HISTORY OF DRY-FARMING 



much discussion among the officers of the 

 Utah Experiment Station. In 1901, a 

 systematic investigation was begun, and 

 in 1903 the Governor recommended in 

 his message to the Legislature that arid 

 experimental farms be established. Such 

 is the brief history of the Arid Farm 

 Bill. In the State of Utah, five experi- 

 mental farms have been established. 

 They consist of forty acres each. Each 

 county in which a farm was placed 

 donated the land, cleared the ground of 

 sage-brush, and so forth, gave it a first 

 plowing, and inclosed it with a rabbit- 

 proof fence. Numerous citizens took a 

 personal interest in the work and greatly 

 simplified the inauguration of the experi- 

 mental plots. These farms are under the 

 direction of the Agricultural College. 

 The results of the Utah Dry-Land Ex- 

 periment Farms may be summed up as 

 follows : 



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