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1 H y '"" H Saturday, November ariyg. T H JE D JC g & R i LT JTARMJBK jj I I "Leading Implement Dealers," Utah, Idaho, Nevada, Wyoming. Main Offices Salt Lake, Utah I 1 coosflimaiefl uiagoi) & jnaciie Go. 1 Branches: Ogden, Logan, Price Utah Jos. F. Smith, President Mclvin D. Wells, Scc.-Treas. GE0 T QDELL Gen Mgr. Branches: Idaho Falls, Montpelier Idaho W. S. McCornick, Vicc-Prcst. Grant Hampton, Asst. Scc-Trcas. ' ' It's a pleasure to refer you to Sweet's Common Sense y77777 I gSaJJajMS b ' a y mon Sense Bobs means ease of draft, and bigger loads .jCTxv IVni yv I for you. Prices and terms to your liking. ""' ' - only once in two years has been prac ticed on an extensive scale and with ij gneat success,, while in every state of the west fanning is carried on more J or less here aaul there without irriga tion and with a scant rainfall. I would not presume to give prac .1 tical people such as you arc, many j of yon vcrsccB in the science and prac- I ticc of dry farming much better than I I, a lecture or extended advice on the A subject, but there arc some general & propositions which have come under I my observation that may possibly be useful to you. The first of these is E that the successful growing of ccr- j tain classes of crops on lands which J do not contain too great a percentage uj of clay is with a limited rainfall and J without artificial irrigation has long I since ceased to be an experiment. f Second, that so-caillcd dry farming under reasonably favorable conditions ! and by the use of proper methods is I but a little less certain and satisfac- I tory in its results than ordinary farm- J ing in the average country of heavy rainfall, and much more satisfactory than in many regions of heavy rain fall with poor soil. My personal opinion is based on quite exten ve observation that the most satisfactory results will.be. obtained in most re gions having less than eighteen or twenty inches of annual precipitation by biennial cropping and summer til lage. I 'believe that in the running of thq years the farmer will get more dollars per acre per annum from his farm by this method than by annual I cropping and with less labor and ex pense. The only exception -I should make to this rule is in cases where a cultivated crop like corn or particu larly potatoes or other roots is fol lowed by a grain crop. No one who has had any experience in dry farming needs to be advised that in every dry farming rcgiori adapted to the growth of winter grain such crops arc the most certain and satisfactory, neither docs any ex perienced dry farmer need to be told that ground should be plowed in the fall to produce the best results and that it must be plowed deep is so fun damental a proposition that the veri est npvicc understands it. Above all, in season and out of season, and be tween seasons, the drying and baking surface must be broken. The success of dry farming under proper conditions is the hope of the semi-arid west, for it makes possible the settlement of vast areas that oth erwise would produce only the scant forage which unaided nature pro vides. In its development it will double, possibly treble, the cultivated area of the so-called arid states. It is the hand maiden and supplement of irrigation, for as time passes and pop ulation increases in density, the high priced irrigated lands must be used exclusively for the growth of crops of large value per acre, thus rendering the entire western country dependent for its cereals and certain classes of forage upon the unirrigated lands. Dry farming will also prove a help ful ally to aid to the live stock indus try, for after the last .word has been said and the last aqre . that cam be profitably : irrigated .and .-can;- be suc c4rfnUy tfry farmed' in'Oijr wester?! country, has been brought under cul tivation, the major portion -of our inter-mountain territory will still re main as a permanent grazing region interspersed with the irrigated valleys and the dry farm uplands affording within icasy access the feed and for age which relieves the stock industry of the dangerous clement of chance and makes possible the improvement of our live stock -and its finishing at home, so that wte shall become the producers of a finished article rather than of a raw material, thereby se curing the profits which now goes to others. As the representative of the people of "Wyoming I made every earnest effort last winter to secure what I conceived to be a more nearly ade quate dry farming homestead than the present homestead of 160 acres. An energetic dry farmer who has a sufficient amount of stock can care for morie than 160 acres of land. If he crops only half of his land each year he needs more than 160 acres. In any event he ought to have a lit tle pasture and under the average conditions he must have a greater acreage than 160 acres to be assured of success. While the legislation we sought passed both the House and the Senate, it failed of enactmjent into law by reason of the insistancc of Senator Smoot upon his non-resident pro vision and the refusal of the House to agree to the same. The legisla tion, however, still remains upon the Speaker's table and may Ibc called up ajt any time during the coming ses sion of Congress. whem..thte opportuni ty offers. ENTERTAINS STUDENTS. I Two hundred students of Hcnagcr's Business College were tendered a re- I ccption and musicalc, by J. C. Hcna- I gcr, head of the institution, in the Commercial Club Friday evening. It was the occasion of the first annivcr- I sary of the establishment of Hcna- I gcr's Business College and the affair I developed into one of the most charm- ing social events of the school season. I The entertainment was held in the M Commercial Club rooms from 9 I o'clock to 10:30, and from 8 to 9 and I 10:30 to midnight the students en- fl joyed games and other social forms of I enjoyment in the rooms of the col- I lege, in the rear of the Commercial Club building. J. G. Hcnager, the hqst, presided over the entire even- (ug's entertainment and pleasure m reigned supreme during the festive hours. Judge William H. King "delivered I the address of the occasion, in which he told of the high ideals in life for I which each student should strive. M Refreshments of punch, ice cream, M cake and coffee were served in th I club's dining room after the .program The Ibig party then adjourned back to the school rooms, which were attrac- tivcly decorated with Japanese Ian- terns, streamers, flags, etc., and I whilcd away the time in merry fashion until the midniph- hour. I The llcnager school is making most I rapid) progress in business educational work, and is turning out hundreds of I vigorous, well trained young business I men and women annually to reinforce the crfeat army of business enterprise. V