DRY-FARMING 



strong probability that the yields per 

 acre would be larger, so that experiments 

 to determine this point would be well 

 justified." 



Seeding. 



In the Great Basin thin or light seed- 

 ing has been found to give the best re- 

 sults. A large quantity of seed is often 

 the cause of crop failure ; because a heavy 

 seeding makes an instant demand on the 

 moisture close to the surface before the 

 young and tender plants can strike their 

 roots down into the deep soil. The re- 

 sult is a severe struggle for existence 

 among the individual plants and crop 

 failure should the drought continue. 

 Speaking on this subject Merrill re- 

 marks: "When Bishop Farrell and Mr. 

 Salisbury first started their experiments 

 in the Cache Valley they sowed the same 

 amount of seed on their land that they 

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