DRY-FARMING 



Rotation. 1 



It is of interest to note that so far crop 

 rotation has not played a prominent part 

 in the agricultural practice of Utah, and 

 Merrill makes this plain in a recent ad- 

 dress: "I want to object to the idea that 

 has been advanced here, that we need to 

 rotate our crops. If we grow a crop of 

 corn maize on the land, alternating 

 with wheat, it simply means that that 

 corn is going to take so much moisture 

 out of the land." 



Summing up it may be said that dry- 

 farming in the Great Basin is based on 

 certain fundamental principles which 

 have been worked out by the farmers 

 themselves and their striking success has 

 been mainly due to a combination of five 

 factors: (1) Deep plowing to increase the 

 capacity of the soil for holding moisture. 



1 Second Annual Trans-Missouri Dry Farming Congress, 

 Salt Lake City. 



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