DRY-FARMING 



Agriculture. Mr. Morton was also a 

 Nebraska pioneer, and it is to his influ- 

 ence that most of the homesteads of that 

 State are surrounded by groves of trees 

 and, furthermore, that Arbor Day has 

 spread throughout the whole world. The 

 advantages of trees in the conservation 

 of moisture are well known to all who 

 have farmed on the wind-swept prairies. 



In Utah. 



Utah, which takes its name from the 

 Indian tribe "Eutaw," is a land of snow- 

 clad mountains and desert places. Now 

 although the agricultural and industrial 

 development of this important State has 

 undoubtedly been due to the practice of 

 irrigation^ — which has been raised to a 

 higher art here than anywhere else on the 

 American Continent, with the possible 



1 It is said the first irrigation canal in the United States 

 was built in Utah in the year 1847. 



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