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DRY FARMING CONGRESS. 



MR. FARRELL: Just go to work in the first place and put it into 

 a bowl over some warm water, boiling hot, and let it stay there over 

 night, and the next morning drain it off, let it lay over day and the next 

 night you will find sprouts starting, and you can take it and plant it in 

 the ground where you have got it already made nice and moist, and you 

 will find it will be up in a short tithe. 



MR. HOLDAWAY: I haven't noticed you referring to the use of a 

 leveler on your ground. Do you use one? 



MR." FARRELL: Yes, sir; after you plow your ground, before you 

 sow it, you make your leveler 14 or 16 feet long out of two-inch plank. 

 That is what I made mine of, and then three feet from the front you put 

 a piece across about two by four, and cut half of the end of that out and 

 put one end through and make a pole two inches square and put it through 

 and put a pin in on each .end, and six feet from the hind end; at the same 

 end put some cross bars, and put some screws into them so that you can 

 take them out again when you have done your leveling, and get the boy 

 to ride on that and go cross-wise and every lump that it comes to it will 

 level that off and drop it into the holes or dead furrows in the ground. 

 You see it is 16 feet long and when it comes to the hollows it will grad- 

 ually leave that dirt in the holes and that ground will be perfectly level. 

 When the fall comes and you want to put the leveler away take the screws 

 out and put it all up overhead in your shed until next season and it will 

 keep perfectly straight and nice and dry. 



MR. HOLDAV/AY: How wide is the leveler? 



MR. FARRELL: Ten feet long. Put two good span of horses on it 

 if there is a heavy person on it, and it will be all they want to take. 



MR. HOLDAWAY: Have you ever dug any surface wells on your 

 ground to know the depth to the surface water? 



MR. FARRELL: We dug a well right up where my house stands. 

 There is a small spring, and I dug a well and from that spring there is 

 water comes into the well underground about 12 feet deep, but I have dug 

 wells below that. One of my neighbors had no water at all; he had no 

 spring near his place, and I let him dig a well on my place, and he went 

 some 30 feet deep, some 35 years ago, but he could not get any water, 

 and he filled it up, and he had to come up to my place to get water. 

 I found a man in Logan who was boring for water and I took him over 

 onto my farm and he went down onto the bottom and went down 170 feet 

 and he got water, then this neighbor of mine asked me if I would not 

 let him go into the stream I had down through the center of my farm and 

 make a well, and I told him, certainly, and he went down there and got 

 a well there at 185 feet, and then he bought another piece of land above 

 mine half a mile and he made a well there and got water there, so he left 

 the well and I paid him for the pipe he put in it, and that makes me a 

 good well for my horses and cattle to water when we are plowing or 

 harrowing or threshing. 



MR. HOLDAWAY: I understand from this your wells are piped in- 

 stead of being dug down? 



