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DRY FARMING CONGRESS. 



MR. FARRELL: He wants to know if we find it injurious to pasture 

 our summer fallowed land. Not unless you put stock on when it is too 

 wet. We never allow ours to do that. Put them on when the land is 

 dry and it does not hurt then. 



MR. WHITE: You stated that in planting your box elder trees you dug 

 down to where the ground was wet. Does that mean the surface water 

 that raises? 



MR. FARRELL: No, but we dug down to where the ground was 

 moist. 



MR. WHITE: Do you think where there is no surface water which 

 comes close to the surface of the ground that you could raise trees the 

 same as you do? 



MR. FARRELL: I think you could raise trees better if the water 

 was close to the top of the ground. 



MR. WHITE: Where it is not close to the top; where the water is, 

 say 20 feet from the ground? 



MR. FARRELL: If you put trees down to where the ground is 

 moist — sink down and get down from the top — dig down to where the 

 ground is moist and plant your trees you will come out all right. 



MR. ALLEN, from Utah: I would like to ask the gentleman if he 

 knows the depth of the surface water where this grove is? 



MR. FARRELL: I have made two or three flowing wells on my 

 farm so we can have water for our stock, one drilled in the pasture, and 

 we went down, I think the shortest distance was 170 feet (laughter) and 

 we went down from that to 470 feet before we got water, and then we 

 only got about a gallon, I think, in about fifteen minutes. 



MR. WHITE: Isn't the surface water closer to the ground than that? 



MR. FARRELL: Didn't find any closer than that. (Laughter.) 



MR. JONES, from Utah: I would like to ask the gentleman which 

 he considers the best for seeding — a seed drill or hanti sowing? 



MR. FARRELL: Oh, a drill, by all means. A press drill— the Su- 

 perior Press drill I find to be the best. 



MR. WHITE: Thank you. 



MR. DALTON: I would like to ask Mr. Farrell what depth he plowed 

 in the fall of the year, as considered to be the best depth for plowing? 



MR. FARRELL: We don't plow less than eight inches deep on the 

 stubble ground, and then once in three years we try to subsoil six inches 

 deeper. I haven't got to that yet. I will explain that. 



I had one field of wheat a few years ago — 224 acres in it. This was 

 on a section that I bought of the railroad, and I ran a fence down through 

 the center, leaving a large field on each side half a mile long and half a 

 mile wide. In the summer, just as the grain was turning ripe, I and one 

 of my hands were walking through to look at it, and when 

 we got pretty near the south end of the furrow — the dead fur- 

 row, I looked off to the southeast and I saw a patch of grain ^ where the 



