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Mr. BrciiANAN. Thcsr stntions iirr ('ii;;ii;;o<l in i'\[)rririuMital funn- 

 in;.'. aro tlirv not ( 



Doctor 'I'v^ i.ou. Yrs. hi the (Irrat IMaiiis rcjriou. from fhr Catiii- 

 ilian lionlcr <i()\vn t(» middle wostorn Toxas. 



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Mr. Andkkson. Ait \vr^i>ltiii«; aiivwlu'ir with this drv-laiid rariiiii)^ 

 proposition '. 



Doctor 'rvvr.«)K. Wo aro jjottin^ \ ahiahU> rt'sults tliroii^h this work, 

 and I say that advisedly, because this work is the spinal 'ohinin 

 which lar«j:cly sustains all of the experimental work <»f the dry-farminj; 

 re«:ions. The State if\st itutions are eooperatin<; with tis. supplement- 

 ing this work with independent stations in certain <'ases. We are 

 gettin<4 a basis of facts which is ^oinj; to he exceedingly helpful in 

 the orientation of the aijriculture <»f the future in that territory. 

 The sad thin^ is that we could nt)t have had this W(»rk done before a 

 <;ood deal of that country was opeiwd and its farming; bej^un,' as it 

 was. upon an exploit at ional basis in the earlier years. 



Mr. Andkkson. What relation will this dry-land experimental 

 work have to livestock raisinj; ami f()ra«;e ^ 



Doctor Tayloh. Exactly this -the development of a permanent 

 live-stock industry there retjuires a fairly constant supply of planted 

 forajje as well as ade<|unte fjru/.in*: land and it is j^oini; to refpiire 

 probably the provision of forage for the e(|iiiv)dent of a winter 

 IS months lonj;— a part of it hot. 



In other words, the nonproductive seasons in which practicallv 

 no planted crops make a yield. The qufvstion as to the acreaj^e unit 

 that a farmer can hope to support his familv on, the types of crops 

 that he can afford to grow, the methods of tillacre that will insure 

 supplies of forage and grain, all have to be calculated from the data 

 obtained by exj>erimentation at these stations. The determination 

 of the frecjuency of these IS months' long periods of light productions 

 are through these records. They are the places wliere, because of the 

 continuous maintenance of the work, the facts can be recorded and 

 made available. Tlien, too, the preventi(»n of irrational exnloitation 

 of these lands has got to come through the availability of information 

 of this character to tlie public. 



Mr. Andf.kson. It seems to me the production of grain crops in 

 this section where you have periodic failures and long distances from 

 markets and great disadvantages in freight rates is ahnost hopeless 

 unless you can develop a live-stock industry which will reduce the 

 cost of getting to the market. 



Doctor Taylor. The shape in whicli it has crystallized in some of 

 our minds is about like this: That the farming of considerable areas 

 where almost sole reliance has been placed on grain for sale will have 

 to be readjusted to the basis of a live-stock industry based primarily 

 upon grazing on operating units big enough to maintain a farm family. 

 Tnis necessitates production of sulhcient supplies of forage to carry 

 the stock through the winter and to provide a carry-over of either 

 dry or ensiled forage for tlu' bad years. Grain production is a 

 scmispeculative })ossibility, the grain crop to be put in when 

 the spring prospects look right for making a good crop, but grain 

 for sale not to be relied on for the support of the family. The grain 



