THE DRY FARMING CONGRESS. 



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Dry Farm Forage. 



"Now so far as growing forage crops under dry farming conditions 

 for live stock is concerned, j^ou have a man here much more competent 

 to speak on that subject than I am. He has a subject announced on the 

 program, and I know his experience will be of much value to you. If 

 you think of engaging in li-ve stock in connection with your work, and 

 if you have not thought of the subject, you are bound to think of it in 

 the future, because no dry farmer is ever going to be permanently pros- 

 perous without stock raising. 



Live Stock Value. 



"The history of all dry farming is, you must keep humus in the soil 

 and you must keep live stock in connection with your farm in order to 

 do this. I was down in Kansas last summer and found people raising 

 wheat, raising wheat, until now there is nothing but weeds. Those people 

 don't know what to do on their farms to get rid of the weeds. They tried 

 to introduce sheep, but they are going to find out that summer fallow 

 is not going to answer every purpose. 



Soil Fertilization. 



"They must have live stock; they must have manure. They must 

 rotate their crops with grass crops and keep up their live stock. Now 

 what crops to raise I am not prepared to state. I have given some 

 study to the crops which we have found to be best adapted for Colorado 



Broom Grasses. 



"They are the broom grasses; those have given us, I think, the best 

 results and successes of any. I don't know to what extent they have 

 been raised in Wyoming, but they have given the best results down 

 there. Some people- have tried ordinary creek grass. That, I don't 

 think, has ever given any success. The best grass to raise for forage 

 purposes for live stock is the corn grass. 



Corn Grass. 



"You know corn is a grass; really, it is a great big overgrown grass, 

 and no grass in the world is like it for forage purposes. It grows every 

 year and the yield you can produce from corn grass is greater than from 

 almost any other plant you can raise, and I was very glad to hear Prof. 

 Atkinson's remarks on the results of the growing of corn, conserving 

 the moisti'.re and conserving the nitrates in the soil, because that means 

 a whole lot to the live stock men of this country. Now, with the corn 

 plants, and various varieties of them, and as we come to the breeding 

 and selection of them out here, the improvements which we have made 

 in Colorado are going to make a wonderful difference in their adaptation 

 to our conditions. I expect to see Wyoming raising lots of corn for 

 forage, and your sheep will certainly appreciate it. 

 Corn and Sorghum. 



"Along with the corn our sorghum is going to be valuable. Millett 

 is going to be very valuable, because it grows in the latter part of the 



