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cut all the corn for fodder, but leave at least 10 rows in tlie field to catch 

 snow and retain it. He thinks farmers should not turn live stock in the 

 stalks before Decemi)er. 



Summer Fallow — Yields. 



George F. Chapman, Evanston, reports that he has successfully 

 grown crops by alternately summer fallowing non-irrigated land. He 

 has grown oats, barley, alfalfa and sugar beets,. 



Potatoes Sugar Beets. 



Potatoes produced from 150 to 300 bushels per acre, sugar beets, 

 from 13 to 22 tons per acre. Altitude 6,300 feet, rainfall, 15 inches. 

 Deep plowing and constant cultivation give the best results. 



Acreage Yields. 



Russell Thorpe, of Lusk, has been dry farming for 15 years at an 

 altitude of 5,000 feet. Hrs crops are oats and grasses. The former 

 yields 25 to 40 bushels per acre, the latter, one to two tons per acre. 



E. Blain of Cambria, is a very successful dry farmer. He carried 

 off the trophy cup at the Third Dry Farming Congress, offered for the 

 best oats grown in 1908 within the state of Wyoming without irriga 

 tion. His oats averaged him 60 to 65 bushels and weighed 42 to 44 

 pounds per bushel. 



Acreage Results. 



J. A. Gisber, who lives at Albin, says he has farmed "above the 

 ditch" for 15 years with very good results. His plan is to plow deep 

 and thoroughly work the ground. He grows small grain largely, with 

 the yields of 14 to 39 bushels, and potatoes 100 to 300 bushels per acre. 



Live Stock Fattening. 



A. Christian, Sr., who lives near Kirtley, Converse county, says he 

 has farmed 250 acres of non-irrigated land for 20 years. He says that 

 from his experience, dry farming should always be done in connection 

 with stock business. He regards 100 acres in crops, as the minimum 

 for a dry farmer, and recommends the use of four horse farming ma- 

 chiiiery as much as possible. 



Soil Treatment. 



He plows as deep in spring, as possible, thoroughly harrows and 

 seeds with heavy press drills. 



Crop Rotation— Yields. 



His rotation is grain 3 years, then corn or potatoes with miscellaneous 

 feed crops. Yields have been, on the average, wheat, 18 bushels; oats, 

 30 bushels; potatoes, 75 to 200 bushels per acre. Emmer, alfalfa, corn 

 and other feed crops were grown for forage and not weighed. 



