DRY-FARMING 



Rotation.^ 



It is of interest to note that so far crop 

 rotation has not played a prominent part 

 in the agricultural practice of Utah, and 

 Merrill makes this plain in a recent ad- 

 dress: "I want to object to the idea that 

 has been advanced here, that we need to 

 rotate our crops. If we grow a crop of 

 com — maize — on the land, alternating 

 with wheat, it simply means that that 

 corn is going to take so much moisture 

 out of the land." 



Summing up it may be said that dry- 

 farming in the Great Basin is based on 

 certain fundamental principles which 

 have been worked out by the farmers 

 themselves and their striking success has 

 been mainly due to a combination of five 

 factors : ( 1 ) Deep plowing to increase the 

 capacity of the soil for holding moisture. 



1 Second Annual Trans-Missouri Dry Farming Congress, 

 Salt Lake City. 



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