THE YEAR OF DROUTH 



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Record op the Barnes Dry-farm, vSalt Lake Valley, 



Utah (90 acres) 



of 1889, 22^ bushels of wheat were harvested to the 

 acre. Encouraged by this good crop Mr. Barnes al- 

 lowed a volunteer crop to grow that fall and the next 

 summer harvested as a result loj bushels of wheat 

 to the acre. The table shows that only one crop 

 smaller than this was harvested during the whole 



1 About four acres were sown on stubble. 



