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get a good root in the ground and b.y plowing late in the fall." T want 

 to tell yon in cnltivating it in the spring yon see yon have that winter's 

 supply of water held there through the summer, then you sow it early 

 in the fall and it has plenty of moisture to bring it up. 



I want to relate right here another little cTretimstance. ^ly son is 

 present here and was present at that time. T ordered a new drill and we 

 had our grain bought and I haiiled the drill onto the ground where we 

 were going to sow wheat, and the yotmg man that was sent over to put 

 up the drill from the wagon department, he sa^'s. "Are 3'ou going to sow 

 wheat right here?" I told him. yes. He sa3's, "It will never grow; it 

 will sprout and grow up and die." We told him to take the rod that went 

 through the drill to regtilate the amount of seed, and stick it into the 

 groimd four inches and let it remain there a few minutes. He did so. 

 "Now. pull it up and see how it looks." There was about two inches at 

 the top that was perfectly dry, and two inches at the lower end cov- 

 ered with little particles of soil or a kind of sweat. I said, "A\'e sow 

 the grain down four inches into that moisture, and this mulch we have 

 on top of the ground acts as a protector, and it will sprout that grain and 

 bring it up in ten days." I met him abotit two weeks afterwards and he 

 said. "I went and put up a drill over at Cache Junction the other day and 

 I got a good look at your grain." He said. "I cotild see the grain up 

 for eighty rods over the field: beautifid. I was surprised." If 3'OU 

 keep the ground well worked up, keep the weeds down, and that keeps 

 the moisture in. then you see it has had one winter's moisture, then after 

 it g-rows it gets the next winter's moisture, so that one crop has two years' 

 moisture, and the sun will continualh' bring it up until the grain is per- 

 fectly matured. Now the grotmd on top of the motmtain averaged 

 between 30 and 33 bushels per acre last year. Yoti know where 

 that mountain is. l:ietween Cache A'alley and Box Elder County, 

 and we sow grain there every year. I got about two sections of railroad 

 land, and it goes clear over the mountain onto the other side. I wanted 

 to make a \\ ell for culinary purposes, and I wanted to drill a well close to 

 the house, which is up in tlie valley, and the man that run it said, "I would 

 advise you to go down near the barn, because it will sa\-e yon per- 

 haps a hundred feet.'' So we went down there. I told him to go down 

 until he got plenty of water. He continued to go down and went down 

 350 feet to the water, and the water came up within fifteen feet of the 

 top.' I said, "Go on down." He went down 470 feet, but we could not 

 get it an inch higher. I said. "Yoti can quit now and we will put a pump 

 on there." AA'e have got a pump on there, and during otir thresliing and 

 heading we never can pump that dr}-. A\'e have always got plent}" of wa- 

 ter, and the finest kind of water. But we had to go 470 feet to get it up 

 as high as that. 



Now. in cultiA'ating your soil don't forget to plow it deep — not less 

 than eight or nine inches, then if you want to subsoil that will 

 leave the soil dropping in the bottom of the furrow so that you are not 

 turning that subsoil dirt on top that has not been sterilized, and that 



