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harrow noon and night after plow. Harrow after each rain, plow only 

 when the ground is moist. Disk ground as fast as grain is cut. Don't 

 use too much seed." 



Precipitation. 



Jameis Brunker, living near Akron, states that he has farmed 

 in western Nebraska for twelve years and eastern Colorado, six- 

 teen years, where rainfall is less than twenty inches and land without 

 irrigation. No irrigation is possible within the Akron district, yet crops 

 have here, been successfully grown for twenty years. He reports crops 

 Cereals, Potatoes, Alfalfa. 



of winter wheat, durum wheat, winter and spring rye, emmer and po- 

 tatoes as being successfully raised. Mr. Brunker is succeeding with 

 alfalfa, seeding it in rows on clean sod land. He seeds thick in the 

 row on low land, and thin in the row on light, sandy soil; he cuts down 

 the number of plants in the row, by thinning according to amount of 

 moisture received. Rows are fifteen and thirty-two inches apart. Last 

 season he seeded May 7, 1908, and September 11, he had alfalfa twenty- 

 two inches high. He disks his alfalfa each spring while the ground is 

 moist. 



W. J. Pettis, of Bennett, says that his district has about 

 thirty thousand acres under cultivation — all above the ditch. There 



Corn and Cane. 



have been eight crops taken off from the oldest plowed fields. Corn 

 and cane he considers the most successful crops. The year 1908 was 



Soil Treatment. 



the driest one known for many years. Farmers are just beginning to 

 summer culture land for the next year's crop. Deep plowing stands the 

 drouth best. He says: "I break sod four inches deep and plow two 

 inches deeper each year. The best suggestion I can give is to follow 



Campbell System. 



the Campbell System; I am going to do so from now on." 



George W. Moore, of Dover, has successfully grown winter 



Estimated Income. 



wheat, durum wheat, oats, fodder grasses, sugar beets and potatoes. 

 One hundred thousand acres of non-irrigable land is now being farmed 

 with 800,000 possible of cultivation. He, estimates that with land selling 

 at $15 per acre, farmers near Dover can still make on that say 20 per 

 cent. The season, last year, was an exceedingly dry one, yet all made 

 "feed and keep." 



Acreage Yields. 



Elbridge Green, of Dover, reports small grain yields from six to 30 

 bushels per acre, corn eight to 25 bushels and alfalfa as doing reason- 

 ably well there. He reports having trouble to get his ground plowed 



