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exclusively the crops. The method is to plant 

 each alternate year, and during the unplanted 

 year turn over the soil two or three times, and 

 oftener if the ranchman finds it convenient. 

 One ranchman told me that he had sixteen hun- 

 dred acres which he worked under the dry 

 farming method, which in normal seasons — 

 approximately one-half of it being planted each 

 year — produced sixteen thousand bushels of 

 oats. This was the season of harvest, and every- 

 where I encountered big steam thrashers and 

 stackers on the highway, cumberously moving 

 under their own steam from ranch to ranch, 

 with the horse-drawn tenders, carrying coal and 

 water, trailing behind. 



Near Juab I passed what was claimed to be 

 a new oil region. So far as I could learn no 

 oil had yet been struck, but they were erecting 

 derricks and were nearly ready to begin boring. 

 As is usual in a new oil or mining region, those 

 interested were in high expectation of making 

 great strikes and attaining great riches. 



Now and again an old pioneer would stop 

 me with the greeting: 



"Hello, pard. Your outfit looks good to me. 

 Makes me think of old times. Come fur?" 



"Yes, came up from Arizona," I would an- 

 swer. 



