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THIRD ANNUAL SESSIONS 



Winter Wheat. 



III. TtLat winter wheats will always be grown where wheat can sur- 

 vive winter conditions, and that the Crimean group, because of their 

 wide adaptibility, excellent quality and ability to withstand drouth, will 

 probably supplant all other winter types in all the belts with the possi- 

 ble exception of the Pacific area. 



IV. That the only possible way to obtain steady and permanent mar- 

 ket for grains is to concentrate on as few types as possible, this being 

 especially necessary in the inter-mountain area at the present time. 



Diversified Crops. 



The cereals which are grown under arid conditions are: wheat, oats, 

 rye, barley, spelt, emmer, corn and the grain sorghum. All of these 

 cereals occupy important places in ari'd farming. 



9. ''DRY FARMING." 



Abstract of an address by Prof. E. D. Ball, Director, Utah Experi- 

 ment Station, given at the Salt Lake Oongress. 



I remember of traveling miles and miles — hundreds of miles, I was 

 going to say — in eastern Colorado, western Nebraska and western 

 Kansas, over abandoned farmis. That was my first introduction to arid 

 farming. But it did not discourage me. It discouraged thousands there and 

 they left. I looked over that land and I looked over it from the experi- 

 ence I had in Iowa, and I sard to rnyself, "That land will raise a crop, if 

 it is treated properly." As an entomologist I traveled over that country. 



Causes of Failure. 



I had nothing to do but to handle their insect pests; but I found it to be 

 almost universally true that the man that telegraphed for help to get 

 rid of his insect pests was the man that put his harrow in about an 

 inch deep. The man that put his plow down there and plowed his ground 

 never sent for me. 



The men who went out there knew absolutely nothing of the prin- 

 c ples we are trying to work out today. They thought all they had to 

 do was to do what they had done in the eastern states and they would 

 raise a crop. 



They failed and they will fail everywhere in the west, where that 

 kind of a proposition is attempted. 



10. DRY FARMING IN NEW MEXICO. 



By John J. Vernon, Agriculturist, Agricultural College of New Mexico. 



[The conditions in New Mexico being very similar to those through- 

 out the entire southwest, this extract of Bulletin No 61 of the college 

 will be helpful to all in that district.] 



Since New Mexico is located a little south of Utah we may expect 

 that, other things being equal, somewhat more water will be required to 

 grow the same kind of crops in the former than in the latter. 



