER HAS HIS DAY. The snow and rain of the winter assures as-sures the dry' farmers of northern Utah another season of large crops. There has not been a year, in the last six years, in which good crops could not be grown by the dry-farming method, and durin? that period many of the dry farmers have accumulated small fortunes. On Promontory, the range of mountains moun-tains which rims the Salt Lake valley and marks our western horizon, thousands thous-ands of acres of land are being cultl-ated cultl-ated without irrigation and the farmers farm-ers there are highly prosperous. More of this land will be brought under the plough each year, as the new system of farming becomes better understood. Dry farming has made possible the redeeming of hundreds of thousands of acres in Utah which have been looked upon as almost barren wastes |