DRY-FARMING 



For it has been successfully tried to a 

 greater or less degree in every State in 

 the West. Twenty years ago a begin- 

 ning was made in dry-farming in eastern 

 Wyoming near the Black Hills. Dvu-ing 

 the same period settlers were pouring 

 westward over the Dakotas, Kansas, 

 Colorado, Montana, and the drier sec- 

 tions of Oregon. 



Experiment Stations. 



It is said that the first experiment 

 farms in the semi-arid country were 

 started by the State of Colorado in the 

 year 1894. But for lack of funds these 

 stations were abandoned and it is to the 

 State of Utah that the honor belongs 

 of having first established and success- 

 fully maintained a series of dry-land 

 experiment stations. Since the year 

 1895, the reclamation of the deserts with- 

 out irrigation has been the subject of 

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