Show HIGH FIELDS ano LOW COST ON DRY OF juan let demonstrations all around Us be inspected skeptics should first seq see our crops and be convinced many excell excellent edt farms hawe been examined by the writer during the last sixty duys days showing crops of var tells lous kinds and handled in several e essentially different ways but on this ibis mesa the dy lands given an ail to produce show conclusive evidence that hat they pay no man can inspect these dry farms without wIt hoitt becoming convinced that agriculture ri here is needing only more mien men and proper methods of farming to make it one of the best sections in the west last tiny blay of this piper went over that dry farni farm which velch they want to discontinue and which WP wa should demand be retained mair rained and last week just sixty lays days later we went over it again the fo lowing Is given not so much because it Is on the dry farm shows in outline that which may mav be done and la Is done on many other farms alarms chere are nine varieties of corn several reveral or ethein liem good and certain kinds no nofa trealy realy good demonstrating which la is most adapted for san juan eight kinds of beans show allow adaptation ill ohp p best kinds per date of plant ing cu cultivation etc amber borgum two kinds looks good and two varieties 0 of sudan grass is healthy as one would desire acting as an index to that which may be done several classes of peas demonstrate the right kinds altho nearly all look lust just fine jap dies millet la Is a wonderfully wonder full tull elder and hab a great future here for good hog fed commonly called airoso surprises sur Bur prizes a man by ua its luxuriant grath cucumbers look fine altho tha water wafer melons now growing well will not likely mature because of the late spring all kinds of onions and an exhibition of carrots together with gitil a car rot seed demonstration makes a person wonder where and how such ideas tt of dry farming fanning originated there la Is enough carrot coed there to supply i tah tor for 1931 1031 i clover the sweet clover and yellow look good tile tho second cutting bf being ing two or three ft birli and growing with vigor igor then theae artichokes som we dont ordinarily think about illustrate wonderfully wonder full pos sibil atles for feed one that will fatten cattle and pigs and do it econom icalla grapes are doing well likewise gooseberries goose berries and currants fruit trees got hard hanl hit in winter of 1931 and 1932 and are not doing much altho some plums look good alfalfa Is there nine patches of it representing planting in rows hills and broadens broadcasting tInz for tile the years 1930 1931 and 1932 some has been cut yielding 1800 lbs ibs of cured hay per acre for crop and cut about june 1st ast making the second crop produce rime more I 1 some of this crop is producing seed from ft it dt crop and at the rate it Is I 1 makins right now tie lie cash value per ner I 1 acre Is not less than allowing for some stripping the seed Is far enough advanced to 0 o insure maturity I 1 i without frost altho it la Is not likely a elevation for a seed district cabbage look good while potatoes potatoes I 1 are almost ideal that Is the ahe kinds I 1 adapted for this climate there pre spuds there that look as good as any patches in the well irrigated and high priced areas of utah then trees further tell a story flinch clinch the argument if need be there are poplar trees growing ag agatho tho they were right at home and siberian i elms doing well weil not one having died in the he three years siberian wheat two yarle varle ties now producing the second crop crol tire are along enough to the man of the ammense possibilities bili ties it li ii choice feed horses pro pre fer fei it to alfalfa as you may prove for yourself vours elf and it la Is a perennial plant it once ind and let ei it go of course wheat Is 6 planted in ganv tr acta trying various kinds with varying degrees of success but some good production Is harvested which you may inspect In spert in th ill face of those these facts will san juan county let this farm be abandoned it Is this tina kind of demonstration under in an expert as james eagar not in reh reality lity a great boon unless concerted action Is 19 taken sixty days will see BOO Welo It closed sed and our demonstration of dry land farming handled in such auch manner be ba concluded this Is IK pure false economy |