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DRY-FARMING 



farm experiments in the famous Cache Valley, one 

 hundred miles north of Salt Lake City. After some 

 }'ears of experimentation, with numerous failures, 

 these and other pioneers established the practice 

 of dry-farming in Cache ^^alley, which at present 



Fig. 07. Car-he Galley. I^tah, contains one of the most famous drj'-farm 

 districts in the United States. The dry-farms lie on the slope 

 against the mountains, fifteen miles a^^'aj'. 



is one of the most famous dr}'-farm sections in 

 the United States. In Tooele Count}-, just south 

 of Salt Lake City, dr}'-farming was practiced in 

 1S77 — how much earlier is not known. In the 

 northern Utah counties dry-farming assumed pro- 

 portions of conseciuence only in the later '70's and 



