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fairly good, and must be ascribed to some other factor 

 tlian tliat of precipitation. The record of this farm 

 shows conclusively that with proper farming there is 

 no need to fear the year of drouth. 



The Utah drouth of 1910 



During the year of 1910 only 2.7 inches of rain fell 

 in Salt Lake City from March I to the July harvest, 

 and all of this in March, as against 7.18 inches dur- 

 ing the same period the preceding year. In other 

 parts of the state much less rain fell ; in fact, in the 

 southern part of the state the last rain fell during 

 the last week of December, 1909. The drouth re- 

 mained unbroken until long after the wheat har- 

 vests. Great fear was expressed that the dry-farms 

 could not survive so protracted a period of drouth. 

 Agents, sent out over the various dry-farm districts, 

 reported late in June that wherever clean summer 

 fallowing had been practiced the crops were in excel- 

 lent condition; but that wherever careless methods 

 had been practiced, the crops were poor or killed. 

 The reports of the harvest in July of 1910 showed 

 that fully 85 per cent of an average croj? was obtained 

 in spite of the protracted drouth wherever the soil 

 came into the spring well stored with moisture, and 

 in many instances full crops were obtained. 



Over the whole of the dry-farm territory of the 

 United States similar conditions of drouth occurred. 



