300 



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inches deep, fall of 1907. I double disked it in spring early, harrowing 

 just before seeding, I sowed seven acres to millet and planted the other 

 acre in potatoes. I harrowed the potatoes until they were six inches high 

 and cultivated after each rain. The season was a most unfavorable one. 



Acreage Results. 



The millet yielded four tons per acre, and potatoes 220 bushels per acre. 

 In July we had dry weather and hot, dry winds burning the grain to the 

 ground. About the last of July, rains came and we harvested a small 

 crop of grain. I am convinced, from results on my eight acres, that 

 better farming pays, here as elsewhere." 



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Precipitation. 



G. H. Carroll, living near Miller, reports annual rainfall of 20 inches, 

 much of it falling from April to September. Two hundred and fifty 

 thousand acres are now under cultivation in his country without irriga- 

 tion and four times that amount of land could be cultivated. He re- 

 ports the usual grain crops and potatoes as being successfully grown. 

 He has farmed there for 25 years. His methods of farming he thus 

 explains : 



Soil Treatment. 



"My rule is to plow as deep as I can, in the spring, with gang plows. 

 I work that down — harrow, disk, work w!th any kind of a machine that 

 will settle and pack the earth. 



Dry Farm Corn. 



"T plant corn in check rows, sometimes drill it. I use a Hallock 

 weeder, and cultivate three times and use a double row culti'vator, as a 

 man can thus do more work. I cut corn with a binder just as corn 

 hardens. I feed it to cattle and hogs in big mangers. Disk corn ground 

 in spring, harrow and drill in wheat, oats or barley. I have never 

 owned any of the scientific implements for dry farming. I like my own 

 plans very well and will practice them until I find something better." 



William M, O'Banion, of Buffalo Gap, states that his section of the 

 state is growing crops of oats, barley, corn and potatoes and a few 

 farmers are growing alfalfa, obtaining two light crops per season. He 

 says they all need more interest and energy in the methods used at 

 I'resent. 



Precipitation. 



W F Hall, who has lived near Rapid City for 23 years, says the an-' 

 nual rainfall is IS inches for his region. Farmers are growing alfalfa 

 with success cutfng two to four tons per acre. Other acreage yields 

 given are: 



Acreage Yields. 



Spring wheat, eight to 0TY2 bushels; winter wheat, 10 to 35 bushels; 



