DROUTH-RESISTING FARMS All 
fairly good, and must be ascribed to some other factor 
than that of precipitation. The record of this farm 
shows conclusively that with proper farming there is 
no need to fear the year of drouth. 
The Utah drouth of 1910 
During the year of 1910 only 2.7 inches of rain fell 
in Salt Lake City from March 1 to the July harvest, 
and all of this in March, as against 7.18 inches dur- 
ing the same period the preceding year. In other 
parts of the state much less rain fell; in fact, in the 
southern part of the state the last rain fell during 
the last week of December, 1909. The drouth re- 
mained unbroken until long after the wheat har- 
vests. Great fear was expressed that the dry-farms 
could not survive so protracted a period of drouth. 
Agents, sent out over the various dry-farm districts, 
reported late in June that wherever clean summer 
fallowing had been practiced the crops were in excel- 
lent condition; but that wherever careless methods 
had been practiced, the crops were poor or killed. 
The reports of the harvest in July of 1910 showed 
that fully 85 per cent of an average crop was obtained 
in spite of the protracted drouth wherever the soil 
came into the spring well stored with moisture, and 
in many instances full crops were obtained. 
Over the whole of the dry-farm territory of the 
United States similar conditions of drouth occurred. 
