ARID AGRICULTURE. 67 



Xear Cheyenne these grains stood a winter of 

 unusual drouth, there being only one and one- 

 third inches of precipitation in eight months. 

 After standing this remarkable drouth, winter 

 rye produced 44 bushels and winter wheat 35 

 bushels per acre. The author is breeding winter 

 dinners for the arid region and these grains give 

 promise of revolutionizing the stock-feeding in- 

 dustry of our Avestern plateaus. Sow winter 

 grains on summer tilled land in September or 

 the first half of October. At lower altitudes on 

 irrigated land some farmers have sown wheat 

 any time up to the hard freezing weather with 

 success-. Where fall sown grain can be pastured 

 it may be planted earlier. 



Spring sown crops should be planted as early 

 as the ground can be made ready and danger of 

 heavy freezing is over. Catch or volunteer crops 

 sometimes yield enough to be of value from seed 

 that shatters off in the fall. 



SEED PER Much of the success of dry farming depends 



on thin seeding. More beginners in dry farm- 

 in 2; Q ow too much seed rather than too little. 

 Where grains are sow r n early and have a corre- 

 spondingly long season, there is more chance for 

 stooling. For the same reason we should sow 

 larger amounts of seed when we are late 

 doing the work. There may be moisture enough 

 to support ten grain plants per square foot when 

 twenty plants would die of thirst. Limited 



