356 DRY-FARMING 
farm experiments in the famous Cache Valley, one 
hundred miles north of Salt Lake City. After some 
years of experimentation, with numerous failures, 
these and other pioneers established the practice 
of dry-farming in Cache Valley, which at present 
Fig. 97. Cache Valley, Utah, contains one of the most famous dry-farm 
districts in the United States. The dry-farms lie on the slope 
against the mountains, fifteen miles away. 
is one of the most famous dry-farm sections in 
the United States. In Tooele County, just south 
of Salt Lake City, dry-farming was practiced in 
1877 — how much earlier is not known. In the 
northern Utah counties dry-farming assumed pro- 
portions of consequence only in the later ’70’s and 
