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DRY FARMING CONGRESS. 



light sandy soils a press attachment is especially valuable. The spring- 

 crops that are best sown are: spring rye for hay, white beardless barley, 

 flax and last, oats. Oats require more moisture than any other crop and 

 consequently are not as sure a crop as speltz, which makes an excellent 

 substitute for horse and hog feed. 



The three varieties of spring wheat sown yielded twenty-seven bushels 

 per acre. Two fields of Kubauka durum wheat of five acres each yielded 

 27 bushels and 42 bushels, of fine flinty kernels, per acre. The first 

 smaller yield was on sod plowed in the October previous, and drilled in 

 in April. The larger yield was on old ground in which the wild nature 

 was thoroughly killed and the land which had been sown to Canadian Peas 

 the year previous was fall plowed, thus putting the soil in the very nicest 

 state of cultivation. Fifty acres of beardless barley made 38 bushels per 

 acre, speltz made 31 bushels, and oats made the phenomenal yield of 55 

 bushels and weighed 46 pounds to the bushel, or 80 bushels standard 

 measure. The field sown to winter wheat was "hailed out" three separate 

 times and still made 12 bushels per acre. The hail storm was local and 

 did not injure our other fields less than a mile distant. 



Several plats of alfalfa were, left for seed and set a fine crop, but on 

 account of the lateness of threshing much of the seed was wasted and no 

 results can be reported. We are fully convinced from the showing made 

 that alfalfa seed growing will be eminently successful and it is our inten- 

 tion to put in a large acreage next year. 



The Garden. 



The truck garden was all that could be asked; all kinds of garden 

 stuffs did exceedingly well. We had all the radishes, lettuce, onions, peas, 

 beans, carrots, parsnips, beets, turnips, cabbage and summer squash we 

 could use at headquarters all summer. We put in only a small patch of 

 potatoes but they made a good yield and furnished what was needed for 

 immediate use during the summer and there were several sacks to be 

 dug the first of ^October. Everyone remarked upon the fine quality of 

 our garden vegetables and said they had never eaten finer in any country. 

 No one need go hungry if he will only bestir himself and till his garden 

 sufficiently. Respectfully submitted, 



W. SUDDUTH, Director. 



SECRETARY ROOT: We have here the print of a paper that would 

 have been brought here by Mr. F. A. Carnal, of Fort Benton, Montana. 

 It was called for and he was not present, and it has been printed in an 

 outside paper, and that has been left with the Secretary. 



CHAIRMAN BURRELL: Without objection this communication will 

 also be allowed to go into the record. The chair hears none and it is so 

 ordered. 



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