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deep enough to suit him. He is an interested and successful dry farmer, 

 seventy-fi-ve years of age. 



Acreage Results. 



Miss Marguerite Frink, of Fort Lupton, this last year (1908), 

 raised 270 acres of sod corn, ten acres of huhbard squash, and ten acres 

 of watermelons. While two severe hail storms passed over her ranch, 



Soil Treatment. 



she immediately followed the hailing of the crop with a thorough cul- 

 tivation and while the squash and melons were set back too far by the 

 storm, to be of marketable value, she did get a large quantity of feed 

 and the corn averaged 28 bushels per acre. She reports 290 acres now 

 in winter wheat in good condition. 



Conservation of IVioisture. 



This successful woman homesteader says that the difference be- 

 tween the farmer under the ditch and the successful dry farmer, is 

 that one stores the water in reservoirs, and the other in the ground. 

 She explains the reason why some succeed and others fail at dry farm- 

 ing in the address she gave at Cheyenne, published in the proceedings 

 of The Third Dry Farmjing Congress. 



Estimated Income. 



J. K. Darby, of Grover, reports that dry farm land in his locality 

 worth $15.00 can be worked at a profit of 100 per cent. His crop yields 

 Y/ere as follows: 



Acreage Yields. 



Wheat, 10 to 45 bushels per acre; rye, four to 15 bushels per acre; 

 emmer, 12 to 25 bushels per acre; oats, 20 to 35 bushels per acre; bar- 

 ley, 12 to 18 bushels per acre; corn, 12 to 30 bushels per acre; fodder 

 grasses, one to two tons per acre; mangels, 10 to 16 tons per acre; 

 rutabagas, do well; potatoes, 40 to 60 sacks per acre. 



Deep Plowing. 



D. W. Scott, of Haxtun, says he has farmed in his section 21 years. 

 He reports growing wheat, corn, oats, emmer, millet, cane and potatoes 

 quite successfully. He has found it wise to harrow according to the 

 wind for Haxtun soil is sandy and the wind blows it, if surface is too 

 fine. He believes the greatest thing for his section is deep plowing. 



Poultry Raising and Dairy Products. 



Mrs. S. S. Worley, of Holyoke, shows how the hen works to "help 

 out" on the farm. She started in the spring wath 80 B. P. Rock hens. 

 She raised 325 chicks, supplied her table with eggs and poultry meat, 

 and after accounting for what grain she had to feed her chickens, 

 besides what they picked up and thereby saved on the farm, she had 

 $200 to her credit and 90 pullets for next year's operation. She sold 500 



