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THIRD ANNUAL SESSIONS 



those down to moisture in the beginning— they have been in moisture 

 ever since and are doing well. 



Summer Fallow Soil Treatment. 



Oup plan of cropping has always been to summer fallow one year 

 and crop the next. If possible, I plow in the fall; as a general thing we 

 cut our gmin stubble as high £*s possible, say two feet When we turn 

 that under, there is plant food to help the next crop. 



Conserving Moisture — Seeding. 



When the fall and spring rains come on well prepared ground, it 

 goes down. The next spring as soon as it is dry enough to work, we put 

 our disks on the summer fallow and work over the top; this conserves 

 the moisture in the ground below and we continue to work that ground 

 all summer to keep down the weeds. We keep the summer fallow as 

 clean as possible. Just before the seeding time, we thoroughly level the 

 seed bed with the leveller. 



We find it wise to sub-soil six inches deeper, then we plow every three 

 years, we do not throw the sub-soil dirt out, simply leave it loose in the 

 furrow. By studying climiatic seed and soil conditions, no earnest worker 

 need fail at dry farming in Utah. 



4. SYNOPSIS OF RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES, 

 CROPPING EIGHTY-EIGHT ACRES TWENTY YEARS. 



By Senator Jno. G. Barnes, Kaysville, Utah. 



The field was a total of 90 acres, but some years but 89 acres, and 

 again but 84 acres were seeded, so the average acreage seeded to crop 

 in this field was 88. Summer fallow was given the ground some years, 

 twelve crops were grown in the 20 years. Results were as follows: 



First crop: failure, plowing and seeding, $2.75 per acre. 



First Crop — Failure, plowing and seeding, $2.75 per acre. 



Second Crop — Total oost, $572.00, or $6.50 per acre; sold for $1,294.00, 

 or $14.70 per acre. 



Third Crop — Volunteer, total cost, $202.50, or $2.30 per acre; sold 

 for $863.85, or $9.81 per acre. 



Fourth Crop— Total cost, $572.00 or $6.50 per acre; sold for $1,116.70, 

 or $12.69 per acre. 



Fifth Crop— Total cost, $528.40, or $5.55 per acre; sold for $1,116.50, 

 or $13.25 per acre. 



Sixth Crop— Total cost, $418.00, or $4.00 per acre; sold for $885.25, 

 or $10.00 per acre. 



Seventh Crop — Total cost, $398.20, or $4.52 per acre; sold for 

 $1,166.50, or $13.25 per acre. 



Eighth Crop— Total cost, $475.20, or $5.40 per acre; sold for $938.30, 

 or $10.66 per acre. 



