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MR. FARRELL' They are piped down; yes, sir. 



MR. HOLDAWAY: I thought perhaps you had considerable surface 

 water or water somewhere near the surface, and wondered if you have ever 

 dug down an open well? 



MR. FARRELL: You will remember I told you he dug down some 

 thirty feet but got no water. It was perfectly dry, and he filled it up. 

 After I had got a well at 170 feet he went down in the stream half way 

 across my farm and he went down 185 feet. It has a very slow flow there. 

 It would take two or three minutes for one foot of water to run out. Still 

 we have a long trough there and it makes water enough to water our stock. 



If there are any other questions you wish to ask that I can answer 

 you I am willing to do the best I can. 



MR. BENNION: I would like to ask what is the acreage of this 

 farm, and what it averages? 



MR. FARRELL: The acreage of my farm is altogether 1,740 acres, 

 and it runs from the mountain into Box Elder County, and I rent that 

 farm. I have a good house, barn, stables, granary, and I rent that farm. 

 There is 480 acres in that farm I rent to one man. He has 170 acres of 

 that in this year in summer fallow, and sowed this last fall. That 'has 

 averaged from 30 to 45 bushels to the acre. Then the farm on the east 

 side of the mountain, there is nearly 1,300 acres in that altogether, and 

 that will go 32 or 33 in fall grain, to 45 and a little over 45, we have had, 

 but generally it will average about 33. 



MR. TOLTON, of Utah: Do you crop every year? 



MR. FARRELL: We never crop every year, only every other year. 



MR. TOLTON: How about the next year? 



MR. FARRELL: We summer fallow one year, as I told you. I 

 have got my maximum elevation fence down the center and a road be- 

 side of it, and we travel down that road and summer fallow on one side 

 of the fence this year and raise grain on the other side, and the next 

 year we summer fallow that and raise grain on the other. 



MR. TOLTON: All winter wheat? 



MR. FARRELL: Winter wheat, oats and barley. 



MR. DALTON, of Utah: I would like to ask Mr. Farrell if I un- 

 derstood him to say he raised 800 bushels of potatoes without irrigation 

 or whether he did that under irrigation, and I would like to ask while I 

 am on my feet if he has ever raised corn in dry-land farming? 



MR. FARRELL: I broke up, one season, 100 acres down on the 

 bottom about half a mile or nearly so from my house. Some of you 

 know where my house stands on the farm, right alongside the county 

 road. I broke 100 acres, plowed it up, good and deep. It was grass. 

 I turned it over and worked it good, and I sowed that broadcast to corn. 

 I sowed two bushels to the acre and it came up real nice, grew up 

 eight and in some places ten feet high and had corn on about from four- 

 to six inches long, two or three ears of corn on a stalk and in the fall 

 I wanted to have it cut before it was dead — wanted to cut it green, and 

 I went and asked a man what he would charge me an acre to cut it, and 



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