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Show TO GIVE POINTERS ON DRY FARM INK Professors Merrill and Caine to Instruct In-struct Farmers in Uintah County. Prof. L. A Merrill and .1. T. Caine III. f the Utah Agricultural college, will leave during the week for Uintnh county to instruct the tanners of Cna county In the proper nimner of carrying car-rying on dry fanning. It is declared by Prof. Merrill that di farmi-ic has :iot been redueeil to a science in Utah, which accounts for the nony losses, and It is for the purnoso of giving scfeutlP help alonx thin line that the trio will be ni'i'le to Uinla'i count v "The drv fnrnis this year." said I'in-fessoi I'in-fessoi Merrill, "have yielded rood crops when the work has V-on done according the rules given bv the agricultuial college. Among ibe,e re-niilremcnts re-niilremcnts are summer 'allowing and fall plantlncr. Wheie tills hus lit?en done the croes have been pood. Where this has not bee i done t'aey have been failures in mos cases. peonb are complaining pbout dry farming this year, spying that it is n failure. Th?v range their r.'jlnlons on the f.act that there have been a tiumoer of failures anl do not take Into consideration the fact that there is a renson beyond that of the drought. "It is the purpose of le agricultural college to Instruct the farmers In the matter rf neientifie r.ry running ami to c'o this v.e have nianned farmers institutes. These will be held in tho diy farm districts. I. our missionary work meets with the approval of the dry farm neonle and they take on our method I can say Ihnt theie will be many times this year." |