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Show " the successful dry farm method. This man is to be pitied, but he ha learned a lesson that will be invaluable. The season, despite its losses, has been a most valuable one in its conclusive demonstration the certainty of the aria farm processes in crop production, when properly pursued." The Standard agrees with the Journal on all the foregoing-, but would place a little more emphasis on the fact that a drouth-resisting plant, such as Egyptian wheat is said to be, should prove as gTeat a factor in making a success of dry farming aa the method of cultivation. cultiva-tion. Campbell of Kansas, who has led in dry farming, first brought out the importance of soil cultivation as described by the Logan paper, but even the Campbell method without the best seed, may result re-sult in failure. Our government has experts out, searching all countries, for plant life which may prove adaptable to our climate and soil. One of the greatest blessings ever conferred on the western farmer wa3 the introduction of lucerne, a plant without which the hay crop of thi3 region would be reduced to insignificant figures. Now, if a wheat, as thrifty on the western dry farms as alfalfa has been on our ranches, can be developed, then, as we have said, half the struggle and much of the uncertainty of the dry fanner will be ended. SUCCESS AT DRY FARMING. The Logan Journal has reached the conclusion that success at dry farming depends on the method of cultivation and conservation of moisture. We quote at length from the Logan paper, as the subject sub-ject is of intense interest to those who, as farmers, are attempting to reclaim the non-irrigable land3 and build up a new empbe of opportunity op-portunity and home-creating: 'The Ogden Standard cites B. P. Critchlow as a successful dry farmer who attributes his fine crop to the fact that he planted Egyptian Egyp-tian wheat; upon which The Standard states that if this wheat is drouth proof, 'dry periods will have no terrors for the tiller of the soil.' "Now in all probability Egyptian wheat, especially when raised for several years upon an arid farm, is a splendid grain for the purpose, pur-pose, hut we suspect it lies not so much in the wheat as in the manner man-ner of cultivation. We have seen some fine club and other varieties that filled well this year and made a fine crop ; but no kind of wheat yet discovered can grow without moisture. 'On the dry farm this moisture must come from beneath ; and in order to maintain it there the land must be thoroughly cultivated. "The theory is that even in the arid west sufficient moisture falls, if properly conserved, to raise a good crop every second year. And so, as soon as the farmer has harvested his crop he re-plows the land, loosening it up to retain the moisture. During the following summer, when it lies fallow, he'does not let it raise a crop of weeds to drain the accumulated moisture, but disks or harrows it, probably prob-ably several times, making the surface smooth and fine. Many use heavy rollers to compress the surface. Meantime the other half of the farm is raising a crop, after having gone through a similar process. pro-cess. "It i3 to the method of cultivation and conservation of moisture that the land owes its fertility, and not to the wheat. Although, of course, some varieties resist drouth better than others, and especially after becoming habituated to do without surface irrigation, the moisture mois-ture must have been conserved where the roots can reach it, or there will be no crop ; and this means that the land was be cultivated ac-1 ac-1 cording to the best dry farm methods, full information regarding which may be obtained from the Utah Agricultural College Experiment Experi-ment Station, which largely pioneered the arid farming movement in Utah and has given many successful demonstrations, i "A glance over the wheat fields in the dry farming districts o1 ! Cache county this year has given ample demonstration of the value of proper methods, and in sharp contrast, the inutility of slack methods, or carelessness. Upon one field has been seen a full stand of well ma! turcd, plump wheat, and upon the adjoining farm a poor, spindling stand of but little value for any purpose, both of the same' variety of wheat, and upon the same class of soil; but the owner of the one had learned his lesson well and adopted every precaution, and the other, possibly having had several good seasons with timely rainfalls, hence f fair crops, had either become careless, or had never really learned |