Dry Farming In Colorado 
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crop will be available from these so-called cash crops. Such in¬ 
come will be a welcome addition to that brought in by livestock. 
Of the cash crops which may be grown, winter wheat, pinto beans, 
flax in some of the northeastern sections of Colorado, broom corn 
in many sections, and some of the grain sorghums in the south¬ 
eastern part of the State, will constitute the larger portion pos¬ 
sible. In a few localities, corn may be successfully used as a cash 
crop, tho in most sections it will make the greatest returns har¬ 
vested entire and siloed. 
SOME SPECIAL FEATURES OF MANAGEMENT IN¬ 
FLUENCING THE SUCCESS OF DRY FARMING 
During the past few seasons, the Experiment Station has been 
making studies of a number of dry farms in five counties in the 
dry-farming district of Colorado. These studies have had sev¬ 
eral objects in view, primarily, however, they hope to discover 
the fundamental principles of success in the organization of the 
farming business under dry-land conditions. Already these 
studies have resulted in much valuable information being ob¬ 
tained. We have long known that one of the causes of failure on 
dry lands was the lack of sufficient means or capital to survive 
the first year or two of development. These studies have further 
shown that the profit of the farming business under dry-land con¬ 
ditions increases with the amount of capital invested. We have a 
way of measuring the profitableness of the business, that is, by 
a study of the labor incomes. The labor income is considered as 
the net farm income, less interest on the capital invested in real 
estate and working equipment. In other words, labor income is 
that income which the labor earns whether that labor is physical 
or managerial. 
On dry farms in Eastern Colorado the labor income has in¬ 
creased uniformly with the increases in capital up until the capi¬ 
tal reached about $20,000. In other words, the greatest returns 
from the labor used on dry-land farms in Colorado has been 
obtained where the capital in the shape of real estate and equip¬ 
ment amounted to about $20,000. 
But the amount of capital used is not the only thing which 
influenced the size of the labor income. Uniformly, in the five 
counties studied, the labor incomes increased as the number of 
acres in crops increased and the labor income increased uniformly 
as the number of acres in crops tended by one man increased. 
In other words, the man who could so conduct his business as to 
handle more acres, either by a better system of working, or by 
