CPIAPTER XV 



IMPLEMENTS FOR DRY-FARMING 



Cheap land and relatively small acre yields 

 characterize dry-farming. Consequently, larger 

 areas must be farmed for a given return than in 

 humid farming, and the successful pursuit of dry- 

 farming compels the adoption of methods that 

 enable a man to do the largest amount of effective 

 work with the smallest expenditure of energy. The 

 careful observations made by Grace, in Utah, lead to 

 the belief that, under the conditions prevailing 

 in the intermountain country, one man with four 

 horses and a sufficient supply of machinery can farm 

 160 acres, half of which is summer-fallowed every 

 year; and one man may, in favorable seasons under 

 a carefully planned system, farm as much as 200 

 acres. If one man attempts to handle a larger farm, 

 the work is likely to be done in so slipshod a manner 

 that the crop yield decreases and the total returns 

 are no larger than if 200 acres had been well tilled. 



One man with four horses would be unable to 

 handle even 160 acres were it not for the posses- 

 sion of modern machinery; and dry-farming, more 

 than any other system of agriculture, is dependent 



301 



