HOMES AT SMALL COST IN WYOMING. 



fall, but spring wheat is always a good crop. White 

 Russian, Velvet Chaff, Blue Stem and Saskatchewan 

 are good varieties for the country. As 95 per cent, 

 of the flour used in Wyoming is shipped in from 

 other states, it is apparent that the market will be 

 good in the state for wheat growers for a great 

 length of time. 



Winter and spring rye yields 30 bushels to the 

 acre. One irrigation only is required. Experiments 

 with the grain for the past three years show it to be 

 a certain crop and one produced with but little care. 



Flax yields 16 bushels to the acre. It requires two 

 irrigations. That raised on the company's land last 

 year took the first prize at the World's Fair. 



Barley of the best quality is raised. It requires 

 two irrigations and yields 25 to 40 bushels to the 

 acre. 



Beauty of Hebron and Hoffman are found to be good 

 varieties for which the Wheatland soil is especially 

 adapted. There is always a good market. The 1893 

 crop netted 75 cents per hundred pounds. During 

 the big strike and tie-up of most of the railroads of 

 the country the Wheatland farmers who had potatoes 

 commanded 4 cents a pound for them. 



Field beans produce 20 bushels to the acre with 

 but one irrigation and little cultivation. Field peas 

 produce 22 bushels per acre. 



Broom corn grows splendidly. The Japanese and 

 Imperial Evergreen are good varieties, growing to a 

 length of twelve feet with fine, smooth brush. 



All grasses do well except red clover which is in- 

 clined to winter kill. Broam and Johnson grasses 

 produce good stands and grow rank. Timothy, Rye 

 and Blue grass produce well, but not such heavy 



CUTTING A FIRST CROP OF ALFALFA. 



Corn yields 40 bushels to the acre. The fodder is 

 small, but the grain is large and matures early. 

 About 40 acres have been cultivated annually for a 

 number of years on the company farm and constant 

 experiments have been made on the experimental 

 farm to determine the best varieties. The market is 

 unfailing as there is a constant demand for corn by 

 cattle raisers for fattening stock. 



The potato crop is a big money maker. They do 

 better on the Wheatland lands than in the famous 

 Greeley district where many farmers have become 

 rich by raising potatoes. The yield is 100 to 400 

 bushels an acre. No fertilizers are required and but 

 comparatively little water, two irrigations only being 

 needed. Alfalfa land ploughed under raises enor- 

 mous crops of potatoes of the finest quality. On the 

 experimental farm fifty varieties are being tested. 

 Mammoth Pearl, Rose Seedling, Empire State, 



crops as on low lands. Millet with a small amount 

 of water is a good grass to cultivate. 



Sorghum has been raised on the experimental farm, 

 growing ten and twelve feet high with the cane^well 

 filled. It has never been tested for quality. 



SUGAR BEETS. 



Sugar beets have received much attention on the 

 experimental farm and good crops have been raised 

 for three years. Here, as elsewhere, they require 

 much care in cultivation and considerable water is 

 needed for irrigation early in the season but very lit- 

 tle at the close. Twelve to twenty tons per acre has 

 been the average annual crop. With cost of seed, 

 ploughing, irrigating and all other labor the cost per 

 acre of production has been about $25. 



The Wheatland beets are of the finest quality. 

 Tests are made of the products of experimental 



