DRY-FARMING CONGRESS, WICHITA, 1914 



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The Nada Farm 



At Nada the farm, as at Malone, lies adjacent to the line of the San 

 Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad. Here the farm consists of 12 

 acres and during 1914 was planted to various crops including wheat, bar- 

 ley and alfalfa, oats, potatoes, corn, kanr corn, milo maize, etc. Water 

 was encountered at 22 feet here and the well was sunk 10 feet deeper 

 so as to give a 10-foot depth. The well at Nada by actual test supplies 

 100 gallons per minute or .2 of a second-foot. This means sufficient water, 

 according to Mr. Winsor, to supply three acre-inches every month to 24 

 acres of land. At this place we have a 6-horsepower gasoline engine with 

 a 4-inch horizontal Byron-Jackson centrifugal pump. It is our purpose to 

 sink this well still further since the equipment there is sufficient to throw 

 one acre-inch per hour. It is estimated by Mr. Winsor the cost for irri- 

 gation will be from 15 to 17 cents per acre inch or from 45 to 70 cents 

 per irrigation allowing three acre-inches' of water per acre. From tests 

 made both at Malone and Nada it is shown that the supply of irrigation 

 water is practically inexhaustible. 



The significance of this work lies in the fact that it is certain that 

 a man can go into the Escalante Valley and in a few years succeed in 

 establishing a farm home and become financially independent. The soil 

 is rich in all the elements of plant food and the demands for meat products 

 are far in excess of the ability of Utah farmers to supply. This section, 

 is particularly well adapted to livestock production. The Escalante Valley 

 has ideal climatic conditions and inexpensive feeds. There is no reason 

 why the production of hogs should not be a leading factor in that valley. 



Utah has in the past received very small increase in her agricultural 

 population from outside. Only 67 years have elapsed since the first irri- 

 gation ditch was taken out by the pioneers here in Salt Lake Valley; 

 since that time marvelous results have been achieved, but so far advan- 

 tage has only been taken of the water easily secured. Few attempts 

 have, as yet been made properly to store it and the field of possibilities 

 of securing water from subterranean sources is yet unexplored. The estab- 

 lishment of farms at Malone and Nada and the demonstration of the 

 feasibility of securing water has removed all doubts and the employment 

 of this system of irrigation will, in the writer's opinion, mean the reclama- 

 tion and development of much more land in the state of Utah than is at 

 present cultivated. 



The use of the pump in irrigation is conducive to a much more 

 ecenomical use of water than is done under the gravity system. The in- 

 fluence this will have in fostering development under our streams will 

 be immense when the pump comes into more common use. Out of the 

 work begun this season will grow a new and better irrigation and dry- 

 farming practice. 



CHAIRMAN WALKER: 



It affords me great pleasure to present the next speaker. Mr. H. M. 

 Bainer, of Amarillo, Texas, is Agricultural Demonstration Agent for the 



