THE DRY FARMING CO^NGRESS. 



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states crops are an entire failure and that the farmers are being com- 

 pelled to feed their stock at this s-eason of the yeaf and that the wells, 

 springs and streams have gone dry and that water has become a luxury 

 to be afforded only by the well-to-do, and that in many sections of said 

 states the forests and pastures are being consumed by fire. 



"Now, therefore, we, the homesteaders and settlers of the Nara Visa 

 county, vote our most heartfelt sympathy for the drouth stricken 

 farmeus of said states and extend to them a cordial invitation to come 

 and join us in the garden spot of the southwest." 



(h) NEVADA. 



Precipitation. 



John K. Cozier, living near Wells, says: "The rainfall here is 

 about 14 inches and oomes mostly during the spring months. In this 

 region is an almost unlimited amount of good sage brush land and the 

 conditions for dry farming appear to me as good as in Utah where they 

 are making a success of it. 



Summer Fallow. 



There are almost no dry farmers in this country. I summer fallow 

 alternate years. Potatoes and vegetables grow easily and cannot be 

 excelled for quality. Small grain and alfalfa do well." 



(i) NORTH DAKOTA. 



Summer Fallow. 



R. K. Thompson, living at Bottineau, writes: "Qur altitude is 1,600 

 feet. Average rainfall 20 inches. No scientific farming is carried on 

 in this country, but all are operating under ordinary conditions without 

 irrigation. Where summer fallow is practiced much larger and better 

 crops are obtained. If possible, send report- of this Congress to help us." 



Acreage Yields. 



Bernard Glaspell, of JamestoM^n, says: "Dry farming has not been 

 tested in this country long enough to tell much about it. The farmers 

 here are just beginning to try alfalfa. I have grown the following crops 

 here: spring wheat, 6 to 30 bushels; oats, 15 to 60 bushels; barley, 10 

 to 50 bushels; potato,es, 75 to 400 bushels; brome grass, one to three 

 tons 



Fruit Trees. 



I planted 100 fruit trees last spring (1908), kept them cultivated 

 all the time and, in spite of trying conditions and the dry weather, they 

 made a good growth. My present method of cropping is not satisfactory. 

 T expect to practice summer culture hereafter. 



Soil Treatment. 



"I had a field of eight acres this past year which I plowed — 10 



