Show DRY FARM experiments the utah agricultural experiment has just published as station bulletin a report of 16 years ol of dry farm experiments in utah the deport was prepared by dr F S harris director and agronomist ot of the station and Aless rs A F brack enand baand 1 I J jensen assistant agron 0 ai lists ats who have done considerable work on the experiments the the major portion of 0 the bulletin devoted d to a discussion of some ot of lie results of the seven major apro ajro lecis under investigation at nepal including cropping systems with winter wheat itt liage methods with w ater wheat it rotations with winter v teat tat winter varley barley spring oats n v s potatoes and corn I 1 ts of winter winter and spring cheats 0 ilar baileys barleys bar leys levs spelt and eainer mid aind 0 leas beans porn corn and potatoes r lity clity tests with barnyard and ii C n manure manure breeding work with kaer cheats winter tarley parley and 0 and a forage crop test tile tests on forage crops are re 1 tel iu in the bulletin included atta alta afa sweet clover corn peas notch etch I 1 r ame grass tall meadow oat grass c z dart dan grass millet grain d rape though sorie some success was it d with most of these crops alfalfa h b i proven to be tile the most profitable c i for forage under most condl as in experiments which have re been conducted yearly since 1105 1 05 the average yield of alfalfa 1 p j year has been approximately one i to the acre while individual A irs have run as high as a ton and 1 aalf sweet clover tall meadow 0 i grass and brome grass have div fair yields but aret open to serious f r sections rhe different varieties of potatoes potato esi i a shown by extensive tables in the laletin were found to vary very rach n ich in their adaptability to dry ni conditions in the tests thor c gabled leads with an average v r sid ld of 74 bushels while individual rs run as high as bushels tb the e lowest was market i ize with an average of 32 bushels the authors state that two crop in 11 1 1 three years has proven to be the i at profitable dry farm practice at t phi in experiments extending ext endine 0 er a period of sixteen years the tha 0 crops iroda in three years practice hall haa iren en a net return per year per acre 0 the alternate cropping came cae second with a net return i r acre per year of 1894 the thors state that the alternate in Is in the long loag run considered n ich safer however extensive tests reported in the bulletin show that at nepal spring p aw ing immediately followed by harrowing hr h rr owing rowing with one weeding and aro ano ober her narrowing just before tall fall dang ming has proved to be the most moat e ono Drion mical lical method of preparing the ad idies aed for tall all sowing under the iho ornate system of cropping disk 11 dry barza land in the fall amrie bitely after harvesting I 1 was not pi of italie the best depth to plow a i to the authors appe appears ars to b beewen 5 and 10 inches spring cultivation of winter wheat vaas d n ao at a loss winter wheat y elded aided best when sown at the rate ol 01 0 about six pecks to tiie the acre winter wheat according to the he I 1 bu bulat lation fons in tile the bulletin has brov c to be by far the most important u i y tarm farm crop crimean turkey log llna and bulgarian varieties of 0 ner wheat have given the beba t ra I 1 s e yields over a long period ot of t ne ile ranging from to 41 5 r aels per acre ring cheats have proven to bo be ill III sometimes tome times where winter vae v e t lias has failed to give a land the best yielding varieties 0 common spring cheats hive been C lul ul saumur early baart clarka id koola with yields ranging from down to bushels p pr per r acre the best yielding durum spring var etlas have been Xu kuba banka nka adelini mohammed den ben bachir antt nl velve velvit don doll barley barey ranks next to v h abat eat I 1 I 1 in it yield of grain on the experimental y barms bulgarian and turkestan Turk Turn estan lestan nier varieties have bave shown gr promise oats and spring barly baileys i avo ave not yet yielded satisfactorily apfl the e peri mental farms in addition to athe ahe farm at ac nepha the result bresulla on seven other dry farms arms which have been opi operated rated to test the possibilities of various sections are reported la the bulletin Tho farms in san juan sevier too ele and washington neton counties have deen been abandoned the san sail juan farm de most rated very conclusively that the area was well adopted adapted to dry farming and while crops were secured on the and tooele thoele farms the yield in most moat cases indicated that the sections were not very promising lor for dry farming tile the washington co county anty farm was used largely in the production of pure strains of seed and was later brought under irrigation at which unto it was abandoned tile the farms now in operation arn an at ced cedar ar city and aaa widtsoe soe garfield galfield gal field county the latter at three are being operated to test he adaptability of these sections 3 tu to dry farming the latter itter two of which 0 have already shown to be very promising sections though the work has not progressed far enough tor for definite conc lus oua |