THE YEAR OF DROUTH 405 
Record OF THE Barnes Dry-rarm, Savt Lake VALLEY, 
Urau (90 acrEs) 
ANNUAL * YIELD 
Yar ee a Pes Wuen Sown 
1887 11.66 — May Sept. 
1888 13.62 Failure May Sept. 
1889 18.46 22.5 —_ Volunteer? 
1890 10.33 15.5 — 
1891 15.92 Fallow May Fall 
1892 14.08 19.3 — 
1893 17.35 Fallow May Fall 
1894 15.27 26.0 _ — 
1895 11.95 Fallow May Aug. 
1896 18.42 22.0 — — 
1897 16.74 Fallow Spring Fall 
1898 16.09 26.0 — _ 
1899 17.57 Fallow May Fall 
1900 11.53 23.5 —_ —_ 
1901 16.08 Fallow Spring Fall 
1902 11.41 28.9 Sept. Fall 
1903 14.62 12.5 — — 
1904 16.31 Fallow Spring Fall 
1905 14.23 25.8 — — 
of 1889, 225 bushels of wheat were harvested to the 
acre. Encouraged by this good crop Mr. Barnes al- 
lowed a volunteer crop to grow that fall and the next 
summer harvested as a result 154 bushels of wheat 
to the acre. The table shows that only one crop 
smaller than this was harvested during the whole 
1 About four acres were sown on stubble. 
