HISTORY OF DRY-FARMING 



ownership, and the population increased 

 that the people themselves seriously 

 turned to dry-farming. Be that as it 

 may, with forty years' experience 1 it is 

 but little wonder that the farmers of this 

 State can speak as those having authority 

 on the fundamental principles of dry- 

 farming. 



Dry-farming in Utah is thus no mere 

 theory, but an actual fact, and if any 

 further proof were needed it would be 

 found in the latest statistics, which show 

 that the acreage under the plow and the 

 harrow is already far greater than that 

 under the irrigation furrow. 



In Utah Dr. John A. Widtsoe, Direc- 

 tor of the State Agricultural College at 

 Logan, was the first publicly to advocate 



1 Recently, the writer visited a farm in the Cache Valley 

 which had yielded wheat continuously for the past forty 

 years without the use of manure. The usual practice had 

 been followed, viz., wheat one year, summer fallow the 

 next; and the last crop was making an excellent growth. 



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